| A magical enchantment or spell designed to make the observer believe things are different from what thet really are. The MALLEUS MALEFICARUM(1486) has the question "Whether Witches can by some Glamour Change Men into Beasts"as its Question Ten in Part One. Heinrich Kramer and Jakob Sprenger, the co-authors of the book, offer arguments on the matter put forward by St.Thomas in the "Second Book of Sentences,VIII, where he discussed "whether devils can affect the bodily senses by the delusion of of glamour". Allan Ramsay, in the glossary to his "Poems"(1721)says,"Glamour: When devils,wizards or jugglers decieve the sight, they are said to cast glamour o'er the eyes of the spectator".The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft,Wicca, and Neo-paganism.p.208 |
