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The Triumph of the Moon - A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Ronald Hutton The Triumph of the Moon - A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Ronald Hutton
R997 R836 Discovery Miles 8 360 Save R161 (16%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This is the second, and extensively revised, edition of the first full-scale scholarly study of what is arguably the only fully-formed religion that England has ever given the world: that of modern pagan witchcraft, which has now spread from English shores across four continents. Ronald Hutton examines the nature of that religion and its development, and offers a history of attitudes to witchcraft, paganism and magic in British society since 1800. Its pages reveal village cunning folk, Victorian ritual magicians, classicists and archaeologists, leaders of woodcraft and scouting movements, Freemasons, and members of rural secret societies. We also find some of the leading figures of English literature, from the Romantic poets to W. B. Yeats, D. H. Lawrence and Robert Graves, as well as the main personalities who have represented pagan witchcraft to the public world since 1950. Thriller writers like Dennis Wheatley, and films and television programmes, get similar coverage, as does tabloid journalism. The material is by its very nature often sensational, and care is taken throughout to distinguish fact from fantasy, in a manner not hitherto applied to most of the stories involved. Consistently densely researched, Triumph of the Moon presents an authoritative insight into an aspect of modern cultural history which has attracted sensational publicity but has hitherto been little understood. This edition incorporates all of the new research carried out into the subject by the author, and by others who have often been inspired by this book, during the twenty years since it was first published.

Dark Occult Magick Powerful Summoning Spells for Entities to Seek Protection and Incredible Power - Perfect for Fans of the... Dark Occult Magick Powerful Summoning Spells for Entities to Seek Protection and Incredible Power - Perfect for Fans of the Occult Light and Dark Magic Pagan and Neo-Pagan Wicca [Color Version] (Paperback, Premium Color ed.)
Mina Charles
R415 R386 Discovery Miles 3 860 Save R29 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Witchfinders (Paperback): Malcolm Gaskill Witchfinders (Paperback)
Malcolm Gaskill 2
R394 R212 Discovery Miles 2 120 Save R182 (46%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

By the spring of 1645, civil war had exacted a terrible toll upon England. Disease was rife, apocalyptic omens appeared in the skies, and idolators detected in every shire. In a remote corner of Essex, two obscure gentlemen began interrogating women suspected of witchcraft, triggering the most brutal witch-hunt in English history. Witchfinders is a spellbinding study of how Matthew Hopkins, 'the Witchfinder General', and John Stearne extended their campaign across East Anglia, driven by godly zeal. Exploiting the anxiety and lawlessness of the times, and cheered on by ordinary folk, they extracted confessions of satanic pacts resulting in scores of executions.

Magic: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback): Owen Davies Magic: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
Owen Davies
R299 R269 Discovery Miles 2 690 Save R30 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Defining 'magic' is a maddening task. Over the last century numerous philosophers, anthropologists, historians, and theologians have attempted to pin down its essential meaning, sometimes analysing it in such complex and abstruse depth that it all but loses its sense altogether. For this reason, many people often shy away from providing a detailed definition, assuming it is generally understood as the human control of supernatural forces. 'Magic' continues to pervade the popular imagination and idiom. People feel comfortable with its contemporary multiple meanings, unaware of the controversy, conflict, and debate its definition has caused over two and a half millennia. In common usage today 'magic' is uttered in reference to the supernatural, superstition, illusion, trickery, religious miracles, fantasies, and as a simple superlative. The literary confection known as 'magical realism' has considerable appeal and many modern scientists have ironically incorporated the word into their vocabulary, with their 'magic acid', 'magic bullets' and 'magic angles'. Since the so-called European Enlightenment magic has often been seen as a marker of primitivism, of a benighted earlier stage of human development. Yet across the modern globalized world hundreds of millions continue to resort to magic - and also to fear it. Magic provides explanations and remedies for those living in extreme poverty and without access to alternatives. In the industrial West, with its state welfare systems, religious fundamentalists decry the continued moral threat posed by magic. Under the guise of neo-Paganism, its practice has become a religion in itself. Magic continues to be a truly global issue. This Very Short Introduction does not attempt to provide a concluding definition of magic: it is beyond simple definition. Instead it explores the many ways in which magic, as an idea and a practice, has been understood and employed over the millennia. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

