NEARLY every primitive religion is regarded by its adherents as a medium for obtaining supernatural power. It turns out that about half of the length of this book is notes and index, however, so it’s not as intimidating as the file size makes it look. However, this was not one that inspired teeth-grinding, despite being almost the longest of the bunch. Earlier this year I was grinding my teeth over trying to read too many extremely long non-fiction books. Its original purpose was to explain some of the belief systems that were current in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England but which are mostly no longer believed today – things like astrology, witchcraft, magical healing, ghosts, and fairies. Religion and the Decline of Magic is a very long book of non-fiction.
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