The Reverend Montague Summers was a Roman Catholic priest.
Summers are: The Witch
Heretic and Anarchist
Demons and Familiars; the Sabbat; the Witch in Holy Writ
Diabolic Possession and Modern Spiritism; and the Witch in Dramatic Literature..
Among the subjects covered by Dr.
This book was written from what critics have called a medieval viewpoint, an absolute and complete belief in Witchcraft and, hence, in the supernatural.
Summers firmly believed in the concept world of Satanism and described its nefarious nature with tremendous gusto.
Unlike other writers on the subject, Dr. "The History of Witchcraft" is one of the classic works on Witchcraft and demonology.
On the contrary, he vigorously defends everything the Church ever did to extirpate Witchcraft and heresy.
He is not ashamed of the greatest excesses committed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
However, his views on Witchcraft and Demonology differed considerably from those of Catholic encyclopedists and spokesmen of today.
The Reverend Montague Summers was a Roman Catholic priest