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A review by dtaylorbooks
The History of Witchcraft and Demonology by Montague Summers
Where did I stop reading? Page 51
Why? I’m researching a rather witchy book I want to write and this sounded like something that would give me some solid background information about witchcraft. I was wrong. So incredibly wrong. I didn’t know until I actually picked up the book from the library that it actually came out in 1926 and was presented as is from that time. And it’s written by a dude who was all like, “Those Inquisitors were just and intelligent and were ridding the earth of heresy.” And I’m over here like . . . what. All the while he’s shitting on a woman who had the sack to write a history on witchcraft from an anthropological perspective and, from what Summers quoted, appeared far more accurate than this guy, because of just how wrong she got witchcraft. So in reality, this is not an actual history on witchcraft. This is a history of the false hysteria of witchcraft perpetuated by bros like Summers who bought into the stories and supported the genocide of women. Pass.
Why? I’m researching a rather witchy book I want to write and this sounded like something that would give me some solid background information about witchcraft. I was wrong. So incredibly wrong. I didn’t know until I actually picked up the book from the library that it actually came out in 1926 and was presented as is from that time. And it’s written by a dude who was all like, “Those Inquisitors were just and intelligent and were ridding the earth of heresy.” And I’m over here like . . . what. All the while he’s shitting on a woman who had the sack to write a history on witchcraft from an anthropological perspective and, from what Summers quoted, appeared far more accurate than this guy, because of just how wrong she got witchcraft. So in reality, this is not an actual history on witchcraft. This is a history of the false hysteria of witchcraft perpetuated by bros like Summers who bought into the stories and supported the genocide of women. Pass.