Abraxas: The Gnostic Power Beyond Good and Evil Abraxas, also written as Abrasax, Abraxis, or Abracax, is one of the most mysterious and paradoxical figures in Gnostic, magical, and demonological tradition. He
Lilith : Screech Owl; Beautiful Maiden; Dark Maid; Flame of the Revolving Sword; Maid of Desolation; Night Demon; Hand of Inanna; The Night Witch; The Howler Lilith: First Woman, Night Demon and Queen of the Wilderness Few supernatural beings possess
Califica un ritual o un procedimiento destinado a ahuyentar los demonios* o los malos espíritus.La ceremonia apotropaica, de orden religioso o mágico, recurría a invocaciones, encantamientos y conjuros*. Los objetos, las imágenes,
Del griego apotropein, «separar». En la Antigüedad designaba una imagen o un objeto apotropaicos, es decir, dotados del poder mágico de alejar a los demonios. Fuente: Las ciencias ocultas de la A
In 1612, a wealthy widow named Madam Joan Carne, of Sandhill Manor, was buried at Withycombe. Indeed, she was triply widowed, and popular tradition remains convinced that she had murdered all three
A road junction at Bratton Seymour, on the A371 about two miles (3.2 km) west of Wincanton, is still called Jack White’s Gibbet in memory of an eighteenth-century murderer, though the gibbet
An elaborate tomb in Wellington church contains Sir John Popham, who died of sickness, aged seventy-two, in 1607. According to John Aubrey’s comments on him in his Brief Lives (1669–96), he had
South of this village, at an intersection of five roads, stands Cannard’s Grave Inn. This is named after Giles Cannard, a former landlord in the eighteenth century who grew rich by helping
Porlock is the setting for a tale of ghost-laying reported by the Somerset folklore collector Ruth Tongue in the 1960s, the ghost being that of a local pirate named Lucott or Luckett
In August 1977, the road linking this village to Frome, three miles (5 km) away, became famous in the press as the setting for an encounter with a phantom hitchhiker. Some time
A little way outside the village, on the Crowcombe road, is a wooded bank called Walford’s Gibbet, in reference to a murderer’s fate in 1789. Historical records show that Walford, a young
At a crossroads outside the town, on the Dowlish road, is a spot marked on the map as Mary Hunt’s Grave, where people occasionally lay flowers. Stories about Mary (or Molly) have
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