Irish Witchcraft And Demonology

Irish Witchcraft and Demonology Consequently, when the Anglo-Normans came over, they found that the native Celts had no predisposition towards accepting the view of the witch as an emissary of Satan and an enemy of the Church, though they fully believed in supernatural influences of both good and evil, and credited their Bards and Druids with the possession of powers beyond the ordinary. Had this country never suffered a cross-channel invasion, had she been left to work out her destiny unaided and uninfluenced by her neighbours, it is quite conceivable that at some period in her history she would have imbibed the witchcraft spirit, and, with the genius characteristic of her, would have blended it with her own older beliefs, and so would have ultimately evolved a form of that creed which would have differed in many points from what was held elsewhere. As it happens, the English and their successors had the monopoly, and retained it in their own hands; thus the Anglo-Norman invaders may be given the credit of having been the principal means of preventing the growth and spread of witchcraft in Celtic Ireland.

Irish Witchcraft and Demonology is an excellent source book of the witch persecution in Ireland, as well as a wide range of other paranormal events such as poltergeists, ghosts, and even an early UFO account. This book is a well documented reader with extensive and fascinating quotes from historical source documents.

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Irish Witchcraft and Demonology is a fascinating history of witches and other unexplained phenomena in Ireland.

In this work the history of Irish witchcraft is lined up with the trials that followed and the convictions that followed. Also included are the basic beliefs in demonology and the occult that the locals believed in and held to in the day.

In St. John D. Seymour's classic study of Ireland's supernatural history, the most famous witches and eerie legends of Ireland are recounted. Featuring a chronology of sorcery, from the case of Dame Alice Kyteler in the Middle Ages to a trial for witchcraft in a 1911 murder court, Seymour analyzes the accounts of accused men and women, their familiars and spellcraft, and associated demons and devils. This book will be a welcome read to lovers of occult history.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1913 Edition.