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Title: There is very little historic value to this book
Review: I am a historian who a focuses on Reformation issues, and I wrote many papers over the last three years on the history of witchcraft from an anthropological point of view. There are several wonderful studies of witches and witchcraft, mainly by Protestants during the time of the religious upheavals and the witch hunts (Cotton Mather has some interesting ideas). Montague Summers' writings were trying to revive a dying belief, and he was a complete crackpot (no, not a professional term, of course). He believed in witches entirely, though felt that there were very few true witches left. The only value that this book or any other that Summers wrote has is to show how people once believed.
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