Irish Witchcraft & Demonology (Classics of Preternatural History) - Softcover

Seymour, John D

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590210085 ISBN 13: 9781590210086

Publisher: Lethe Press, 2002

Synopsis

Irish Witchcraft and Demonology is St. John Seymour's classic study of Ireland's infernal history. In it he traces and describes the most famous witches and witchcraft of Ireland: from Dame Alice Kyteler in the Middle Ages to a trial for witchcraft in a 1911 murder court. Seymour analyzes the accounts of the accused men and women, their familiars, and associated demons and devils. This book will be a welcome read to lovers of occult history.

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When did witchcraft make its appearance in Ireland, and what was the progress therein? It seems probable that this belief, together with certain aspects of fairy lore hitherto unknown to the Irish, and ideas relative to milk and butter magic, may in the main be counted as results of the Anglo-Norman invasion, though it is possible that an earlier installment of these came in with the Scandinavians. With our present knowledge we cannot trace its active existence in Ireland further back than the Kyteler case in 1324; and this, though it was almost certainly the first occasion on which the evil made itself apparent to the general public, yet seems to have been only the culmination of events that had been quietly and unobstrusively happening for some little time previously.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lethe Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590210085
• ISBN 13: 9781590210086
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268