{"product_id":"the-witches-almanac-by-charles-christian-9781578597604","title":"The Witches Almanac","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReal Witches. Real Lives. Real Magic. Real History.\u003c\/b\u003e Take a magical tour through the lives and times of 359 of the most important sorcerers and witches throughout history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMeet the troublemakers and rebels who pushed for change in \u003ci\u003eThe Witches Almanac: Sorcerers, Witches, and Magic from Ancient Rome to the Digital Age\u003c\/i\u003e. You'll be introduced to the history, persecutions, conjurings, and magic of some of history's most consequential witches, sorcerers, wizards, and mavericks, including:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCirce, Medea, Hermes Trismegistus, the Chaldean Magi, and other Ancient Roman and Classical Greek witches\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMerlin, Morgana le Fey, Nimue, the 10 Queens of Avalon, and sorcery and witchcraft in the Arthurian legends\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSan Cipriano, the obscure 4th century bishop whose influence today still plays an important role in folk magic and Hoodoo practices\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBaba Yaga, Joan of Arc, Gilles de Rais, Alice Kyteller, Lord Soulis, Michael Scott, the Golem of Prague, and medieval witchcraft\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eKing Henry VI, Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII, Catherine de Medici, John Dee, Queen Elizabeth, and witchcraft in the British royal court\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eIsobel Gowdie, illusive Scottish witch whose voluntary confessions provided the template for traditional witchcraft beliefs\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eIsaac Newton, Friar Roger Bacon, Nicholas Flamel, Paracelsus, Cornelius Agrippa, Robert Boyle, and other alchemists\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe Burning Times of the late 16th to early 18th centuries\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe Berwick witch trial\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe Salem witch trial\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAleister Crowley, W. B. Yeats, MacGregor Mathers, Eliphas Levi, the Golden Dawn, Thelema and ritual magic, and the rise of esoteric movements of the 19th and early 20th centuries\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eJack Parsons, described as the \"Jet-Propelled Antichrist\" whose life of sex, rockets, and magic ended prematurely in a mysterious explosion\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eGerald Gardner, Old Dorothy Clutterbuck, Alex Sanders, Robert Cochrane, Raymond Buckland, Lady Sheba, Marjorie Cameron, and others in the modern Wicca and witchcraft movement\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAnd much more!!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou'll get a deeper understanding of the obscure history of witches with this enchanting and bewitching tome! \u003ci\u003eThe Witches Almanac\u003c\/i\u003e brings you their rich histories and extraordinary biographies, plus it includes a helpful bibliography, an extensive index, and numerous photos, adding to its usefulness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461682577644,"sku":"9781578597604","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781578597604-the-witches-almanac.jpg?v=1774974893","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-witches-almanac-by-charles-christian-9781578597604","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}