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Black Magic, White Magic & the Theory of Magic

On Christian Doctrine (De doctrina christiana)

by Augustine of Hippo

Augustine's handbook on interpreting scripture, whose discussion of 'superstitious' signs and amulets as covenants with demons became a foundation of medieval thinking about magic.

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