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Lives of the necromancers, or, An account of the most eminent persons in successive ages who have claimed for themselves, or to whom has been imputed by others, the exercise of magical power

or, An account of the most eminent persons in successive ages, who have claimed for themselves, or to whom has been imputed by others, the exercise of magical power.

Also known as Lives of the Necromancers

by William Godwin, Harry Houdini Collection DLC & Joseph Meredith Toner Collection DLC

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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"Lives of the Necromancers" by William Godwin is a historical account published in 1834. Godwin's final book examines paranormal legends and magical beliefs from western and Middle Eastern history, tracing tales of sorcery, witchcraft, and supernatural powers from ancient civilizations through the Dark Ages. The work explores how superstitions originated before the Scientific Revolution, covering figures from the Bible, Greek and Roman legends, medieval Europe, and the persecution of suspected witches, ultimately chronicling humanity's enduring fascination with the mystical and unexplained. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ritual magic and grimoires and Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary-historical, and project-gutenberg matched “Magic” and “magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the subject metadata.

    • “Magic”· via Internet Archive
    • “Magic”· via Open Library
    • “magic”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “Magic”· in subject
  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary-historical, and project-gutenberg matched “Witchcraft”, “witchcraft”, and “witches”. Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the description, “witches” in the description, “Witchcraft” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Witchcraft”· via Internet Archive
    • “Witchcraft”· via Open Library
    • “witchcraft”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “witches”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “Witchcraft”· in description
    • “witches”· in description

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Editions

Open Library reports 19 editions; 5 cataloged here.

or, An account of the most eminent persons in successive ages, who have claimed for themselves, or to whom has been imputed by others, the exercise of magical power.

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1834-01-01T00:00:00ZF. J. Mason; London : F. J. Mason; London, F. J. MasonEnglish—Public digitized item

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1835-01-01T00:00:00ZNew-York : Harper & BrothersEnglish—Public digitized item

Open Library record

1876Chatto and WindusEnglish—No ebook

Subjects

6 subject headings

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Harvard University
  • Contributing institution: Oxford University
  • Contributing institution: Wellcome Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Digitization sponsor: Wellcome Library
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries; medicalheritagelibrary; wellcomelibrary
  • Open Library reports 19 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
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  • Scanner: scribe2.euston.archive.org
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  • Source-reported rights: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" rel="ugc nofollow">This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark</a>
  • Source-reported rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark
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openlibrary-work:OL15527964W
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