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"The following sheets contain a history of magic, sorcery, witchcraft, apparitions, and spectres. We think it requisite to give the reader a brief account of the nature and usefulness of our design in the first place; and having represented the design and usefulness of this treatise, we shall in the next place offer something to confirm the belief and credit of histories so well attested. We first lay down the method we have taken in this history: we give the reader a compendious account of the origin and rise of the art of magic and witchcraft, as an introduction the following history that He might have at once in View, a general Notion of the diabolical arts practiced by such wretched persons, and the manner how they make their abominable contracts with the devil, and bring wicked spirits under their command, to put their ill designs in practice; from whence we proceed to given an historical account of the mischievous proceedings and actions of those instruments of the devil, magicians and witches, and what untimely and disgraceful ends such wicked practices have brought such persons to at the last. As for the usefulness of this treatise, the histories contained in it, being collected from the best authors who have wrote upon those subject, they not only serve to put us in mind of the delusions of Satan, but also, they may put us in mind to arm ourselves against the temptations of the devil"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved).

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This book explores a series of powerful artifacts associated with King Solomon via legendary or extracanonical textual sources. Tracing their cultural resonance throughout history, art historian Allegra Iafrate delivers exciting insights into these objects and interrogates the ways in which magic manifests itself at a material level.Each chapter focuses on a different Solomonic object: a ring used to control demons; a mysterious set of bottles that constrain evil forces; an endless knot or seal with similar properties; the shamir, known for its supernatural ability to cut through stone; and a flying carpet that can bring the sitter anywhere he desires. Taken together, these chapters constitute a study on the reception of the figure of Solomon, but they are also cultural biographies of these magical objects and their inherent aesthetic, morphological, and technical qualities.Thought-provoking and engaging, Iafrate’s study shows how ancient magic artifacts live on in our imagination, in items such as Sauron’s ring of power, Aladdin’s lamp, and the magic carpet. It will appeal to historians of art, religion, folklore, and literature.

Magic.