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1660 etching depicting "Witte Wieven" living in tumuli. In Dutch Low Saxon mythology and legends, the Witte Wieven (also known as Wittewijven) are spirits of "wise women" (or else elven beings). The mythology dates back at least to the pre-Christian era (7th century) and was known in the present-day regions of the Netherlands, Belgium and parts ...
The Lost Princess (1875), a fairy tale novel by George MacDonald, first published as The Wise Woman: A Parable. The Wise Woman of Hoxton, a 17th-century play. Wise woman of Abel, an unnamed figure in the Hebrew Bible. Woman of Tekoa, also called a wise woman in the Hebrew Bible. Category:
Sculpture of the Germanic seeress Veleda, by Hippolyte Maindron, 1844, in Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris.. Aside from the names of individuals, Roman era accounts do not contain information about how the early Germanic peoples referred to them, but sixth century Goth scholar Jordanes reported in his Getica that the early Goths had called their seeresses haliurunnae (Goth-Latin). [1]
Wise was born on July 17, 1872 [1] in New York City, New York, the daughter of German immigrants Julius Waterman and Justine Mayer. Her father was a craftsman who immigrated to America from Bayreuth in the 1840s and started a successful hoop-skirt factory. Her paternal uncle Sigmund Waterman was one of the first professors of German at Yale ...
In ancient and medieval Europe, a group of wise women who were mostly elderly would give insight into medical issues, primarily concerning the female body. According to “Daughters of Hecate ...
St. Peter's Cemetery, Canton, Ohio, United States. Rhoda Greer Wise (February 22, 1888 – July 7, 1948) was an American Catholic stigmatist and mystic from Canton, Ohio (originally in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland and now part of the Diocese of Youngstown). Between 1939 and her death in 1948, Wise reported seeing regular visions of ...
^A – For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy see her entry in Margaret Atherton's Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period. Hackett; 1994. ISBN 0-87220-259-3 ^B – For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy see her entry in Jacqueline Broad's Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth ...
Black magic has traditionally referred to the use of supernatural powers or magic for evil and selfish purposes. [1] The links and interaction between black magic and religion are many and varied. Beyond black magic's historical persecution by Christianity and its inquisitions, there are links between religious and black magic rituals.