# The book of witches

Author: Hueffer, Oliver Madox, 1876-1931

Genre: Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68341

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+book+of+witches+Hueffer&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Lest any reader should open this volume expecting to read an exhaustive treatise on witches and witchcraft, treated scientifically, historically, and so forth, let me disarm him beforehand by telling him that he will be disappointed. The witch occupies so large a place in the story of mankind that to include all the detail of her natural history within the limits of one volume would need the powers of a magician no less potent than was he who confined the Eastern Djinn in a bottle. I have attempted nothing so ambitious as a large-scale Ordnance Map of Witchland; rather I have endeavoured to produce a picture from which a general impression may be gained. I have chosen, that is to say, fro...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-witches-68341/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-witches-68341/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-witches-68341/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-witches-68341/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-witches-68341/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-witches-68341/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-witches-68341/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-witches-68341/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-witches-68341/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-witches-68341/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-witches-68341/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-witches-68341/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-witches-68341/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-witches-68341/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-witches-68341/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-witches-68341/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-book-of-witches-68341/chapters/1/index.md)