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CAUZONS (Thomas de). Magic and Witchcraft in France....

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CAUZONS (Thomas de). Magic and Witchcraft in France. Les Sorciers d'autrefois - Le Sabbat - La Guerre aux sorciers - Les Sorciers de nos jours. Paris, Dorbon aîné, sd [c. 1910]. 4 vol. in-8 half marbled basane, spines decorated, title and tomaison pieces, cold fillet on the boards, covers preserved. I. Origin of Witchcraft - What was said about witches - Various opinions about them. II. Prosecution and punishment of magic until the Protestant Reformation - The Trial of the Templars - Mission and trial of Joan of Arc. III. Witchcraft from the Reformation to the Revolution - The possessed convents - Freemasonry - Animal magnetism. IV. Contemporary Magic - The Transformations of Magnetism - Psychoses and Neuroses - The Spirits of the Living - The Spirits of the Dead - The Devil in our time - The Popular Wonder. A few small rubs to the spine, very slight scattered spotting. A very good copy, complete with the 4 volumes which is rare. (Caillet, 2107.)