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Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural is an encyclopedia of the supernatural, including magic, mythology and religion. It was edited by Richard Cavendish. The art director was Brian Innes, former percussionist of surrealistic 1960s band The Temperance Seven. More than two hundred academics and specialists contributed to the magazine, and wrote in a generally accessible style. The editorial board consisted of:

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  • Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural is an encyclopedia of the supernatural, including magic, mythology and religion. It was edited by Richard Cavendish. The art director was Brian Innes, former percussionist of surrealistic 1960s band The Temperance Seven. More than two hundred academics and specialists contributed to the magazine, and wrote in a generally accessible style. The editorial board consisted of: (en)
  • Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural è un'enciclopedia riguardante i temi del soprannaturale, come la magia, la mitologia e alcune forme di religione, edita dallo scrittore britannico Richard Cavendish con la direzione artistica di Brian Innes, ex percussionista del gruppo jazz inglese The Temperance Seven. Più di duecento accademici e specialisti contribuirono alla rivista, scrivendo in uno stile generalmente accessibile. Il comitato editoriale era composto da: (it)
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  • Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural is an encyclopedia of the supernatural, including magic, mythology and religion. It was edited by Richard Cavendish. The art director was Brian Innes, former percussionist of surrealistic 1960s band The Temperance Seven. Man, Myth & Magic was originally published by BPC Publishing, Ltd. as a partwork, a limited British weekly magazine intended to be collected as a whole. The printer was , Leeds. Publication commenced in 1970, and continued for 112 issues spanning 1,000 articles with some 5,000 illustrations, many of them in full colour. Purnell also sold binders for gathering the installments into seven volumes, plus one additional binder for the magazine covers. In 1970 BPC Publishing Ltd put out a very popular hardcover set condensing all 112 magazines into a 24 volume set.It was reprinted as a 21 volume revised edition by Marshall Cavendish in 1995 (ISBN 9781854357311).The material has been sold to Cavendish Square Publishing, which has published ten volumes of the material reorganized into books according to subject, including Witches and Witchcraft as well as Beliefs, Rituals, and Symbols of Ancient Greece and Rome. Cavendish Square revised the encyclopaedia into a five volume library bound set, in 2014. More than two hundred academics and specialists contributed to the magazine, and wrote in a generally accessible style. The editorial board consisted of: * Glyn Daniel, archaeologist and editor of 'Antiquity'. * E. R. Dodds, former Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford. * Mircea Eliade, professor of the History of Religion at University of Chicago. * William Sargant, past Physician in Charge of the Department of Psychological Medicine, St. Thomas' Hospital. * John Symonds, author and literary executor of Aleister Crowley. * R. J. Zwi Werblowsky, professor of Comparative Religion, Dean of Faculty of Humanities, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. * Robert Charles Zaehner, Spalding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics, Oxford. * Cottie Arthur Burland, formerly of the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum. (en)
  • Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural è un'enciclopedia riguardante i temi del soprannaturale, come la magia, la mitologia e alcune forme di religione, edita dallo scrittore britannico Richard Cavendish con la direzione artistica di Brian Innes, ex percussionista del gruppo jazz inglese The Temperance Seven. Man, Myth & Magic era inizialmente il titolo di un settimanale britannico edito dalla BPC Publishing, Ltd e stampato Purnell & Sons. Leeds. La copertina del primo numero disegnata da Austin Osman Spare nel 1970. Le pubblicazioni continuarono per 112 numeri per un totale di 1.000 articoli corredati da circa 5.000 illustrazioni, molte delle quali a colori. Purnell vendeva anche i raccoglitori per la raccolta dei numeri in sette volumi, più un raccoglitore aggiuntivo per le copertine delle riviste.Poco tempo dopo, la BPC Publishing pubblicò una serie di copertine molto popolari che permetteva di raccogliere i 112 numeri in 24 volumi. Nel '95 fu pubblicata un'edizione riveduta in 21 volumi a cura dell'editore Marshall Cavendish, che cedette i diritti sul materiale alla Cavendish Square Publishing, la quale riorganizzò la collana in 10 volumi, suddivisi per soggetto tematico: da Witches and Witchcraft (" Streghe e Stregoneria "), per arrivare aBeliefs, Rituals, and Symbols of Ancient Greece and Rome ("Credenze, Rituali e Simboli dell'antica Grecia e di Roma"). Più di duecento accademici e specialisti contribuirono alla rivista, scrivendo in uno stile generalmente accessibile. Il comitato editoriale era composto da: * Glyn Daniel, archeologo ed editore della rivista Antiquity; * ER Dodds, ex Regius Professor di greco a Oxford; * Mircea Eliade , professore di storia delle religioni all'Università di Chicago; * William Sargat, ex medico responsabile del dipartimento di medicina psicologica, ospedale di St. Thomas Hospital di Londra; * John Symonds, autore e curatore letterario di Aleister Crowley; * RJ Zwi Werblowsky, docente di religioni comparate, Decano della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia all'Università Ebraica di Gerusalemme; * Robert Charles Zaehner, Spalding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics all'Università di Oxford; * Cottie Arthur Burland, ex membro del dipartimento di etnografia presso il British Museum. (it)
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