{"title":"Witchcraft","description":"\u003cp\u003eBooks about witchcraft, hedge witchery, and the history and practice of the craft.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"etruscan-magic-occult-remedies","title":"Etruscan Magic \u0026 Occult Remedies","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe Gods, Spirits and Sorcery of Italian Witches\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEtruscan Magic \u0026amp; Occult Remedies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby Charles Godfrey Leland was first published as \u003cem\u003eEtruscan Roman Remains in Popular Tradition,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein 1892. Part One of the book offers a complete and detailed insight in the Etruscan and Roman rooted pantheon of the Tuscan Streghe (witches). Part Two describes many of their spells, incantations, sorcery and several lost divination methods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeland found himself at the crossroads of the academic and the romantic and it is precisely this, which makes the reading of his work so enjoyable. His primary aim was to preserve this ancient traditional knowledge, as he feared, it would soon be wiped out by modernism. Much information in this book, Leland received first hand from the Tuscan witches Maddalena and Marietta. His second work on Stregheria:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAradia, or the Gospel of the Witches\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas published seven years later in 1899. One could state he reached his goal, as his books are still of invaluable importance to both the Italian folklore and the modern practitioner of witchcraft. One of Leland’s readers was the late Gerald Gardner, which makes one wonder who was the true godfather of modern witchcraft…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpecial revised edition with an index of ancient Etruscan gods and spirits.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VAMzzz Occult Bookstore Global","offers":[{"title":"ENG- English","offer_id":54649163317587,"sku":"9789492355003","price":32.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1092\/1302\/4595\/files\/000_etruscan_cover.jpg?v=1787311733"},{"product_id":"taboo-magic-spirits","title":"Taboo, Magic, Spirits","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA study of primitive elements in Roman religion\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Ancient Rome ‘Mana’ was the term used for a mysterious force, which could be helpful or harmful. When harmful it was called Taboo. Just like the Chinese Qi, Mana could empower both the positive and the negative.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTaboo, Magic, Spirits: a Study of Primitive Elements in Roman Religion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eoffers a still unique insight into the magical elements, beliefs, methods and rites of Rome in ancient days. Mana and Taboo play an important role, but the author also deals with the worship of stones, trees, groves, water and fire, with magical incantations, the removal of evil by washing, burning or dancing, with taboos on sex, blood, corpses, women, certain days, and much more.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VAMzzz Occult Bookstore Global","offers":[{"title":"ENG- English","offer_id":54649045713235,"sku":"9789492355034","price":19.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1092\/1302\/4595\/files\/003_taboo_cover.jpg?v=1787311344"},{"product_id":"aradia","title":"Aradia","description":"\u003ch3\u003eGospel of the Witches\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere Leland’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eEtruscan Magic and Occult Remedies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edeals with the entire pantheon of old Italian gods and nature spirits, worshiped by the streghe,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAradia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis focused on Diana or Tana, her daughter Aradia and Lucifer. Aradia, the queen of the Italian witches, or streghe is as Leland concludes:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘evidently enough Herodias, who was regarded in the beginning as associated with Diana as chief of the witches. This was not, as I opine, derived from the Herodias of the New Testament, but from an earlier replica of Lilith, bearing the same name.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis wonderful book describes the creation according to Italian witch-lore. We also read about the witch-meeting or sabbath (treguenda) and it contains many original magical recipes, like spells for love and good fortune. Diana is further connected to the Moon and the fairy world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VAMzzz Occult Bookstore Global","offers":[{"title":"ENG- English","offer_id":54648947442003,"sku":"9789492355010","price":19.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1092\/1302\/4595\/files\/001_aradia_cover.jpg?v=1787310929"},{"product_id":"sorceress","title":"Sorceress","description":"\u003ch3\u003eA Study of Witches and their Relations with Demons\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSorceress\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(the English translation of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa Sorcière)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby Jules Michelet is still one of the most vivid, dark and confronting studies on witchcraft ever produced. Long before Murray, it positions the medieval witch within a diminishing ancient culture of nature worship and the ruthless efforts of Christianity – with its radical hostility towards nature and life – to overwrite it. Michelet’s awas an authority on the history of the Middle Ages, and his insistence that history should concentrate on ‘the people, and not only its leaders or its institutions’ placed him ahead of his time as a godfather of micro-history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStarting in the 13th century the book moves on towards belladonna, the Sabbath and pacts with Satan, into the hells of the Burning Times – social contexts, church intrigues and mass hysteria always included. Via Basque witches, the Black Masses and demoniacal possessions we enter the satanic decadence of 17th century France, and finally the end of the witch burning era in 18th century, with the trial of Charlotte Cadière. Though a solid work of history, the reader is not served a simple bone dry exposition of facts and theories, but something that tastes like a Bloody Mary.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VAMzzz Occult Bookstore Global","offers":[{"title":"ENG- English","offer_id":54619973222739,"sku":"9789492355249","price":26.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1092\/1302\/4595\/files\/024_sorceress_cover.jpg?v=1787053113"},{"product_id":"the-witches-of-new-york","title":"The Witches of New York","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Witches of New York\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eportraits a series of psychics, astrologers, and fortunetellers operating within 19th century New York City, written from the perspective of the popular American humorist Doesticks. The author went from one New York City “witch” (psychic, astrologer, clairvoyant, etc.) to another, to prove how inaccurate they were in their predictions. His description of the people, their homes, their families and help, their voices, and – of course – their predictions is bitter sweet: often funny, but also cynical, cruel and devastating. Almost all of the people he describes, with name and address, were living in poverty, yet Doesticks shows no sympathy for their situation, and the first publication of this book will almost certainly have worsened their conditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHowever, keeping this in mind,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Witches of New York\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eoffers a unique insight in this particular, mostly commercial, rather tragically and less serious niche of the 19th century American occult movement. Not as a piece of history of the “Ginzburg-kind” – as Doesticks has no occult knowledge whatsoever, and is inappropriately applying the term witch – but as a Dickens-fan doing house visits, to create something that offers tongue-in-cheek moments for the bohemian scene of Victorian New York. Yet it are these house visits, which preserve this book as a unique piece of documentation. As in the days of Doesticks, no-one else produced such a diverse picture of this controversial and colourful group of people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQ. K. Philander Doesticks was a pseudonym of \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMortimer Q. Thomson\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(September 2, 1832 – June 25, 1875), an American journalist and humorist. He was born in Riga, New York and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. 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The first part of the book, English Magicians, gives an overview of the progress of magic and alchemy in England and Scotland as well as an account of the lives of the most notable historical figures in this field, including Rosicrucians. The second part, Witches and Witchcraft, is devoted to an historical review of witchcraft in Britain and some of the most important witch-trials.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore books have been published on these themes, yet this work retains its unique position. Especially because Davenport Adams has amply provided his work with biographical anecdotes, abundant in unknown or humorous facts about the British front-liners of the secret sciences, including Roger Bacon, William Lilly and the Elizabethan magician John Dee. The book is also rich in factual occult data, including an overview of 15 different types of divination (..mancy), used in ancient times and to some extend in later centuries. 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