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  1. Thorndike, Lynn / History of magic and experimental science, 8 vols.
  2. Gui Bernard  /  The Inquisitor's Guide: A Medieval Manual on Heretics
  3. Normand, Lawrence / Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland
  4. Janowitz, Naomi / Magic in the Roman world : pagans, Jews, and Christians
  5. Colin Wilson / The Occult: A History
  6. Peters, Edward / Heresy and authority in medieval Europe : documents in translation
  7. Skemer, Don C / Binding words : textual amulets in the Middle Ages
  8. Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius / Philosophy of natural magic : a complete work on natural magic, white magic, black magic, divination, occult binding, sorceries, and their power. Unctions, love medicines and their virtues ...
  9. Azriel Abraham and Bob Waxman / Kabbalah simply stated : a conversation with the Rabbi
  10. Baeten, Elizabeth M. / Magic mirror : myth's abiding power
  11. Nahòman, of Bratslav, 1772-1811 / Seven beggars & other Kabbalistic tales of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
  12. Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486?-1535 / Three books of occult philosophy or magic.
  13. Monter, E. William / European witchcraft
  14. Hall, Alfred Rupert / Henry More : magic, religion, and experiment
  15. Mauss, Marcel / General theory of magic
  16. Burton, Dan / Magic, mystery, and science : the occult in Western civilization
  17. Brian P. Levack / Witchcraft in the ancient world and the Middle Ages 
  18. H-R Trevor-Roper / The European Witch-Craze of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries and Other Essays
  19. Flint, Valerie I. J. (Valerie Irene Jane) / Rise of magic in early medieval Europe
  20. Lyndy Abraham / A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery
  21. Christopher A. Faraone / Ancient Greek love magic
  22. Brian P. Copenhaver /Hermetica : the Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a new English translation, with notes and introduction
  23. Raphael Patai / The Jewish alchemists : a history and source book / 540.112089924 P27j 1994
  24. Stanton J. Linden / The alchemy reader : from Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton 540.112 AL155 2003
  25. Biblical and Pagan Societies (Witchcraft and Magic in Europe)
  26. Ancient Christian Magic [Paperback] by Meyer, Marvin W.; Smith, Richard
  27. History of Magic, Part 1
  28. Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds
  29. The Hermetic Tradition: Symbols and Teachings of the Royal Art
  30. Eros, Magic and the Murder of Professor Culianu [Hardcover] by Anton, Ted
  31. Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Collection
  32. The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and...
    The History of Magic: Including a Clear and Precise Exposition of Its Procedure
  33. Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic
  34. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
  35. Heresy and Literacy, 1000-1530
  36. Greer, John Michael / Encyclopedia Of Natural Magic
  37. Margot Adler / Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and other Pagans in America
  38. Ronald Hutton / The Triumph of the Moon: A History of the Modern Pagan Witchcraft
  39. Meyer, Marvin W.; Mirecki, Paul / Ancient Magic and Ritual Power
  40. Kurt Selegmann / History of Magic and the Occult
  41. Richard Cavendish / A History of Magic
  42. Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires: The Classical Texts of Magick Deciphered
  43. Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century (Magic in
  44. Europe's Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom
  45. Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex [Paperback] by Evola
  46. The Mysteries of the Qabalah: Or Occult Agreement of the Two Testaments
  47. Magic and Witchcraft: From Shamanism to the Technopagans [Paperback] by Drury
  48. A History of Witchcraft
  49. The Practical Handbook of Plant Alchemy: An Herbalist's Guide to Preparing
  50. Alchemy : An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psycholog (Studies in...
  51. Hieroglyphical Figures: Concerning both the Theory and Practice of the
  52. Waite / The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus 
  53. Path of Alchemy: Energetic Healing & the World of Natural Magic (Pathways to Enlightenment)
  54. Paracelsus, His Mystical and Medical Philosophy
  55. Alchemists Handbook: (Manual for Practical Laboratory Alchemy
