Spellbound: From Ancient Gods to Modern Merlins: A Time Tour of Myth and Magic

by Dominic Alexander

Why is it that when we think of witches, we imagine them wearing black pointy hats and flying on broomsticks? Why does the number three have such mystical importance? What is the difference between a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762103795
• ISBN13: 9780762103799
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.0" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Very Nice Illustrated Introduction to Magic and Witchcraft

This is yet another of the many, many popular introductions to magic, witchcraft, and the occult that can be found in any good bookshop. This one is different in that it is generously illustrated and contains an abundance of information for the beginning student of witchcraft and occult history. It contains an informed history of occultism and witchcraft from anicent times to the present and contains a large section on modern Wicca. There are many popular occult histories on the book market today, a fact that is made more problematic by the fact that many of them are compromised by poor scholarship, personal agendas, and suffer from overt polemicizing on the part of the authors as to discredit their value. A book such as this should be valuable for its historic content, and to bring to its readers, in some way, a better understanding of the fascinating yet controversial subjects of witchcraft and the occult. This book succeeds where others fail.