For magic in Greece and Rome, and especially in the Neoplatonic school, as well as in the Middle Ages, see especially Maury, La Magie et l'Astrologie, chaps.

iii-v.

For various sorts of magic recognised and condemned in our sacred books, see Deuteronomy xviii, 10, 11; and for the burning of magical books at Ephesus under the influence of St.
Paul, see Acts xix, 14.

See also Ewald, History of Israel, Martineau's translation, fourth edition, vol.iii, pp.

45-51.