" Similar criticism of Murray came from the historian Ronald Hutton, in both his 1991 book on ancient paganism, The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy and in his 1999 study of Wiccan history, The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft.

In 1954 Gerald Gardner published a book, Witchcraft Today, in which he claimed to reveal the existence of a witch-cult that dated back to pre-Christian Europe.

The sport is featured in every Harry Potter book except for the seventh because they do not speak much of the events happening at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

In 1954 Gerald Gardner published his book " Witchcraft Today " to advance his own practice of Wicca as a modern religion.

The magical and " radical humanist " views of Arthur Evans, specifically his 1978 book Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture, influenced some early members of the movement.

He gives his book of spells ( entitled Witchcraft ) to Paradine, encouraging him to use it, but when Paradine looks in it, he realizes that using this magic requires one to align himself with Satan.

The book strongly influenced Cotton Mather in his Discourse on Witchcraft ( 1689 ) and the Salem witch trials held 1692-3 in Salem, Massachusetts.

* The French historian Jules Michelet was one of the first to analyze and attempt to understand the Black Mass, and wrote two chapters about it in his classic book, Satanism and Witchcraft ( 1862 ).

As can be seen from these first Black Masses and Satanic Masses appearing in the U. S., the creators drew heavily from occult novelists such as Dennis Wheatley and Joris-Karl Huysmans, and from non-fiction occult writers popular in the 1960s, such as H. T. F. Rhodes ( who provided a title in his 1954 book The Satanic Mass ), and Grillot de Givry ( author of the popular illustrated book Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy ).

* Satanism and Witchcraft, a book by Jules Michelet on the history of witchcraft

Martello claimed to belong to a " family tradition " of religious witchcraft in his 1970s book Witchcraft: The Old Religion.

However, perhaps " the most influential vehicle for the dissemination of high magic to a wider audience was, in fact, Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft ", a book first published in the early seventeenth century in which Scot condemned the cunning folk as liars and tricksters, but in which he had also provided a wide variety of talismans, charms and rituals as examples of what the cunning folk and ceremonial magicians performed.

He also noted that many of them referred to themselves as " hedge witches ", a term that was first developed by the writer Rae Beth in her book Hedge Witch: A Guide to Solitary Witchcraft ( 1990 ).

His book, The Tree, was written with the intent for it to be a definitive guide to Seax-Wica, and was published in 1974 by Samuel Weiser, though subsequently republished in 2005 as Buckland's Book of Saxon Witchcraft.

In 1962, Valiente saw her first book published: entitled Where Witchcraft Lives, it dealt with her own research into folklore and the Early Modern witch trials that occurred in her county of Sussex, things which she incorrectly associated with the origins of Wicca.

Meanwhile she continued to write poetry, much of which has been published in the book Charge of the Goddess: The Mother of Modern Witchcraft, an example of which is " An Unsolved Problem of Psychic Research ", which goes thus:

Valiente also edited and wrote the introduction to the 1990 book, Witchcraft: A Tradition Renewed by Evan John Jones, which was about forms of Witchcraft other than the Gardnerian and Alexandrian traditions, such as Cochrane's Craft.

Kaori Saeki, the head of the new Witchcraft Club, also notes Minase's magic acts and persuades him to come to one of her meetings with the book.

In the introduction to his book on The History of Witchcraft and Demonology ( 1926 ) he writes:

Geertz's " thick description " approach was adopted by the sociologist Allen Scarboro, psychologist Nancy Campbell and literary critic Shirley Stave in their book Living Witchcraft: A Contemporary American Coven ( 1994 ).

In 1697, Hale wrote the book, A Modest Enquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft, challenging the legal precedents and biblical principles used by the court during the trials.

( Other early authors on Wicca and witchcraft, such as Paul Huson in his book Mastering Witchcraft, and Charles Cardell of the Coven of Atho, and Robert Cochrane of the Clan of Tubal Cain, generally saw the male priest or magister as being of more importance.

Bel Geddes expounds upon his design in his book Magic Motorways, stating, “ Futurama is a large-scale model representing almost every type of terrain in America and illustrating how a motorway system may be laid down over the entire country – across mountains, over rivers and lakes, through cities and past towns – never deviating from a direct course and always adhering to the four basic principles of highway design: safety, comfort, speed and economy .” He had acknowledged this in the belief that “ A free-flowing movement of people and goods across our nation is a requirement of modern living and prosperity .”

His first book, Real Magic, was published in 1971.

In his book Real Magic ( 1971 ), Bonewits proposed his hypothesis on the Laws of Magic.

* The Magic Lantern, a book by Timothy Garton Ash recounting the fall of communism throughout Eastern Europe

* The Punch and Judy Murders, a book, also published under the title The Magic Lantern Murders

* Magic Lantern, an alternate version of the comic book hero Green Lantern

In Time, Lon Tweeten shows with Continuing the Magic possible future book covers laced with pop culture references.

File: The Magic Dice Cup tangram paradox. svg | The Magic Dice Cup tangram paradox-from Sam Loyd ’ s book Eighth Book of Tan ( 1903 ).

John French's 2010 book Through the Eyes of Magic describes some of the " talks " which were initiated by his actions such as being heard playing a Frank Zappa drum part (" The Blimp ( mousetrapreplica )") in his drumming shed, and not having finished drum parts as quickly as Beefheart wanted.

* In the Vertigo comic book series The Books of Magic, The Names of Magic and The Books of Faerie, Tamlin is the father of the protagonist Timothy Hunter, potentially the greatest sorcerer in the world.

The script of the book changes after Yahweh abandons his creation, coming to a turning point of the original script ( presumably what was written in The Books of Magic ).

She was asked to write the introduction to a re-edition in November 2007 of the book called The Magic Key To Charm written by the pioneering female journalist Eileen Ascroft.

* In the Magic Tree House book series, one book is titled Day of the Dragon King, named for Qin Shi Huangdi.

* The Uffington White Horse features prominently in the Summer of Magic Quartet, a book series centered around Celtic mythology.

According to author H. Reid in his 1961 book The Virginian Railway, investors recalled the rapid growth of Roanoke between 1882 and 1884, which had been nicknamed the " Magic City " when the Norfolk and Western ( N & W ) had established major facilities at the former bucolic location which had been earlier known as Big Lick.

In 2007, Arrarás also wrote a book The Magic Cane, published in Spanish as El Bastón Mágico.

The writer of a William Randolph Hearst-syndicated comic strip titled Little Margie in Misty Magic Land, Case wrote Promethea into her comic book as a helpful spirit to the titular young adventurer, and ended up personifying Promethea to help soldiers on the battlefield from 1900 – 1920, in a manner similar to the legendary Angels of Mons.

< http :// www. jstor. org / stable / 335812 >.</ ref > Much discussion is cited from Maggie Ann Bowers ' book Magic ( al ) Realism, wherein she attempts to delimit the terms magic and magical realism by examining the relationships with other genres such as realism, surrealism, fantastic literature and science fiction.

There are multiverses also in the Warcraft universe, The Chronicles of Narnia, Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, and Diana Wynne Jones's Chrestomanci, Howl's Moving Castle and Deep Secret books and standalone book A Sudden Wild Magic.

Other works taking their title from the book include: the Futurama episode " Future Stock "; a segment on The Daily Show starring Samantha Bee ; Kevin Goldstein's recurring column on the Baseball Prospectus website ; a Magic: The Gathering pre-constructed deck ; and the National Wrestling Alliance's 1989 Starrcade event.

His first book Oriental Magic, published in 1956, was originally intended to be titled Considerations in Eastern and African Minority Beliefs.