TUWIM Julian - Czary i czarty polskie oraz wypisy czarnoksięskie [1960] [opr. graph. Stanislaw Zamecznik].

Warsaw 1960, Czytelnik. 17x21.5 cm, pp. 462, numerous illustrations, hard cloth cover with wrapper. Very good condition.

Graphic design: Stanisław Zamecznik.

"Polish Witchcraft and Sorcery" is the work of a dilettante and compiler, a snooper and bibliophile, passionate about learning about the history of culture in general, and its curiosities and peculiarities in particular. Not the sharp mind of a scientist, but the vein of a collector, a collector, an amateur of white ravens, warehouses of antiquities, cabinets of wax figures, antiquarians, everything rare, strange, mysterious, and therefore disturbing and tempting - this vein was the impetus for the publication of this amazing book. The author wrote down the most interesting places from a fairly extensive literature of works on witchcraft, and put the collected material together to form a preface illustrating the history of witches and superstition in Poland, while "Witchcraft Writings" itself is an attempt at an anthology of Polish magical literature and contains reprints of extremely rare works, which are most often white-snow ravens, and therefore either not known at all or not known to the wider public. [from the author]