Volume 1
The history of magic / [J. Ennemoser] ; translated from the German by William Howitt. To which is added an appendix of the most remarkable and best authenticated stories of apparitions, dreams, second sight, somnambulism, predictions, divination, witchcraft, vampires, fairies, table-turning, and spirit-rapping selected by Mary Howitt.
- Joseph Ennemoser
- Date:
- 1854
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The history of magic / [J. Ennemoser] ; translated from the German by William Howitt. To which is added an appendix of the most remarkable and best authenticated stories of apparitions, dreams, second sight, somnambulism, predictions, divination, witchcraft, vampires, fairies, table-turning, and spirit-rapping selected by Mary Howitt. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![THE HISTOEY OF MAGIC. PAET I. OF MAGIC AJSD ITS BEANCHES IN GENEEAE. Magiusiah, Madschusie, signified the office and knowledge sof the Priest, who was called Mag, Magius, Magiusi, and ;.iafterwards, Magi and Magician. Brucker maintains (His- t toria philos. crit. t. i. p. 160), that the primitive meaning of P this word is “ Pire-worshipper ”—“ worship of the light,” to which erroneous opinion he has been led bj the Mohammedan [ dictionaries; neither is Magic to be derived directly from the r Magi; which was an error on the part of the Homans. The I' word Mag was used by Jeremias to indicate a Babylonian r priest. In the modem Persian, the word is Mog, and pMogbed signifies High Priest. The high priest of the Parsees at Surat, even at the present day, is called Mobed. Others derived the word from “ Megh Meh-ab signifying something which is great and noble, and Zoroaster’s disciples were called Meghestom. (Kleuker, Wachsmuth.) Among the Parsees, the Medes, and Egyptians, a higher knowledge of nature was understood by the term Magic, with which religion, and particularly astronomy, were associated. The initiated and their disciples were called Magicians—that is, the Wise—which was also the case among the Greeks. It 18 thus that Plato praises the ^toaiptia ; Lucian calls them YOL. I. ]U i](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24871667_0001_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