  56. The Book of Solomon's Magick
  57. Real Alchemy: A Primer of Practical Alchemy
  58. Paracelsus: Essential Readings
  59. Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe...
  60. A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics, and Pagans
  61. The Practical Handbook of Plant Alchemy: An Herbalist's Guide to Preparing
  62. The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus [Paperback] by Waite...
  63. Alchemy : An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psycholog (Studies in...
  64. Hieroglyphical Figures: Concerning both the Theory and Practice of the...
  65. Path of Alchemy: Energetic Healing & the World of Natural Magic (Pathways to Enlightenment)
  66. Paracelsus, His Mystical and Medical Philosophy
  67. Alchemists Handbook: (Manual for Practical Laboratory Alchemy
  68. The Book of Solomon's Magick
  69. Real Alchemy: A Primer of Practical Alchemy
  70. Paracelsus: Essential Readings
  71. Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe
  72. Stuart, P. G. Maxwell / Witchcraft: A History
  73. The Survival of the Pagan Gods: The Mythological Tradition and Its Place in...
  74. Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Vol. 2: Ancient Greece and Rome (Witchcraft and
  75. Holmyard, E. J / Alchemy  by
  76. The Philosopher's Stone: A Quest for the Secrets of Alchemy
  77. Ogden, Daniel / Greek and Roman Necromancy
  78. Godwin, Joscelyn / The Pagan Dream Of The Renaissance
  79. Grundmann, Herbert / Religious Movements in the Middle Ages
  80. Gerald B. Gardner / The Meaning of Witchcraft
  81. The Emerald Tablet: Alchemy of Personal Transformation
  82. Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman World
  83. Sorcerer's Stone: A Beginner's Guide to Alchemy
  84. Alchemy & Mysticism (Klotz)
  85. Witchcraft and Black Magic
  86. Carlo Ginzburg / Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath 
  87. Doreen Valiente / An ABC of Witchcraft Past and Present
  88. Aaron Leitch / Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires: The Classical Texts of Magick Deciphered
  89. Hugh Lloyd-Jones History and Imagination: Essays in Honor of H. R. Trevor-Roper
  90. Charles Godfrey Leland / Aradia: Gospel of the Witches
  91. Charles Godfrey Leland / Etruscan Remains
  92. Raven Grimassi / Italian Witchcraft: The Old Religion of Southern Europe
  93. Carlo Ginzburg / The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century 
  94. Eliphas Levi, Arthur Waite / The History of Magic: Including a Clear and Precise Exposition of Its Procedure, Its Rites, and Its Mysteries
  95. Hans Dieter Betz / The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation: Including the Demotic Spells: Texts
  96. Walter Scott / Hermetica, Vol. 1: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings Which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus
  97. Clement Salaman / The Way of Hermes: New Translations of The Corpus Hermeticum and The Definitions of Hermes Trismegistus to Asclepius
  98. Anne L. Barstow / Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts 
  99. Milbourne Christopher / The Illustrated History of Magic
  100. Alan Charles Kors / Witchcraft in Europe, 1100-1700: A Documentary History 
  101. James Sharpe / Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in Early Modern Englans
  102. Leo Loius Martello / Witchcraft: The Old Religion
  103. Diane Purkiss / The Witch in History:  Early Modern and Twentieth-Century
  104. Janet Farrar, Stewart Farrar / A Witches' Bible: The Complete Witches Handbook
  105. Jeffrey B. Russell / Representations A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics, and Pagans 
  106. Jeffrey Burton Russell / Witchcraft in the Middle Ages 
  107. Margaret Murray / The God of the Witches
  108. Brian Levack / The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe 
  109. Christina Larner / Enemies of God: The Witch-Hunt in Scotland 
  110. Stuart Clark / Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe 
  111. Stuart Clark / Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture
  112. Norman Cohn / Europe's Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom 
  113. Duhem, Pierre  1985. Medieval Cosmology: theories of infinity, place, time, void and the plurality of worlds.
  114. Robin Briggs / Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft
  115. Oppenheim Leo                                  1966. “Mesopotamia in the early history of alchemy”, Revue d’assyriologie et d’archelogie orientale.
