The Element Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Complete A-Z for the Entire Magical World - Judika Illes 2005

The Element Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Complete A-Z for the Entire Magical World - Judika Illes 2005

Introduction

Elements of Witchcraft

The Roots of Witchcraft: The Magical World

Physical Evidence of Magical Thought

Animism

Shamanic Vision

The Fruitful Earth: “The Fertility Cult”

Dualism

Animals

Allies

Baboons

Bats

Bears

Caprimulgids: Nightjars, Nighthawks, and Frogmouths

Cats

Chickens

Corvids: Crows, Ravens, and Jackdaws

Coyotes

Dogs

Donkeys

Familiars

Ferrets (Polecats) and Weasels

Flies

Foxes

Frogs and Toads

Goats

Hyenas

Imps

Iynx (Wryneck)

Jaguars

Leopards

Magpies

Nahual, Nahualli, Naualli, Nagual

Owls

Pigs

Rabbits

Scorpions

Skin-walkers

Snakes

Spiders

Transformation

People Who Transform Willingly into Animals

Animals Who Transform Willingly Into People

Victims of Transformation

Wolves and Werewolves

Werewolves

Books of Magic and Witchcraft

Almanacs

The Witches’ Almanac

Books of Shadows

Dream-books

Grimoires

Aradia or The Gospel of the Witches

The Black Pullet or The Hen with the Golden Eggs

The Book of Pow-Wows or The Long Lost Friend

The Book of San Cipriano and Santa Justina

The Grand Grimoire or The Red Dragon

The Great Albert

The Grimoire of Honorius the Great

The Key of Solomon or Clavicula Salomonis

The Lemegeton or The Lesser Key of Solomon

The Little Albert or Les Secrets Merveilleux de la Magie Naturelle et Cabalistique du Petit Albert

The Magus by Francis Barrett

The Munich Manual of Demonic Magic

Mystery of the Long Lost 8th, 9th and 10th Books of Moses

The Picatrix or the Ghayat al-Hakim (“The Aim of the Wise” or “The Goal of the Wise”)

The Red Dragon

The Sacred Book of Abramelin the Mage

The Secret of Secrets or True Black Magic

The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses

The True Grimoire or Grimorium Verum

The World’s Greatest Magician Black Herman’s Secrets of Magic, Mystery, and Legerdemain

Library of the Lost

Alexandria’s Library

Druid Books

The Etruscan Library

Mayan, Aztec, and Mixtec Codices

Missing Grimoires

The Sibylline Books

Witch-Hunt Books

Botanicals

Warning

Safety Tips

Alder

Amanita Muscaria or Fly Agaric

Apples

Belladonna

Birch

Coca

Datura

Elder

Elder Candles

Elm

Enchanter’s Nightshade

Henbane

Juniper

Mandrake

Mistletoe

Mugwort

Mullein

Nettles

Opium Poppy

Roots

Rowan

Rue

Saint John’s Wort

San Pedro

Trees

Vervain

Willow

Wolf ’s Claw or Club Moss

Wolfsbane

Calendar of Revelry and Sacred Days

The Anthestheria

Beltane

Candlemas

Cross Quarter Days

Dias de Los Muertos/Mexican Days of the Dead

Easter

Easter Eggs

Easter Witches

Esbat

Feast of St Lucy or Santa Lucia

February Feasts of Purification and New Life

The Dionysia/The Festival of St Trifon

The Feast Day of St Agatha (February 5th)

The Festival of Juno Sospita

Festivals of the Dead

The Egyptian Feast of the Dead

The Feralia

The Lemuria

The Festival of Mania

Obon Festival

Parentalia

The Floralia

Halloween

Dumb Suppers

Halloween Trees

Hecate Night

Imbolc

Ivan Kupalo

Lammas

Litha

Lughnasa

Lupercalia

Mabon

May Eve

Midsummer’s Eve or St John’s Eve

Ostara

Sabbat

Witch-hunters’ Sabbats

Sabbats of Modern Wicca

Samhain

The Three Spirit Nights

Time of Day

Twelve Nights of Christmas

Walpurgis

Yule

Creative Arts

Comics

The Black Widow

The Books of Magic

Doctor Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts

Hellblazer

Ibis the Invincible

Mandrake the Magician

Sabrina the Teenage Witch

The Sandman

The Scarlet Witch

Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose

Vampirella

Wendy the Good Little Witch

Witches

The Witching

Zatanna, The Magician

Zatara, The Magician

Dance

Circle, Ring or Round Dance

Dance of the Seven Veils

Dances of Death

Danse Macabre or The Dance of Death

The Goat Dance

La Volta

Maenad Dances

Perchtentanz or Perchta’s Dance

Processions

Snake, Serpentine or Spiral Dances

The Step of Yu

Tarantella

Treguenda or Danza Alla Strega

Film

Literature: Novels and Plays

Manga and Anime

Music

Television

Visual Arts: Paintings, Postcards, and Woodcuts

Dictionary of Witchcraft: A Magical Vocabulary

The Divine Witch: Goddesses and Gods

Abondia

Angerboda

Angitia

Aradia

Artemis

The Many-Breasted Artemis of Ephesus

Baba Yaga

Befana la Strega (Befana the Witch)/Befana la Vecchia (Befana the Aged)

