Conjuring the dead Strictly speaking, "necromancy" is the practice of conjuring the spirits of the dead for divination or prophecy - although the term has also been applied to raising the dead for other purposes. The Biblical 'Witch' of Endor is supposed to have performed it (1 Sam. 28),...
We’ve already written a good bit aboutgunpowder, which is what makes fireworks do what they do. There’s also a long-standing tradition of “shooting in” times like the new year by firing guns loaded with just powder or blanks in the air (live ammo was sometimes used, but obviously t...
Witchcraft has always been more associated with female folk, which goes all the way back to Biblical times when Eve bit the serpent’s forbidden apple. A patriarchal society in early modern Europe didn’t help, and many theorists believe women were targeted to create a negative female ...
Book Review: Scottish Witchcraft in ContextKirsteen MurrayExpository Times International Journal of Biblical Studies Theology & Ministry
He looked only to the Bible, and it was in virtue of the Biblical command that he advocated the extermination of witches. But no portion of Janssen’s “History” is more unanswerable than the fourth and fifth chapters of the last volume (vol. XVI of the English edition, in which he ...
Deut. 18is the first biblical chapter that concerned Christians cite to defend the belief that Christians must avoid anything that seems to resemble ungodly “magic” or paganism. But what “magic” doesDeut. 18actually address?5 Goober, Barney and Floyd shouldn’t have messed with that stuff....
Like my e–mail correspondents, Ravenwolf seems to single out biblical Christianity. "Our only animosity toward Christianity, or toward any other religion…is...that these institutions have claimed to be ‘the one true right and only way.’…Witches are sick and tired of people in other ...
Probably the single most pervasive belief about eclipses is that they are portents of some kind. In most cases, they seem to be viewed as fearsome ones, forewarning of doom or calamity of some kind to follow. Biblical prophecies regarding eclipses lean into this, as any Ghostbusters fan know...