Montague Summers was a devout Roman Catholic who believed witches were evil, but his work has been considered important to Wiccans who wish to understand the history of magical religion before the Wiccan revival of the 1950s. This book reprints Matthew Hopkins' anti-witch tract first published in 1647, along with Summer's commentary, but its chief value may be in the reprint of a brief essay by Gerald Gardner dating back to 1939-over a decade before Witchcraft Today was published. Not for the beginner, but a serious book for the dedicated student of magic and occult history.