Cerridwen

Circe

Dahut

Diana

Dionysus

Feronia

Freya

Frigga

Hecate, Hekate

Hella or Hel

Hermes

Herodias

Herta

Hulda

Isis (Au Set)

Jezibaba

Kali

Kamrusepas

Kapo

Kybele

Lilith

Louhi

Mana

Mari

Morgan le Fay

Muso Koroni

Nicnevin

Nox, Nyx

Ochossi, Oxossi

Odin

Ogun

Orisha Oko

Oshun

Perchta

Proserpina (Persephone)

Ragana

Rübezahl

La Santisima Muerte

Set, Seth

Shiva

Sibillia, Sibilla

Simbi

Tante Arie (“Aunt Arie”)

Tezcatlipoca

Thoth

Tlazolteotl

The White Women

Yemaya

Ergot, The Corn Mother, and The Rye Wolf

Mysteries of Corn

Corn Mother

Demeter

Among Earth’s many Corn Mothers

Ergot

The Rye Wolf

Fairies

Birth-spirit Fairies: The Fates

Baobhan Sith

Bereginy

Dakini

Deives

Dones d’Aigua

Dryads

E Bukura e Dheut

Elf

Keshalyi

Korrigans

Lauma

Nixie, Nixy

Peri

Rusalka

Sidhe

Solitary Sidhe

Trolls

Tündér

Tylwyth Teg

Vila, Wila, Veles, Veela, Víly

Changelings

Fairy Cats

Fairy Dart

Fairy Doctors

Fairy Faith

Fairy Forts

Fairy Magicians

Fairy Roads

The Fairy Witch

The Sicilian Fairy Cult

Witchcraft Trials Involving Fairies

Fairy-Tale Witches and Mother Goose

African-American Conjure Tales

Grimms’ Fairy Tales

Briar Rose

The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs

Fitcher’s Bird (sometimes called Fowler’s Fowl)

Frau Trude

Hansel and Gretel

Jorinda and Joringel

Mother Holle

The Old Woman in the Forest

Rapunzel

Snow White

Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales

The Little Mermaid

The Snow Queen

The Wild Swans

Jewish Fairy Tales

Mother Goose

Russian Fairy Tales

Baba Yaga (1)

Baba Yaga (2)

Prince Danila Govorila

Vasilisa the Wise (Also called Vasilisa the Beautiful or Vasilisa the Brave)

Witch-cats and Similar Transformation Tales

Food and Drink

Absinthe

Anisette

Homemade Anisette Infusion

Apples

Boszorkányhab (Witch’s Froth)

Bean Divination

Beer

Beltane Cake

Beltane Caudle

Bock Beer

Bread

Cakes

Cakes and Ale, Cakes and Wine

Cakes for The Queen of Heaven

Days of The Dead (Dias De Los Muertos)

Mexican Sugar Skulls

Molé Sauce

Pan de Muerto

Fava Beans

Festival of Diana

Fox Spirit Tofu (Inari Sushi)

