Witchcraft / Witches Books
Brepols N.V. Cases of Male Witchcraft in Old and New England,
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£95.87
Brepols N.V. Witchcraft, Superstition, and Observant
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£133.63
Infinityou Just A Girl Who Loves Halloween: Fall Composition
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£9.35
BoD - Books on Demand Hexenkalender Das Original
£16.72
Books on Demand Der alte Pfad und die Rauhnächte
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£18.90
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Contemporary Life and Witchcraft: Magic,
Book SynopsisWitchcraft is very much alive in today's post-communist societies. Stemming from ancient rural traditions and influenced by modern New Age concepts, it has kept its function as a vibrant cultural code to combat the adversities of everyday life. Intricately linked to the Orthodox church and its rituals, the magic discourse serves as a recourse for those in distress, a mechanism to counter-balance misfortune and, sometimes, a powerful medium for acts of aggression. In this fascinating book, Alexandra Tataran skillfully re-contextualizes the vast and heterogenuous discourse on contemporary witchcraft. She shows how magic, divination, and religious rituals are adapted to the complex mechanisms of modern mentalities and urban living in the specific historical and social context of post-communist countries. Based on years of first-hand fieldwork, Tataran offers fascinating insights into the experience of individuals deeming themselves bewitched and argues that the practice can also teach us a lot about particular forms of adapting traditions and resorting to pre-existing cultural models.
£21.59
Trivent Publishing Civilizations of the Supernatural: Witchcraft,
Book SynopsisCivilizations of the Supernatural: Witchcraft, Ritual, and Religious Experience in Late Antique, Medieval, and Renaissance Traditions brings together thirteen scholars of late-antique, medieval, and renaissance traditions who discuss magic, religious experience, ritual, and witch-beliefs with the aim of reflecting on the relationship between man and the supernatural. The content of the volume is intriguingly diverse and includes late antique traditions covering erotic love magic, Hellenistic-Egyptian astrology, apotropaic rituals, early Christian amulets, and astrological amulets; medieval traditions focusing on the relationships between magic and disbelief, pagan magic and Christian culture, as well as witchcraft and magic in Britain, Scandinavian sympathetic graphophagy, superstition in sermon literature; and finally Renaissance traditions revolving around Agrippan magic, witchcraft in Shakespeare's Macbeth, and a Biblical toponym related to the Friulan Benandanti's visionary experiences. These varied topics reflect the multifaceted ways through which men aimed to establish relationships with the supernatural in diverse cultural traditions, and for different purposes, between Late Antiquity and the Renaissance. These ways eventually contributed to shaping the civilizations of the supernatural or those peculiar patterns which helped men look at themselves through the mirror of their own amazement of being in this world.Table of Contents Notes on Contributors Foreword, Teofilo F. Ruiz Introduction, Fabrizio Conti CHAPTER 1. Naomi Janowitz, Aelian on Tortoise Sex and the Artifice of "Erotic Love Magic" CHAPTER 2. Attilio Mastrocinque, The Dodekaoros, Magical Papyri, and Magical Gems: Egyptian Astrology and Later Hellenistic Traditions CHAPTER 3. Tiana Blazevic, How to Deal With the Evil Daimones. Apotropaic Rituals of the Third and Fourth Centuries CE According to Porphyry, Iamblichus, and the Greek Magical Papyri CHAPTER 4. Joseph E. Sanzo, Prayer and Incantation on Early Christian Amulets: Authoritative Traditions, Ritual Practices, and Material Objects CHAPTER 5. Paolo Vitellozzi, Astrological Amulets in the Sacred Book of Hermes to Asclepius CHAPTER 6. Michael D. Bailey, Magic and Disbelief in Carolingian Lyon CHAPTER 7. Martina Lamberti, The Merseburg Charms: Pagan Magic and Christian Culture in Medieval Germany CHAPTER 8. Francesco Marzella, Hirsuta et cornuta cum lancea trisulcata: Three Stories of Witchcraft and Magic in Twelfth-Century Britain CHAPTER 9. Andrea Maraschi, Sympathetic Graphophagy in Late Medieval Scandinavian Leechbooks and Collections of Charms CHAPTER 10. Ewelina Kaczor, Superstitions in a Sermon of Stanis?aw of Skarbimierz (ca. 1360-1431) CHAPTER 11. Noel Putnik, Operari per fidem: The Role of Faith in Agrippan Magic CHAPTER 12. Melissa Pullara, Reasoning with Witchcraft: Moral Deliberation in Macbeth CHAPTER 13. Cora Presezzi, Envisioning the Afterlife from the "Seaport of Friuli": Conjectures on a Toponym
£114.30
Trivent Publishing BECOMING A WITCH. WOMEN AND MAGIC IN EUROPE
Book SynopsisThis book is not about witches. First of all, because it focuses on the Middle Ages. And, despite common misconceptions among the general public, the figure of the witch as a woman who seals a pact with the Devil is not a "medieval" invention. Becoming a Witch explores the feminization of what civil and religious authorities defined as "magic" in medieval times. It looks into the complex connections between women, the natural, the supernatural, and the tragedy of existence.The chapters in this book span from the far north of Europe to the Mediterranean area, and investigate topics such as divination, erotic "magic", flying and dancing bodies, cannibalism, milk-stealing witchcraft, the circulation of "superstitious" knowledge among women, Otherness, agency, and, last but not least, contemporary representations of the witch in books, TV series, and cinema productions.From whom did women learn their beliefs and remedies? Were they really in contact with demons? Were they a social threat? And, most importantly, should men fear and stop them?