1612: the Lancashire Witch Trials - A New Guide by Christine Goodier (Paperback, First): Christine Goodier 1612: the Lancashire Witch Trials - A New Guide by Christine Goodier (Paperback, First)
Christine Goodier
R271 R245 Discovery Miles 2 450 Save R26 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This excellent little book is a wonderful introduction to the story of the trial of the witches of Pendle in 1612. In a very lively and readable style, Christine Goodier provides a who's who of the events, as well as an interesting angle on the trials themselves. She emphasises that the accused were merely flesh and blood, not demons, arguing that they were poor, uneducated people who were at worst misguided. Her inevitable conclusion is that a terrible injustice was done 400 years ago when they were famously convicted of witchcraft and hanged.

Obeah, Race and Racism - Caribbean Witchcraft in the English Imagination (Paperback): Eugenia O'Neal Obeah, Race and Racism - Caribbean Witchcraft in the English Imagination (Paperback)
Eugenia O'Neal
R1,313 Discovery Miles 13 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Obeah, Race and Racism, Eugenia O'Neal vividly discusses the tradition of African magic and witchcraft, traces its voyage across the Atlantic and its subsequent evolution on the plantations of the New World, and provides a detailed map of how English writers, poets and dramatists interpreted it for English audiences. The triangular trade in guns and baubles, enslaved Africans and gold, sugar and cotton was mirrored by a similar intellectual trade borne in the reports, accounts and stories that fed the perceptions and prejudices of everyone involved in the slave trade and no subject was more fascinating and disconcerting to Europeans than the religious beliefs of the people they had enslaved. Indeed, African magic made its own triangular voyage; starting from Africa, Obeah crossed the Atlantic to the Caribbean, then journeyed back across the ocean, in the form of traveller's narratives and plantation reports, to Great Britain where it was incorporated into the plots of scores of books and stories which went on to shape and form the world view of explorers and colonial officials in Britain's far-flung empire. O'Neal examines what British writers knew or thought they knew about Obeah and discusses how their perceptions of black people were shaped by their perceptions of Obeah. Translated or interpreted by racist writers as a devil-worshipping religion, Obeah came to symbolize the brutality, savagery and superstition in which blacks were thought to be immured by their very race. For many writers, black belief in Obeah proved black inferiority and justified both slavery and white colonial domination. The English reading public became generally convinced that Obeah was evil and that blacks were, at worst, devil worshippers or, at best, extremely stupid and credulous. And because books and stories on Obeah continued to promulgate either of the two prevailing perspectives, and sometimes both together until at least the 1950s, theories of black inferiority continue to hold sway in Great Britain today.

