Description
This richly illustrated history provides a readable and fresh solution to the extensive and complex story of witchcraft and magic. Telling the story from the morning time of writing within the ancient world to the globally successful Harry Potter films, the authors explore a variety of magical beliefs and practices, the upward thrust of the witch trials, and the depiction of the Devil-worshipping witch.
The book also makes a speciality of the more up to date history of witchcraft and magic, from the Enlightenment to the present, exploring the upward thrust of brand new magic, the anthropology of magic around the world, and after all the cinematic portrayal of witches and magicians, from
The Wizard of Oz to Charmed and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
