Download or read book Witches of Hopper Street written by Linda Gondosch and published by Minstrel. This book was released on 1990-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three girls, not invited to a classmate's Halloween party, decide to become real witches and sabotage the event by casting some spells.
Download or read book The Whole Story written by John E. Simkin and published by K. G. Saur. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the only comprehensive guide to sequels in English, with over 84,000 works by 12,500 authors in 17,000 sequences.
Download or read book The Demon s Den written by Franklin W. Dixon and published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hardy boys, vacationing in Vermont, offer to help the police locate a missing camper and find themselves involved with a doomsday cult, a deadly strain of bacteria, and possibly the devil.
Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 3344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.
Download or read book Mortimer and the Witches written by Marie Carter and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The neglected histories of 19th-century NYC’s maligned working-class fortune tellers and the man who set out to discredit them Under the pseudonym Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B., humor writer Mortimer Thomson went undercover to investigate and report on the fortune tellers of New York City’s tenements and slums. When his articles were published in book form in 1858, they catalyzed a series of arrests that both scandalized and delighted the public. But Mortimer was guarding some secrets of his own, and in many ways, his own life paralleled the lives of the women he both visited and vilified. In Mortimer and the Witches, author Marie Carter examines the lives of these marginalized fortune tellers while also detailing Mortimer Thomson’s peculiar and complicated biography. Living primarily in the poor section of the Lower East Side, nineteenth-century fortune tellers offered their clients answers to all questions in astrology, love, and law matters. They promised to cure ailments. They spoke of loved ones from beyond the grave. Yet Doesticks saw them as the worst of the worst evil-doers. His investigative reporting aimed to stop unsuspecting young women from seeking the corrupt soothsaying advice of these so-called clairvoyants and to expose the absurd and woefully inaccurate predictions of these “witches.” Marie Carter views these stories of working-class, immigrant women with more depth than Doesticks’s mocking articles would allow. In her analysis and discussion, she presents them as three-dimensional figures rather than the caricatures Doesticks made them out to be. What other professions at that time allowed women the kind of autonomy afforded by fortune-telling? Their eager customers, many of whom were newly arrived immigrants trying to navigate life in a new country, weren’t as naive and gullible as Doesticks made them out to be. They were often in need of guidance, seeking out the advice of someone who had life experience to offer or simply enjoying the entertainment and attention. Mortimer and the Witches offers new insight into the neglected histories of working-class fortune tellers and the creative ways that they tried to make a living when options were limited for them.
Download or read book Science Fiction Fantasy Horror written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive bibliography of books and short fiction published in the English language.
Download or read book Ravaged by the New Age written by Texe Marrs and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our children are under assault by the New Age. For over three decades the New Age leadership has plotted and worked to ravage an entire generation. This book explains the occult inroads into our schools, movies, kids' books, cartoons, at NASA (our space agency), the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, and even in Sunday School curricula! It also shows how our teenagers are brought into bondage through Satan worship and witchcraft. Ravaged by the New Age provides an Action Plan with positive steps parents can take to protect their children from the New Age child abusers.
Download or read book Bulletin of the Center for Children s Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Young People s Books in Series written by Judith K. Rosenberg and published by Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1992 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes and lists series published for young people from early elementary grades through high school. Fiction series from 1976 through 1990 (and new titles in existing series through 1991) are included, as well as nonfiction series, which are limited to in-print titles only.
Download or read book The Witches Ointment written by Thomas Hatsis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the historical origins of the “witches’ ointment” and medieval hallucinogenic drug practices based on the earliest sources • Details how early modern theologians demonized psychedelic folk magic into “witches’ ointments” • Shares dozens of psychoactive formulas and recipes gleaned from rare manuscripts from university collections all over the world as well as the practices and magical incantations necessary for their preparation • Examines the practices of medieval witches like Matteuccia di Francisco, who used hallucinogenic drugs in her love potions and herbal preparations In the medieval period preparations with hallucinogenic herbs were part of the practice of veneficium, or poison magic. This collection of magical arts used poisons, herbs, and rituals to bewitch, heal, prophesy, infect, and murder. In the form of psyche-magical ointments, poison magic could trigger powerful hallucinations and surrealistic dreams that enabled direct experience of the Divine. Smeared on the skin, these entheogenic ointments were said to enable witches to commune with various local goddesses, bastardized by the Church as trips to the Sabbat--clandestine meetings with Satan to learn magic and participate in demonic orgies. Examining trial records and the pharmacopoeia of witches, alchemists, folk healers, and heretics of the 15th century, Thomas Hatsis details how a range of ideas from folk drugs to ecclesiastical fears over medicine women merged to form the classical “witch” stereotype and what history has called the “witches’ ointment.” He shares dozens of psychoactive formulas and recipes gleaned from rare manuscripts from university collections from all over the world as well as the practices and magical incantations necessary for their preparation. He explores the connections between witches’ ointments and spells for shape shifting, spirit travel, and bewitching magic. He examines the practices of some Renaissance magicians, who inhaled powerful drugs to communicate with spirits, and of Italian folk-witches, such as Matteuccia di Francisco, who used hallucinogenic drugs in her love potions and herbal preparations, and Finicella, who used drug ointments to imagine herself transformed into a cat. Exploring the untold history of the witches’ ointment and medieval hallucinogen use, Hatsis reveals how the Church transformed folk drug practices, specifically entheogenic ones, into satanic experiences.
Download or read book Fiction Index for Readers 10 to 16 written by Vicki Anderson and published by Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland. This book was released on 1992 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Index of 8200 titles arranged under 200 specific subject headings.
Download or read book The Ketchup Sisters written by Judith Winship Hollands and published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monica and her ketchup-loving friend Dee Ellen investigate when Nola claims that the ghost of a cocker spaniel tried to steal her piggy bank.
Download or read book Who s Afraid of Haggerty House written by Linda Gondosch and published by Aladdin Paperbacks. This book was released on 1989-12 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixth-grader Kelly's attempt to sell Christmas cards to the scary lady in the haunted house begins a mutually enjoyable friendship for them both, as well as for their families and friendes.
Download or read book Taking Humor Seriously in Children s Literature written by Patricia Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This teaching aid helps librarians and teachers incorporate humor into their classes by presenting quality humorous children's literature and experiences that develop children's sensitivity toward humor.
Download or read book Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature 1975 1991 written by R. Reginald and published by Detroit : Gale Research. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction constitutes one of the largest and most widely read genres in literature, and this reference provides bibliographical data on some 20,000 science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction books, as well as nonfiction monographs about the literature. A companion to Reginald's Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1700-1974 (Gale, 1979), the present volume is alphabetically arranged by approximately 10,000 author names. The entry for each individual work includes title, publisher, date and place published, number of pages, hardbound or paperback format, and type of book (novel, anthology, etc.). Where appropriate, entries also provide translation notes, series information, pseudonyms, and remarks on special features (such as celebrity introductions). Includes indexes of titles, series, awards, and "doubles" (for locating volumes containing two novels). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Download or read book Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 2204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Book Review Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.
