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Number Thirteen ( 13 )

Number of Transgression, Transformation, and Mystical Manifestation The number thirteen has long occupied a paradoxical position in superstition, religion, and esoteric tradition. Widely regarded as a number of misfortune and dangerous
2 March 2018
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Herne the Hunter

Herne the Hunter: The Antlered Ghost of Windsor Forest Herne the Hunter is one of the most haunting figures in English folklore: a spectral huntsman said to haunt Windsor Great Park near Windsor Castle in England. He appears as a
3 August 2017
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Silver in Witchcraft

Silver has long held a special place in magical traditions. Among modern Pagans, Witches, occult practitioners,

OWLS

The owl is associated with death, sorcery and the dark underside of life. To the ancient

Tears

According to folk belief, witches are unable to shed tears. The origins of this belief may be found in the tears shed over the crucifixion of Christ and a statement by St.
2 March 2018

Swimming

A test of guilt or innocence for witches was trial by water, or swimming, a method that was used up until the 19th century. Accused witches were bound and thrown into water
2 March 2018

Storm Raising

Storm raising is the ability of witches to cause tempests, hailstorms and lightning, according to lore, especially during the witch-hunts. By whipping up the elements of nature, witches struck homes and crops,
2 March 2018

Night Flight

Witches were widely supposed to have the power to fly through the air. In particular, they were thought to fly to their secret nocturnal gatherings, known as sabbaths. They often did so
28 February 2018

Bonae Mulieres

Literally meaning “good women,” bonae mulieres was a common term by which authorities writing in Latin described various women or female creatures found in many European folk legends who flew or otherwise
26 February 2018

Bacchanalia

A religious celebration in honour of the Roman god of wine, Bacchus, the rites, real or supposed, of the Bacchanalia became an important basis for the idea of the witches sabbath in
26 February 2018

APOTASY

Referring to a complete renunciation of the basic principles of faith, apostasy was considered to be one of the chief crimes entailed in witchcraft, along with idolatry, during the medieval and early-modern
26 February 2018

BURNING TIMES

Burning times is a term used by Wiccans and Pagans to refer to the period in Western history of intense witch hunting and executions, generally the mid-15th to mid18th centuries. Burning, one
15 February 2018

Lord’s Prayer in Witchcraft

A widespread belief from about the 16th to early 18th centuries was that true witches were incapable of reciting the Lord’s Prayer from start to finish. The reasoning was that the prayer,
21 December 2017

Cone of Power

Cone of power is the raising and directing of a spiral of psychic energy in ritual and spellcraft. Gerald B. Gardner described the cone of power as one of the “old ways”
19 December 2017
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