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Johannes Cuntius: The Pentsch Vampire

Cuntius, Johannes (Pentsch Vampire)

Johannes Cuntius: The Pentsch Vampire Johannes Cuntius, also known as the Pentsch Vampire, is one of the stranger cases in early modern vampire lore. His story comes from Silesia and was recorded
12 October 2017
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Devil’s Pact

A Devil’s pact is a pledge to serve the Devil or one of his Demons. The pact may be made orally, but according to lore it is best to write it on virgin parchment and sign it in blood. The
25 July 2017
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Padilha, Maria

Maria Padilha: Queen of Pomba Gira In the sixteenth century, Portugal became the first European nation

Minona

ORIGIN: Fon (Benin, formerly Dahomey) Minona is a powerful forest-dwelling spirit of magic, fertility, and domestic

Nightmare

A nightmare is an ugly Demon or Hag, who sits on a person’s chest during the night, causing great discomfort, a sensation of heaviness and suffocation and bad dreams. It also is
13 November 2017

Northampton Witches

Northampton Witches (d. 1612) Five men and women who were arraigned and tried on charges of witchcraft and who were all executed by hanging on July 22, 1612, in Northampton, England. The
13 November 2017

Norton, Rosaleen

Norton, Rosaleen (1917–1979) New Zealand pantheist and artist of the supernatural, whose eerie works of magical consciousness earned her the title of “the Witch of kings Cross.” Rosaleen Norton’s surrealistic Pagan work
13 November 2017

Nurse, Rebecca

Nurse, Rebecca (1621–1692) Accused witch executed in the Salem Witches hysteria in Massachusetts in 1692–93. Rebecca Nurse and her husband Francis were two of the most prominent and well-respected citizens of Salem.
13 November 2017

Oak Apples

Oak apples are galls formed on oak trees by the larva of a type of wasp. In folk Magic, they are used as a means of divining whether or not a child
13 November 2017

Oils

Oils (also anointing oils) : Perfumed and floral oils have played an important role in magical and religious rites throughout history. Their efficacy is based on the belief that odors and scents
13 November 2017

Ointments

Ointments (also unguents) are grease-based preparations have been used in magical, healing and oracular rites since ancient times. The ancient Egyptians used magical and sacred ointments for numerous purposes, such as embalming
13 November 2017

Ordeal by Touch

Ordeal by Touch: A Historical Means of Identifying Witches The ordeal by touch was a method steeped in superstition and fear, used during the height of witch trials to identify those accused
13 November 2017

Order of the Garter

Order of the Garter The highest order of knights in Great Britain, founded by king Edward III in 1350, it was linked to the witch cult by British anthropologist Margaret A. Murray.
13 November 2017

OWLS

The owl is associated with death, sorcery and the dark underside of life. To the ancient Egyptians, the owl represented night, death and cold. The Bible (Leviticus) says the owl is an
13 November 2017
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