Essential Worldbuilding

What are the tools and research methods writers use to craft complex, believable worlds? What are the essential elements necessary to ground a fictional world in a sense of tangible reality?

The question of what are essential elements is both straightforward and simple.

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Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Ancient Greece And Rome

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Ancient Greece And Rome edited by Bengt Ankarloo and Stuart Clark

Volume 2.  Covering a large range of practice and theory -- and time.

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