This one might be a little controversial, but I've given this subject a lot of attention and research. I'll do my best to cover this...

We live in an incredible time. All the information in the world fits in our pockets. We come across more information in a day than some...

Pictured above: Mugwort I gathered and dried. Reading up a bit on mugwort today, since I gathered and dried some yesterday. I’ll probably...

This time, a bit on ancient good luck charms. In Greece, gorgons were carved with tusks and terrifying facial expressions to frighten...

A bit of a detour from notes this week to talk about something that is actually quite relevant during a pandemic. I believe that what...

Today, we'll talk about some Greek and Roman methods of fortune-telling, interpreting omens, and divination. One method of divination was...

I’m still working on A History of Magic by Richard Cavendish, but I’m also now reading The Black Book of Isobel Gowdie by Ash William...

The Greeks and Romans viewed witches as generally maleficent beings that would curse people, use poison, and play cruel pranks. These...

Last time, we talked a bit about curses. Today, we'll talk a bit about healing. The Greeks made some pretty major strides in medicine,...

This is a continuation of my notes on Richard Cavendish's A History of Magic. These notes are just bits and pieces that I find...

The Hermetica are Greek texts written in Egypt within the first few centuries CE. Some of them might have been written in the first...

Last time we talked about a lot of old Greek dudes. Today we're gonna talk about an old Samaritan dude. Not a "good Samaritan" like a...

Last time, we talked about Pythagoras. Today, we're gonna talk about a few other old Greek dudes. Let's see what we got. Epimenides was a...

Rome and the East When you think of Ancient Greece and Rome, you probably think of things like philosophy, logic, reason, and democracy....

This is a book that I started a few years ago but never finished. So it's time to start over-- and take notes this time!!! A History of...

Question 17 (How to dispute five arguments about the problem of witches) This is the last section of Part One. The book has three parts....

Apples are kind of a classic, aren't they? If someone asks you for a word that starts with A, you will almost certainly say "apple." We...

Question 16 (Comparing witchcraft to other types of "baleful superstition") According to our boy Heinrich, there are fourteen types of...

Snakes!!!! Are!!!! So cool!!!!!!!!!!! I know a lot of people don't like snakes. They think they're scaly and slimy and mean. But MAN are...

Question 15 (Innocent people suffer because of witches' sins.) We start off by explaining how one person's sins can be transferred onto...