Download or read book In Defense of Witches written by Mona Chollet and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a “brilliant, well-documented” celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution. Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that swept through Europe and America, witches continue to hold a unique fascination for many: as fairy tale villains, practitioners of pagan religion, as well as feminist icons. Witches are both the ultimate victim and the stubborn, elusive rebel. But who were the women who were accused and often killed for witchcraft? What types of women have centuries of terror censored, eliminated, and repressed? Celebrated feminist writer Mona Chollet explores three types of women who were accused of witchcraft and persecuted: the independent woman, since widows and celibates were particularly targeted; the childless woman, since the time of the hunts marked the end of tolerance for those who claimed to control their fertility; and the elderly woman, who has always been an object of at best, pity, and at worst, horror. Examining modern society, Chollet concludes that these women continue to be harrassed and oppressed. Rather than being a brief moment in history, the persecution of witches is an example of society’s seemingly eternal misogyny, while women today are direct descendants to those who were hunted down and killed for their thoughts and actions. With fiery prose and arguments that range from the scholarly to the cultural, In Defense of Witches seeks to unite the mythic image of the witch with modern women who live their lives on their own terms.
Download or read book Mathilda SuperWitch written by Kristen Ashley and published by Kristen Ashley. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Hallowe’en night, Mathilda Honeycutt finds out she’s a SuperWitch. Not the modern, hippy kind… the real, wand-wielding, pixie dust kind. After a life devoted to retail and coffee drinks, Mathilda is thrown into the secret world of witches, warlocks, werewolves, vampires, faeries, headless horsemen, you name it, it exists… even whirling dervishes! As Mathilda discovers her magic, she also discovers she’s prophesied to save the world. Problem is, she’d rather spend her time on online auctions, bidding on cut-rate but fabulous designer shoes. Now, she’s got to save the world, run her coffee house, battle against her friend and co-worker in “The War of the Wooden Spoons” and figure out what’s going on with the silent, watchful (but yummy) Sebastian Wilding, a member of a centuries old Secret Society who has vowed to keep her safe and brainy, sweet (and hot) Dr. Aidan Seymour, a maverick member of The Royal Institute of Psychical Research. Making matters worse, her nemesis is a powerful witch who doesn’t mind fighting dirty. Will Mathilda be able to save the world while still being perfectly accessorized? And how is she going to pick between Luscious Sebastian and Dreamy Aidan? And will she be able to talk The Witches Council into updating their uniform? And, lastly, will she ever get the hang of riding around on a broom?
Download or read book Super Witch written by Jessie G. Talbot and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you can't make it as a witch what else is there? 'Little' Lydia McLauren can't work a single spell. She expected to learn how in witch class. She expected a wonderland of magic, mystery, and pet owls! Duuuuh. No. School is awful, bullies pick on her, and her teacher hates her. Well, FINE. If she can't be a proper witch like the other kids she'll be a SUPERHERO instead! Bravo Southworth is her best, and only, friend. He can actually make his magic work! He joins her as the Amazing Bravo Unit, just the kid to save Little Lydia. Or will she save him? Join the Super Witches as they set out on a quest 'round the neighborhood to prove themselves. Will Lydia's powers kick in? And will she find the courage to stand up to the biggest bully of all?
Download or read book Witchcraft Demonology and Magic written by Marina Montesano and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witchcraft and magic are topics of enduring interest for many reasons. The main one lies in their extraordinary interdisciplinarity: anthropologists, folklorists, historians, and more have contributed to build a body of work of extreme variety and consistence. Of course, this also means that the subjects themselves are not easy to assess. In a very general way, we can define witchcraft as a supernatural means to cause harm, death, or misfortune, while magic also belongs to the field of supernatural, or at least esoteric knowledge, but can be used to less dangerous effects (e.g., divination and astrology). In Western civilization, however, the witch hunt has set a very peculiar perspective in which diabolical witchcraft, the invention of the Sabbat, the persecution of many thousands of (mostly) female and (sometimes) male presumed witches gave way to a phenomenon that is fundamentally different from traditional witchcraft. This Special Issue of Religions dedicated to Witchcraft, Demonology, and Magic features nine articles that deal with four different regions of Europe (England, Germany, Hungary, and Italy) between Late Medieval and Modern times in different contexts and social milieus. Far from pretending to offer a complete picture, they focus on some topics that are central to the research in those fields and fit well in the current “cumulative concept of Western witchcraft” that rules out all mono-causality theories, investigating a plurality of causes.
