Saducismus Triumphatus: Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions

First published in the 17th century, Joseph Glanvil’s Saducismus Triumphatus is one of the most notorious works on witchcraft, demons, and spectral visitations ever written. Composed in an age of trials and terror, it stands as both a defense of belief in witches and spirits, and a chilling record of the evidence brought forth to prove their existence.

Glanvil—an English clergyman and philosopher—sought to silence the skeptics, the so-called “Sadducees” who denied the supernatural. What he produced was a text overflowing with testimonies of witches, accounts of possession, apparitions, and pacts with the Devil, meant to demonstrate beyond doubt that the unseen powers of darkness were real and dangerously active in the world.

Part theological treatise, part occult chronicle, Saducismus Triumphatus became one of the most influential books on witchcraft of its time, echoing through the courts of Europe and seeding centuries of fear. Today, it remains a foundational grimoire of demonology and witch-lore, a dangerous monument to the shadowed history of belief.

Complete edition of Joseph Glanvil’s 1681 classic

Includes accounts of witchcraft, apparitions, possessions, and demonic pacts

A cornerstone text in the history of demonology, witch trials, and supernatural belief

Essential for collectors of rare occult works and students of esoteric history