The Crooked Path Journal - Vol. 2, No. 1: A Discourse on the Nameless Art (Paperback, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Equality,... The Crooked Path Journal - Vol. 2, No. 1: A Discourse on the Nameless Art (Paperback, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Equality, Culture, Community ed.)
Raven Womack; Contributions by Ellen Hopman, Ann Finnin
R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sacred Black Grimoire (Paperback): Fionnula Sacred Black Grimoire (Paperback)
Fionnula
R342 Discovery Miles 3 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wicca Magic 2021 - Introduction To Candle Magic Volume 1 (Paperback): Serra Night Wicca Magic 2021 - Introduction To Candle Magic Volume 1 (Paperback)
Serra Night
R482 R447 Discovery Miles 4 470 Save R35 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wicca for Beginners - A Starter Guide to Safely Practice & Understand the Secret of Magic, Witchcraft, Spells and Rituals... Wicca for Beginners - A Starter Guide to Safely Practice & Understand the Secret of Magic, Witchcraft, Spells and Rituals (Paperback)
Faye Spencer
R654 Discovery Miles 6 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Faerie Magick for Beginners (Paperback): Merryl Kowalska Faerie Magick for Beginners (Paperback)
Merryl Kowalska
R309 Discovery Miles 3 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wicca for Beginners - A Starter Guide to Safely Practice & Understand the Secret of Magic, Witchcraft, Spells and Rituals... Wicca for Beginners - A Starter Guide to Safely Practice & Understand the Secret of Magic, Witchcraft, Spells and Rituals (Paperback)
Faye Spencer
R654 Discovery Miles 6 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Just A Girl Who Loves Halloween - Fall Composition Book For Spooky & Creepy Haunted House Stories - Best Friend Autumn Journal... Just A Girl Who Loves Halloween - Fall Composition Book For Spooky & Creepy Haunted House Stories - Best Friend Autumn Journal Gift To Write In Holiday Pumpkin Spice & Maple Recipes, Bewitched Poems & Verses, Quotes About Ghosts & Castles, Pumpkins, Bats, Trick Or Treat, - 6 x 9, 100 Pages (Paperback)
Willow Bewitched
R252 Discovery Miles 2 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Kassapu- Sumerian Magick Grimoire (Paperback): Asamod Kassapu- Sumerian Magick Grimoire (Paperback)
Asamod
R487 Discovery Miles 4 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Magickal Formulary -620 Spells (Paperback): Asamod Magickal Formulary -620 Spells (Paperback)
Asamod
R616 Discovery Miles 6 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wicca For Beginners 2021 - An Introduction To Wiccan Magic and Rituals Part 2 (Paperback): Serra Night Wicca For Beginners 2021 - An Introduction To Wiccan Magic and Rituals Part 2 (Paperback)
Serra Night
R374 R350 Discovery Miles 3 500 Save R24 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Full Moon Magic 2021 - Full Moon Dates and Rituals for Manifestation, Self-Love and Abundance (Paperback): Vickie Ossai Full Moon Magic 2021 - Full Moon Dates and Rituals for Manifestation, Self-Love and Abundance (Paperback)
Vickie Ossai
R395 R362 Discovery Miles 3 620 Save R33 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Telekinesis Bible (Paperback): Gideon Crusader Telekinesis Bible (Paperback)
Gideon Crusader
R308 Discovery Miles 3 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Pagan Heart of the West - Embodying Ancient Beliefs and Practices from Antiquity to the Present: Vol. I -- Deities and... The Pagan Heart of the West - Embodying Ancient Beliefs and Practices from Antiquity to the Present: Vol. I -- Deities and Kindred Beings (Paperback, Deities and Kindred Beings ed.)
Randy P. Conner
R667 Discovery Miles 6 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Early Modern European Witchcraft - Centres and Peripheries (Paperback, Reissue): Bengt Ankarloo, Gustav Henningsen Early Modern European Witchcraft - Centres and Peripheries (Paperback, Reissue)
Bengt Ankarloo, Gustav Henningsen
R2,483 Discovery Miles 24 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The history of witchcraft and sorcery has attracted a great deal of interest and debate, but until now studies have been largely from the Anglo-Saxon perspective. This book shows how that approach has blurred our understanding and definition of the issues involved, and sheds new light on the history of witchcraft in England. What had thus far been seen as peculiar to England is here shown to be characteristic of much of northern Europe. Taking into account major new developments in the historiography of witchcraft--in methodology, and in the chronological and geographical scope of the studies--the authors explore the relationship between witchcraft, law, and theology; the origins and nature of the witch's sabbath; the sociology and criminology of witch-hunting; and the comparative approach to European witchcraft. An impressive amount of archival work by all of the contributors has produced an indispensable guide to the study of witchcraft, of interest not only to historians, but to anthropologists, criminologists, psychologists, and sociologists.

A Codex on Creating a Magical Phantom (Paperback): Gideon Crusader A Codex on Creating a Magical Phantom (Paperback)
Gideon Crusader
R308 Discovery Miles 3 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wicca Candle - The Beginner's Guide to learn Simple and Easy spells. Learn how to Prepare Candles and The Various Types of... Wicca Candle - The Beginner's Guide to learn Simple and Easy spells. Learn how to Prepare Candles and The Various Types of them. How to Choosing and Consecrating Candles. Learn the Color Correspondences and the Importance of Fire. (Paperback)
Emily Scott
R428 Discovery Miles 4 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
River House Witch Quarterly Publications - Winter 2022: Issue #3 (Paperback): Spring Houltin, River House Witch River House Witch Quarterly Publications - Winter 2022: Issue #3 (Paperback)
Spring Houltin, River House Witch
R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Raising Little Witchlings (Paperback): Amanda Wilson Raising Little Witchlings (Paperback)
Amanda Wilson
R429 R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Save R32 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Unfolding Magik - Learning to channel the power within (Paperback): Ethean Soule Rainbow Medium Unfolding Magik - Learning to channel the power within (Paperback)
Ethean Soule Rainbow Medium
R709 Discovery Miles 7 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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