Witches Still Live by Theda Kenyon

Witches Still Live by Theda Kenyon, published in 1929. A firsthand account of surviving traditions of witchcraft, folk magic, and popular superstition gathered during Kenyon’s travels through Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and other regions of the Mediterranean. Seeking out village healers, charmers, sorcerers, and practitioners of traditional magic, she records contemporary beliefs surrounding the Evil Eye, protective amulets, curse magic, love charms, ritual healing, divination, magical incantations, talismans, spirit beliefs, and ceremonies intended to influence unseen forces. Rather than treating witchcraft as a relic of the past, Kenyon argues that these practices remained woven into everyday rural life, preserving ancient magical traditions beneath the outward forms of Christianity. Rich in firsthand observations of magical practitioners, vernacular occult customs, and surviving pre-Christian folk beliefs, the work remains one of the more engaging early twentieth-century studies of living European and North African folk magic. Hardcover with the original dust jacket showing light chipping and shelfwear; original owner’s library stamp on the front endsheet and on one chapter heading.