Kindle Edition
Amazon
Category:
Cultures
Publisher: KDP
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 58
Copyright: Feb 21, 2020
ISBN-13: 9798611004982
Price: $2.99 (eBook)
In 1921, Colonel Conrad Babcock, a US military attache in Paris, submitted an unusual report on Moroccan witchcraft to the Military Intelligence Division. The report contained folkloric recipes to avoid drowning, to make dogs cease barking, to break up a marriage, to make yourself invisible, etc. This mini-book describes Babcock and the background of his fascinating report.
In 1921, Colonel Conrad Babcock, assistant US military attache in Paris, submitted an unusual report on Moroccan witchcraft to the Military Intelligence Division in Washington. The colonel's report contained folkloric recipes to bless crops, to avoid drowning, to make dogs stop barking, to derail a marriage, to make yourself invisible, etc. This illustrated mini-book presents Colonel Babcock's fascinating report in its entirety, illustrated with period photographs of Morocco by Arnold Genthe, along with a short biography of Conrad Babcock and the background of his controversial research.
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