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2 unusual facts about Witchcraft


Mighty Man and Yukk

# Evil Notions with Evila's Potions (12/22/1979) – Evila the Witch enchants the city's gems into following her back to her house.

Yūko Ichihara

A powerful witch, Yūko is the owner a shop where people come to have their wish granted and most of her jobs involve dealing with supernatural beings.


Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches

Witchcraft scholar Jeffrey Russell devoted some of his 1980 book A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics and Pagans to arguing against the claims in Aradia, Murray's thesis, and Jules Michelet's 1862 La Sorcière, which also theorised that witchcraft represented an underground religion.

Banishing

In his books on Nocturnal Witchcraft, for example, Konstantinos recommends performing banishings regularly, in order to keep the magickal workspace free of negativity, and to become proficient in banishing before attempting acts that are much more spiritually taxing on the body, such as magickal spellworking.

Brita Pipare

In September 1593, two women were accused of witchcraft in the city of Stockholm in Sweden; the first one was a woman known as "Margareta from Norrsunda", and the second was Brita.

Canewdon

George Pickingill (1816–1909) who lived in the village during the late 19th century, was said to practice a combination of Danish paganism, Arabic mysticism, Christian heresy and French witchcraft.

Cochrane's Craft

Cochrane’s Craft, which is also known as Cochranianism, is a tradition of the Neopagan religion of Witchcraft founded in 1951 by the English Witch Robert Cochrane, who himself claimed to have been taught it by some of his elderly family members, a claim that is disputed by some historians such as Ronald Hutton and Leo Ruickbie.

Compendium Maleficarum

The book was not translated into English until 1929, when this was accomplished under the direction of the witchcraft scholar Montague Summers.

Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits

Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic is a study of the beliefs regarding witchcraft and magic in Early Modern Britain written by the British historian Emma Wilby.

Dangerous Beauty

Based on the non-fiction book The Honest Courtesan by Margaret Rosenthal, the film is about Veronica Franco, a courtesan in sixteenth-century Venice who becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft.

Fort de la Montagne

François Vachon de Belmont was sent to New France towards 1680 by his superiors, order of Saint-Sulpice priests in Paris to stop the spread of witchcraft and visions at the mission.

Frances Hill

She theorizes that much of the hysteria centered around the witch hunt was actually caused by various outside stresses, such as the repressive theology of the Puritan religion, the constant fear of Indian attacks, and the political struggle between the families of the "victims" and those accused of witchcraft.

Freedom of religion in the Central African Republic

Authorities free most people imprisoned for witchcraft and sorcery offenses for lack of evidence; however, government authorities in May 2007 identified 8-10 inmates as being imprisoned for witchcraft in Bimbo, the women's prison in Bangui.

Giles Corey

The records of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, September 9, 1692, contain a deposition by one of the girls who accused Giles of witchcraft.

Goeldi

Anna Göldi (1734–1782), Swiss maidservant, executed for murder (alleged by use of witchcraft)

Granny Kempock Stone

A 1987 children's TV series Shadow of the Stone written by Catherine Lucy Czerkawska dramatises the witchcraft element starring Shirley Henderson in the role of a young girl who has some kind of spiritual connection with Mary Lamont.

GWR 4900 Class

5972 Olton Hall has during her mainline career being used in the Famous Harry Potter Film series taking the young witches and wizards from Kings Cross in London to Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry.

Hálfdanar saga Brönufóstra

During a sea-voyage he is dragged off course by the witchcraft of a troll named Jarnnef (Iron-Nose) and shipwrecked on the shore of Helluland.

Herman Slater

Bucznski and Slater opened the The Warlock Shoppe, the oldest witchcraft bookshop in Brooklyn, New York.

I Touch Roses: The Best of Book of Love

The only singles omitted from the collection were "Witchcraft" and "Boy Pop", along with fan favorite album cuts such as "With A Little Love", "Turn The World", and "Sound and Vision".

Jack Hedley

He appeared in a number of British films of the 1960s, notably Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Scarlet Blade (1963), Witchcraft (1964), Of Human Bondage (1964), The Secret of Blood Island (1964) and The Anniversary (1968).

John Hathorne

Hathorne is the judge appointed by Satan at the trial in Stephen Vincent Benet's story "The Devil and Daniel Webster", where he is described as "a tall man, soberly clad in Puritan garb, with the burning gaze of the fanatic." In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's play Giles Corey of the Salem Farms, Hathorne is shown debating Cotton Mather on the nature of witchcraft and presiding over hearings in which Giles Corey refuses to enter a plea.

Kevin Andrew Murphy

He is also the designer of several fonts on the theme of witchcraft for Scriptorium Fonts.

