Tag archieven: history

Review: ‘Wicked Enchantments – the Pendle Witches and their Magic’

Geplaatst op 5 augustus, 2011 door Morgana

Wicked Enchantments – the Pendle Witches and their Magic
A review of the book of which elsewhere in this issue an abstract can be found. Lees verder →

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Alizon the Witch – an extract from ‘A history of the Pendle Witches & their magic’

Geplaatst op 5 augustus, 2011 door Morgana

Alizon the Witch – an extract from ‘A history of the Pendle Witches & their magic’ by Joyce Froome. Lees verder →

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The Museum of Witchcraft, Boscastle, UK

Geplaatst op 5 augustus, 2011 door Morgana

Sixty years ago The Museum of Witchcraft was funded by Cecil Williamson. It moved to Boscastlem survived the flood there, and is a ‘must’ to see for anyone interested in folk magic and witchcraft. Lees verder →

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Joyce Froome – a short interview with Morgana

Geplaatst op 5 augustus, 2011 door Morgana

Joyce Froome wrote the book about the Pendle Hill witches that is mentioned elsewhere in this issue. Here an interview with her about the origins of the book. Lees verder →

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Review: The Visions of Isobel Gowdie

Geplaatst op 6 mei, 2011 door Gast auteurs

Emma Wilby: The Visions of Isobel Gowdie – Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland. A review. Lees verder →

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Cunning folk

Geplaatst op 6 mei, 2011 door Merlin

The Craft has a history. Both a mytho-poetic history, a history of myths and legends, of archetypal imagery, and a historian’s history, a history of real people, of existing documents and verifiable events. One should not be confused with the other. Lees verder →

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Review: Beacons of Light

Geplaatst op 17 november, 2010 door Morgana

Marcus Braybrooke – Beacons of the Light
The author presents 100 holy people who have shaped the history of humanity, and the key is not holiness, but influence. Lees verder →

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