Book description
The Book of Witches is not an 'exhaustive treatise on witches
and witchcraft' but rather 'a picture from which a general impression
may be gained'. Oliver Madox Hueffer shows where witches have comes
from and why, 'what she was and is,.. how necessary she is and must be
to the happiness of mankind, and how great the responsibility of those
who, disbelieving in her themselves, seek to infect others with their
scepticism'.
Divided into 16 chapters, Hueffer explores a variety
of subjects within witchcraft, from witches' attributes to
representations of witches in England, Rome and Greece, as well as
persecutions of witches, philtres, charms and potions, and modern
witches in the 19th century.
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Oliver Madox Hueffer (1877 - June 22, 1931), was an author,
playwright, and war correspondent. Oliver was the younger brother of
the English novelist, poet, critic and editor, Ford Madox Ford. Often
described as an exaggerated version of Ford, Hueffer had an erratic
career and became involved in financial and sexual exploits resembling
those that haunted his more famous brother--to the point where certain
characters and plot details in Hueffer's novels could be loosely based
on the life of either brother. Oliver published eight volumes of
fiction under his own name between 1901 and 1931 and five as 'Jane
Wardle' 1907-10. His brother wrote that he had 'run through the
careers of Man About Town, Army Officer, Actor, Stockbroker, Painter,
Author and under the auspices of the father of one of his fiancées,
that of Valise Manufacturer'. Badly wounded in the First World War, he
lived afterwards in Versailles.
