A History of Magic, Witchcraft, and the Occult (DK A History of): DK, Lipscomb, Suzannah: 9781465494290: Amazon.com: Books

I just finished reading this and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a great summary of the entire history of magic and the occult (and other religions) and was immensely informative. It's a quality book with very nice pictures that covered a lot of topics. It gives you a good overview without going into too much detail that would make it boring or harder to read, like a lot of these history book are. It's the pictures though that made this book. I felt like I was back in school studying to be an archeologist or historian - it is like a textbook in many ways. It's great to see visuals of everything that are describing and really added to the enjoyment of reading this.

Like others have mentioned, this is a beautiful book and I was looking forward to having it as a display book but the cover is all banged up from shipping. The spine and pages aren’t damaged so I won’t return it but I won’t be able to leave it out because of the damage.

This explains a lot about whatever you need to know. Also has pictures in it which helps! Very durable and a great read if you want to know about witchcraft, anything having to do with it and its origins. I highly recommend this book for any household who wants to get into the subject on anything having to do with witchcraft, the occult or magic!!!

Book is very heavy duty. Great culture and pictures. A great book for knowledge of witch craft In the history. Book has graphic pictures but amazing literature.Highly recommend to anyone who is curious about the history of witchcraft

There's soooo much to this book! It's not overwhelming, it feels like reading either a textbook from school or those educational animal books for kids - lots of pictures to show various objects, historical paintings, covers or title pages of old texts, very helpful. It was easy to stop and start again when I had more time. There's a LOT of info in here, it's a great beginner's introduction to the occult.