What is Daemonologie?
{{Italic title}} {{Infobox book <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject Books --> | name = Daemonologie | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:James I; Daemonologie, in forme of a dialogue. Title page. Wellcome M0014280.jpg | caption = Title page of a 1603 reprinting | author = [[James VI of Scotland]]<!-- James signed his name with &c. (&c. means etc. or et al.) because of his many titles, King of Scotland, Ireland, England, etc. etc. (James Rx came from a transcription error!) --> | country = [[England]] | language = [[Middle English]], [[Scots language|Scots]], [[Irish language|Irish]] | series = 3 books and a news pamphlet in one volume. | genre = [[Occult]], [[Religion]], [[Philosophy]], [[Dissertation]], [[Socratic dialogue]] | publisher = | release_date = 1597 | media_type = Print | pages = | isbn = | preceded_by = [[Newes from Scotland]] (1591) | followed_by = }} '''''Daemonologie'''''—in full '''''Daemonologie, In Forme of a Dialogue, Divided into three Books: By the High and Mighty Prince, James &c.'''''—was written and published in 1597<ref>{{cite book|first1=G. Blakemore|last1=Evans|title=The Riverside Shakespeare|url=https://archive.org/details/riversideshakesp0000shak|date=1997|publisher=Mifflin|location=Boston [u.a.]|page=[https://archive.org/details/riversideshakesp0000shak/page/1356 1356]|edition=2|isbn=0-395-75490-9}}</ref> by [[James I of England|King James VI of Scotland]] (later also [[James_VI_and_I#Accession_in_England|James I of England]]). It is a [[demonology]] and [[medieval philosophy]] that discusses the relationship between ancient [[necromancy]] and the ancient [[black magic]] that was popular during the [[Middle Ages]]. It also touches on topics such as [[werewolves]] and [[vampire]]s. This book is believed to be one of the main sources used by [[William Shakespeare]] in the production of ''[[Macbeth]]''. ==References== {{Reflist}} * {{cite book|last1=King James|title=Daemon