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Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England. Astrology, witchcraft, magical healing, divination, ancient prophecies, ghosts, and fairies were taken very seriously by people at all social and economic levels in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England

Astrology, witchcraft, magical healing, divination, ancient prophecies, ghosts, and fairies were taken very seriously by people at all social and economic levels in sixteenth-

Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods. At the same time the Protestant Reformation attempted to take the magic out of religion, and scientists were developing new explanations of the universe. Keith Thomas's classic analysis of beliefs held on every level of English

Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England (Penguin History) by Thomas, Keith dp/B002RI9L9E Thomas' gives credit for the decline of belief in magic to religion. The belief in magic declined before the mechanistic revolution of the Enlightenment produced its great boons to humanity. Religion provided a belief in a single, all-encompassing providence that worked with regularity and ordinary predictability: