The History of Witchcraft and Demonology

This is a documented account of certain aspects of witchcraft, a subject as old as the world--and by witchcraft meaning sorcery, black magic, necromancy, secret divination, satanism, and every kind of malign occult art imaginable.The History of Witchcraft is written from a "medieval" standpoint, that is, it maintains an absolute and complete belief in the supernatural, and hence in witchcraft. Summers views on witchcraft and demonology differ considerably from the public picture now presented by Catholic encyclopedists and apologists. He was not ashamed of the great excesses committed in the 17th and 18 centuries, on the contrary, he vigorously defends everything the church ever did to extirpate witchcraft and heresy. And so he has provided us with what is actually the best account of the Roman Catholic version of the history of witchcraft and the Church's fight against it.