Daemonologie.
"Daemonologie. by King of England James I" is a philosophical dissertation published in 1597. Written in response to skeptical works questioning witchcraft's existence, this dialogue between two characters explores necromancy, demonology, and the methods demons use to trouble humanity. King James, influenced by his involvement in the North Berwick witch trials, presents biblical and historical evidence to prove witchcraft's reality while endorsing witch hunting. The work served as a major source for Shakespeare's "Macbeth."
Related Subjects
Related books
Bygone Beliefs: Being a Series of Excursions in the Byways of Thought
H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley) Redgrove
Ritual and belief : $b Studies in the history of religion
Edwin Sidney Hartland
Irish Witchcraft and Demonology
St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt) Seymour
The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions
Carveth Read
Curiosités Infernales
P. L. Jacob
Buchstabenmystik
Franz Dornseiff
Demonologia : $b or, natural knowledge revealed; being an exposé of ancient and modern superstitions, credulity, fanaticism, enthusiasm, & imposture, as connected with the doctrine, caballa, and jargon, of amulets, apparitions, astrology, charms, demonology, devils, divination, dreams, deuteroscopia, effluvia, fatalism, fate, friars, ghosts, gipsies, hell, hypocrites, incantations, inquisition, jugglers, legends, magic, magicians, miracles, monks, nymphs, oracles, physiognomy, purgatory, predestination, predictions, quackery, relics, saints, second sight, signs before death, sorcery, spirits, salamanders, spells, talismans, traditions, trials, &c. witches, witchcraft, &c. &c. the whole unfolding many singular phenomena in the page of nature
J. S. Forsyth
Demonology and Devil-lore
Moncure Daniel Conway