Occultism, folklore, mythology scholarship

Lewis Spence

1874 – 1955

James Lewis Thomas Chalmers Spence (25 November 1874 – 3 March 1955) was a Scottish journalist, poet, folklorist, and occult scholar. He compiled landmark reference works including An Encyclopaedia of Occultism (1920) and A Dictionary of Mythology (1910), and was a prominent populariser of Atlantis theories and pre-Columbian Mesoamerican mythology. A Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, he published over forty books that remain influential in occult scholarship.