  116. Halleux, Robert                                   1979. Les textes alchimiques.
  117. Holmyard, E.J.                                    1969. Alchemy.
  118. Kieckhefer, Richard                            1990. Magic in the Middle ages.
  119. Kren, Claudia                                      1990. Alchemy in Europe: a guide to research.
  120. Newman, William                                1991. The “summa perfectionis” of Pseudo-Geber: a critical addition, translation and study.
  121. North, John                                         1989. Stars, minds, and fate: essays in ancient and Medieval cosmology.
  122. Shumaker, Wayne                               1972. The occult sciences in the Renaissance: a study in intellectual patterns.
  123. Tester, S. J.                                         1987. A history of Western astrology.
  124. Walker, D.P.                                       1975. Spiritual and demonic magic from Ficino to Campanella.
  125. Shea, W.                                             1991. The magic of numbers and motion: the scientific carrier of René Descartes.
  126. Partner, Peter                                      1981. The murdered magicians: the Templars and their myth
  127. Grattan J.H. & Singer, Ch.                   1952. Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine
  128. Ruderman, David                                 1988. Kabbalah, magic, and science: the cultural universe of a sixteen-century Jewish physician
  129. Peters, Edward,                                   1982. Magician, the witch, and the law
  130. Monter, E. William                                         European witchcraft
  131. Horapollo (IVth century magus)           1993. Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, translated by George Boas, Princeton University Press
  132. Goodenough, Erwin Ramsdell,             1988. Jewish symbols in the Greco-Roman period (10 vols.)
  133. Lewis-Williams, J. David.                     2004. Mind in the cave : consciousness and the origins of art
  134. Raphaell, Katrina.                                          Crystal healing : applying the therapeutic properties of crystals and stones (non-academic book)
  135. Scobie, Alastair                                              Murder for magic; witchcraft in Africa
  136. Scott, Walter, Sir,                                          Letters on demonology and witchcraft
  137. Summers, Montague,                                      History of witchcraft and demonology
  138. Robbins, Rossell Hope                                   Encyclopedia of witchcraft and demonology
  139. Zilboorg, Gregory,                                         Medical man and the witch during the renaissance
  140. Wickwar, J. W. (John William)                      Witchcraft and the black art; a book dealing with the psychology and folklore of the witches
  141. Williams, Howard,                                         Superstitions of witchcraft
  142. Walls, Neal H.,                                              Desire, discord, and death : approaches to ancient Near Eastern myth
  143. Bierhorst, John.                                              Mythology of North America
  144. Conner, Randy P.                                          Cassell's encyclopedia of queer myth, symbol, and spirit : gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender lore
  145. Kehoe, Alice Beck,                                       Shamans and religion : an anthropological exploration in critical thinking
  146. Clark Chilson & Peter Knecht                       Shamans in Asia
  147. Yves Bonnefoy                                             Asian mythologies
  148. Hall, A. Rupert                                              Henry More : magic, religion, and experiment
  149. Davies, T. Witton,                                         Magic, divination, and demonology among the Hebrews and their neighbours; including an examination of Biblical references and of the Biblical terms
  150. Schäfer, Peter,                                              Mirror of His beauty : feminine images of God from the Bible to the early Kabbalah
  151. Cohn, Norman Rufus Colin                           Cosmos, chaos, and the world to come : the ancient roots of Apocalyptic faith
  152. Stevens, Anthony.                                         Ariadne's clue : a guide to the symbols of humankind
  153. Matthews, John & Caitlín                              Taliesin : the last Celtic shaman
