# The literature of witchcraft

Author: Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938

Genre: Witchcraft -- Bibliography

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77223

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+literature+of+witchcraft+Burr&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The literature of witchcraft is not the literature of magic. Magic is world-wide. Wherever, from the first, men have found themselves face to face with the awful powers of nature and of fate which shut in their little lives, some have disdained either to bow to them in reverent submission or to seek by bribes and wheedling to win them to their side. They have tried to outwit mystery with speculation, and to outmatch force with cunning. With spell and incantation they have dared to face the grim demons of storm and fire and flood, to bid begone the lurking fiends of disease, to dip into the dread secret of the future, to call back from the shadows the loved figures of the dead, to make the...

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-witchcraft-77223/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-witchcraft-77223/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-witchcraft-77223/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-literature-of-witchcraft-77223/chapters/4/index.md)