Encounters with Witchcraft - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encounters with Witchcraft write by Norman N. Miller. This book was released on 2012-04-26. Encounters with Witchcraft available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Encounters with Witchcraft is a personal story of a young man's fascination with African witchcraft discovered first in a trek across East Africa and the Congo. The story unfolds over four decades during the author's long residence in and many trips to Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. As a field researcher he learns from villagers what it is like to live with witches, and how witches are seen through African eyes. His teachers are healers, cult leaders, witch-hunters and self-proclaimed "witches" as well as policemen, politicians and judges. A key figure is Mohammadi Lupanda, a frail village woman whose only child has died years before. In her dreams, however, she believes the little girl is not dead, but only lost in the fields. Mohammadi is discovered wandering at night, wailing and calling out for the child. Her neighbors are terror-stricken and she is quickly brought to a village trial and banished as a witch. The author is able to watch and listen to the proceedings and later investigate the deeper story. He discovers mysteries about Mohammadi that are only solved when he returns to the village three decades later. Today, witch-hunting and witchcraft-related crimes are found in more than seventy developing countries. Epidemics of violence against alleged witches, mainly women, but including elders of both genders, and even children is on the increase in some parts of the world. Witchcraft beliefs may lie behind vigilante murders, political assassinations, revenge killings and commercial murders for human body parts. Through African voices the author addresses key questions. Do witchcraft powers exist? Why does witchcraft persist? What are its historic roots? Why is witchcraft-based violence so often found within families? Does witchcraft serve as a hidden legal and political system, a mafia-like under-government? The author holds up a mirror for us to think about religious beliefs in our own experience that rely heavily on myth and superstition.
Witch Notes
Witch Notes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Witch Notes write by Jan Erickson. This book was released on 2019-03-08. Witch Notes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Witch Notes is a reference book that contains helpful correspondences along with other information on magickal workings that any witch can use. The power of magickal workings, irrespective of their format, is generated in the doing of them. It's in the carving or burning of a rune into a piece of wood, or the creation of a charm bag, adding just the right herbs, just the right thorn, just the right stone to align energies together for a magickal intention or purpose. Casting the final intention only represents the ending of a process that has given it life. Witchcraft is about the craft of it all.
Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft
Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft write by Raymond Buckland. This book was released on 1986. Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This complete self-study course in modern Wicca is a treasured classic - an essential and trusted guide that belongs in every witch's library."---Back cover
Witchcraft
Witchcraft - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Witchcraft write by Raven Grimassi. This book was released on 2004. Witchcraft available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Understanding the Mystery Teachings of Witchcraft is essential for anyone wishing to enrich their Craft. World-renowned author and scholar Raven Grimassi guides readers down the well-worn path to these Mystery traditions by exploring their roots in myths, legends, verses, and lore. Witchcraft: A Mystery Tradition provides a cultural and mythical context that helps readers gain insight into these Mystery themes. Drawing upon the long-standing traditional European Witchcraft and occult concepts and tenets, Grimassi constructs a cohesive mythos that supports and unifies the Sabbats and their associated deities. Also provided are techniques for aligning with the "momentum of the past," a powerful current of knowledge and energy available to all Witches.
The Witches
The Witches - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Witches write by Stacy Schiff. This book was released on 2015-10-27. The Witches available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic. As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, The Witches is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story -- the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians.
