Thaumaturgia: The Elucidations of the Marvellous

“Thaumaturgia; Or, Elucidations of the Marvellous” is a book by someone writing as “An Oxonian”, first published in 1835. Written in a learned, 19th-century prose, the work surveys popular and scholarly accounts of magic, demonology, divination, alchemy, astrology and other supernatural lore — moving between antiquarian description, historical anecdote and the curious scholarship of its day. The t...