history & documentation
Introduction In the rural folklore of Chile and Argentina, El Culebrón—also known as El Viborón—emerges as a complex and ambivalent mythological being situated at the intersection of indigenous cosmologies, colonial imagination, and agrarian socioeconomics....
For those who still believe the persecution of alleged witches belongs to the Middle Ages… Witchcraft has today become an umbrella term for a wide and often diffuse spectrum of practices. In early Europe,...
In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, memory was not understood as a merely cognitive storage function, but as an operational faculty capable of being intensified, ordered, and even transformed. Within this context, two...
An Essayistic Summary of Demoniality; or, Incubi and Succubi by Sinistrari of Ameno Introduction: Demoniality as a Distinct Sin The seventeenth-century treatise Demoniality; or, Incubi and Succubi occupies a curious position in...
This article by Benjamin Adamah proposes the Kabbalistic concept of Hafradáh—a condition of metaphysical and psychosocial separation—to describe a long civilizational trajectory in which the human relationship with nature, embodiment, and immanence becomes progressively...
UFO sightings and strange aerial phenomena are global and span all ages. Several unusual events occurred in the 16th and 17th centuries, and one of them—the Stralsund event of 1665—was especially well documented by...
In an era saturated with online conspiracy theories about “Illuminati control” and “Freemason world domination,” it is refreshing to rediscover a work grounded in serious historical inquiry. Mysteria: History of the Secret Doctrines and...
Ben je op zoek naar een unieke spirituele ervaring (en dan een beetje anders dan anders), dan mag je Steelhenge niet missen! Ja, ik weet, het is winters en een beetje fris, maar dat...
Introduction Among the most enigmatic and enduring ideas in Jewish religious thought is the tradition of the Lamed Waw Tzadikim (ל״ו צדיקים), literally “the thirty-six righteous ones.” According to this belief, the world is...
Cardea (also called Carda) was an ancient Roman goddess associated primarily with the hinge (cardo), a crucial architectural and symbolic element in Roman culture. Hinges governed the movement of doors, and by extension Cardea...
