The Witches Almanac

<p><b>Real Witches. Real Lives. Real Magic. Real History. Take a magical tour through the lives and times of 359 of the most important sorcerers and witches throughout history.</b></p><p></p><p>For millennia there's been a fascination and a fear of people possibly wielding magical powers and a stigma surrounding practitioners of ancient rituals and practices. Yet in the last 70 years witchcraft as well as Wicca have gone from taboo beliefs pursued by a handful of eccentrics and misfits to major global spiritual movements. Meet the troublemakers and rebels who pushed for change in <i><b>The Witches Almanac: Sorcerers Witches and Magic from Ancient Rome to the Digital Age</b></i>. You’ll be introduced to the history persecutions conjurings and magic of some of history’s most consequential witches sorcerers wizards and mavericks including … </p><p></p><p></p><ul><li><i>Circe</i> <i>Medea</i> <i>Hermes Trismegistus</i> <i>the Chaldean Magi</i> and other Ancient Roman and Classical Greek witches</li><li><i>Merlin</i> <i>Morgana le Fey</i> <i>Nimue</i> <i>the 10 Queens of Avalon</i> and sorcery and witchcraft in the Arthurian legends</li><li><i>San Cipriano</i> the obscure 4th century bishop whose influence today still plays an important role in folk magic and Hoodoo practices</li><li><i>Baba Yaga</i> <i>Joan of Arc</i> <i>Gilles de Rais</i> <i>Alice Kyteller</i> <i>Lord Soulis</i> <i>Michael Scott</i> <i>the Golem of Prague</i> and medieval witchcraft</li><li><i>King Henry VI</i> <i>Anne Boleyn</i> <i>King Henry VIII</i> <i>Catherine de Medici</i> <i>John Dee</i> <i>Queen Elizabeth</i> and witchcraft in the British royal court</li><li><i>Isobel Gowdie</i> illusive Scottish witch whose voluntary confessions provided the template for traditional witchcraft beliefs</li><li><i>Isaac Newton</i> <i>Friar Roger Bacon</i> <i>Nicholas Flamel</i> <i>Paracelsus</i> <i>Cornelius Agrippa</i> <i>Robert Boyle</i> and other alchemists</li><li>The Burning Times of the late 16th to early 18th centuries</li><li>The Berwick witch trial</li><li>The Salem witch trial</li><li><i>Aleister Crowley</i> <i>W. B. Yeats</i> <i>MacGregor Mathers</i> <i>Eliphas Levi</i> the Golden Dawn Thelema and ritual magic and the rise of esoteric movements of the 19th and early 20th centuries</li><li><i>Jack Parsons</i> described as the Jet-Propelled Antichrist whose life of sex rockets and magic ended prematurely in a mysterious explosion</li><li><i>Gerald Gardner</i> <i>Old Dorothy Clutterbuck</i> <i>Alex Sanders</i> <i>Robert Cochrane</i> <i>Raymond Buckland</i> <i>Lady Sheba</i> <i>Marjorie Cameron</i> and others in the modern Wicca and witchcraft movement</li><li>And much more!!</li></ul><p></p><p><br></p><p>You’ll get a deeper understanding of the obscure history of witches with this enchanting and bewitching tome! <b><i>The Witches Almanac</i></b> brings you their rich histories and extraordinary biographies plus it includes a helpful bibliography an extensive index and numerous photos adding to its usefulness.</p>