Treasury of Witchcraft, by Harry E. Wedeck (HC, 1961, $4)
A treasury of witchcraft? That is sure one strange combination of words, and this is one strange book.
The table of contents is 10 pages long, with tiny print and two columns per page. There are 11 chapters, and I swear, nothing, absolutely nothing, gets left out. The chapter on magic techniques, spells, conjurations, incantations and periapts has over 100 listings! Most of this book seems to be quotations, many of them very ancient.
This book badly needs an index, as items listed in the table of contents sometimes are hard to find. Actually, in some cases I never did find them! So it wasn't as useful as I thought it would be.
I did find out that a werewolf is a man that changes into a wolf, and then back into a man, whereas lyncanthropy is when a human is changed into a wolf and never changes back. Therioanthropy, on the other hand, is when humans turn into an animal other than a wolf, which makes sense because not every country has wolves.
Look for this book on the new non-fiction table.
