Sex Death And Witchcraft

Author : Douglas Ezzy
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 147252201X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex, Death and Witchcraft written by Douglas Ezzy and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faunalia is a controversial Pagan festival with a reputation for being wild and emotionally intense. It lasts five days, 80 people attend, and the two main rituals run most of the night. In the tantalisingly erotic Baphomet rite, participants encounter a hermaphroditic deity, enter a state of trance and dance naked around a bonfire. In the Underworld rite participants role play their own death, confronting grief and suffering. These rituals are understood as "shadow work" - a Jungian term that refers to practices that creatively engage repressed or hidden aspects of the self. Sex, Death and Witchcraft is a powerful application of relational theory to the study of religion and contemporary culture. It analyses Faunalia's rituals in terms of recent innovations in the sociology of religion and religious studies that focus on relational etiquette, lived religion, embodiment and performance. The sensuous and emotionally intense ritual performances at Faunalia transform both moral orientations and self-understandings. Participants develop an ethical practice that is individualistic, but also relational, and aesthetically mediated. Extensive extracts from interviews describe the rituals in participants' own words. The book combines rich and evocative description of the rituals with careful analysis of the social processes that shape people's experiences at this controversial Pagan festival.

Author : Shirley Damsgaard
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061758590
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witch Way to Murder written by Shirley Damsgaard and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bewitched meets Murder She Wrote in this delightful new cozy mystery series featuring Ophelia Jensen, small town librarian and reluctant psychic, and her grandmother Abby, a benevolent witch. Thirty something Ophelia Jensen wants to live a quiet life as a small town librarian. She's created a comfortable existence with her kooky, colorful grandmother Abby, and if it were up to her, they could live out their days—along with Ophelia's dog Lady and cat Queenie—in peace and quiet. But, to Ophelia's dismay, she and Abby aren't a typical grandmother/granddaughter duo. She possesses psychic powers, and Abby is a kindly witch. And while Ophelia would do anything to dismiss her gift—harboring terrible guilt after her best friend was killed and she was unable to stop it—threatening events keep popping up, forcing her to tap into her powers of intuition. To make matters worse, a strange—yet devastatingly attractive—man is hanging around Ophelia's library, and no matter how many times she tells him she's sworn off men forever, he persists. Soon this handsome newcomer reveals he's following a lead on a local drug ring, and then a dead body shows up right in Abby's backyard. And much as Ophelia would like to put away her spells forever, she and Abby must use their special powers to keep themselves, and others, out of harm's way.

Author : Walter Stephens
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226772622
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demon Lovers written by Walter Stephens and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-08-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 20, 1587, Walpurga Hausmännin of Dillingen in southern Germany was burned at the stake as a witch. Although she had confessed to committing a long list of maleficia (deeds of harmful magic), including killing forty—one infants and two mothers in labor, her evil career allegedly began with just one heinous act—sex with a demon. Fornication with demons was a major theme of her trial record, which detailed an almost continuous orgy of sexual excess with her diabolical paramour Federlin "in many divers places, . . . even in the street by night." As Walter Stephens demonstrates in Demon Lovers, it was not Hausmännin or other so-called witches who were obsessive about sex with demons—instead, a number of devout Christians, including trained theologians, displayed an uncanny preoccupation with the topic during the centuries of the "witch craze." Why? To find out, Stephens conducts a detailed investigation of the first and most influential treatises on witchcraft (written between 1430 and 1530), including the infamous Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches). Far from being credulous fools or mindless misogynists, early writers on witchcraft emerge in Stephens's account as rational but reluctant skeptics, trying desperately to resolve contradictions in Christian thought on God, spirits, and sacraments that had bedeviled theologians for centuries. Proof of the physical existence of demons—for instance, through evidence of their intercourse with mortal witches—would provide strong evidence for the reality of the supernatural, the truth of the Bible, and the existence of God. Early modern witchcraft theory reflected a crisis of belief—a crisis that continues to be expressed today in popular debates over angels, Satanic ritual child abuse, and alien abduction.

Author : Arnold Bustillo
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Santa Muerte Magick for Love, Lust, and Sex written by Arnold Bustillo and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a short collection of Santa Muerte petitions designed to help you attract love, lust, and sex. From a simple date with a specific person, to a string of one night stands you hope to never see again, this book features the petitions and prayers you need to ask Santa Muerte for help. Santa Muerte, whose name in English means Holy Death, is believed by many to be death itself, and as such has the power to bring death to whatever barriers stand in the way of the things we want. Since death accepts us all, we are all free to petition Santa Muerte, and also are we free to make any request without fear of judgment or reprisal.

Author : Lynne Hume
Publisher : Melbourne University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witchcraft and Paganism in Australia written by Lynne Hume and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 1997 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributes to the growing literature on comparative religion and new religious movements. More specifically, it draws attention to a new religious movement. Using a multidisciplinary approcach, Hume describes the emergence of a controversial worldview which has roots in ancient ideas but whose ideology is rooted in the 20th century.

Author : Lauran Paine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780800871512
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex in Witchcraft written by Lauran Paine and published by . This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Faylita Hicks
Publisher : ACRE (CHUP)
ISBN 13 : 9781946724243
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hoodwitch written by Faylita Hicks and published by ACRE (CHUP). This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This riveting debut from poet Faylita Hicks is a reclamation of power for black women and nonbinary people whose bodies have become the very weapons used against them. HoodWitch tells the story of a young person who discovers that they are "something that can & will survive / a whole century of hunt." Through a series of poems based on childhood photographs, Hicks invokes the spirits of mothers and daughters, sex workers and widows, to conjure an alternative to their own early deaths and the deaths of those whom they have already lost. In this collection about resilience, Hicks speaks about giving her child up for adoption, mourning the death of her fianc , and embracing the nonbinary femme body--persevering in the face of medical malpractice, domestic abuse, and police violence. The poems find people transformed, "remade out of smoke & iron" into cyborgs and wolves, machines and witches--beings capable of seeking justice in a world that refuses them the option. ​Exploring the intersections of Christianity, modern mysticism, and Afrofuturism in a sometimes urban, sometimes natural setting, Hicks finds a place where "everyone everywhere is hands in the air," where "you know they gonna push & pull it together. / Just like they learned to." It is a place of natural magick--where someone like Hicks can have more than one name: where they can be both dead and alive, both a mortal and a god.

Author : Julian Franklyn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death by Enchantment written by Julian Franklyn and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Silvia Federici
Publisher : Autonomedia
ISBN 13 : 1570270597
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caliban and the Witch written by Silvia Federici and published by Autonomedia. This book was released on 2004 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Women, the body and primitive accumulation"--Cover.

Author : Gavin Frost
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dead Frog is Mine written by Gavin Frost and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: