Recently added articles from Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft:
Witch-crafting in Roman literature and art: new thoughts on an old image.(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Historians intrigued by the relationship between representations and realia of Greco-Roman women and witchcraft are faced with a question that is surprisingly difficult to answer: are witches depicted in Greco-Roman art and if so how would we recognize them? Well known are the depictions ...
To condemn a king: the dream of Bernat Metge and King Joan's ties with the occult.(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... On May 19, 1396, while in hot pursuit of a stag in the woods that bordered the city of Gerona, the count-king of the Crown of Aragon, Joan I, suffered a grievous accident. He lost his grip on his horse, fell, and landed hard upon the ground. Not long afterward, the monarch slipped into a ...
Astral magic in the Renaissance: gems, poetry, and patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici.(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... LORENZO'S RING Florentine coppersmith Bartolomeo Masi recorded in his diary in April 1492 that as Lorenzo de' Medici lay dying, a violent storm damaged the Duomo's bell tower and buildings in the Palazzo Medici neighborhood. The storm was caused by the release of a demon that ...
Michael D. Bailey. Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the Present.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... MICHAEL D. BAILEY. Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the Present. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007. Pp. x + 274. Michael D. Bailey's Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the Present successfully ...
Helen A. Berger and Douglas Ezzy. Teenage Witches: Magical Youth and the Search for the Self.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... HELEN A. BERGER AND DOUGLAS EZZY. Teenage Witches: Magical Youth and the Search for the Self. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii + 278. This is a study of a relatively new phenomenon: the rise of the teenage witch since the 1990s. Berger and Ezzy have ...