Halloween Specialties

Apple Crowdie

Colcannon

Fortune Cake

Fortune-teller’s Crowdie

Lambswool

Mash of Nine Sorts

Hecate Supper

Lunar Foods

May Wine

Moon Cakes

Pancakes

Pumpkins

Rapunzel

Salt

Snake Cake

Strega Liquore

Witch’s Brew

Witch’s Butter

Witch’s Egg

Witches’ Salt

Yule Cakes

Bûche de Noël

Speculaas Poppen

Witch’s supper

The Hag

Angerboda

Baba Yaga

Beltane Carline

Black Annis

Caillagh Ny Gueshag/ Caillagh Ny Groamach

Cailleach

Cailleach Bhéara

Cailleach Bheur

Cailleach Bolus

Cailleach Corca Duibhne

Cailleach Mor

Cailleach Oidhche

Cailleach Uragaig

Carlin

Demeter

The Devil’s Grandmother

Giants

Grid

Gyre Carlin

Hag Rune

Hag Stone

Hyrrokkin

Leshovikha

Mala Liath

Muir Larteach

Skadi

Sheela na Gig

Thokk

Troll-Hags

The Horned One and The Devil

Aatxe, Etsai

Akerbeltz

Almaqah

Ashmodai, Asmodeus

Attis

Azazel

Baphomet

Boch de Biterna/Boch de Biterne

Bossu

Boujeloud

Cain

Cernunnos

Chimney Sweep

The Devil

Satan

Lucifer

Dionysus

Eshu-Elegbara/Exu

Fauns

Faunus

Goat God

Hannya

Hathor

Hermes

Herne the Hunter

Juno Caprotina

Khnum

Krampus

Leshii

Minotaur

Oni

Oya

Pan

Papa Bois

Pashupati

Robin Goodfellow

Rod

Rozhanitsy

Santa Claus

Satyrs

Se’irim

Shiva

Sylvanus

Virbius

Magical Arts

Alchemy

Western Alchemy

Chinese Alchemy

Astrology

Candle Magic

Charm Bags

Charms and Incantations

Commanding and Compelling

Divination

Healing

Herbalism

Image Magic

Kabalah

Cabala

Qabala

Necromancy

Séances

Witch Boards

Ritual Possession

Runes

The Runes of the Elder Futhark

Sigils

Spell-casting

Spirit Working/Spirit Summoning

Tarot

Magical Professions

Coachmen

Masons

Metalworkers

Athena

Brigid

Dactyls

Dwarfs

Hephaestus

Inari

Ogun

Svarog

Tubal-Cain

Wayland the Smith

Millers

Places: A witch’s Travel Guide

Bathhouse

Bania

Temescal

Burial Grounds

Crossroads

Forest

Grotto

Grove

The Grove of Aricia

Rügen Island

Magical Places

Benevento

Chiloé Island

Salem

Siquijor Island

Marketplace

Mountains

Bald Mountain

Blokula, Blockula, Blakulla or Blokulla

The Brocken

Gellért Hill

Horselberg

Monte della Sibilla, The Sibyl’s Mountain in Norcia

Mount Hekla

Old Woman’s Mountain

Pendle Hill

Puy de Dôme

Witches’ Caves of Zugarramurdi

Museums of Witchcraft

Swamps

Tools of Witchcraft

Athamé

Bells

Bolline

Brooms

Candles

Cards

Cauldrons

Chalice

Cord

Crystal Balls

Dolls

Flying Ointments

Horns

Labrys

Masks

Mirrors

Mortar and Pestle

Pentacle (Pentagram)

Sieve

Staff

Swords

Tripod

Wands

Witchcraft Hall of Fame

Abei no Seimei (c.921—1005 CE)

Agrippa von Nettesheim, Henricus Cornelius (September 14, 1486—1535)

Albertus Magnus (c.1193— November 15, 1280)

The Alraunas

Bardon, Franz (December 1, 1909—July 10, 1958)

Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna (August 12, 1831—May 8, 1891)

Buckland, Raymond (August 31, 1934—)

Budapest, Z. (January 30, 1940—)

Buzzard, Dr

Cagliostro, Count Alessandro di (June 2, 1743—August 6, 1795)

Crowley, Aleister (October 12, 1875—December 1, 1947)

Cunningham, Scott (June 27, 1956—March 28, 1993)

David-Neel, Alexandra (October 28, 1868—September 8, 1969)

Dee, Dr John (July 13, 1527—March 26, 1609)

Dye, Aunt Caroline

Caroline Dyer Blues. Endor, The Witch of

Faust, Dr Johannes

Ficino, Marsilio (October 19, 1433—October 1, 1499)

Flamel, Nicholas (c.1330—?)

Fortune, Dion (December 6, 1890—January 8, 1946)

Gardner, Gerald Brosseau (June 13, 1884—February 12, 1964)

Hanussen, Erik Jan (June 2, 1889—March 25, 1933)

Hermes Trismegistus

Jesus (c.1—33)

Joan of Arc (January 6, 1412—May 30, 1431)

John, Dr (c.1801—August 23, 1885)

Kelley, Edward (August 1, 1555—1597)

Kingsford, Anna Bonus (September 16, 1846—February 22, 1888)

Laveau, Marie

Leek, Sybil (February 22, 1922—October 26, 1982)

Lenormand, Marie (May 27, 1772—June 25, 1843)

Levi, Eliphas (c.1810—October 12, 1875)

Lilly, William (May 1, 1602—June 9, 1681)

Mathers, Moina (February 28, 1865—July 25, 1928)

Mathers, Samuel L. MacGregor (January 8, 1854—November 20, 1918)

Medea

Merlin

Murray, Margaret (July 13, 1863—1963)

Nostradamus, Michel De (December 14, 1503— July 2, 1566)

Paracelsus (1493—September 1541)

Pickingill, “Old George” (1816—1909)

Pythagoras (c.569 BCE—c.475 BCE)

Randolph, Paschal Beverly (October 8, 1825—July 29, 1875)

Rucker, “Black” Herman (1892—April 1934)

Sanders, Alex (1926—April 30, 1988)

Scot, Sir Michael (c.1214—c.1291)

Sendivogius, Michael (—1646)

Seton, Alexander (—1603)

Seven Sisters

Shipton, Mother (1488—1558)

Simon Magus

Valiente, Doreen (1922—September 1, 1999)

Virgil (70—19 BCE)

Williamson, Cecil (September 18, 1909—1996)

Yah-Yah, Dr

Witchcraze! Persecution of Witches

Africa

Bacchanalia

Basque Region

British North American Colonies

The Goodwin Witch Trials

Grace Sherwood

Salem Village Witch Trials

Canon Episcopi

Christianity

England

France

Germany

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

Poland

Russia

Scotland

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Women’s Mysteries

Midwives

Midwife Goddesses

Midwife Magic

Midwife Persecution

Midwife Witch Trials

Spinning

Spinning Goddesses

Wormwood and Garlic: Dangers and Protection

Dangers of Witchcraft

Protective Measures

Power of the Witch

Bibliography

Acknowledgments