Witchcraft was an affliction that raged beneath the skin of European civilization for centuries and its horros and degradations have been chronicled time and again.. But here is a unique history of this terrible folly, a remarkable panorama that views the witch hunts and the witches themselves against a cosmic and theological background. Charles Williams, a member of the brilliant Oxford circle of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, was especially qualified to write such a history, bringing both the poet's sensibility and the scholar's objectivity to bear on this material...