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Could I get some books on actual witches and real witchcraft, particularly in the 16th and 17th centuries? I just watched The Conjuring and I'm a Christian so I believe in this sort of thing and I'm sincerely interested in the story of Ed and Lorraine Warren. Not looking for legit occult stuff though.

>> No.15668275

Bump

>> No.15668460

>>15667401
Malleus Maleficarum
>I'm a Christian so I believe in this sort of thing
idiot

>> No.15668483

>>15667401
>I'm a Christian
Dropped
>so I believe in this sort of thing
Of course you do.

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>>15667401
Check out the works of Emma Wilby.

>The Visions of Isobel Gowdie
>Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits

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>> No.15669397

>>15667401
The Malleus Maleficarum was a 15th century manual for witch hunters. It details how witches supposedly did their magic and how to counteract it. Also of course, how to find and torture a witch.

The Daemonologie was written in the 16th century by King James I and details 16th century views on witches and demons.

The Discoverie of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot was published in the 17th century and diverges from the previous two texts I mentioned as it talks about actual magical practitioners called the cunning folk and their actual practices. The cunning folk were people who combined ceremonial magic found in medieval grimoires and traditional village folk magic and sold their services to normal people. Almost every village in 17th century England had cunning folk.

Aradia, or Gospel of the Witches by Charles Godfrey Leland (written in 1899) is an account of supposed witches whose religion and practices survived through the middle ages. Leland claimed that he was informed of all this by an Italian witch friend.

The Witch Cult in Western Europe and The God of the Witches by renowned historian Margaret Murray were accounts of what Murray believed to be a pre-Christian witch cult that survived through the middle ages into the modern world. Though now considered to be controversial, her work was highly praised in academia when it was first published in the early 1900's.

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>>15669397
>>15669344
So many detailed books written by people who have had first hand experience with witches. And people still think witches are not real?

>> No.15669416

>>15669404
I do think witches are real. I just don't think the kinds of witches as detailed in the Malleus Maleficarum and Daemonologie existed.
As I said, in The Discoverie of Witchcraft, there is an account of actual magical practitioners.

>> No.15669437

>>15669397
>Daemonologie
I will always rec this book. The language in which it's written is great too.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25929/25929-pdf.pdf

>> No.15669586

>>15668460
I did a missions trip in Madagascar and Witchcraft is definitely real. I seen some crazy shit

>> No.15669634

>>15669586
what did you see anon?

>> No.15669676

Look up the book of saint cyprian

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>>15669586
/x/ is thataway