Stories about dark objects, sorcerers, witches, deceptions of feelings, superstitions. Khotinsky M.S.

“Stories about dark objects” is a collection of interesting materials on the history of magic and sorcery. Its author, Matvey Khotinsky, writer and famous popularizer of natural sciences. At the end of the nineteenth century, his books were very popular, published in huge circulations. Khotinsky approaches the magic from the point of view of a sensible person who is trying to understand the nature of a miracle. Superstitions, deceptions of vision and hearing, the tricks of mechanics and physics, the history of sorcerers and witches of old Russia -you will read all this in his book. "Stories about dark objects" are first published in modern Russian.