Download or read book Children of Cain written by Michael Howard and published by Three Hands Press. This book was released on 2019-07-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mid-twentieth century saw the birth of popular occultism in Europe and the New World, including an interest in witchcraft. Chief among these was Wicca, a recension of ceremonial magic and nature worship advanced by Gerald Gardner and Alex Sanders, now widely regarded as a religion. However, lesser-known streams of the witch-current thrived the shadows, having older historical roots, and linked to a body of practice - witch-bottles, knotted cord spells, curses, exorcisms, sexual magic, and charms ranging from the conjuration of angels to protection for livestock and hearth. This is Traditional Witchcraft, whose origin in part lies with the sorcery of the cunning-folk of Britain and Colonial America. Eschewing the popular occult limelight, its perpetuation as a mystery-cult continues as a largely closed group of initiates. Now revised and expanded, the second edition of CHILDREN OF CAIN is the definitive history of Traditional Witchcraft and its key operatives in Britain and the United States, and is based on over forty years of research and private collaboration with practitioners of this mysterious form of folk magic.

Download or read book Magic as Metaphor in Anime written by Dani Cavallaro and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception as an art form, anime has engaged with themes, symbols and narrative strategies drawn from the realm of magic. In recent years, the medium has increasingly turned to magic specifically as a metaphor for a wide range of cultural, philosophical and psychological concerns. This book first examines a range of Eastern and Western approaches to magic in anime, addressing magical thinking as an overarching concept which unites numerous titles despite their generic and tonal diversity. It then explores the collusion of anime and magic with reference to specific topics. A close study of cardinal titles is complemented by allusions to ancillary productions in order to situate the medium's fascination with magic within an appropriately broad historical context.

Download or read book Love Potions Through the Ages A Study of Amatory Devices and Mores written by Harry E. Wedeck and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a serious academic attempt to document the history of love potions or other substances meant to enchant another individual into becoming enamored with another party. Some examples provided include sap of mallows during the times of Ancient Greek and several potions featured in the Kama Sutra.

Download or read book Anarchy for the Masses written by Patrick Neighly and published by Disinformation Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at the most groundbreaking and controversial comic book series of the last decade.

Download or read book Transcendental Magic written by Éliphas Lévi and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beauty and the Bro written by Norah Belle and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosted by his long-term girlfriend, Dylan needs a roommate, and this Riley chick seems like the perfect candidate. If only Riley hadn't turned out to be a guy. A guy who is so painfully, obviously gay. Done with his ex-boyfriend's jealousy, Riley is looking for a fresh start. But when his new roommate proves to be less tolerant than Riley had hoped, he finds himself slipping into old patterns. It doesn't help that the guy is a bit of a man-child either. Neither is the obvious choice for the other, yet somewhere along the line of navigating their toxic exes, movie nights, and reviving Riley's old dream of running a makeup channel, sparks begin to fly. But can this thing they have exist beyond the four walls of Dylan's condo? Beauty and the Bro is book one in the Playing It Straight series, where each book follows a couple on their journey to their happily ever after.

Download or read book A Beauty of Magic the Crystal Ball written by Ronald Guadamuz and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this humorous fantasy YA adventure, a young womanizer is taught a lesson and learns to treat women with respect. Ian is a teenaged boy who loves girls for the pleasures they bring. One summer, he meets a strange and mysterious girl named Lucy, who asks him to travel to Russia to do her a favor-to locate a crystal ball and return it to her as a prize for her love. He accepts the task, and soon wildly bizarre events start happening. He enters a magical realm deep in the Russian forest, and encounters fearsome creatures along his way. Fortunately, he bumps into a young witch named Nina, who saves him from the vicious monsters. As the two continue the adventure and retrieve the crystal ball, Nina falls madly in love with the brave and charming Ian. She follows him back to the United States andsoon causes magical chaos due to her extreme jealousy of the other girls around him. She brews a magical love potion for Ian to drink so she can have him all to herself. Unfortunately, the love potion doesn't have the desired effect; instead it turns Ian into an attractive young woman. Panicked, angry, and confused, Ian has only 90 days to reverse the spell before the change becomes permanent. Ian, Nina, and a few other friends must travel to strange new world on another dangerous quest to find a cure that will turn Ian back into a boy. But things get far worse when the crystal ball suddenly explodes with negative magic from within, leading to a global problem that extends far beyond Ian's condition. Young adult readers and fans of Harry Potter are sure to enjoy this page-turning fantasy adventure.

