TY - BOOK AU - Hughes, Pennethorne TI - Witchcraft SN - 9780140207453 U1 - 133.43 PY - 2004/// CY - Gloucestershire PB - Sutton KW - Witchcraft KW - Occultism N1 - The approaches to witchcraft -- The religious background up to classical times -- Classical witchcraft and the coming of Christianity -- Early Christianity and the surviving cult worships -- The medieval background: reaction into heresy -- The people who became witches -- Initiation -- The witch god -- The organization of the cult -- The Sabbats -- The powers and practices -- Prosecution and persecution -- Economic, social, and intellectual causes of decline -- The contemporary situation ER -