French with English translation Simplified English version The book opens with our narrator trapped in a dungeon. He's been captured by...

Recently, I've been studying The Most Holy Trinosophia , an occult text attributed to the Count of St. Germain . While he is a...

Here's the next part of the Malleus Maleficarum . There are three types of witches: Those who harm, but cannot heal Those who heal, but...

Alright, time to read some more of the Malleus Maleficarum ! How do devils use witches to entice others into witchcraft? There are three...

Alright, I've had a break, so now let's dig back into the Malleus Maleficarum, I finished Part One of the book in some slightly older...

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

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...

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....

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

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

Question 13 (Why was Satan allowed to sin? Why did Adam and Eve fall?) It's put forth in this section that the expulsion of Adam and Eve...

Question 10 (Can witches turn men into animals?) While witches cannot actually turn people into creatures, they can deceive the senses...