Esotericism
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Was Ergotism that Satan Once Loosed in Salem?
Numerous hypotheses have been devised to explain the occurrence of the Salem witchcraft trials in 1692, yet a sense of…
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Fear, Misfortune, Heresy: The Witch-Craze in Germany
The discussed cultural origins and folkloric repercussions of/on witchcraft in Europe have shown that the Early Modern Period was a…
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Albert the Great and the Visio Mystica Epistemology
Albert’s ideas any of the modern connotations of that term which may have been alien to his time and culture
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Approaches to Magic, Heresy and Witchcraft in Time
Contemporary scholars are generally aware of a connection between heresy, magic and witchcraft
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Three Early Modern Magic Rituals to Spoil Witches
Late medieval collections of magical works very commonly contain works for the detection of thieves; this was also a service…
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Mother Shipton, the Witch of York and Prophetic Insights
The legend of Mother Shipton has wielded great power for centuries — from the turmoil of Tudor courts, through the…
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Cosmology: Time and History and the Creation Myths
Cosmology, strictly speaking, is the rational discussion of the cosmos, which developed in Greece from the sixth-century BCE onward
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Atavism: A Late-Victorian Gothic Darwinian Nightmare
Detailing the how and why the body became the locus of Gothic horror in the last decades of the century
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European Witch Trials Foundations in Popular Culture
Certain recent historians of witchcraft have adopted their mode of inquiry from anthropology
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Ritual Mythologies and Witchcraft in the Fifteenth-Century
The European witch trials that began in the fifteenth-century have been explained in many ways, but always assuming that witchcraft…
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The Horned Gods and Goddesses of the Witches
The earliest known representation of a deity is in the Caverne des Trois Frères in Ariège, and dates to the…
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The Seventeenth-Century Witch’s Devilish Attributes
Witch-mania, the conditions of mediaeval life, by their harsh pressure upon the poor and needy among women, should have provided…