Download or read book Witches written by Kathryn Griffith and published by Kathryn Meyer Griffith. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are witches in the world…some are good and some of them are downright evil. Amanda Givens is careful how she uses her benevolent powers. She doesn't want the people of Canaan, Connecticut to know they have a witch among them…even a good white witch. For years, she's lived quietly in a remote cabin with Amadeus, her quirky feline familiar. At first with her husband, Jake, the love of her life, until a car accident; but now alone after his death. But when she's wrongly blamed for a rash of ritualistic murders committed by a satanic cult, she knows she can no longer hide. She's the one the cult is after and she is the only one who can stop them and prove her innocence. Yet as punishment for fighting and destroying the cult, she's drawn back in time by the ghost of the dark witch, Rachel Coxe, who was drowned for practicing black magic in the 17th century. Now, as Amanda tries to rehabilitate Rachel's reputation in an effort to save lives, as well as her own, and falls in love all over again with Joshua, her reincarnated dead husband from the future, she has to rely on a sister's love and magical knowledge, and a powerful sect of witches named the Guardians, to help her get home safely.
Download or read book Super Infinite written by Katherine Rundell and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2022 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize Shortlisted for the 2023 Plutarch Award A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of 2022 A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, and Literary Hub From the standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, a member of Parliament—and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. He converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a sixteen-year-old girl without her father’s consent, struggled to feed a family of ten children, and was often ill and in pain. He was a man who suffered from surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love. In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell embarks on a fleet-footed act of evangelism, showing us the many sides of Donne’s extraordinary life, his obsessions, his blazing words, and his tempestuous Elizabethan times—unveiling Donne as the most remarkable mind and as a lesson in living.
Download or read book Witches plus bonus Witches II Apocalypse written by Kathryn Meyer Griffith and published by Kathryn Meyer Griffith. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Witch books in one: Witches: There are witches in the world…some are good and some of them are downright evil. Amanda Givens is careful how she uses her benevolent powers. She doesn't want the people of Canaan, Connecticut to know they have a witch among them…even a good white witch. For years, she's lived quietly in a remote cabin with Amadeus, her quirky feline familiar. At first with her husband, Jake, the love of her life, until a car accident; but now alone after his death. But when she's wrongly blamed for a rash of ritualistic murders committed by a satanic cult, she knows she can no longer hide. She's the one the cult is after and she is the only one who can stop them and prove her innocence. Yet as punishment for fighting and destroying the cult, she's drawn back in time by the ghost of the dark witch, Rachel Coxe, who was drowned for practicing black magic in the 17th century. Now, as Amanda tries to rehabilitate Rachel's reputation in an effort to save lives, as well as her own, and falls in love all over again with Joshua, her reincarnated dead husband from the future, she has to rely on a sister's love and magical knowledge, and a powerful sect of witches named the Guardians, to help her get home safely. *** Witches II: Apocalypse: The long-awaited sequel to my 1993 best-selling paperback novel Witches is finally HERE! Yes, witches exist…the good and the bad ones…and one day the two ancient adversaries of good and evil will join the fight for control of the world. Amanda has been told her ten year old witch-child, Lizzy, is fated to someday become one of the planet’s most powerful witches. If she lives. If the world survives. Because the world is being threatened by an anti-Christ called Reuben who is prophesied to bring the end of the world by destroying everyone and everything good–including the white witches and warlocks of the world–unless he can be stopped. The Guardians, a secret society of those white wiccans who protect others of their kind and the world from great evil, along with the powerful good witch, Amanda Givens, and her gifted daughter, Lizzy, must battle Reuben and his demonic followers. They must somehow change the outcome of the prophesied end times, aid a possible child of God, help the earth’s people to resist the black witches, demons and the soulless, which the times have brought forth and who are trying to bring hell to earth. Good and evil will be brought together for the final battles. Will Amanda, Lizzy, and the Guardians defeat evil or will it defeat them as they fight with all their strength and powers to save the people, the lives and the world they love. Who will win?***
Download or read book The Super Blue Blood Moon written by Lyne Delmonte and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think about the last time you went to a circus and all the amazing tricks that you saw. Did you ever say to yourself, "How did they do that?" or "How is that humanly possible?" There is a little secret. The performers of Dunning Family Circus, like many others, are not human. They are supernatural. They are also members of NACOS or the North American Council of Supernaturals. This is an organization put in place to govern, maintain, and uphold the laws designed for all magical beings. There are three branches of NACOS--the warriors, the council, and the Grand Council. Kailie Dunning is in charge of the DFC chapter of warriors consisting of vampires, werewolves, fae, Nephilim, and a witch. Shortly after the show is set up and ready, Kailie, who performs in the circus with Tivo, her magical unicorn, is told of missing girls in Ybor City, Florida. Her new team of warriors decide to go out together one night, only to find one of their own has gone missing. Can this group of powerful individuals put clues together to find the missing girls and solve the case before opening day of the circus?
