Witchcraft and Demonism
Publisher: Ams Pr Inc
Published: November 1980
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780404184100
First sentence: RIVAL RELIGIONS. In all ages belief in supernatural powers has been universal, and it is to be inferred that the practice of sacrificial and magical ceremony designed to attract favourable attention with preferential treatment from the mythical gods was introduced into Britain by the earliest inhabitants as part and parcel of the primitive religious ritual of the remote heathen races.