Download or read book Love Potions Through the Ages written by Harry E. Wedeck and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spiritualist and author of Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs presents an in-depth study of love potions and charms through the centuries. Love and sexuality are perhaps some of the most essential, eternal, and universal concerns of humankind. Since before recorded history, societies have sought ways to improve their physiological potency, attract mates amorously, and—in some instances—prevent such attraction or divert it elsewhere. Over time, these means have taken many forms: love elixirs, spells, and rites have been part of virtually every civilization through the ages. This survey explores the evolution of love potion practices over the centuries and across the world. Separate chapters focus on ancient Greece, Rome, India, and the Orient, as well as the Middle Ages and modern times. Author Harry E. Wedeck relays the spiritual aspects of these concoctions as well as historical anecdotes about them. Recipes are also included, though Wedeck cautions that they are exclusively for academic purposes and not intended for personal use.

Download or read book Father Divine s Bikes written by Steve Bassett and published by Passaic River Trilogy. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FATHER DIVINE'S BIKES (Finalist in 2018 International Book Awards in Cross-Genre Fiction) exposes the dark underbelly of 1945 Newark, New Jersey; a city that boomed during World War II but finds itself unable to cope with the peace that brings joblessness, despair and crime. As deeply-entrenched white enclaves are squeezed by the mass migration of blacks, escape routes for poor ethnic whites rapidly close. Two Catholic altar boys living in a world ripe for grifters, like Father Divine, soon learn that his promise of heaven on earth has hellish consequences. In the autumn of 1945, a battle erupts when the city's competing mobs end their truce. When it gets bloody, other criminal forces poise to move in. Black bookies, using Father Divine's controversial International Peace Mission Movement as a front, recruit Joey Bancik and Richie Maxwell to run numbers under the guise of newspaper routes. The boys' families welcome the few bucks they can put on the table. Meanwhile, their parish priest and two homicide detectives fear the numbers racket will entrap the boys in a world of crime. Turf wars, murders, and a corrupt police department in bed with the mob form a dark and gritty backdrop against a story of post-war Newark and the violence that permeated it.

Download or read book Entropy in the UK written by Grant Morrison and published by Titan Books (UK). This book was released on 2001 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their two most powerful members captured and their newest member in hiding, King Mob's Invisibles cell seems on the brink of annihilation. Under the torturer's knife, he must wage an all-out psychic war against his captors -- spinning a lifetime's worth of fictional adventures for his cloaking persona of psychedelic spy Gideon Stargrave, while outside his team regroups and prepares to break him free. But the one key to their survival is still missing: newcomer Jack Frost, whose abilities may outstrip all of his teammates put together. Will he be found in time? And will he be up to the challenge?

Download or read book Cosmopolitan Love Potions written by Cosmopolitan and published by Union Square + ORM. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Give your love life a spiritual boost with Cosmo’s potent introduction to potion-making—with recipes, incantations, and more. Modern magic is all about self-care and using your inner powers to make positive changes in your life—and that’s what Cosmopolitan has always been about. Now the ultimate authority on love and sex has created the perfect collection of potions: crystal tonics, essential oils, perfumes, gem waters, elixirs, teas, bath bombs, and even witchcraft wines. Each concoction is created with a specific goal in mind, includes its own incantation. A basic introduction provides information on crafting potions, setting up an altar, popular potion ingredients, and more. Cosmopolitan Love Potions includes: An introduction to manifesting magick Twelve astrology potions Healing balms for heartbreak An aphrodisiac beauty bath Psychic empowerment incense Inspiring affirmations And much more!

