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A Welter of Witches
Thorndike, Lynn | January 12, 1927 issue

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The article focuses on the book "The History of Witchcraft and Demonology," by Montague Summers. In the book Summers believes that among the persons who were burned as witches or who should have been, in his opinion, but escaped detection or punishment were devotees of a loathly and obscene creed members of a powerful secret organization inimical to church and state. Although admitting the existence of manifold deception and imposture, Summers nevertheless finds a large element of truth in the evidence that was accumulated during the period of the witchcraft delusion. He is willing to grant that women did not actually fly to the witches' Sabbaths on broomsticks, but he believes in the possibility of levitation.

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HISTORY of Witchcraft & Demonology, The (Book); SUMMERS, Montague; CHURCH & state; WITCHCRAFT; LEVITATION; BOOKS & reading
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