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Lives of the Necromancers

by William Godwin

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Introduction
  3. 3Dark Ages of Europe Merlin St. Dunstan
  4. 4Conclusion — Lives of the Necromancers
  5. 5Ambitious Nature of Man
  6. 6His Desire to Penetrate Into Futurity
  7. 7Divination
  8. 8Augury
  9. 9Chiromancy
  10. 10Physiognomy
  11. 11Interpretation of Dreams
  12. 12Casting of Lots
  13. 13Astrology
  14. 14Oracles
  15. 15Delphi
  16. 16The Desire to Command and Control Future Events
  17. 17Commerce With the Invisible World
  18. 18Sorcery and Enchantment
  19. 19Witchcraft
  20. 20Compacts With the Devil
  21. 21Imps
  22. 22Talismans and Amulets
  23. 23Necromancy
  24. 24Alchemy
  25. 25Fairies
  26. 26Rosicrucians
  27. 27Sylphs and Gnomes, Salamanders and Undines
  28. 28Examples of Necromancy and Witchcraft From the Bible
  29. 29The Magi, or Wise Men of the East
  30. 30Egypt
  31. 31Statue of Memnon
  32. 32Temple of Jupiter Ammon: Its Oracles
  33. 33Chaldea and Babylon
  34. 34Zoroaster
  35. 35Greece
  36. 36Deities of Greece
  37. 37Demigods
  38. 38Daedalus
  39. 39The Argonauts
  40. 40Medea
  41. 41Circe
  42. 42Orpheus
  43. 43Amphion
  44. 44Tiresias
  45. 45Abaris
  46. 46Pythagoras
  47. 47Epimenides
  48. 48Empedocles
  49. 49Aristeas
  50. 50Hermotimus
  51. 51The Mother of Demaratus, King of Sparta
  52. 52Oracles
  53. 53Invasion of Xerxes Into Greece
  54. 54Democritus
  55. 55Socrates
  56. 56Rome
  57. 57Polydorus
  58. 58Dido
  59. 59Romulus
  60. 60Numa
  61. 61Tullus Hostilius
  62. 62Accius Navius
  63. 63Servius Tullius
  64. 64The Sorceress of Virgil
  65. 65Canidia
  66. 66Erichtho
  67. 67Sertorius
  68. 68Casting Out Devils
  69. 69Simon Magus
  70. 70Elymas, the Sorcerer
  71. 71Nero
  72. 72Vespasian
  73. 73Apollonius of Tyana
  74. 74Apuleius
  75. 75Alexander the Paphlagonian
  76. 76Revolution Produced in the History of Necromancy and Witchcraft Upo…
  77. 77Magical Consultations Respecting the Life of the Emperor
  78. 78History of Necromancy in the East
  79. 79General Silence of the East Respecting Individual Necromancers
  80. 80Rocail
  81. 81Hakem, Otherwise Mocanna
  82. 82Arabian Nights’ Entertainments
  83. 83Persian Tales
  84. 84Story of a Goule
  85. 85Arabian Nights
  86. 86Resemblance of the Tales of the East and of Europe
  87. 87Causes of Human Credulity
  88. 88Dark Ages of Europe
  89. 89Merlin
  90. 90St. Dunstan
  91. 91Communication of Europe and the Saracens
  92. 92Gerbert, Pope Silvester II
  93. 93Benedict the Ninth
  94. 94Gregory the Seventh
  95. 95Duff, King of Scotland
  96. 96Macbeth
  97. 97Virgil
  98. 98Robert of Lincoln
  99. 99Michael Scot
  100. 100The Dean of Badajoz
  101. 101Miracle of the Tub of Water
  102. 102Institution of Friars
  103. 103Albertus Magnus
  104. 104Roger Bacon
  105. 105Thomas Aquinas
  106. 106Peter of Apono
  107. 107English Law of High Treason
  108. 108Ziito
  109. 109Transmutation of Metals
  110. 110Artephius
  111. 111Raymond Lulli
  112. 112Arnold of Villeneuve
  113. 113English Laws Respecting Transmutation
  114. 114Revival of Letters
  115. 115Joan of Arc
  116. 116Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester
  117. 117Richard III
  118. 118Sanguinary Proceedings Against Witchcraft
  119. 119Savonarola
  120. 120Trithemius
  121. 121Luther
  122. 122Cornelius Agrippa
  123. 123Faustus
  124. 124Paracelsus
  125. 125Cardan
  126. 126Quacks, Who in Cool Blood Undertook to Overreach Mankind
  127. 127Benvenuto Cellini
  128. 128Nostradamus
  129. 129Doctor Dee
  130. 130Earl of Derby
  131. 131King James’s Voyage to Norway
  132. 132John Fian
  133. 133King James’s Demonology
  134. 134Statute, 1 James I.
  135. 135Forman and Others
  136. 136Latest Ideas of James on the Subject
  137. 137Lancashire Witches
  138. 138Lady Davies
  139. 139Edward Fairfax
  140. 140Doctor Lamb
  141. 141Urbain Grandier
  142. 142Astrology
  143. 143William Lilly
  144. 144Matthew Hopkins
  145. 145Cromwel
  146. 146Dorothy Mateley
  147. 147Witches Hanged by Sir Matthew Hale
  148. 148Witchcraft in Sweden
  149. 149Witchcraft in New England
  150. 150Conclusion

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