Volume 4, Number 12 · July 15, 1965
The Old Black Magic
By D.P. Walker
The World of the Witches
by Julio Caro Baroja, translated by O.N.V. Glendinning
University of Chicago, 313 pp., $6.50
This book has many virtues not common in the large literature on witchcraft: the author is evidently not himself a magician; it contains much historical information, some of it hitherto little known, in a small space; it is sane and objective. On the other hand, it has what seem to me two basic defects.
Review, 1779 words
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