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Diane Purkiss
The Hand of Odd
Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic
By Alison Bashford
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Phil Baker
One Thousand & One Frights
Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult
By Raphael Cormack
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Mathew Lyons
Prophecies, Potions & Prayers
Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic
By Tabitha Stanmore
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John Keay
Selkies, Trows & Calvinists
Storm’s Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney
By Peter Marshall
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Dmitri Levitin
Sources & Sorcery
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
By Anthony Grafton
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Diane Purkiss
Liliths Who Lunch
Woman’s Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi
By Sarah Clegg
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Salley Vickers
Visions of the Astral Plane
The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World
By Jennifer Higgie
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Richard Canning
Satan on the Strand
City of the Beast: The London of Aleister Crowley
By Phil Baker
LR
July 2022 Issue
Alec Ryrie
All the King’s Magi
Magic in Merlin’s Realm: A History of Occult Politics in Britain
By Francis Young
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Edward Vallance
The Trials of Goody Parsons
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
By Malcolm Gaskill
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Dmitri Levitin
The Mage of Reason
The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment
By Michael Hunter
February 2019 Issue
Graham Seal
Shamans in Arms
A Supernatural War: Magic, Divination, and Faith during the First World War
By Owen Davies
LR
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Mick Brown
Fakir News
Empire of Enchantment: The Story of Indian Magic
By John Zubrzycki
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December 1996 Issue
Kathryn Hughes
Women who Denounced their Sisters as Witches
The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations
By Diane Purkiss
LR
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Kevin Jackson
In the Court of the Seelie King
Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies, 500 AD to the Present
By Simon Young & Ceri Houlbrook (edd)
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Pamela Norris
A Terrible Warning to Keep Clear of Cornwall
The Haunt
By A L Barker
LR
May 1999 Issue
James Sharpe
Knowledge and Truth
Reading Witchcraft: Stories of Early English Witches
By Marion Gibson
LR
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Tracy Borman
Spellbound
The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
By Ronald Hutton
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Randy Lee Cutler
Tales of Perjury
Salem Story: Reading the Witch Trials of 1692
By Bernard Rosenthal
LR
April 1993 Issue
David V Barrett
An Unholy Alliance
At the Heart of Darkness: Witchcraft, Black Magic and Satanism Today
By John Parker
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