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Werwolves (1914) is as pioneering as the book is entertaining. It combines O’Donnell’s – ahead of his time – linking of the werewolf to shamanism, the etheric double and astral projection with the traditional dark romantic aura that hangs around the subject.
His conclusion, that the werewolf was most likely linked to psychic projection skills, was re-examined by Claude Lecouteux in 1992 in his Witches, Werewolves and Fairies.
The word werwolf (werewolf) is derived from the Anglo-Saxon wer (man) and wulf (wolf). There is scarcely a country in the world in which belief in werewolves, or in some other form of were-animals, has not existed. However, attempts to unravel the real phenomena remain very scarce.
In Werwolves a lot of historical werewolf-cases are described which took place in several parts of Europe (France, British Isles, Germany, Austria-Hungaria & Balkan, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands, Russia and the Scandinavian countries). Whereas in some regions the werewolf is considered wholly physical, in others it is looked upon as partly, if not entirely, astral or etheric. There is also an overlap with the Ghoul and Vampire.
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The religious proceedings and magical workings of these religious traditions may have similarities, but they are certainly not the same thing.
Abakua members derive their culture from the Efik and Efo of the Cross River region in Nigeria, which Cubans call Carabali. The people of Big Qua Town in Calabar, the capital of Cross River State, Nigeria, are known as the Abakpa, the likely source for the name Abakua.
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Nigerian Folk Stories Collected From The Efik, Ibibio & People of Ikom – Two Volumes:
In the early 20th century Elphinstone Dayrell, a district commissioner located in Ikom, Eastern Province, Nigeria, collected many folk tales from the Efik and Ibibio peoples of Southeastern Nigeria. The scope of these tales encompasses local mythology and stories suitable for children, to tales so cruel they will still shock a modern public.
Dayrell authored two collections of folklore. The first was published as 'Folk stories from Southern Nigeria' (1911), containing 40 stories. The second one he entitled 'Ikom Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria', which was published by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in 1913. For the first time these works are brought together in one carefully revised volume: 'Nigerian Folk Stories Collected From The Efik, Ibibio & People of Ikom.'
This edition comes with a Post Scriptum that offers extra information about the Efik and Obibio and themes that reoccur in the Southern Nigerian folklore as the city of Calabar, the secret fraternity Ekbo or Ekpo and Juju, a centuries old West African tradition that covers a shamanistic and animistic religion as well as medicine, magic, witchcraft, the aura of objects and beings, and finally a fetisj or other magical objects.
#efik #ibibio #peopleofikom #nigeriafolkstories #folkstories
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Leshies frequently quarrel among themselves, using as their weapons huge trees and masses of rock. The devastation, usually attributed to hurricanes, are in reality, the peasants say, due to these mighty combatants of the forest world.
#leshy #hugetree #forestworld
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Along with Fraser’s 'Golden Bough' and the studies of Wilhelm Mannhardt, W.R.S. Ralston and Charles Godfrey Leland, Richard Folkard’s 'Plant Lore, Legends & Lyrics' ranks among the most important European classics on folklore. First published in 1884 and personally presented by the author to Queen Victoria, it has not been matched since.
VAMzzz Publishing presents this carefully revised, illustrated edition, complete with the three special indexes as present in the original version – which are usually missing from later publications, but offer an important extra to the reader.
The scope of this detailed study is vast. It ranges from plant symbolism to the World Tree theme to the practical use of herbs in witchcraft for flying ointments and spells. Much of the book deals with the spirits of trees and plants, including various types of fairies, fauns, satyrs, dryads and hamadryads.
Sacred plants and ceremonies are described, as well as the symbolism of plants in funeral customs and plants attributed to the Devil and the Black Arts. Tables are included and a special – nearly 200 pages – Plant Encyclopedia fills the second part of the book.
This book is a must read whether you are a plant lover, folklorists, herbalist, wiccan or occultist.
#plantlore #herbaluse #treespirit #hamadryads #satyr #herbalist
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Safe money magic for beginners:
What if you are broke and lack a background of magical and astrological expertise and skills? Well the simplest way of money magic (and without the spooky stuff) is basic chaos magic.
