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The Reverend Montague Summers was a Roman Catholic priest. However his viewson witchcraft and demonology differed considerably from those of Catholicencyclopedists and spokesmen of today. He is not ashamed of the greatestexcesses committed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. On thecontrary he vigorously defends everything the Church ever did to extirpatewitchcraft and heresy.The History of Witchcraft is one of the classic works on witchcraft anddemonology. Unlike other writers on the subject Dr. Summers firmly believed inthe concept world of Satanism and described its nefarious nature withtremendous gusto.This book was written from what critics have called a medieval viewpoint anabsolute and complete belief in witchcraft and hence in the supernatural.Among the subjects covered by Dr. Summers are The Witch Heretic andAnarchist Demons and Familiars the Sabbat the Witch in Holy Writ DiabolicPossession and Modern Spiritism and the Witch in Dramatic Literature. «
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