The Witches Sabbath

Author : Kelden
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738767178

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The Witches' Sabbath by Kelden Pdf

Discover the Hidden Depths of the Sabbath Take flight for a mesmerizing exploration of an event long shrouded in fear and mystery—the Witches' Sabbath. Kelden presents an in-depth examination of the Sabbath's historical and folkloric development as well as its re-emergence within the modern practice of Witchcraft. From discussions on the folklore of flight and the events of nocturnal gatherings to enchanting rituals and recipes, you'll find everything you need to not only understand the nature of the legendary Sabbath, but also journey there yourself. Offering impressive research and compelling stories from across Europe and the early American colonies, this book is the ultimate resource for discovering an oft misunderstood and overlooked aspect of Witchcraft. Includes a foreword by Jason Mankey, author of The Horned God of the Witches

Author : Michael D. Bailey
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271089515

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Origins of the Witches’ Sabbath by Michael D. Bailey Pdf

While the perception of magic as harmful is age-old, the notion of witches gathering together in large numbers, overtly worshiping demons, and receiving instruction in how to work harmful magic as part of a conspiratorial plot against Christian society was an innovation of the early fifteenth century. The sources collected in this book reveal this concept in its formative stages. The idea that witches were members of organized heretical sects or part of a vast diabolical conspiracy crystalized most clearly in a handful of texts written in the 1430s and clustered geographically around the arc of the western Alps. Michael D. Bailey presents accessible English translations of the five oldest surviving texts describing the witches’ sabbath and of two witch trials from the period. These sources, some of which were previously unavailable in English or available only in incomplete or out-of-date translations, show how perceptions of witchcraft shifted from a general belief in harmful magic practiced by individuals to a conspiratorial and organized threat that led to the witch hunts that shook northern Europe and went on to influence conceptions of diabolical witchcraft for centuries to come. Origins of the Witches’ Sabbath makes freshly available a profoundly important group of texts that are key to understanding the cultural context of this dark chapter in Europe’s history. It will be especially valuable to those studying the history of witchcraft, medieval and early modern legal history, religion and theology, magic, and esotericism.

Author : Carlo Ginzburg
Publisher : Penguin Mass Market
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0140158588

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Ecstasies by Carlo Ginzburg Pdf

Weaving early accounts of witchcraft-trial records, ecclesiastical tracts, folklore, and popular iconography-into new and startling patterns, Carlo Ginzburg presents in Ecstasies compelling evidence of a hidden shamanistic culture that flourished across Europe and in England for thousands of years.

Author : Maurice Sachs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : Catholic converts
ISBN : 1943679126

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Witches' Sabbath by Maurice Sachs Pdf

Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Autobiography. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. Witches' Sabbath is the remarkable autobiographical chronicle of French author Maurice Sachs (1906-1945). To Sachs, the work was "a statement of account, a moral memo. Or should I say immoral?" He recounts how, as a young man, he befriended Jean Cocteau and Coco Chanel, both of whom he stole from, as he stole from many others in his life (Sachs would later propose writing a book entitled Confessions of a Thief). He tells of when, in 1925, he converted to Catholicism and entered a seminary, only to be expelled because of his homosexuality. He tells of when he drifted through America, of when he nearly drank himself to death, of his many failed love affairs. In addition to being a compelling, honest portrait of a unique character, Witches' Sabbath is also notable for its engagement with literature. Every period of Sachs' life is marked by his dialogue with living and dead authors; Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, Stendhal, all are featured. Thanks to his lifelong obsession with literature, Sachs developed a style all his own: peppered with keen, acerbic portraits of his contemporaries, sometimes picaresque, introspective and often full of irony.

Author : Michael D. Bailey
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271089492

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Origins of the Witches’ Sabbath by Michael D. Bailey Pdf

While the perception of magic as harmful is age-old, the notion of witches gathering together in large numbers, overtly worshiping demons, and receiving instruction in how to work harmful magic as part of a conspiratorial plot against Christian society was an innovation of the early fifteenth century. The sources collected in this book reveal this concept in its formative stages. The idea that witches were members of organized heretical sects or part of a vast diabolical conspiracy crystalized most clearly in a handful of texts written in the 1430s and clustered geographically around the arc of the western Alps. Michael D. Bailey presents accessible English translations of the five oldest surviving texts describing the witches’ sabbath and of two witch trials from the period. These sources, some of which were previously unavailable in English or available only in incomplete or out-of-date translations, show how perceptions of witchcraft shifted from a general belief in harmful magic practiced by individuals to a conspiratorial and organized threat that led to the witch hunts that shook northern Europe and went on to influence conceptions of diabolical witchcraft for centuries to come. Origins of the Witches’ Sabbath makes freshly available a profoundly important group of texts that are key to understanding the cultural context of this dark chapter in Europe’s history. It will be especially valuable to those studying the history of witchcraft, medieval and early modern legal history, religion and theology, magic, and esotericism.