Kinshasa Kids

Set in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the film focuses on a group of street kids, expelled from their homes after being accused of witchcraft, who form a hip hop group while a documentary crew films their efforts.

La fiamma

The plot is loosely based on the story of Anne Pedersdotter, a Norwegian woman who was accused of witchcraft and burnt at the stake in 1590.

Laurie Cabot

Laurie Cabot (born in March 6, 1933 in Wewoka, Oklahoma) is an American Witchcraft high priestess, one of the most high-profile witches in the world, one of the first people to popularize Witchcraft in the United States, and author of several books.

Leith Walk

1670- Major Thomas Weir for witchcraft (almost the only self-confessed witch executed).

María Josefa Pimentel, Duchess of Osuna

The Duchess not only purchased one of the first editions of Los Caprichos, but also commissioned a series of cabinet paintings on the subject of witchcraft from Goya, amongst them El aquelarre (Witches' Sabbath).

Melchior of Doberschütz

His wife, Elizabeth of Doberschütz, was accused of witchcraft for political reasons, and ultimately to hurt him, and was executed in 1591 in Szczecin.

Molly Leigh

Molly Leigh (1685–1746) was an English woman who was accused of witchcraft, died before being tried, and had her grave disturbed following claims that she still haunted the town.

Mpumalanga Witchcraft Suppression Bill

The draft Mpumalanga Witchcraft Suppression Bill of 2007 expanded on the Witchcraft Suppression Act of 1957, defining witchcraft as harmful magic and attempting to regulate the conduct of traditional healers in Mpumalanga.

Neopets Trading Card Game

These Neopets compete against opposing Neopets in four different arenas: Strength, Agility, Intelligence, and Magic.

Olympian Publishing

Chamber of Mystery: Witchcraft (2007) (Various artists and authors, with introduction by Dan Brereton featuring characters from the Nocturnals)

Péronne

Peronne Goguillon (?-1679), one of the last women to have been burned at the stake for witchcraft in France

Phyllis Curott

2004 - Pop! Goes the Witch: The Disinformation Guide to 21st Century Witchcraft by Fiona Horne (contributor) (The Disinformation Company) ISBN 0-9729529-5-0, ISBN 978-0-9729529-5-8

Priest–penitent privilege in England from the Reformation to the nineteenth century

Randolf was the confessor of Joanna of Navarre, widow of Henry IV who was accused of attempting to poison her stepson Henry V by witchcraft.

Queen of Wands

She frequently appears to pester the main characters (and everyone else in the strip) with questions about Wicca and witches.

Raymond Buckland

He followed this in 1970 with Witchcraft Ancient and Modern and Practical Candleburning Rituals, as well as a novel called Mu Revealed, a spoof on the works of James Churchward, using the pseudonym Tony Earll (an anagram for 'not really').

Sam Newman

Newman has also dabbled in singing, and in 2002 released a compilation album entitled I Do My Best Work After Midnight, consisting of 13 selections from other artists, as well as two songs sung by Newman himself – "Witchcraft" and "I've Got You Under My Skin".

St Osyth Witches

A village near Brightlingsea in Essex, St Osyth was home to fourteen women who were put on trial for witchcraft, some of whom were duly convicted according to law.

Strega

Stregheria, or the Strega tradition of modern Italian Wiccan-styled witchcraft

The Headless Cupid

This book has made the American Library Association's list of the one hundred most frequently challenged books for 1990-2000, due to the use of witchcraft by the children.

Theodora Axouchina

John Kinnamos and Niketas Choniates report that the accusations against him included practice of witchcraft.

Third Heaven

In contrast with the common concept of Paradise, the Second Book of Enoch also describes a Third Heaven, "a very terrible place" with "all manner of tortures" in which merciless angels torment "those who dishonour God, who on earth practice sin against nature," including sodomites, sorcerers, enchanters, witches, the proud, thieves, liars and those guilty of various other transgressions.

Too Late with Adam Carolla

Carolla walks in the woods with a guy who looks somewhat like Benjamin Franklin, and plays straight man as the "1780s guy" questions current phenomena such as metrosexuals ("We call them homosexuals") and Oprah Winfrey ("Nubian sorceress").

Werewoman

In late nineteenth century Asaba, in the Igbo region of what is now Nigeria, witches were often thought to be werewomen, and a close connection was thought to exist between all women and witchcraft.

William Bassett

William Bassett, Jr. (1624–1703), whose daughter Elizabeth Proctor was accused of witchcraft in the 1692 Salem Witch Trials

Witch Wood

Set in the 17th century, it revolves around a group of witches, and according to the historian Ronald Hutton, was based upon the Witch-cult hypothesis of the anthropologist Margaret Murray.


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