#moneymagic #moneyastrology #chaosmagic
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Carl Wickland (Wiklund) was a Swedish born, professional American psychiatrist who turned away from conventional medical psychology and became convinced that many psychiatric illnesses were the result of the influence of the obsessive spirits of the dead.
With the help of his wife and medium Anna W. Anderson, Wickland communicated with the spirits. These intriguing 83 sessions make up the bulk of the book Thirty Years Among the Dead. His conversations with, in most cases, confused spirits, who don’t even realize they are dead, are indexed in thematic chapters: Tormenting Spirits & Marriage Disturbances – Spirits and Crime – Spirits and Suicide – Materialism and Indifference – Selfishness – Orthodoxy – Spirits and Narcotics, Inebriety, Amnesia – Psychic Invalidism – Orphans – Christian Science – and Theosophy.
Wickland’s dedicated research, in combination with the excellent mediumship of Anna, has resulted in one the most fascinating and taboo-breaking works on spiritualism and life after death-questions ever. Perhaps today the book is even more actual than it was in it’s publication year 1924.
The mystery of death touches all of us, while, due to the intermingling of the modern rat-race, consumerism and internet-addiction, the general climate for the development of spiritual intelligence is worsening to levels that should concern all of us deeply.
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Witch, Warlock and Magician is divided into two parts. 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.
More 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. The section on British witchcraft contains fascinating details on how witches affected the weather, entered an animal’s body and more. These testimonies are directly taken from official reports of witch trials.
#witch @warlock #magician #wirchcraft #witchtrials
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In July 1910, Dudley Wright published an essay entitled 'A Living Vampire' in The Occult Review. The Occult Review was a monthly magazine, to which remarkable writers on the occult contributed, such as Aleister Crowley, Dion Fortune and Arthur Edward Waite.
A few years later he expanded his essay on vampires into this still popular book entitled Vampires and Vampirism. It is one of the very few books ever written with a scientific approach to the subject of vampires and vampirism.
Wright explores the vampire phenomena in different parts of the world and in different times in our history, starting with ancient Babylonia, Assyria and Greece. He continues with the vampire in Great Britain and the British Empire, Germany and it’s surrounding countries, Bavaria, Hungary, Silesia, Bulgaria and Russia. Several more peculiar cases are described in his chapters “Miscellanea” and “Living Vampires”.
The vampire in literature is also treated and the volume ends with the fact or fiction question. Wright had a livelong interest in spiritual and paranormal subjects.
This special revised VAMzzz Publishing edition is completed with a Post Scriptum with biographical information about the writer and an article on the vampire in Russia and Slavonic countries based on Muscovite folk-lore by W. R. S. Ralston, M.A.
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Christianity before Christ.
American writer Kersey Graves shows that many demigods all over the world, share similar stories, traits or quotes with Jesus. The similarity between the story of Christ and his many predecessors gave rise to what is now called the Christ myth theory. This theory holds the view that the story of Jesus is either a piece of mythology, or, if Christ really existed, he had probably nothing to do with the founding of Christianity.
Historical Christ researcher David Strauss and Godfrey Higgins with his 'Anacalypsis' (1836), arguing that the Hindus, Jews and Greeks in essence had the same myths, which were corrupted by Christians, were its pioneers.
After Higgins, the Christ myth theory culminates in Kersey Graves, and in 1875 he publishes this book, destined to become the most influential and controversial work in this line of thought, up to this day.
Among the authors he influenced was bestseller author Dan Brown, who apparently used 'The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors' as a source, investing Mithra, while writing 'The Da Vinci Code'. While one must critically put Kersey Graves in the historical context of his own time, as well as the validity of his claims, 'The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors' remains an explosive work.
#saviors #thedavincicode
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When you install fear, guild and punishment by eternal torture as the basis of society, then the psychological make up of most people get distorted and life in general tends towards structural unhappyness.
However, the doctrine of eternal punishment for unbelievers, executed in a fiery Hell and presided over by a Devil, has been the mainspring and driving force of Christianity.
