Unfortunately, we can’t trace back to the specific origins of this practice, but we know it goes back a long time. The first book of Samuel in the Bible, dating back to between 931 and 721 BC, is one of the first places that witches are mentioned. Perceptions about those who ...
Several sources mentioned that pregnant women should not look upon a corpse, lest their child be marred in some way. Ozark lore says that using the comb of a dead person, particularly a comb that touched the deceased’s hair, will cause your own pate to go bald. Still other corpse ...
King Lycaon, grandson by the spindleside of Oceanus, after passing through all the stages I have mentioned, becomes the ancestor of the werwolf. Ovid is put upon the stand as a witness, and testifies to the undoubted fact of the poor monarch’s own metamorphosis:– “Territus ipse fugit,...
whereas the three above-mentioned regions are not only notorious for the killings of albinos but also for the killings of people believed to be witches or wizards; whereas mere rumours are often enough justification for an angry mob to kill a person suspected of witchcraft, vzhledem k tomu...
While she did not have a bad reputation because of a checkered past, most people in town did not like her and would rather avoid her. More than once, folks complained that Goody Bibber could go into fits “whenever she pleased.” During the witch hysteria, she was mentioned in deposition...
The most remarkable instance, perhaps, is one mentioned by St. Agobard in the ninth century (P.L., CIV, 158). A certain Grimaldus, Duke of Beneventum, was accused, in the panic engendered by a plague that was destroying all the cattle, of sending men out with poisoned dust to ...
[II Tim. 2:25-26]. In another passage Paul shows that the promise mentioned above begins to have effect in this life, wherein we must struggle; and that after the struggle it is fulfilled. As he puts it, "The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet." [Rom. 16:20.]...
...he got a call from an old friend he barely could remember. This friend mentioned a very high-paying position that had opened up at a Hollywood Studio - for an artist! He called the manager, and they "clicked" - almost instantly!
So far as can be made out this was an essential condition to the success of the operation, except in certain cases mentioned below. It affected the mind of the victim, and acted as a powerful auto-suggestion, interacting on the physical body and causing death. If a Maori once got the ...
In each case the Bible condemnsidolatry that leads topersonal magic practice. The sin begins in the person’s heart with a desire to worship something other than God. The sin continues when the person seeks some other means for divining the will of God, the will of other gods, or “fate...