Preface

Glass Book
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THE DEVIL
SCULPTURE ON NOTRE DAME, PARIS
'MAGIC"
BLACK AND WHITE CHARMS AND COUNTER CHARMS
DIVINATION AND DEMONOLOGY
AMONG THE
Hindus, Hebrews, Arabs and Egyptians
'Egyptian Demonology," " Jewish Magic and Demonology," "De- monology Among the Arabs, Hindus and Moslems," ' Modes of Divining Among the Arabs," Magic and Religion," "Magic and Demonology," Illegal Magic," 'Legal Magic," "Assyrian Magic," "Babylonian and Assyrian Divination," Phoenician and Syrian Magic and Demonology," "De- monology of the Pseudepigraphical Writings, ""Hebrew and San- scrit Used in Connection with Divination."
AN EPITOME
OF
"Supernaturalism" Magic, Black, White and Natural; Conjuring and Its Relation to Prophecy
Including Biblical and Old Testament Terms and Words for Magic
Being the work adopted by all advanced students for instruction, espec- ially designed as a Cyclopaedia of Magic, Divination and Demonology, Biblical References and Biblical Terms.
Present Edition prepared for publication under the Editorship of Dr. L, TV. de LAURENCE, by
T. WITTON DAVIES, B.A. (Lond.), Ph.D.(Leip.)
Professor of Old Testament Literature, North Wales Baptist College, Bangor; Lecturer in Semitic Languages, University College, Bangor; Member of the following Soci- eties: Royal Asiatic; Biblical Archaeology; German Oriental; French Asiatic, and Fellow of the Anthropological Institute.
de LAURENCE, SCOTT & CO.
CHICAGO, ILL., U. S. A. 1910
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Copyright, 1910 By de LAURENCE, SCOTT & CO.
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PREFACE
This treatise "was presented to the University of Leipzig, July, 1897, according to the rule requiring such a dissertation to be presented and accepted before the candidate is allowed to proceed to the examina- tions prescribed for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University. The dissertation has to be printed and 200 copies presented to the University within one year from the time when the final examination [was passed. The limits of time and of space, and the need that the dissertation should be printed essentially as it was accepted by the Philosophical faculty of the University, made it impossible to introduce much change. Since writing it, however, 1 have read and thought a great deal about the subjects with which my dissertation deals; some slight results of that will be seen in the correction of my MS. as well as in references to books newly published. Further results — results too, I hope, of continued reading and reflection — may show them- selves at a future time.
V11I PREFACE
The " Vita " or " Life * is left at the end, as it had to be printed in the copies sent to the University.
I will not close this preface without warmly acknowledging the uniform courtesy and kindness received from the Professors of the celebrated University of Leipzig whose classes I joined. I would like especially to ackno\ /ledge my indebted- ness to Prof. Socin, one of the greatest living teachers of Arabic. Dr. Dillman, of Berlin, and Dr. Socin, of Leipzig, were teachers at least as great as any I have known, and I am thankful to an ever kind Providence to have been able to benefit from their instruction, and from their example of industry and thoroughness.,
T\ WITTON DAVIES.
Midland Baptist College, *) M~WT?T~„fl*.
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University College, )
Aug. 12, 1898.
CONTENTS
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Literature . ;-.- v ^ . a - • b*
Introduction r , . . . . g . . i
Definition of Magic : I
, Magicians a class ■•'■... . V . V . 2
/Black and White Magic, Conjuring, Natural Magic . 3 Magic, wide and narrow sense of .... 4
Some terms explained ', ... . . . 5
Divination briefly defined and described . . . 6 Necromancy . . . . . . . . 6
Demonology v /. . '. 7
Common origin of the preceding .... 8 Magic without Animism or Supernaturalism . . 16
Sympathetic Magic . 17
.Magic and Religion .18
Magic and Science .25
Magic and Divination 27
Magic and Demonology .28
i. Magic * . j . "30
Traces and Survivals in the Old Testament . . 30
Biblical Terms . • 40
Old Testament Terms . . . . . . 4t
Old Testament Words for Magic or in Relation to it . 44 : Magic in the New Testament . . . . . 59
Magic in Post-Biblical Judaism . . . . .61
^ Magic among Arabs and Moslems .... 63
Assyrian Magic . .67
Illegal Magie . . . . V . . . 68 Legal Magic . , . ". [". \ '. .69 Egyptian Magic . .. . . . . V . 70
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