From these civilizations it came into the early thought of Greece and Rome, but especially into the Jewish and Christian sacred books.

Both in the Old Testament and in the New we find magic, witchcraft, and soothsaying constantly referred to as realities.( 266) (266) For magic in prehistoric times and survivals of it since, with abundant citation of authorities, see Tylor, Primitive Culture, chap.
iv; also The Early History of Mankind, by the same author, third edition, pp.

115 et seq., also p.

380.; also Andrew Lang, Myth, Ritual, and Religion, vol.i, chap iv.

For magic in Egypt, see Lenormant, Chaldean Magic, chaps.