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Witchcraft in Anglo-Saxon England (Old English: wiċċecræft) refers to the belief and practice of magic by the Anglo-Saxons between the 5th and 11th centuries AD in Early Mediaeval England. Surviving evidence regarding Anglo-Saxon witchcraft beliefs comes primarily from the latter part of this period, after England had been Christianised ...
Godfrid Storms, Anglo-Saxon Magic, 1948. See also: Anglo-Saxon metrical charms Storms believed that these charm formulas were "the oldest relics of Anglo-Saxon and Germanic literature", belonging "to the oldest traditions of the Germanic and Indo-European peoples." Symbolic comparisons Many of the Anglo-Saxon charms use symbolic comparisons between a known, described event and the magical act ...
The Malleus Maleficarum, [a] usually translated as the Hammer of Witches, [3] [b] is the best known treatise about witchcraft. [6] [7] It was written by the German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer (under his Latinized name Henricus Institor) and first published in the German city of Speyer in 1486.
The word witch is over a thousand years old: Old English formed the compound wiccecræft from wicce ('witch') and cræft ('craft'). [50] The masculine form was wicca ('male sorcerer'). [ 51 ] In early modern Scots , the word warlock came to be used as the male equivalent of witch (which can be male or female, but is used predominantly for females).
Anglo-Saxon pagans believed in magic and witchcraft. There are various Old English terms for "witch", including hæġtesse "witch" (whence Modern English hag), wiċċa, ġealdriċġe, sċīnlǣċe and helrūne. The belief in witchcraft was suppressed in the 9th to 10th century as is evident e.g. from the Laws of Ælfred (c. 890).
Alwina (Good witch in the Suske en Wiske story "Het Spaanse Spook") Alwina (Evil witch in the Suske en Wiske story "De Schat van Beersel") Antanneke (Witch in the Suske en Wiske story "De Zeven Snaren") Arba (Groo the Wanderer) B. Queen Beryl (Sailor Moon) Broom-Hilda (Broom-Hilda) C. Queen Candy (Sugar Sugar Rune) Circe
Wicca (English: / ˈ w ɪ k ə /), also known as "The Craft", [1] is a modern pagan, syncretic, earth-centered religion.Considered a new religious movement by scholars of religion, the path evolved from Western esotericism, developed in England during the first half of the 20th century, and was introduced to the public in 1954 by Gerald Gardner, a retired British civil servant.
Emma Wilby, 2005. From the 1930s onward, various historians studying the witch trials on continental Europe had begun arguing that in some areas, the image of the witch had been influenced by underlying local folklore about visionary journeys. Poc's book on Hungarian witchcraft and magic appeared in her native language in 1997, before being published in an English translation in 1999 as ...