The author and psychologist Alfred Georg Ludvig Lehmann describes in the present volume "Superstition and Sorcery" from ancient times to the end of the 19th century. The term superstition is applied to belief systems and religious practices that do not conform to one's own, usually orthodox doctrines. He presents the relationship between superstition and magic to religion and science, the wisdom of the Chaldeans, Romans, Northerners, and their development in Europe, the emergence of spiritualism, as well as magical states of mind and much more. With two plates and 67 text illustrations. Reprint of the original edition from 1908.