Jewish and Islamic Magic: Forbidden and Permissible Ritual Methods for Influencing from the Unseen World
Ever since Sir James George Frazer’s (1854–1941) voluminous work, The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (previously titled The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion, in 1890), the erroneous belief that modern, particularly Western society could be divided along the lines of …