£72.00
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Advances in Contemplative Social Research
Book SynopsisThe book is about a new paradigm in social sciences, contemplative inquiry. It concerns theory, methods of research,and practical applications. Deep contemplation of a situation could be an epistemological choice for social scientists. It is a fundamentally different approach to research, whereby the investigator is researching not only the object, but also the situation of research and herself/himself in it. Contemplating is a dual way of approaching the truth. It does not mean that the researcher is mentally divided; on the contrary she/he wants to be complete and achieve the unity of being as a researcher-human being and as an element of the situation (psychosocial and historical). Contemplating enables researchers to see how the mind works and create images and reports from the field: What is available for the mind and what is silent or repressed because of the dominating rhetoric of description and rhetoric of feeling? Contemplation is not only analysis, it is also an ethical choice of stopping here and now to see the situation clearly and reporting it together with all th reservations that could result from the mindfully observed interaction of mind, self, and situation at one historical moment.Trade ReviewThis book is unique and audacious, and fits very well with current tendencies within qualitative research. It introduces new, fresh threads to questions and concerns that are highly significant for contemporary social science. The formulated conclusions go beyond directly methodological issues, posing key philosophical questions to the whole project of western sociology. The critical potential of the adopted perspective would allow the author to throw the question of reflexive scientific examination in social sciences into doubt to the extent comparable with that of the deconstruction of sociology once performed by Baudrillard. The author does not choose to fulfill this potential. Rather, he pursues the reconciliation of the nondualistic contemplative approach with the discursiveness of western science. He also strongly emphasizes the consistency between the ethical and the cognitive, which is characteristic of the Zen perspective; in our academic reality these two components have been separated and any attempts at their reconciliation result in numerous and rather unmovable difficulties with regard to logic. All this makes the book in question deeply inspiring on various levels of the organization of social science within the contemporary institutional and cultural state of affairs. Without a doubt, this book is worth publishing as it contributes new quality to academic reflection on the social world and the ways of cognising it. -- Grażyna Romańczuk-Woroniecka, University of Warsaw
£36.00
Almuzara Solsticio de Verano
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£17.00
Obelisco El Arte Moderno de la Brujeria
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£12.71
Obelisco Hechizos Para El Amor
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£11.06
Urano Magia Con Velas Para Principiantes
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£15.39
Editorial Sirio Bruja
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£26.24
Almuzara Zombi. Mito Y Realidad de la Religion Vudu
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£20.50
Editorial Sirio Manual de la Bruja Moderna
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£18.41
Editorial Sirio Brujeria Verde
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£19.76
Obelisco Calendario de Las Brujas 2019
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£13.92
Obelisco Hora Bruja, La
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£15.93
Obelisco Guia de la Buena Bruja
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£15.44
Editorial Kairos Despertando a la Bruja: Sobre La Magia Y El Poder
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£16.32
Museum Tusculanum Press Zauberdiagnose und Schwarze Magie in Mesopotamien
Book SynopsisEven today witchcraft is found in many socities, and ancient Mesopotamia was no exception. To the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians witchcraft was the cause of otherwise inexplicable diseases and misfortunes, and elaborate means of protection against and cure from the consequences of witchcraft were developed. This study examines Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft literature, focusing on the extant descriptions of witches and sorceresses, their methods, the symptoms of the bewitched and the rituals and remedies used to combat witchcraft.
£16.19
Brill Italian Witchcraft and Shamanism
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£161.10
Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited The Key: Sands of Time
Book SynopsisAs exciting and pulsating with action as Book One, The Prophecy, this sequel hurtles along till it culminates in a thrilling climax. And at its core is Maya, a protagonist like none otherâstrong, brave, curious.
