This dictionary offers a look at magical formulae; the nature of spiritual beings; the meaning of signs, symbols and sacred rites; astrology; Tarot; historical accounts of hauntings and psychic occurences; biographies of leading figures in the field, their lives, philosophies and writings; religious and esoteric texts such as the Egyptian Coffin Texts, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Zohar; characters, human and divine, in great legends and myths of...