[Cultus Sabbati] [Andrew Chumbley]
 
Troy Book : London, 2015. 
 
First Edition. Hardcover. Special edition limited to 300 copies. 8vo. pp 272. Bound in recycle red leather fibers. Device stamped in gilt on front board, title stamped in gilt on spine. Brown end-papers. Faintest spotting to edges of text block. Very good Condition.
 
From the publisher:
 
‘Taking its name from the lost ‘black book’ of a famed Cambridgeshire witch, as well as plots of land sacrificed unto the spirits and the Old One himself, Nigel Pearson’s ‘The Devil’s Plantation’ guides the reader through the traditional witchcraft, old magic and folklore of East Anglia.
 
This is an ancient landscape, and a melding pot for the beliefs, culture and magic of the various peoples who have inhabited it over its long history. And yet, until very recently, East Anglia has been a land ‘set apart’ and isolated amidst impassable marshes, Fens and uncleared Forests.
 
Thus East Anglia is a landscape in which ‘the good folk’, land drakes, land wights, meremaids, giants, spectral hounds, saintly miracles, wort Cunning, toad lore, folk magic and indeed witchcraft have been nurtured and continue to play a part in the lives of the people of what has aptly been named ‘Witch Country’’.
 
£125