HORRIBLE HISTORIES WITCHES reveals the truth behind pointy hats and black cats, and other idiotic ideas about witchcraft.
People were scared , Williams says , and they believed that a sinister force was at work . Jews had been convenient scapegoats for several hundred years , but gradually witches — mostly women — began sharing the blame .
This high interest, well designed and colorful book allows readers to unearth the legends and mysteries about witches and separate fact from fiction. Packed with fact files and "witch" profiles.
In the 1800s , Lady Wilde , Oscar Wilde's mother , recommended that “ Ten leaves of hemlock dried and powdered and mixed in food or drink will make the person you like love you in return . ” One can't help but wonder if this wouldn't ...
Scott Cunningham , The Truth About Witchcraft Today . St. Paul , MN : Llewellyn Publications , 1988 , p . 101 . 47. Adler , Drawing Down the Moon , p . 109 . 48. Cunningham , The Truth About Witchcraft Today , p . 118 . . 49.
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The speaker was the Reverend George Christian Anderson, president of the Academy of Religion and Mental Health of New York. The date? September 1, 1968. It is perhaps not too much to expect that the Old Religion will in the near future ...
Witches: An Encyclopedia of Paganism and Magic
A collection of short stories features witches as main characters and contains works by such prominent authors as Neil Gaiman, Jane Yolen, Madeleine L'Engle, and Ursula K. Le Guin.
After issuing forty warrants, the judge in Andover, Justice Dudley Bradstreet, refused to sign any more. This made him a witch. He was indicted for nine murders and fled. His brother was also indicted for ...
But it didn't split until Sherman started his march to the sea. Fault is placed all around, but no one really knows what happened so who can say. Some say witches, some voodoo, some the devil himself.
As Tash describes it, you go through all these antenatal classes, you begin to believe you really can do anything, that you're capable and strong, and then— “Every lactation consultant and postnatal ward nurse just made me feel like I ...
Jesse Prentiss was the last of her coven and the dead were coming.
Traces the history of witchcraft throughout the world from ancient times to the present.
Shares the story of the victims, accused witches, corrupt officials and mass hysteria that turned a mysterious illness affecting two children in Salem Village, Massachusetts, into a witch hunt that took more than a dozen lives and ruined ...
When an evil coven filled with creatures from the depths of hell torments the residents of Canaan with unspeakable horrors, it threatens to unmask quiet Amanda Givens, a resident of Canaan, as one of its own. Reissue.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erica Jong, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
It is said witches are to blame. And so the Earl of Rutlandâe(tm)s sons will not be the last to die. Witches traces the dramatic events which unfolded at one of Englandâe(tm)s oldest and most spectacular castles four hundred years ago.
Thirteen fantasy and science fiction tales about female witchcraft, including Schmitz's "Witches of Karres" and L'Engle's "Poor Little Saturday." The companion volume is Wizards (1983).
This book features the iconographic evolution of the witch over an extensive period of European culture: from the days of Classical Greece to the Romantic age. The study includes some...