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Sybil Leek was strong in the defence of her beliefs, and sometimes differed with, and even quarrelled with, other witches. She disapproved of nudity in rituals, which is a requirement in Gardnerian Wicca, and she was strongly against the use of drugs, and she contrasted with most other witches in that she did believe in cursing.
In the same book I found a description of the activities of one Matthew Hopkins, Witch Finder, at work in the English Civil War period. At about this time, I also read a book about shamanism, and it suddenly occurred to me that the beliefs and skills which would have condemned a woman to death in one society would have been revered in another ...
Gillian Holroyd (Bell, Book and Candle) Queenie Holroyd (Bell, Book and Candle) Rolanda Hooch (Harry Potter) Mafalda Hopkirk (Harry Potter) Cynthia Horrocks (The New Worst Witch) Henrietta "Hettie" Hubble (The New Worst Witch) Mildred Hubble (The Worst Witch) Cassie Hughes ; Bonnie Hyper ; I. Icy ; Indigo (Sofia the First)
The third task, the Sorceress' challenge was a colour sequencing game where players chose coloured flasks and would have to repeat the sequence that they were shown in. Players then advanced to meet The Elder, who asked them a set of knowledge questions about the books and were given a coloured aura depending on their scores and time taken in ...
Polgara the Sorceress begins with Ce'Nedra entreating Polgara to write a book about her life, filling in the gaps left by her father's story, Belgarath the Sorcerer.The main part of the story thus begins, revealing that Polgara and her twin sister Beldaran were raised by their adoptive uncles, the deformed Beldin and the twin sorcerers Beltira and Belkira (all disciples of Aldur, like ...
The Diary of a Chambermaid (novel) The Diary of a Farmer's Wife 1796–1797; Diary of a Madman (Lu Xun) Diary of a Madman (Nikolai Gogol) The Diary of a Nobody; Diary of a Spider; Diary of a Teenage Girl; Diary of a Wombat; Diary of an Ordinary Woman; Diary of an Unborn Child; The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red; The Diary of Miss ...
Today, the book is regarded as being largely inaccurate, but still notable for being one of the first sympathetic histories of witchcraft, and as such it may have had an indirect influence on Wicca. [6] Michelet uses a mix of scholarly research and imaginative storytelling that makes the book more accessible to readers.
The Spellsong Cycle is a fantasy series written by L. E. Modesitt Jr. Set in the fictional world of Erde, it is notable for its system of magic, based on music and song.. The main character of the first three books of the series is Anna Marshall, a middle-aged music instructor and small-time opera singer who is magically transported from Ames, Iowa to Erde, a fantastical world where songs have ...