Dictionnaire Infernal : Rêpertoire Universel des Ètres, des Personnages, des Livres, des Faits et des Choses / Jacques-Albin-Simon Collin de Plancy.
Popular in 19th-century France, this dictionary went through five editions between 1818 and 1863. It is an A-Z encyclopedia of the occult sciences, listing notable practitioners and books, superstitions, demons, spirits and other phenomena associated with magic, divination, sooth-saying and the supe...
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| Language: | English |
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2011.
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| Series: | Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge
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| Summary: | Popular in 19th-century France, this dictionary went through five editions between 1818 and 1863. It is an A-Z encyclopedia of the occult sciences, listing notable practitioners and books, superstitions, demons, spirits and other phenomena associated with magic, divination, sooth-saying and the supernatural. Its author, the prolific Collin de Plancy (1794-1881), moved to Paris in 1812. He owned a bookshop and speculated in property, a venture which resulted in his exile to Brussels. In 1837, he returned to Paris, rejected his earlier anticlericalism, and converted to Catholicism. The preface to the 1845 edition of his Dictionnaire Infernal, reissued here, claims its purpose is to refute error, banish superstition, and explain literary symbols and imagery. The book carries the approval of the archbishop of Paris. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Apr 2014). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (602 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780511910289 0511910282 9781108027250 1108027253 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511910289 |