Writing in the 1850s, at the height of the table-turning craze, Radcliffe sets out to trace where belief in demons, ghosts, witches and spirits comes from and how it has changed across ages and nations. He gathers folklore and historical cases, explains them by the passions and the senses, and appends Michael Faraday’s famous letter on table-moving.
A sceptical Victorian tour of ghosts and devils, full of strange lore. Download the free EPUB.