Occult scholarship, demonology, Gothic supernaturalism
Montague Summers
1880 – 1948
Montague Summers was an English clergyman and scholar who devoted his career to the serious academic study of witchcraft, vampirism, and lycanthropy, professing genuine personal belief in each. His History of Witchcraft and Demonology (1926) was followed by landmark studies of vampires and werewolves drawn from historical and folkloric sources across Europe. He also produced the first modern English translation of the Malleus Maleficarum, treating it as a practical guide rather than a historical curiosity.
DemonologyCross-CulturalEuropean folkloreThe Infernal HierarchyCatholic DemonologyReligious historyDemonic Possessionsupernatural harmSupernatural evil
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