The Toad in folklore and folk magic
Toad folklore is found all over the world and going back for many centuries. In Europe they are in particular associated with witchcraft or the witches’ familiar. In contrast to the frog close to...
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Workshops Magie in de Roos, Amsterdam door Benjamin Adamah vanaf 28 maart 2020
Mijn serie workshops Klassieke Westerse Magie startend vanaf zaterdag 2 november 2019 is volgeboekt. Vanaf 28 maart 2020 wordt deze herhaald in De Roos Amsterdam. Het is dan de vijfde keer dat ik deze...
Asteroid Sundsvall in astrology: genius loci awareness
Sundsvall (asteroid 6796) was discovered on 21 March 1993 by the Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets (UESAC) and is named after the city of the same name in Sweden. The asteroid measures 11.07...
Elementals – Salamanders, Sylphs, Undines and Gnomes
Manly Palmer Hall (Peterborough, Ontario, 18 March 1901 – Los Angeles, 29 August 1990) was a Canadian-American writer, astrologer, Freemason and mystic. He wrote more than two hundred books. His best-known work is “The...
Asteroid Seeberg and the incubi – succubi phenomena
Before we deal with the astrological meaning of asteroid Seeberg, it is interesting to look at the question why astrology should no longer neglect the role of asteroids. For especially where it concerns the...
Banshee
A banshee, banshie or bean si is a supernatural female creature of Irish Celtic mythology, considered a magician or messenger of the Other World (sidh). It is comparable to other mythological creatures in Europe...
Grimoires or instruction books on magic
A grimoire is a textbook of magic, typically including instructions on how to create magical objects like talismans and amulets, how to perform magical spells, charms and divination, and how to summon or invoke...
Black dog apparitions
Black dog is often used as a synonym for ghost dog, though some phantom dogs are white instead of black. Black dogs have been reported from almost all the counties of England, the exceptions...
Animal ghosts and apparitions
Animal ghosts can actually be the ghosts of deceased animals, like more than one owner of a cat or dog who passed away can testify. Yet in folklore apparitions in the shape of animals...
Poltergeist
A poltergeist, from the German Poltergeist, derived from poltern “making noise” and geist “mind”, is a paranormal phenomenon consisting of various noises, displacements, apparitions or disappearances of objects and other phenomena a priori inexplicable....
Herbs of the Devil
The association between flowers and the Fairies, Pixies, or Elves was regarded vas very intimate. Therefore, it is not surprising to find that the King of Fairies, Puck, has a plant specially dedicated to...
Thought forms – Thoughts condensed on purpose or by accident
The meaning of “thought form” is on a turning point as what used to be called thought forms, meaning artificial astral units with or without an entity state and created on purpose or by...