Author : Carlo Ginzburg
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421409931

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The Night Battles by Carlo Ginzburg Pdf

A remarkable tale of witchcraft, folk culture, and persuasion in early modern Europe. Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives of Northern Italy, The Night Battles recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centered on the benandanti, literally, "good walkers." These men and women described fighting extraordinary ritual battles against witches and wizards in order to protect their harvests. While their bodies slept, the souls of the benandanti were able to fly into the night sky to engage in epic spiritual combat for the good of the village. Carlo Ginzburg looks at how the Inquisition's officers interpreted these tales to support their world view that the peasants were in fact practicing sorcery. The result of this cultural clash, which lasted for more than a century, was the slow metamorphosis of the benandanti into the Inquisition's mortal enemies—witches. Relying upon this exceptionally well-documented case study, Ginzburg argues that a similar transformation of attitudes—perceiving folk beliefs as diabolical witchcraft—took place all over Europe and spread to the New World. In his new preface, Ginzburg reflects on the interplay of chance and discovery, as well as on the relationship between anomalous cases and historical generalizations.

Author : Kelden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0738762032

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The Crooked Path by Kelden Pdf

"A primer for readers new to the practice of Traditional Witchcraft, which is rooted in folklore and history. Shares hands-on tips and techniques for establishing a practice that is based on your own location and natural landscape. Explains how to work with the tools, rituals, and spells of Traditional Witchcraft and explores connecting to ancestors, familiar spirits, and deities"--

Author : Janet Farrar,Stewart Farrar
Publisher : Phoenix Pub
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0919345263

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Eight Sabbats for Witches, and Rites for Birth, Marriage, and Death by Janet Farrar,Stewart Farrar Pdf

Dramatic rituals for the seasonal ceremonies and festivals linked with the waxing and waning of the natural year.

Author : G bor Klaniczay,?va P¢cs
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9637326871

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Witchcraft Mythologies and Persecutions by G bor Klaniczay,?va P¢cs Pdf

Scientific approach to esoteric and mystical themes.

Author : Carlo Ginzburg
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001662803

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Ecstasies by Carlo Ginzburg Pdf

Weaving early accounts of witchcraft-trial records, ecclesiastical tracts, folklore, and popular iconography-into new and startling patterns, Carlo Ginzburg presents in Ecstasies compelling evidence of a hidden shamanistic culture that flourished across Europe and in England for thousands of years.

Author : Pierre de Lancre
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015069114141

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On the Inconstancy of Witches by Pierre de Lancre Pdf

Author : Lyndal Roper
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300119836

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Witch Craze by Lyndal Roper Pdf

A powerful account of witches, crones, and the societies that make them From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries thousands of women confessed to being witches--of making pacts with the Devil, causing babies to sicken, and killing animals and crops--and were put to death. This book is a gripping account of the pursuit, interrogation, torture, and burning of witches during this period and beyond. Drawing on hundreds of original trial transcripts and other rare sources in four areas of Southern Germany, where most of the witches were executed, Lyndal Roper paints a vivid picture of their lives, families, and tribulations. She also explores the psychology of witch-hunting, explaining why it was mostly older women that were the victims of witch crazes, why they confessed to crimes, and how the depiction of witches in art and literature has influenced the characterization of elderly women in our own culture.

Author : Joseph Klaits
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1987-02-22
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780253013323

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Servants of Satan by Joseph Klaits Pdf

How the persecution of witches reflected the darker side of the central social, political, and cultural developments of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This is the first book to consider the general course and significance of the European witch craze of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries since H.R. Trevor-Roper’s classic and pioneering study appeared some fifteen years ago. Drawing upon the advances in historical and social-science scholarship of the past decade and a half, Joseph Klaits integrates the recent appreciations of witchcraft in regional studies, the history of popular culture, anthropology, sociology, and psychology to better illuminate the place of witch hunting in the context of social, political, economic and religious change. “In all, Klaits has done a good job. Avoiding the scandalous and sensational, he has maintained throughout, with sensitivity and economy, an awareness of the uniqueness of the theories and persecutions that have fascinated scholars now for two decades and are unlikely to lose their appeal in the foreseeable future.” —American Historical Review “This is a commendable synthesis whose time has come . . . fascinating.” —The Sixteenth Century Journal “Comprehensive and clearly written . . . An excellent book.” —Choice “Impeccable research and interpretation stand behind this scholarly but not stultifying account.” —Booklist “A good, solid, general treatment.” —Erik Midelfort, C. Julian Bishko Professor Emeritus of History and Religious Studies, University of Virginia “A well written, easy to read book, and the bibliography is a good source of secondary materials for further reading.” —Journal of American Folklore

Author : Darren Oldridge
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0415214939

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The Witchcraft Reader by Darren Oldridge Pdf

The excellent reader offers a selection of the best historical writing on witchcraft, exploring how belief in witchcraft began, and the social and context in which this belief flourished.

Author : Oliver Madox Hueffer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387305722

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The Book of Witches by Oliver Madox Hueffer Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.