Astarte
Astarte (also Ashtart, Ashtoreth) In ancient Phoenicia, the great Goddess of fertility, motherhood and war. She is the counterpart to the Babylonian goddess Ishtar and…
Month: July 2017
ATHENA
Athena : Owl Faced; Ever Powerful; Hard Bargaining Spirit of the Marketplace; Lady of the Coal Pan At her most primeval, Athena is a snake…
Baba Yaga
Baba Yaga is in Russian folklore, a female witch who loved to roast and eat people, preferably children. She was as likely to pop a…
Babylonian Devil Trap
A Babylonian Devil trap is a terracotta bowl inscribed with charms or magical texts to drive away evil. Babylonian Devil traps were common between the…
Bamberg Witches
Bamberg Witches : At the center of the worst witch tortures and trials in Germany was Bamberg, a small state ruled by Gottfried Johann Georg…
Baphomet
Baphometis the symbol of the “sabbatic goat,” portrayed as a half-human, half-goat figure, or a goat head. It is not a symbol of modern witchcraft.…
Bargarran Witches
Bargarran Witches (1696-1697) Scottish witchcraft hysteria started by a girl. The case bears similarities to the Warboys Witches and to the Salem Witches, in which…
Bees
According to the Demonologists of the Inquisition, witches or sorceresses who managed to eat a queen bee before they were arrested would be able to…
BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE
Bell, book and candle is a phrase from the Roman Catholic ritual for excommunication that sometimes is used to denote a witch or witchcraft. Excommunication,…
Berkeley Witch
In English folklore, the Berkeley Witch was a wealthy woman who lived during the time of the Norman Conquest in the town of Berkeley in…
