THE SCENE is at the hearth of CRASSUS, where is a little bronze altar dedicated to the Lares and Penates. A pale flame rises from the burning sandal-wood, on which CRASSUS throws benzoin and musk. He is standing in deep dejection. CRASSUS. Smoke without fire No thrill of tongues licks up The offerings in the cup. Dead falls desire.
This historical narrative of the Salem witch trials takes its dialogue from actual trial records but applies modern psychiatric knowledge to the witchcraft hysteria. Starkey's sense of drama also vividly...
Автор, Светлана Сук, охарактеризовала стиль книги как «Практический (почти научный) путеводитель по миру правильных украшений». Опираясь на древние трактаты и учения, автор размышляет о форме и содержании украшений, о свойствах...
A one-volume encyclopedia, with black and white photographs and illustrations, containing 500 entries in A to Z format on people, places, techniques, and events of the fabulous and fantastic, the...
This is an exciting new illustrated examination of witch-hunt panics and persecutions in colonial America and Europe. Examines the witch stereotype and the growth of torture to elicit...
Ярослав Зуев продолжает 20-летние исследования, начало которых освещено в издании «Проект Земля» (2010), одной из самых успешных книг последнего времени по теме расследования загадок прошлого и альтернативной истории. В новой...
Encyclopedic in form, popular in style, Larson's New Book of Cults analyzes dozens of cults and movements from historical, sociological, and biblical perspectives. It will tell you what you want...
T. Lobsang Rampa was preordained to be a Tibetan priest, a sign from the stars that could not be ignored. When he left his wealthy home to enter the monastery,...
В книге поднимаются проблемы культурно-исторической эволюции человечества и взаимодействия трех уровней Мироздания – человека-планеты-Космоса. Автор рассматривает наиболее яркие события планетарного значения от эпохи Атлантиды до наших дней, дает осмысление энергетическим...
Essays by leading anthropologists illuminate the role of witchcraft, black magic, and related magical beliefs in primitive societies
Since its intitial publication in 1920, this book has remained the supreme arbiter in all matters of dispute concerning the occult. Contains 2,500 entries and articles summarizing the entire history...