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Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history. The witch came to prominence - and often a painful death - in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In this landmark book, Ronald Hutton traces witchcraft from the ancient world to the early modern state.

Want to feel terrifyingly beautiful? Wear the right color of eye shadow to project otherworldly glamour. Need to exorcise a toxic friendship? Repeat the proper incantation and make it disappear. DIY projects, rituals, and spells summon the best trends of the modern witchy lifestyle and the time-trusted traditions of the hell-raising women of the past. With humor, heart, and a hip sensibility, Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman dispense witchy wisdom for the curious, the cynical, and anyone who could use a magical boost.

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A compendium of witches through the ages, from earliest prehistory to some of the most significant modern practitioners, Witches explores who and what is a witch. Ranging from such famed historical figures as Marie Laveau, Tituba, Sybil Leek, Isobel Gowdie, and Countess Erzsebet Báthory (popularly known as the Blood Countess) to popular literary and cinematic figures such as Endora, the Scarlet Witch, Storm, and the Wicked Witch of the West, Illes offers a complete range of the history of witches.

Traveling through cities and sites across Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Kristen J. Sollee - a second-generation witch herself - explores the witch as a figure of female power and persecution. By infusing an adventurous first-person narrative with extensive research and imaginative historical fiction, Witch Hunt captures the magic of travel to make an often-overlooked period of history come alive.

Witches Wild isn’t a just podcast. It’s a rebellion dressed as entertainment. Hosted by Auric Blackwood and Jess Coale, two witches who burned their old lives to light a new world, this show drags you out of the matrix and drops you straight into your power. This is where witchcraft gets raw, awakening gets hilarious, and conspiracies actually start to make sense. We’re exposing the lies, reclaiming the word witch, and teaching you how to stop performing spirituality and actually live it. We talk lore, history, shadow work, bone casting, somatics, the patriarchy’s bullshit, the church...

Welcome to the Crossroads of magic where the Witch ( Tonya Steinborn) and the Wiseman (D.E. Riley) and discuss life, love our conciseness and spirituality with insight, humor and a touch of magic. They guarantee to keep you spellbound!

Stories about witches are by their nature stories about the most basic and profound of human experiences—healing, sex, violence, tragedies, aging, death, and encountering the mystery and magic of the unknown. In academia, studies of witches rarely emerge from scholars who are themselves witches and/or embedded in communities of witchcraft practitioners. The Witch Studies Reader brings together a diverse group of scholars, practitioners, and scholar-practitioners who examine witchcraft from a critical decolonial feminist perspective.

In The Wicked Witch of the West: The Enduring Legacy of a Feminist Icon, Lona Bailey explores the radical feministic undertones of one of the most enduring characters in popular culture. This book traces her transformation over the past century, highlighting how she has evolved through countless adaptations from The Wizard of Oz to the film adaptation of Wicked while maintaining her core identity as a powerful, defiant figure.

Harness the power of lunar magic with 13 essential practices for the modern witch—one for each New Moon of the year Fresh, fierce, and unapologetically feminist, this is both guidebook and rallying cry: an intersectional and inclusive magical praxis that resists, disrupts, and opens the door...

As English and German settlers migrated to Pennsylvania, they brought their beliefs in magic with them from the Old World—sometimes with dangerous consequences. In 1802, for example, an Allegheny County judge helped an accused witch escape an angry mob. But Susan Mummey was not so fortunate. In 1934, she was killed in her home by a young Schuylkill County man who was convinced that she had cursed him.

lifestyle podcast exploring a range of topics including personal storytelling, deconstruction, the esoteric arts, queerness & neurodivergence, and perimenopause.

When Christopher Penczak was introduced to Witchcraft, he found a spiritual path through which he could honor and embrace his homosexuality. In Gay Witchcraft, Penczak's clearheaded theory and practice combine to create a classic book of Witchcraft focused on the perspective of the gay community.

A podcast for all mystical and magickal happenings in Cornwall. Hosted by Freyja, a witch who lives in Cornwall but she isn’t actually Cornish, hence Corn(ish).

Bestsellerautorin Rebekka Endler wagt sich in ihrem neuen Werk an die große Frage nach den Ursachen des Patriarchats und untersucht misogyne Mythen, die bis heute unser Denken und Handeln bestimmen. Die Erklärung "Männer und Macht" greift aus Rebekka Endlers Sicht viel zu kurz, und so fragt sie: Was bringt so viele Frauen dazu, auch heute noch von einem rettenden Märchenprinzen zu träumen? Was steckt hinter der Mommy-Blogger-Welle und welche Funktion haben Frauenbilder wie Zicken, Witches, Bitches und It-Girls?

In the small yet vibrant kingdom of Khauran, nestled between the vast desert and fertile plains, a wise and beautiful young queen reigns, beloved by her devoted subjects. But when a sinister force emerges from the shadows, disaster strikes. The queens evil twin sister, a wicked witch, cunningly usurps her throne and plunges the realm into chaos with devil worship and unspeakable acts of sacrifice. Captured and crucified in the desolate sands, Conan, the captain of the queens guard, finds himself embroiled in a harrowing tale of intrigue, epic battles, bloodshed, demonic forces, and ultimately,...

In 1706, Grace Sherwood was "ducked" after her neighbors in Princess Anne County accused her of witchcraft. Binding and throwing her into the Lynnhaven River, they waited to see whether she would float to the top (evidence of her guilt) or sink (proof of her innocence). Incredibly, she survived. This bizarre spectacle became an early piece of Virginia folklore as stories about Sherwood, the "Witch of Pungo," spread. Her legend still looms large in Tidewater.

Welcome to a Witch Dark Tales Podcast, I'll be your host Megan, with our cohost Miguel.On this Podcast, we discuss topics of the paranormal such as haunted places, true crimes, urban legends and the histories of Fresno California! Soon moving our way to other haunted cities!So come along with us as we discover the hidden truth of the paranormal! -Blessed BeCheck Out My channel On Youtube for Viewing:https://youtube.com/@WitchDarkTales?si=JwB5zv4tFQy8Z5V_

We’re just a group of gals bringing the wonder back to witchcraft. Opinions, ideas, and cackles all for your entertainment!

After a security guard is found dead and another wounded at the Children's Museum of Science and History in Norman, Oklahoma, Detective Monique Blue Hawk and her partner Chris Pierson are summoned to investigate. They find no fingerprints, no footprints, and no obvious means to enter the locked building.