Armed with that belief, the church launched herself upon the Roman Empire, destroyed the pagan religions, extinguished pagan culture, overthrew classical civilization, and pushed the world into the Dark Ages. She filled the world with religious hate, fanaticism, intolerance of science and reason and even established the Inquisition.
The most progressive and independent thinking men and women of society were persecuted, just because they resisted the Christian doctrines of fear, damnation, guild and blind obedience. We saw its anticlimax in the Burning Times.
Apart from this core message of his book, which has not lost anything of its actuality, Graves also provides a lot of historical data. Giving us insight in the origins of the many false assumptions the Christian faith build its’ empire on. He shows that, mythologically, the God of the Old Testament and the Devil of the New Testament were “originally twin brothers known by the same titles”, and that this God and this Devil were Chaldean sun-gods.
The origins of the Devil, eternal punishment, Heaven and Hell are discussed, as well as evil itself within this context.
#devil #inquisition #sungods #burningtimes
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Zowel aan de gevorderde als beginnende geïnteresseerde in occulte historie, technieken en beginselen wordt in Magus Leer & Ritueel een bijzondere samenhang getoond. De echte redenen waarom de kerk en staat magie en vooral hekserij zo obsessief vervolgd en verboden hebben, krijgt daarbij een nieuwe dimensie. MAGUS is echter vooral praktisch geschreven. Veel methodes, zoals bijvoorbeeld voor astraal reizen en het zelf scheppen van een gedachtevorm of servitor (kunstmatige entiteit) kunnen meteen worden toegepast. Dit geldt ook voor de uitgebreid beschreven planeet-engelenmagie via petities, oosterse trainingtechnieken en meer. MAGUS is rijk geïllustreerd en bevat meer dan 90 rituele zegels (sigilli) van engelen, daemones en natuurgeesten. Indien begrepen, kan magie een effectief middel zijn om je leven te intensiveren, je vrijheid te vergroten en je eigen toekomst te scheppen. Het enige wat je er verder bij nodig hebt zijn wilskracht, tijd en discipline.
De westerse magie vindt z’n oorsprong hoofdzakelijk in het Alexandrië van rond de jaartelling, waar vooral Egyptische rituelen zich mixten met Griekse methodiek, theürgie en behoefte aan structuur. Daardoorheen vinden we weer diverse Semitische elementen afkomstig uit het Midden Oosten. De magische cirkel en driehoek, de beschermende symbolen, de koppeling van de planeten, engelen en daemones (kleine goden) aan dagen en uren van de week, vinden daar hun oorsprong en worden in de eeuwen daarna min of meer onveranderd toegepast.
In tegenstelling tot wat de meeste mensen denken en hoe films het graag presenteren, draait magie vooral om het beheersen van een techniek en controle over je eigen gedachten, emoties, wil en verbeeldingskracht. Dit met als doel op een dusdanige wijze innerlijk te resoneren met sterk gewild en verbeeld doel, dat er realiteits- of toekomstschepping plaatsvindt. Dit proces kan dusdanig nuchter worden uitgevoerd dat zelfs de CIA het volledig erkent en er over publiceerde. (CIA-RDP96-00788R00
'The Witches of New York' portraits 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.
However, keeping this in mind, 'The Witches of New York' offers 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.
#newyork #witches
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The Book of Halloween (1919) gives the reader an account of the origin and history of Halloween and how it absorbed customs belonging to other days in the year, such as May Day, Midsummer, and Christmas.
Author Ruth Edna Kelly intensely researched the subject blending history, folklore and mythology. The origins of Halloween are traced back to sun worship, Celtic religion, the Pomona festival and the Christian All Saints Day. Links are given with Teutonic witchcraft and Walpurgis Night. Special Halloween omens are discussed as well as the different ways this holiday was celebrated in Ireland, England and Man, Brittany and France, Scotland and the Hebrides, Wales and America. The time in which she produced this book was a special one in history, as it was in the early twentieth century and the classic picture of the witch as an old ugly hag, underwent a transformation in the midst of the rise of feminism.
#halloween #witchcraft #walpurgis
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