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Let me admit right out that I'm partly into some weird stuff. For many years, I have gradually acquired all sorts of undeservedly forgotten books which I might discuss another time but also many intellectual historical works, a surprising variety of which handle out-of-date belief systems, pseudoscience and the occult.
Whatever that is at least midway clinical about Atlantis, Hermes Trismegistus, the wise stones, the Holy Grail, Paracelsus, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, stone circles or UFOs makes me daydream. For instance, I want to invest more time on works by Frances Yates, the pioneering scholar of the Renaissance occult, in addition to with James George Frazer's "The Golden Bough", his often despised but irresistibly entertaining research study of misconceptions, magic and faith (go do not miss out on "Adonis, Attis, Osiris").
This is also where I have actually tossed some lessons away about the Arthur books, "The Arabian Nights" and the world's folk tales and experiences. The Latest Info Found Here of it I have actually read all by Marina Warner however one can never ever understand enough about these archetypal stories. The story continues below the advertisement In truth, a lot of my favorite books, such as Robert Graves' "The White Goddess," combine the found out and the imaginative, which is why I expect to take pleasure in Margaret Murray's feminist fantasy, "The Witch's Cult in Western Europe." As it is, I have skimmed, but want to ultimately check out all of Montague Summers' pathologically extreme studies of witches, vampires, and monsters, after which it will be the turn of "Devil Worship in France," by popular occultist AE Waite, co-creator of Rider-Waite Tarot deck.
One day, offered the world enough and time, I will gladly browse ER Chamberlin's "The Bad Popes", Bernard J. Bamberger's "Fallen Angels", Sax Rohmer's "The Romance of Sorcery", the Celtic scholar Peter Berresford Ellis' "The Druids ". "," Christina Holes' "Witchcraft in England" (illustrated by Mervyn Peake!) And WB Seabrook's "The Magic Island", the latter is a flamboyant mind-blowing story about Haitian culture and folklore, with a notorious chapter on zombies entitled "Dead Guy Operating In Walking Stick Fields.