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SURRENDERING ALL BUT HER HEART
Tatty left Angelo five years ago, although she loved him dearly. She felt she was unfit to marry Angelo because of a tragic event, for which she blames herself. Just when she is getting over the pain, she has to go see Angelo to deal with the mess her brother Lachlan made at one of Angelo’s hotels. She knows Angelo will be bitter toward her after the lie she told when breaking up with him, but never did she expect that she would have to marry Angelo to take responsibility for her brother’s actions!
Cursed Britain
The definitive history of how witchcraft and black magic have survived, through the modern era and into the present day Cursed Britain unveils the enduring power of witchcraft, curses and black magic in modern times. Few topics are so secretive or controversial. Yet, whether in the 1800s or the early 2000s, when disasters struck or personal misfortunes mounted, many Britons found themselves believing in things they had previously dismissed - dark supernatural forces. Historian Thomas Waters here explores the lives of cursed or bewitched people, along with the witches and witch-busters who helped and harmed them. Waters takes us on a fascinating journey from Scottish islands to the folklore-r...
Magic and Witchery in the Modern West
This book marks twenty years since the publication of Professor Ronald Hutton’s The Triumph of the Moon, a major contribution to the historical study of Wicca. Building on and celebrating Hutton’s pioneering work, the chapters in this volume explore a range of modern magical, occult, and Pagan groups active in Western nations. Each contributor is a specialist in the study of modern Paganism and occultism, although differ in their embrace of historical, anthropological, and psychological perspectives. Chapters examine not only the history of Wicca, the largest and best-known form of modern Paganism, but also modern Pagan environmentalist and anti-nuclear activism, the Pagan interpretation of fairy folklore, and the contemporary ‘Traditional Witchcraft’ phenomenon.
The Materiality of Magic
The subject of ‘magic’ has long been considered peripheral and sensationalist, the word itself having become something of an academic taboo. However, beliefs in magic and the rituals that surround them are extensive – as are their material manifestations – and to avoid them is to ignore a prevalent aspect of cultures worldwide, from prehistory to the present day. The Materiality of Magic addresses the value of the material record as a resource in investigations into magic, ritual practices, and popular beliefs. The chronological and geographic focuses of the papers presented here vary from prehistory to the present-day, including numinous interpretations of fossils and ritual deposit...
"An Unusual Inquisition"
An Unusual Inquisition contains the translations of a number of documents illustrating the witch hunting career of Henricus Institoris, the main author of the Malleus Maleficarum.
Secretos en el corazón
Tal vez las expertas caricias de él le procurasen un placer inmenso, pero jamás se ganaría su corazón de hielo... La primera vez que Angelo Bellandini le había hablado de matrimonio, Natalie Armitage le había rechazado. Habían tenido una apasionada aventura, pero ella había aprendido a cerrar su corazón desde niña y la idea de abrirlo a alguien la había hecho huir. Cinco años después, tenía que enfrentarse a la segunda propuesta matrimonial de Angelo, pero lo que ardía en los ojos de este era el fuego de la venganza, no de la pasión. Natalie debía aceptar casarse para proteger a su familia, pero no iba a convertirse en una esposa dócil.
Building Magic
This book redresses popular interpretations of concealed objects, enigmatically discovered within the fabric of post-medieval buildings. A wide variety of objects have been found up chimneybreasts, bricked up in walls, and concealed within recesses: old shoes, mummified cats, horse skulls, pierced hearts, to name only some. The most common approach to these finds is to apply a one-size-fits-all analysis and label them survivals and apotropaic (evil-averting) devices. This book reconsiders such interpretations, exploring the invention and reinvention of traditions regarding building magic. The title Building Magic therefore refers to more than practices that alter the fabric of buildings, but also to processes of building magic into our interpretations of the enigmatic material evidence and into our engagements with the buildings we inhabit and frequent.
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The Archaeology of Magic
In this book, C. Riley Augé provides a trailblazing archaeological study of magical practice and its relationship to gender in the Anglo-American culture of colonial New England.
Troubled by Faith
The nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary scientific innovation, but with the rise of psychiatry, faiths and popular beliefs were often seen as signs of a diseased mind. By exploring the beliefs of asylum patients, we see the nineteenth century in a new light, with science, faith, and the supernatural deeply entangled in a fast-changing world. The birth of psychiatry in the early nineteenth-century fundamentally changed how madness was categorised and understood. A century on, their conceptions of mental illness continue to influence our views today. Beliefs and behaviour were divided up into the pathological and the healthy. The influence of religion and the supernatural became sig...
