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What do you use, witchcraft?

It's like witchcraft, they turn everything upside down.

Now the witchcraft is proved.

OK, now, do you believe in witchcraft at all?

This only is the witchcraft i have used.

He claimed it was revealed to him by a coven of witches in the New Forest area of southern England.

The dispute escalated, and in 1617 Katharina was accused of witchcraft witchcraft trials were relatively common in central Europe at this time.

Their name comes from the Spanish word for witchcraft .

Magical potential Storm's ancestry supports the use of magic and witchcraft.

For instance, in the practice of witchcraft and rain making practices.

Paschal was eventually confined to a monastery on charges of witchcraft.

Women who did not cry during their trial were automatically believed to be witches.

It is also at this ceremony that they are given their craft name.

The statue floated, so it was denounced as a witch and burnt at Kubsberg.

The spell was broken, and the pig was again transformed into a man.

Arm darmed if thet ent witchcraft, was the view of Mr. Sandy Wadgers.

They could also gather the power of animals into their hands ... whenever they needed.

Hagrid reveals to Harry that he has been invited to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Whether it was primarily the result of allegations of conspiracy, adultery or witchcraft remains a matter of debate among historians.

Several people, most notably Agnes Sampson, were convicted of using witchcraft to send storms against James's ship.

The religion of antiracism has its dogmas, its priests, its inquisitors and its witch hunts.

Mr President, in mediaeval times groups of thugs and hooligans would pick on elderly women and accuse them of witchcraft.

Due to negative connotations associated with witchcraft, many Wiccans continue the traditional practice of secrecy, concealing their faith for fear of persecution.

She was variously associated with crossroads, entrance ways, dogs, light, the moon, magic, witchcraft, knowledge of herbs and poisonous plants, necromancy, and sorcery.

Besides mysticism, belief in witches and witchcraft became widespread, and by the late 15th century the Church had begun to lend credence to populist fears of witchcraft by its condemnation of witches in 1484 and the publication in 1486 of the Malleus Maleficarum , the most popular handbook for witch hunters.

After Sauron came to reside there, it became known instead as Dol Guldur Hill of Sorcery , acquiring a connotation of corruption and evil.

Ezrin later related the band's alarm at this method of working they apparently viewed the erasure of material from the 24 track master as witchcraft .

In modern stories or fairy tales, the idea of white witchcraft is often associated with a kindly grandmother or caring motherly spirit.

Like a plague passing from hand to hand so the scourge of witchcraft spreads across this land even to men in other lands.

However, his personal obsession with witchcraft led to the public execution of some of his innocent subjects, leading to the greatest number of deaths in Denmark during the Burning Times.

Witch hunts James's visit to Denmark, a country familiar with witch hunts, may have encouraged an interest in the study of witchcraft, which he considered a branch of theology.

Epitome of Copernican Astronomy , calendars, and the witch trial of his mother Since completing the Astronomia nova , Kepler had intended to compose an astronomy textbook.

Dol Guldur () (Sindarin Hill of Sorcery ) was Sauron's stronghold in Mirkwood in the fictional world of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle earth.

The plot follows Harry Potter, a young wizard who discovers his magical heritage as he makes close friends and a few enemies in his first year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

After his return to Scotland, he attended the North Berwick witch trials, the first major persecution of witches in Scotland under the Witchcraft Act 1563.

Leland also equated Aradia with Herodias, explaining his speculation that Herodias was actually Lilith This was not... derived from the Herodias of the New Testament, but from an earlier replica of Lilith, bearing the same name...

Definition Robert Nares defined the word hoax as meaning to cheat , dating from Thomas Ady's 1656 book A candle in the dark, or a treatise on the nature of witches and witchcraft .

Years later, a distorted version of the story may have instigated the witchcraft trial against his mother, as the mother of the narrator consults a demon to learn the means of space travel.

James became obsessed with the threat posed by witches and, inspired by his personal involvement, in 1597 wrote the Daemonologie , a tract which opposed the practice of witchcraft and which provided background material for Shakespeare's Tragedy of Macbeth .

She noted that many Wiccans remain sceptical about the existence of the gods, afterlife etc but remain involved in the Craft because of its ritual experiences, with one, Glenna Turner, saying that I love myth, dream, visionary art.

She believed, based upon her own theories about the early modern witch trials in Europe, that those two deities, though primarily the Horned God, had been worshipped by a Witch Cult ever since western Europe had succumbed to Christianity.

William Berg observes, Since children are not called after spooks, it is safe to assume that Carian theophoric names involving hekat refer to a major deity free from the dark and unsavoury ties to the underworld and to witchcraft associated with the Hecate of classical Athens.

In the Egyptologist Margaret Murray's The Witch Cult in Western Europe (1921) and The God of the Witches (1933), in which she dealt with what she believed to be a historical Witch Cult, she stated that the four main festivals had survived Christianisation and had been celebrated in the pagan Witchcraft religion.

Folk poetry has been the source of affectionate kisses where they sometimes played an important part, as when they had the power to cast off spells or to break bonds of witchcraft and sorcery, often restoring a man to his original shape.