TY - BOOK AU - Godwin,William TI - Lives of the Necromancers AV - BF PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Magic -- History KW - Magicians -- Biography KW - Witchcraft -- History KW - Witches -- Biography N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Necromancers; Release date is 2004-12-01; Produced by Wendy Crockett, Carlo Traverso, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team, from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7082 ER -