Description: MAN MYTH & MAGIC : THE MOST UNUSUAL MAGAZINE EVER PUBLISHED 1974Part FiveSpecial Feature: Possession & TranceMarshall Cavendish USA Ltd 1974© BPC Publishing Ltd 1970, 1971 Cover: Girl collapsed after being possessed by spirit during a Voodoo ceremony in Haiti156 pages. About MAN MYTH & MAGICIn 112 weekly issues, MAN MYTH & MAGIC builds into the first comprehensive encyclopedia of its kind: more than 1,000 articles…in 8 volumes; some 500 illustrations…drawn from ancient manuscripts, rare books, private collections, private collections, museums. Adapted from the John Coulthart website: Man, Myth and Magic exists in several different versions along with a number of spin-off books which mined its texts for information and reused its picture archive. The first edition was the “Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural” which appeared in the UK each week from 1970 to 1971 as 112 magazine-sized issues, a series that built eventually into a collection of seven volumes. The first issue famously used a detail of a picture by Austin Osman Spare on its cover, giving Spare and his art a prominence unlike anything he received during his lifetime. The same part-work was published a couple of years later in the USA…Magic and the supernatural was the selling point but the encyclopedia was as much about religion and general anthropology as the occult, with the editorial stance being unsensational, factual and neutral. The seven-volume set was later republished in book form as 24 hardcover volumes, then revised in 1995 as a new set of 21 volumes with a different subtitle, “The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mythology, Religion and the Unknown”. Richard Cavendish was Editor-in-Chief of all the editions of Man, Myth and Magic, with Brian Innes acting as picture editor and subsequently co-editor for the 1995 edition. Cavendish had been the author of The Black Arts in 1967, …The contents of Man, Myth and Magic have long been rendered superfluous by the internet but the contributor list gives the encyclopedia a curiosity value if nothing else. All of the entries are unique pieces of writing which are unavailable outside these pages. See Table of Contents for contributors. RELATED: Astrology, Zodiac, Astral Body, Gods, Goddesses, Astarte, Asmodeus, Aeshma Daeva, Ashanti People, Ghana, West Africa, West African Religions, West African Spirituality, Speaking in Tongues, Supernatural, Mysticism, Hoodoo, Rituals, Black Magic, Witches, Spirituality, Occult Supernatural Magic Mysticism, Great Occult Revival, ATR, African Traditional Religion, Religious Studies, 1960s, 1970s FINAL SALE No returns or refunds, please.
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Binding: Softcover, Wraps
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish USA Ltd
Subject: Religion & Spirituality
Character Family: Man Myth & Magic
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1974
