English Folktales / Folklore / Folktales / Witchcraft
by Ian · Published July 22, 2015 · Last modified December 9, 2018
The following account of the story is extracted from‘Legends Superstitions of the County of Durham’ by William Brockie (1886). ‘It is far from uncommon, in Sunderland, Shields, Durham, Hartlepool, and other towns and villages, for mothers whose children are not thriving to think them bewitched.
The following account of the story is extracted from ‘Legends Superstitions of the County of Durham’ by William Brockie (1886). ‘The Rev. H. B.
English Fairies / Fairies / Folklore / Irish Fairies / Manx Fairies / Occult / Occult Traditions / Scottish Fairies / Welsh Fairies / Witchcraft
by Ian · Published July 28, 2014 · Last modified January 1, 2019
Our modern conventions tend to view the realms of fairies and witches separately. Witches have been viewed as evil, while fairies are seen as benevolent, cute, and kind. As scholars reevaluate witch trials and the confessions of those accused, we are coming to new conclusions on accused witches.
Book Review / Occult / Occult Traditions / Review / Witchcraft
by Ian · Published July 26, 2014 · Last modified October 13, 2018
For over five hundred years witches, male and female, practised magic for harm and good in their communities. Most witches worked locally, used by their neighbours to cure illness, create love, or gratify personal spite against another.
English Folktales / Folklore / Folktales / Witchcraft
by Ian · Published April 24, 2014 · Last modified December 29, 2018
Below is the story of Betty Chidley, originally published in Miss C. S. Burne’s ‘Shropshire Folk-Lore’ and then again in ‘English Fairy and Other Folk Tales’ by Edwin Sidney Hartland [1890].
Black Dogs / Hauntings / Occult / Occult Traditions / Witchcraft
by Ian · Published April 6, 2014 · Last modified December 30, 2018
The following story from ‘English Fairy and Other Folk Tales (1890)’ by Edwin Sidney Hartland concerns a Black Dog that haunted the site of a gibbet in which the body of a witch killer was displayed.
Book Review / Occult / Occult Traditions / Review / Witchcraft
by Ian · Published March 11, 2014 · Last modified October 14, 2018
We no longer believe in witches as our ancestors once did. However, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, any unforeseen or unexplained events were likely to be attributed to witchcraft.
Apparitions / Hauntings / Occult / Occult Traditions / Witchcraft
by Ian · Published February 9, 2014 · Last modified December 18, 2018
According to an article by Oliver Norton in the Daily Mail on 7 February 2014, part of the home of the occultist Thomas Weir still survives.
Occult / Occult Biographies / Occult Traditions / Spiritualism
by Ian · Published August 23, 2013 · Last modified November 19, 2018
Joanna Southcott was born in April 1750 in Taleford, and raised in the village of Gittisham in Devon, England.
Articles / Golden Dawn / Occult / Occult Biographies / Occult Traditions / Spiritualism
by Ian · Published August 23, 2013 · Last modified November 19, 2018
In 1881 Frank Podmore met Edward Pease, a young stockbroker, at a Spiritualist meeting in London. They discovered a mutual interest in socialism, and joined the Progressive Association, founded in November 1882. They took a keen interest in the utopian philosophy of Thomas Davidson, and with a few others formed a society, the Fellowship of the New Life.
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