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Beatrix Leslie (c. 1577 – 3 September 1661) was a Scottish midwife executed for witchcraft. In 1661 she was accused of causing the collapse of a coal pit through witchcraft. [1] Little is known about her life before that, although there are reported disputes with neighbours that allude to a quarrelsome attitude.
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.
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").
7. "Witches serve the devil." Lastly—and we’ve already mentioned this a bit—but just like witchcraft isn’t inherently evil or doesn’t directly conflict with mainstream religions if you ...
Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Middle Ages. Athlone History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe. Vol. 3. London: Athlone Press. ISBN 978-0-485-89103-4. Karlsson, Thomas (2002). Uthark: Nightside of the runes. Sundbyberg: Ouroboros. ISBN 91-974102-1-7. OCLC 186199355. Featuring rune images by T. Ketola {}: CS1 maint: postscript
She denied ever practising witchcraft and instead claimed that the conflicts between her neighbours and herself were of an ordinary nature. [3] Yet, George Smith, her husband, testified against her in 1624 for "attempting to kill him with magic after quarrelling about an unsavoury house guest."
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.
Chumbley's early articles were published in the chaos magic journal Chaos International; later articles appeared in Starfire, journal of the Typhonian OTO, and in the long-established British witchcraft journal The Cauldron. Daniel A. Schulke succeeded him as Magister of Cultus Sabbati.