  154. Battistini, Matilde                                          Symbols and allegories in art
  155. Lehner, Ernst,                                               American symbols; a pictorial history
  156. Koch, Rudolf,                                               Book of signs, which contains all manner of symbols used from the earliest times to the Middle Ages by primitive peoples and early Christians, collected, drawn and explained by Rudolf Koch
  157. Paxton, Merideth,                                         Cosmos of the Yucatec Maya : cycles and steps from the Madrid Codex
  158. Vries, Ad de.                                                Dictionary of symbols and imagery
  159. Massironi, Manfredo,                                   Psychology of graphic images : seeing, drawing, communicating
  160. Rice, Prudence M.                                       Maya calendar origins : monuments, mythistory, and the materialization of time
  161. Chinard, Gilbert,                                          Amérique et le rêve exotique dans la littérature française au XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle
  162. Sassoon, Rosemary                                     Signs, symbols and icons : pre-history to the computer age
  163. Augustyn, Prisca,                                         Semiotics of fate, death, and the soul in Germanic culture: the Christianization of Old Saxon
  164. Miller, Mary Ellen.                                       Illustrated dictionary of the gods and symbols of ancient Mexico and the Maya
  165. Ferguson, George Wells                              Signs & symbols in Christian art
  166. Dreyfuss, Henry                                          Symbol sourcebook; an authoritative guide to international graphic symbols
  167. Montgomery, Scott L                                  Moon & the western imagination
  168. Bede Griffiths                                              Universal wisdom : a journey through the sacred wisdom of the world
  169. Frazer, James George, Sir,                          Golden bough; a study in magic and religion
  170. Jung, C. G.                                                 Symbols of transformation
  171. Middleton, John                                          Magic, witchcraft, and curing
  172. Nevins, Winfield S.                                     Witchcraft in Salem village in 1692; together with a review of the opinions of modern writers and psychologists in regard to outbreak of the evil in America
  173. Holmes, Ronald                                          Witchcraft in British history
  174. Notestein, Wallace,                                     History of witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718
  175. Dobin, Joel C.,                                            Kabbalistic astrology : the sacred tradition of the Hebrew sages
  176. Wedel, Theodore Otto,                               Mediaeval attitude toward astrology, particularly in England
  177. Grimassi, Raven,                                         Witches' craft : the roots of witchcraft & magical transformation
  178. Bynum, Caroline Walker.                            Metamorphosis and identity
  179. Clark, Robert Thomas Rundle                     Myth and symbol in ancient Egypt
  180. N. Thomas & C. Humphrey                       Shamanism, history, and the state
  181. Gimbutas, Marija Alseikaitė,                       Living goddesses
  182. Jung, C. G.                                                Psychology and religion : West and East
  183. Jung, C. G.                                                Archetypes and the collective unconscious
  184. Jung, C. G.                                                Mysterium coniunctionis; an inquiry into the separation and synthesis of psychic opposites in alchemy
  185. Jung, C. G.                                                Alchemical studies
  186. Jung, C. G.                                                 Psychology and alchemy
  187. Buc, Philippe,                                             Dangers of ritual : between early medieval texts and social scientific theory
  188. Herity, Michael                                           Irish passage graves : neolithic tomb-builders in Ireland and Britain, 2500 B.C
  189. Gimbutas, Marija Alseikaitė                        Bronze Age Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe
  190. Lon Milo DuQuette                                    The Key to Solomon's Key: Secrets of Magic and Masonry (non-academic book)