Download or read book Gateways to the Otherworld Volume 1 of 2 EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Super Witch A Souls by the Sea Novella written by Cerine Talbot and published by Souls by the Sea. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Lydia is a witch? Yes! Woo hoo! But she has to keep it a secret. Her wonderful big sister, Burlie, can't stand witches (for some bizarre reason) so Lydia has to sneak away to be tutored at the Magic Sodality. Where she can't get a single spell right. Her ratbag teacher proclaims her brainless, hopeless, and useless. Well, FINE! If she can't be a witch she'll be a SUPERHERO instead! With her best friend, the amazing Bravo Unit, she'll go on a heroic quest and prove herself once and for all! Just don't tell Burlie.
Download or read book The Miracle of Life written by Jan de Vries and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-10 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this controversial book Jan de Vries considers modern miracles as well as the 'miracle of Lourdes'. He discusses witch doctors and what he has personally witnessed in the Far East. He warns against exorcism and talks of the many 'possessed' people he has treated. He also shares with his readers some of the mysterious ways that alternative medicine has worked 'miracles' for thousands of patients.
Download or read book Chillin in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers Volume 1 written by Miya Kinojo and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Magical Kingdom of Klyrode summons hundreds of heroes from other worlds every year to fight in their war against the Dark One and his army of powerful demons. Banaza is one of those heroes, summoned from the Royal Capital Paluma, but something’s not right—Banaza is only an average merchant. He has no magic, no fighting ability, and his stats are abysmal. Worse, a mishap leaves him unable to return home! Rejected as a hero and stranded in another world, abandoned to the far reaches of the kingdom by a cruel king who just wants him gone, Banaza’s fate looks pretty bleak. But what will happen once the failed hero candidate finds himself with super cheat powers once he hits level two?
Download or read book JOURNEYS OF MASTER WIZARD FARANGU IV written by STEVE ESOMBA, Dr. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JOURNEYS OF MASTER WIZARD FARANGU (IV) is the last of the series of Modern African Fiction for Adults and Children about the vast Continent of Africa. These are tales and legends of Master Wizard Farangu who undertook the damned and thankless task of reforming wizardry, witchery and sorcery norms in the African Continent from essentially evil and destructive motives and outcomes - to good and constructive motives and outcomes. Master Wizard Farangu toured around the continent to right wrongs, establish due justice and turn these dark arts into advantageous scientific knowledge. Follow Master Wizard Farangu and his Conclave of benevolent wizards, witches, sorcerers, sorceresses and magicians and enjoy and appreciate his authority and candidness.
