Throughout history, people have promoted stories of curses for a variety of reasons. To sports fans, curses can help explain their favorite team’s loss. When a cause of death is misunderstood, curses can provide an explanation. For an imperial nation, curses can betray anxiety about being pu...
9 | Esuapia Palladino |Palladino was an Italian Spiritualist born in the 1850s. Of course, during this time, magicians were called wizards, sorcerers, witches, and the like. Like many other magicians during this period, Palladino claimed she could speak to the dead. Investigators refuted her...
Laurie Cabot (born March 6, 1933) is an American Witchcraft high priestess, one of the most high-profile witches in the world, one of the first people to popularize Witchcraft in the United States, and author of several books. She founded the Cabot Tradition of the Science of Witchcraft an...
I’ll be bringing you a few posts related to some of the spookier aspects of Germany & German history. Today I am bringing you the story ofWalpurga Hausmännin– one of Germany’s most famous witches.
1612:3 women who hail from the village of Samlesbury, England are put on trial for practicing the dark arts of witchcraft. The trial of these 3 women, who were known as the Samlesbury witches, becomes one of the most famous witch trials in British history. ...
Other works from his mid-period include the Caprichos and Los Disparates etching series, and a wide variety of paintings concerned with insanity, mental asylums, witches, fantastical creatures and religious and political corruption, all of which suggest that he feared for both his country's fate ...
“Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers and OtherPagansin America Today” was published in 1979. For many years, it was the only introductory work about the AmericanNeopagancommunities and, after updates and re-issues in 1986 and 2006, it has become over the years a ...
Witches’ Loaves | O. Henry Miss Martha is a forty-year-old woman who owns a small bakery. She has a regular customer, a middle-aged man who always buys two loaves of stale bread, never anything else. She takes an interest in him, and tries to find a way to get to know him. ...
Witchcraft has always been a part of the culture of New Orleans. Even though it may not be as well-known as Voodoo, there are plenty of real-world witches residing in New Orleans, even today. In this article, by our General Manager Gretchen Upshaw, we dive a little into the practice ...
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