Tag: witchcraft
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Laura Holloway & Blavatsky: Against Mediumship and Spiritualist Practices
H.P. Blavatsky found in the growing adversaries of Spiritualist proponents to Theosophy sufficient need to declare it would have nothing to do with it. She goes on with the enquirer, noting a pattern in the fates of mediums mental states and bodies. The letter which follows after in the latter part of August 1884 to…
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Piero Umiliani: “Magical Children”
“How we need another soul to cling to. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.” (Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath) “I must find a core of fruitful seeds in me.” (ibid) { creepy and seductive Black Phillip enters }…
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Goetia and Witchcraft: Origin of the “Witch” and Magic
The term “Witch” in old Anglo-Saxon glossaries is tied to wicce, meaning “pythoness, divinatricem.” As in this, and in early forms, it referred to specific kinds of magical craft. In the Laws of Ælfred (c.890), wicce is seen as the craft of women — “wise (skilled) women in the art of magic”; and in the old German, wiccan…
The American Minervan 