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John Fian (alias Cunninghame) (died 27 January 1591) was a Scottish schoolmaster in Prestonpans, East Lothian and purported sorcerer.He confessed to have a compact with the devil while acting as register and scholar to several witches in North Berwick Kirk.
Touch of Death (Italian: Quando Alice ruppe lo specchio) is a direct-to-video Italian horror film directed by Lucio Fulci. The film was developed as part of a series for direct-to video and television films titled I maestri del thriller which had eight other films in the series.
The Magic Christmas Tree: Richard C. Parish: 1964 [245] The Magic Sword: Walter R. Booth: 1901 [246] Magic Tree House (Majikku Tsurī Hausu) Hiroshi Nishikiori: 2011 [247] Mahakaal: Shyam Ramsay, Tulsi Ramsay: 1993 [248] Maleficent: Robert Stromberg: 2014 [1] Mark of the Devil (Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält) Michael Armstrong: 1970
Her non-harmful magic aims to "shake the most downtrodden women out of complacency and normality" to meet a state of liberation. [27] The importance of such a heroine sheds light on the positive effects associated with magic and witchcraft, a change from the often brutalized and tortured illustrations found in early nineteenth century literature.
Herbert Stanley Redgrove claims necromancy as one of three chief branches of medieval ceremonial magic, alongside black magic and white magic. [30] This does not correspond to contemporary classifications, which often conflate "nigromancy" ("black-knowledge") with "necromancy" ("death-knowledge").
Michael Howard (1948–2015) was an English practitioner of Luciferian witchcraft and a prolific author on esoteric topics. From 1976 until his death he was the editor of The Cauldron magazine. Born in London , Howard developed an interest in supernatural subjects through fiction literature, later exploring Tibetan Buddhism after a near death ...
Magic is an attempt to understand, experience and influence the world using rituals, symbols, actions, gestures and language. Modern theories of magic may see it as the result of a universal sympathy where some act can produce a result somewhere else, or as a collaboration with spirits who cause the effect.
The bull recognized the existence of witches: Many persons of both sexes, unmindful of their own salvation and straying from the Catholic Faith, have abandoned themselves to devils, incubi and succubi, and by their incantations, spells, conjurations, and other accursed charms and crafts, enormities and horrid offences, have slain infants yet in the mother's womb, as also the offspring of ...