Exploring the weather of truth in early glossy witchcraft and renowned magic, via a mixture of certain archival learn and broad-ranging interdisciplinary analyses, this e-book enhances and demanding situations present scholarship, and provides specified insights into this murky element of early sleek historical past.
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