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A Supernatural War - Magic, Divination, and Faith During the First World War by Owen Davies
Category: Military
The other history of the Great War: that of spiritualism, fortune-telling, prophecies, spirits, magic, and protective talismans on the battlefields and home fronts of Europe. Book jacket.
Art of the Grimoire An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells by Owen Davies
Category: History
A copiously illustrated global history of magic books, from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks. Grimoires, textbooks of magic and occult knowledge, have existed through the ages alongside other magic and religious texts in part because of the need to create a physical record of magical phenomena, but al ...Show more
Grimoires: A History of Magic Books by Owen Davies
Category: History
What is a grimoire? The word has a familiar ring to many people, particularly as a consequence of such popular television dramas as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed. But few people are sure exactly what it means. Put simply, grimoires are books of spells that were first recorded in the Ancient Middl ...Show more
Grimoires: A History of Magic Books by Owen Davies
Category: Spirituality
What is a grimoire? The word has a familiar ring to many people, particularly as a consequence of such popular television dramas as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed. But few people are sure exactly what it means. Put simply, grimoires are books of spells that were first recorded in the Ancient Middl ...Show more
Magic by Owen Davies
Category: Fiction | Series: Very Short Introductions
Defining 'magic' is a maddening task. Over the last century numerous philosophers, anthropologists, historians, and theologians have attempted to pin down its essential meaning, sometimes analysing it in such complex and abstruse depth that it all but loses its sense altogether. For this reason, many pe ...Show more
The Oxford History of Witchcraft and Magic by Owen Davies
Category: History | Series: The\Oxford History Of... Ser.
Histories you can trust. This history provides a readable and fresh approach to the extensive and complex story of witchcraft and magic. Telling the story from the dawn of writing in the ancient world to the globally successful Harry Potter films, the authors explore a wide range of magical beliefs and ...Show more
The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic by Owen Davies
Category: History
This richly illustrated history provides a readable and fresh approach to the extensive and complex story of witchcraft and magic. Telling the story from the dawn of writing in the ancient world to the globally successful Harry Potter films, the authors explore a wide range of magical beliefs and practi ...Show more
The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic by Owen Davies (Editor)
Category: History
This richly illustrated history provides a readable and fresh approach to the extensive and complex story of witchcraft and magic. Telling the story from the dawn of writing in the ancient world to the globally successful Harry Potter films, the authors explore a wide range of magical beliefs and practi ...Show more
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