# The history of witchcraft and demonology Author: Summers, Montague, 1880-1948 Genre: Witchcraft -- History Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77145 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+history+of+witchcraft+and+demonology+Summers&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary “Sorcier est celuy qui par moyens Diaboliques sciemment s’efforce de paruenir a quel que chose.” (“A sorcerer is one who by commerce with the Devil has a full intention of attaining his own ends.”) With these words the profoundly erudite jurisconsult Jean Bodin, one of the acutest and most strictly impartial minds of his age, opens his famous _De la Demonomanie des Sorciers_,[1] and it would be, I imagine, hardly possible to discover a more concise, exact, comprehensive, and intelligent definition of a Witch. The whole tremendous subject of Witchcraft, especially as revealed in its multifold and remarkable manifestations throughout every district of Southern and Western Europe from the mi... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-history-of-witchcraft-and-demonology-77145/chapters/14/index.md) - [canto XXIII, we meet Melissa, an enchantress: and in _Alphonsus, King](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-history-of-witchcraft-and-demonology-77145/chapters/16/index.md) - [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-history-of-witchcraft-and-demonology-77145/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter XXII. The proceedings at the Sabbat.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-history-of-witchcraft-and-demonology-77145/chapters/11/index.md) - [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-history-of-witchcraft-and-demonology-77145/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-history-of-witchcraft-and-demonology-77145/chapters/5/index.md) - [chapter 23) that it is most rash to advance the contrary.... S. Thomas,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-history-of-witchcraft-and-demonology-77145/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-history-of-witchcraft-and-demonology-77145/chapters/12/index.md) - [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-history-of-witchcraft-and-demonology-77145/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-history-of-witchcraft-and-demonology-77145/chapters/15/index.md) - [xxi. 21, Esarhaddon is said to have divined by teraphim as well as by](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-history-of-witchcraft-and-demonology-77145/chapters/13/index.md) - [Chapter XVIII. Is the journey of Sorcerers to the Sabbat merely](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-history-of-witchcraft-and-demonology-77145/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter XVI. How, & in what way Sorcerers are conveyed to the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-history-of-witchcraft-and-demonology-77145/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-history-of-witchcraft-and-demonology-77145/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter XXI. The places where the Sabbat is held.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-history-of-witchcraft-and-demonology-77145/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter XX. The days on which the Sabbat is held.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-history-of-witchcraft-and-demonology-77145/chapters/9/index.md)