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Wilby opens her book with a transcript from the trial of the cunning woman Bessie Dunlop, which took place in Edinburgh in 1576, in the midst of the Early Modern witch trials. Dunlop had been accused of "Sorcery, Witchcraft and Incantation, with Invocation of spirits of the devil", found guilty, and executed through strangulation. [5]
The Familiars is a series of children's fantasy books written by Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson. The Familiars is also the title of the first book in the series, featuring familiars, magical animal companions to a wizard or witch. The series consists of 4 books, published between 2010 and 2013 by HarperCollins.
[4] Previously known by her maiden name Stacey Bartlett, in November 2017, Zaffre (a Bonnier Books imprint) won a nine-way auction to publish Halls' official debut novel The Familiars in February 2019. [5] The novel is based on the Pendle witch trials. Production company The Bureau optioned the rights to adapt The Familiars for television. [6]
The main purpose of familiars was to serve the witch, providing protection for them as they came into their new powers. [3] Since the 20th century some magical practitioners, including adherents of the neopagan religion of Wicca, use the concept of familiars, due to their association with older forms of magic. These contemporary practitioners ...
His book Magick, Liber ABA, Book 4, is a lengthy treatise on magic in which he which also presents his own system of Western occult practice, synthesised from many sources, including Yoga, Hermeticism, medieval grimoires, contemporary magical theories from writers like Eliphas Levi and Helena Blavatsky, and his own original contributions. It ...
The creation of Magick (Book 4) was part of Crowley's broader effort to systematize and articulate the principles of Thelema, the spiritual philosophy he founded. The work synthesizes elements from a wide array of mystical and magical traditions, including yoga , Hermeticism , and medieval grimoires , alongside Crowley's original contributions.
The 2014 Pew Research Center's Religious Landscapes Survey included a subset of the New Age Spiritual Movement called "Pagan or Wiccan," reflecting that 3/4 of individuals identifying as New Age also identified as Pagan or Wiccan and placing Wiccans and Pagans at 0.3% of the total U.S. population or approximately 956,000 people of just over ...
Fantasy author Dianne Sylvan’s “Shadow World” series features a Wiccan character, Stella, whose cat is named Pyewacket after the film. Pyewacket is a 2017 horror film. Pyewackett (with two t's) is the name of a folk band who released several albums in the 1980s. In Peter Swanson's Henry Kimball book series, Kimball's cat is named Pyewackett.