Witchcraft Its Power in the World Today - Softcover

Seabrook, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 4871872440 ISBN 13: 9784871872447

Publisher: Ishi Press, 2015

Synopsis

When I was a kid, every little girl wanted to be a princess. Nowadays, none of the girls want to be a princess. They all want to be a witch !! Here is how: William Seabrook addresses this book to rational people only. It consists of the candid adventures of a great reporter among living witches in the world today. It is one man’s testimony to the existence and the limitations of witchcraft now. It is the low-down on actual sorcery (Black Magic and White Magic too) by one who confesses not merely to have witnessed the stuff, but to have been a practitioner himself, for both good and evil. Although this book may boil and bubble with the dirty doings of modern witches, white and black; the current sorcerers, incantations, human vampires on the Riviera; panther men in Africa and Satanists in Paris; Devil worshipers in New York; werewolves in Washington Square; witchcraft cures and killings dated 1940 in the United States -- take these things how you will, there are observed experiences which remain intractable and there are stories which for fascination and for candor beat anything that you have ever read. Witchcraft is not demonic. It is a specific real and dangerous force, evil when used for evil, mysterious in some of its manifestations, but always analyzable always understandable within the bounds of reason and combatable in consequence like crime snake bite insanity and yellow fever.

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About the Author

William Buehler Seabrook was an American adventurer, explorer, world traveler and journalist, born in Westminster, Maryland on February 22, 1884. After receiving his education in southern universities, he began his career as a reporter and City Editor of the Augusta Chronicle in Georgia and was later a reporter for The New York Times. his restless spirit led him to Switzerland where for nine months he worked his way through the University of Geneva studying philosophy and metaphysics. The next year and a half he spent wandering through Europe, before he returned to Atlanta and entered the advertising business. After the war he began to write. His books have won him a firm place in the literature of not only America but of England, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Italy. He wrote a books based on his adventures including “Adventures in Arabia: Among the Bedouins, Druses, Whirling Dervisches & Yezidee Devil Worshipers”. He wrote books about witchcraft, Voodoo and Haiti. He is credited with introducing the word “Zombie” into the English Language. The first book covering the topics was William Seabrook's The Magic Island (1929) ISBN 4871872432. He died by suicide on September 20, 1945.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ishi Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 4871872440
• ISBN 13: 9784871872447
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 396