Download or read book The Cinema of Mamoru Oshii written by Dani Cavallaro and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's animation is much more than kids' stuff. Increasingly complex subject matter has produced a corresponding increase in artistic interest, and forms once specific to certain cultures have crossed borders to enjoy international popularity. Japanese animation has been particularly successful in the United States, and among the most celebrated Japanese animation artists is director Mamoru Oshii. This book is an analytical survey of Oshii's cinematic works from the early years of his career through his 21st-century productions, including Beautiful Dreamer and the acclaimed Ghost in the Shell. The author examines these and other Oshii productions in relation to the Carnivalesque movement, technopolitics and the director's post-robotic vision. Oshii's films are particularly significant in their defiance of the premises of Western animation and their presentation of a highly personal commentary on both individual and collective identities in the 20th and 21st centuries. Special emphasis is placed on Oshii's revolutionary film techniques, including the stylistically and thematically diverse features of productions ranging from animation to live action to Original Video Animation (OVA), a format Oshii invented. A complete filmography is included.

Download or read book Witching Culture written by Sabina Magliocco and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the reader into the heart of one of the fastest-growing religious movements in North America, Sabina Magliocco reveals how the disciplines of anthropology and folklore were fundamental to the early development of Neo-Paganism and the revival of witchcraft. Magliocco examines the roots that this religious movement has in a Western spiritual tradition of mysticism disavowed by the Enlightenment. She explores, too, how modern Pagans and Witches are imaginatively reclaiming discarded practices and beliefs to create religions more in keeping with their personal experience of the world as sacred and filled with meaning. Neo-Pagan religions focus on experience, rather than belief, and many contemporary practitioners have had mystical experiences. They seek a context that normalizes them and creates in them new spiritual dimensions that involve change in ordinary consciousness. Magliocco analyzes magical practices and rituals of Neo-Paganism as art forms that reanimate the cosmos and stimulate the imagination of its practitioners. She discusses rituals that are put together using materials from a variety of cultural and historical sources, and examines the cultural politics surrounding the movement—how the Neo-Pagan movement creates identity by contrasting itself against the dominant culture and how it can be understood in the context of early twenty-first-century identity politics. Witching Culture is the first ethnography of this religious movement to focus specifically on the role of anthropology and folklore in its formation, on experiences that are central to its practice, and on what it reveals about identity and belief in twenty-first-century North America.

Download or read book Anime and the Visual Novel written by Dani Cavallaro and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the thematic and structural traits of a recent and popular development within the realm of anime: series adapted from visual novels. Visual novels are interactive fiction games in which players creatively control decisions and plot turning points. Endings alter according to the player's choices, providing a motivation to replay the game and opt for alternative decisions each time. Pictorial sumptuousness, plot depth and subtle characterization are vital aspects of the medium. Anime based on visual novels capitalizes on the parent games' attributes, yielding thought-provoking yarns and complex personalities.

Download or read book Anime Intersections written by Dani Cavallaro and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cavallaro examines the artistic development of anime, from its origins as a subset of the Japanese film industry to its modern-day status as one of the most popular forms of animation worldwide, and examines the impact of the medium within Western contexts.

Download or read book The Grimoire of Lady Sheba written by Lady Sheba and published by . This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the Spells, Rituals, and Recipes of the Craft The personal magickal practices of one of the modern world's most influential Witches The ground-breaking writings of Lady Sheba helped bring Witchcraft to the modern world. This book contains transcriptions of Lady Sheba's personal grimoire and book of shadows--original, hand-written documents that she used in her practice as a leading figure in Witchcraft. In these pages, you will find basic concepts, explanations of tools, and descriptions of special words and symbols in addition to hands-on instructions for the Craft's most important spells, chants, and rituals. The Power: Description of the rules and requirements for correct, effective use of Witchcraft The Tools: How to make, consecrate, and use magickal instruments The Language: Includes diagrams of the lost Theban script and Runic alphabet The Rituals: Complete instructions for performing rituals for every purpose The Recipes: The famous secret herbal lore of the Craft, including ointments, teas, incense, perfumes, and oils The Dances: Traditional square dances as well as magickal "Witches' rounds" The Book of Shadows: The Holy Book of Witchcraft The Eightfold Path: Describes the steps to magickal attainment

Download or read book Initiation Into Witchcraft written by Brian Cain and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the religion of Witchcraft. It honors the old Gods, the ancient mysteries, and the secrets of magic. Witchcraft is personal empowerment magnified through a relationship with the old gods. Through it, you can find a path to your most powerful self. This book shall be your first signpost to guide your way!