  191. A. H. Greenfield                                                           The Roots Of Modern Magick: An Anthology

  192. Robert Temple                                                               Oracles of the Dead: Ancient Techniques for Predicting the Future

  193. Robert Lima                                                                    Stages of Evil: Occultism in Western Theater And Drama

  194. P. G. Maxwell-Stuart   The Occult in Mediaeval Europe

  195. Ronald Pearsall   Table-Rappers: The Victorians and the Occult

  196. Sophie Page   Magic In Medieval Manuscripts

  197. Lyndal Roper  Witch Craze: Terror And Fantasy In Baroque Germany

  198. Stephen Wilson The Magical Universe: Everyday Ritual and Magic in Pre-Modern Europe

  199. Wolfgang Behringer   Witches and Witch-Hunts: A Global History

  200. Carlo Ginzburg  Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath

  201. Alex Owen  The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern

  202. Jay Kinney   Inner West: A New Consciousness Reader

  203. P. G. Maxwell-Stuart   Witch Hunters: Professional Prickers, Unwitchers and Witch Finders of the Renaissance

  204. Christopher Bamford, Philip Zaleski   An Endless Trace: The Passionate Pursuit of Wisdom in the West

  205. Rudolf Steiner  Spiritualism, Madame Blavatsky, and Theosophy: An Eyewitness View of Occult History

  206. Daniel Ogden Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Sourcebook

  207. B. J. Gibbons  Spirituality and the Occult: From the Renaissance to the Modern

  208. Bengt Ankarloo  Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Biblical and Pagan Societies

  209. Anthony Aveni   Behind the Crystal Ball: Magic, Science, and the Occult from Antiquity Through the New Age

  210. Bengt Ankarloo   Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Ancient Greece and Rome

  211. Bengt Ankarloo   Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Middle Ages

  212. Leonard W. King  Babylonian Magic and Sorcery

  213. Francois Lenormant  Chaldean Magic

  214. R. Campbell Thompson   Semitic Magic: Its Origins and Development

  215. Bengt Ankarloo   Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Period of the Witch Trials

  216. Susan Greenwood  History of Early Witchcraft

  217. Geoffrey Scarre   Witchcraft and Magic in 16th-And 17th-Century Europe

  218. Bengt Ankarloo   Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The 18th and 19th Centuries

  219. Bengt Ankarloo   Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The 20th Century

  220. Jules Michelet  Satanism and Witchcraft: The Classic Study of Medieval Superstition

  221. Emile Angelo Grillot De Givry  Witchcraft: Magic and Alchemy

  222. Ioan P. Culianu  Eros and Magic in the Renaissance (I have read it again)

  223. Stuart Clark  Thinking With Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

  224. Frances Amelia Yates  Rosicrucian Enlightenment

  225. J. A. Sharpe  Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in Early Modern England

  226. Prudence Jones, Nigel Pennick  A History of Pagan Europe

  227. Reginald Scot  The Discoverie of Witchcraft

  228. P. G. Maxwell-Styart  The Occult in Early Modern Europe: A Documentary History

  229. The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger

  230. Fritz Graf Magic in the Ancient World

  231. Francesco Maria Guazzo Compendium Maleficarum

  232. W. F. Ryan  The Bathhouse at Midnight: Historical Survey of Magic and Divination in Russia

  233. Valerie I. J. Flint The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe

  234. Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture

  235. E. M. Butler The Myth of the Magus

  236. James Webb The Occult Underground

  237. Manly P. Hall  The Secret Teachings of All Ages

  238. Richard Kieckhefer   Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century

  239. Marvin W. Meyer Ancient Magic and Ritual Power

  240. Sax Rohmer The Romance of Sorcery

  241. John G. Gager  Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World

  242. Timothy K. Beal  Religion and Its Monsters

  243. Geoffrey Ashe The Hell-Fire Clubs: A History of Anti-Morality

  244. Edouard Schure  From Sphinx to Christ: An Occult History

  245. Alice K. Turner  The History of Hell

  246. Daniel Ogden    Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Sourcebook

  247. Jeffrey Burton Russell    The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity

  248. Christopher A. Faraone   Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion

  249. Jeffrey Burton Russell The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History

  250. Jeffrey Burton Russell  Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages

  251. Rudolf Steiner   Spiritualism, Madame Blavatsky, and Theosophy: An Eyewitness View of Occult History

  252. Jeffrey Burton Russell    Satan: The Early Christian Tradition

  253. Arthur E. Waite  Real History of the Rosicrucians

  254. Robert Masello Raising Hell: A Concise History of the Black Arts and Those Who Dared Practice Them

  255. R. Van Den Broek   Gnosis and Hermeticism: From Antiquity to Modern Times  

  256. Leonard R. N. Ashley Complete Book of the Devil's Disciples

  257. Richard Payne Knight Two Essays on the Worship of Priapus

  258. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke  The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935

  259. William Patrick Patterson  Voices in the Dark: Esoteric, Occult & Secular Voices in Nazi-Occupied Paris 1940-44