A compendium of information on the Tarot including its origin, myths and facts about the Tarot. There are clear instructions on how to lay out and read the cards and their significance in magic, meditation and divination.

The Tarot

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

CAVENDISH, Richard

Gardening & Landscape Design

Harper&Row

A reference guide to the unexplained covering well known terms such as parapsychology, magic, the occult, the paranormal, alchemy, druids, hallucinations, Jung, levitation, Tarot, UFO, witchcraft, and the zodiac. The editor also wrote "The Magical Arts".

The Encyclopedia of the Unexplained: Magic, Occultism, and Parapsychology

Reference

McGraw=Hill

The Magical Arts

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Arkana

Although many books on magic and witchcraft have been published in recent years, a good comprehensive history of the subject has been lacking. The gap is now filled by Richard Cavendish's A History of Magic, which deals with magic in the West from prehistoric times to the present. Mr Cavendish does not ask us to believe in magic - though he points out that some of its oldest claims are now widely accepted - but to trace the effects of belief in it on human behavior. Through the centuries magic has been inextricably entangles with the history of religion and is interwoven with art and medicine, folklore and superstition, astrology and fortune-telling, and the daily lives of generations of ordinary men and women. On the way the story takes in elements as diverse as Pythagoras and Orpheus, the Hermetica and the Neoplatonists, amulets and hieroglyphics, sacrifices and dream interpretation, the magic of herbs and healing, the history of astrology, the lore of curses and spells, folk customs, and ceremonies, Christian magic, Jewish traditions and the Cabala, Joan of Arc and Gilles de Rais, Nostradamus, Paracelsus and Faust, the witch trials, the Black Mass and Rasputin, Yoga and Tantrism, Madame Blavatsky, W. B. Yeats, and C. G. Jung. Mr. Cavendish brings a balanced sense of order to this complex and often perplexing material. A History of Magic is a lively and penetrating analysis by a leading authority, providing for the first time a clear, accurate account of a complex and fascinating subject.

A History of Magic

Penguin??Books

A history of magic

Occult & Paranormal

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Analyzes the Arthurian legends that emerged from Celtic mythology and the changes through which characters and plots have gone over the centuries

King Arthur & the Grail: The Arthurian legends and their meaning

The Great Religions

Religious Studies

Arco Pub.

Mythology is the study of the imaginative traditions through which man attempts to understand and control the world about him. This comprehensive and accessible survey of the world's principal myths is the result of extensive research and brings out the distinctive character and force of each individual story and shows its specific link with the social patterns and religious beliefs of the country and/or time to which it belongs. All the major mythological systems are examined, from non-literate societies to complex cultures and from the ancient world to the present: from Voodoo to Christianity, from ancient Egypt and classical Greece to modern Germany and Japan. Over 400 illustrations, many of them in colour, show myths brought to life in art, and feature some of the world's most famous paintings and sculptures. In addition, specially commissioned maps illustrate the location and spread of the primary mythological systems.

Mythology Handbook

Little, Brown Book Group

The belief in supernatural beings with evil powers existed in primitive societies and was alive in the ancient world that predated the modern west--Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome & throughout pre-Christian Europe. Mingling with and influencing Christianity in medieval Europe, these beliefs are alive and well today & influence our lives more than we understand. Examines the psychological reality of the fear inspired by beings such as vampires, the Furies, & Satan himself.

The powers of evil in Western religion, magic, and folk belief

PUTNAM

The Classic Study of the Occult Reintroduced in a 50th Anniversary Edition The Black Arts is a fascinating and wonderfully readable exploration of the practice, theory, and underlying rationale of magick and occultism in all its branches, including witchcraft, spells, numerology, astrology, alchemy, kabbalah, tarot, charms, and summoning and control of spirits. This edition features a 50th anniversary introduction by historian of alternative spirituality Mitch Horowitz, who frames the book for a new generation of readers.

The Black Arts (50th Anniversary Edition): A Concise History of Witchcraft, Demonology, Astrology, Alchemy, and Other Mystical Practices Throughout the Ages

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

TarcherPerigee

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