Download or read book The Start Oz Super Pack written by L. Frank Baum and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For generations L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz books have captured and enthralled millions of readers. These stories are as delightful today as they were the day they were written. Collected here for the first time are eighteen complete Oz books. Now you can thrill will Dorothy and Toto as they discover Oz in the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Race through the countryside with Tip and Jack Pumpkinhead as they flee the wicked witch Mobi in The Marvelous Land of Oz. Adventure with Ozma as she rescues Dorothy and the royal family from the evil Nome King in Ozma of Oz. Join Dorothy as an earthquake sends her to the land of Mangaboos and the vegetable people in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. Journey with Dorothy and Toto as they meet the Shaggy Man, Button-Bright, and Polychrome in The Road to Oz. In The Emerald City of Oz, Dorothy brings Aunt Em and Uncle Henry along for the adventure! In The Patchwork Girl of Oz you will accompany Ojo the Unlucky on his quest to gather the five ingredients needed to make the antidote for the Liquid of Petrifaction to save his aunt and uncle. In Little Wizard Stories of Oz you will thrill to six short stories with many of your favorite friends from Oz. And in Tik-Tok of Oz you can travel with the Shaggy Man as he struggles to rescue his brother from the Nome King. In The Scarecrow of Oz, you'll accompany Scarecrow as he journeys to Jinxland to rescue Cap'n Bill and Trot. In Rinkitink in Oz you can join Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz as they set off on a rescue mission. In The Lost Princess of Oz, Ozma and the Great Book of Records disappear and it's up tp Dorothy to find them. In The Tin Woodman of Oz, join the Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow, Woot, and Polychrom as they journey to Munchkin Country to find Nimmie Amee. In The Magic of Oz, Dorothy and her friends stop an illegal wizard from transforming people into animals. In Glinda of Oz, Dorothy and Ozma travel to stop a war between the Flatheads and Skeezers. Journey with the Scarecrow and discover his royal past in The Royal Book of Oz. Adventure with Kabumpo the elephant and Ruggedo the Nome King in Kabumpo in Oz. And in Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz the Wizard builds two spaceships. Magical adventure awaits.
Download or read book The Wizard s Spell written by Cynthia Eden and published by ImaJinn Books. This book was released on 2006-07-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . deliciously crafted." --Coffee Time Romance There's more to his magic than his bedroom eyes. And more to her magic than she ever wanted to learn. Sara Myers' ordinary life turns upside when a gorgeous burglar in her bedroom turns out to be Torian Le Fury, a wizard who tells her she has hidden talents--she's a witch with enough magical power to destroy--or save--the world. She's also his intended mate. Sara isn't particularly interested in saving the world. She'd prefer it if Torian just took his gorgeous self and disappeared from her life, permanently. But when evil creatures known as Dark Ones come after her, she realizes that she's going to need his help to survive. And as she spends more time with Torian, her feelings for the mysterious wizard grow. But Torian is hiding secrets from Sara. Deadly secrets. Amidst a realm of dragons, sorcery, and illusion, Torian's mysteries threaten her growing feelings for him. Is love just another spell?
Download or read book Prelude to a Super Airplane written by Brian Spaeth and published by Brian Spaeth. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 2012, These United States of America is politically divided to a magnitude not seen since the Civil War. On one side stands the fast emerging pro-flying car contingent; on the other, the stubborn and traditional pro-airplane members of the populace. At stake? The entire future of airborne leisure and transportation.Set against this tumultuous backdrop, a young fiction writer has written a book about the only thing that can save the airplane riding industry - an impossible to conceive, 47-story airplane of such power and wonder, the world will have no choice but to submit to its glory.The world's first comedy-political thriller-mystery-drama-romance-action/adventure-science fiction-showbiz insider-horror-family-energy drink industry insider-holiday autobiography, Prelude to a Super Airplane weaves the lives and destinies of 40 people together in astounding ways, as they all find themselves facing the future of airplane riding...the Super Airplane.
Download or read book The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic written by Breanne Randall and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instant New York Times Bestseller USA Today Bestseller For fans of Practical Magic and Gilmore Girls, The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic is a debut novel that explores the shields we build around our hearts to retain our own magic. Sadie Revelare has always believed that the curse of four heartbreaks that accompanies her magic would be worth the price. But when her grandmother is diagnosed with cancer with only weeks to live, and her first heartbreak, Jake McNealy, returns to town after a decade, her carefully structured life begins to unravel. With the news of their grandmother's impending death, Sadie's estranged twin brother Seth returns to town, bringing with him deeply buried family secrets that threaten to tear Sadie's world apart. Their grandmother has been the backbone of the family for generations, and with her death, Sadie isn't sure she'll have the strength to keep the family, and her magic, together. As feelings for Jake begin to rekindle, and her grandmother growing sicker by the day, Sadie faces the last of her heartbreaks, and she has to decide: is love more important than magic? Readers who love the magic of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and the sense of community found in The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches will enjoy this warm, witchy novel.