£16.62
Amsterdam University Press Johann Wier: Debating the Devil and Witches in
Book SynopsisThis book deals with a fascinating and original claim in 16th-century Europe. Witches should be cured, not executed. It was the physician and scholar Johann Wier (1515-1588) who challenged the dominant idea. For his defense of witches, more than three centuries later, Sigmund Freud chose to put Wier’s work among the ten books to be read. According to Wier, Satan seduced witches, thus they did not deserve to be executed, but they must be cured for their melancholy. When the witch hunt was rising, Wier was the first to use some of the arguments adopted in the emerging debate on religious tolerance in defence of witches. This is the first overall study of Wier which offers an innovative view of his thought, by highlighting Wier’s sources and his attempts to involve theologians, physicians, and philosophers in his fight against cruel witch hunts. Johann Wier: Debating the Devil and Witches situates and explains his claim as a result of a moral and religious path as well as the outcome of his medical experience. The book aims to provide an insightful examination of Wier’s works to read his pleas emphasizing the duty of every good Christian to not abandon anyone who strays from the flock of Christ. For these reasons, Wier was overwhelmed by bitter confutations, such as those of Jean Bodin, but he was also celebrated for his outstanding and prolific heritage for debating religious tolerance.Trade Review"This concise and yet broad-ranging study is a very welcome contribution to historiography of the European witch-hunts as well as to the history of science, no small undertaking, requiring both encyclopedic knowledge and strong synthesis. [...] The notes alone offer a detailed mapping of scholarship on witchcraft and medicine making this book an excellent resource for readers across the disciplines." - Virginia Krause, Renaissance and Reformation, Vol. 45, No. 2 "[...] I can say that the author certainly and convincingly managed to achieve her goal: to describe the view of Johannes Wier on witches, to clarify his context and to describe his long-term influence. Valente proffers clear and very accessible insights into the background, contents, context and reception of Wier’s position as he laid it down in various works. Valente’s book is an important contribution to early modern studies [...]" - Herman Selderhuis, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 74, Iss. 1Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. History and historiography: Wier and the witch-hunts 2. Wier’s early years and apprenticeship (1515–1557) 1. Agrippa and the French apprenticeship 2. Working in Gelderland and Cleves 3. Wier’s faith 3. Inside the labyrinth of spells: The origin and development of the De Praestigiis Daemonum (1557–1568) 1. The De praestigiis 2. The theologian and the physician: on the punishment for witches 3. Translations of the De praestigiis 4. Between magic and science 1. The circle of Oporinus and Basel 2. Against Paracelsus 5. Vince te ipsum: Towards the twilight: from 1569 to 1588 1. The twilight 2. Against Scalichius 3. The physician Wier 6. Demons, sorcerers, and witches 1. Satan and his army 2. Magicians 3. Witches 4. The distinction between magicians and witches 7. Scepticism and toleration 1. Erasmus between scepticism and toleration 2. Erasmus and Wier 8. Reading and refuting Wier 1. Appreciations and critics 2. The Debate with Erastus 3. Bodin against Wier 4. Wier’s legacy in English and Germanic debates 5. Wier in the XVIIth century 6. After Descartes: the disenchantment of the world Conclusion Bibliography (primary sources) Bibliography (secondary sources) Index
£107.35
Luna Greenwood Jar Spells Compendium for Beginners
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£18.85
Independently Published I Am A Christian Witch: Maybe You Are Too
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£11.63
Independently Published Basic Spells For Beginners: A Beginners Guide to
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£9.36
Independently Published Practical Magick AL's Book of Herbs: Using Basic
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£11.04
Rockridge Press Crystals for Witches: Rituals, Spells, and
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£19.54
Rockridge Press Witchcraft for Healing: Radical Self-Care for
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£21.24
Rockridge Press Essential Oil Magic: Natural Spells for the Green
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£23.79
Rockridge Press Witchcraft for Daily Self-Care: Nourishing
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£19.54
Rockridge Press Astrology for Witches: Enhance Your Rituals,
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£21.24
Rockridge Press Practical Magic for Beginners: Exercises,
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£21.24
Althea Press The Door to Witchcraft: A New Witch's Guide to
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£47.50
Rockridge Press The Kitchen Witch's Guide to Healing and
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£21.24
Rockridge Press Protection Spells for New Witches: A Guide to
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£12.40
Rockridge Press Protection Spells for New Witches: A Guide to
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£21.04
Rockridge Press Kitchen Witchcraft for Beginners: Spells,
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£19.54
Rockridge Press Green Witchcraft Grimoire: A Practical Resource
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£22.49
Inner Traditions Bear and Company El canto del Hombre Oscuro
£18.02
Crossed Crow Books A Spirit Work Primer: A Beginner's Guide to
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£16.19
Crossed Crow Books Travels Through Middle Earth: The Path of a Saxon Pagan
£16.19
Crossed Crow Books Witchcraft & the Shamanic Journey
Book SynopsisThis beautifully written book will show seekers of the magical arts how to reclaim the old traditions of our pagan ancestors, which, as this book will show, were heavily rooted in shamanism. Kenneth Johnson takes the reader on a journey far into the past where these shamanistic practices of medieval and Renaissance European people can be explored while simultaneously teaching the working Witch how to incorporate these older traditions into their own magical practice. Included in this book are explorations of the mystical otherworld, instructions on how to discover one''s Tree of Power, methods of entering the World Mountain to gain wisdom, an in-depth overview of folkloric initiatory practices, the folklore of the Wild Hunt, and much more.
£17.99
Crossed Crow Books The Way of Four
£18.90
