The book is a study of the phenomenon present in European culture for two thousand years and constantly evolving, although based on an incorrect assumption that ancient Egyptians acquired knowledge inaccessible to others and jealously guarded, which gave

The book is devoted to a magic ritual known from ancient Greek and Latin sources and performed to bring the moon down from the sky to the earth. On the basis of numerous accounts of the phenomenon from the middle of the 5 th century B.C.E. until

The monograph discusses literary and cultural issues, important figures and historical facts concerning the 1860s. By referring to various phenomena of the literary production of the time and by revisiting some unknown texts it presents new research