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If this is a real billboard already, the Tories are absolutely done and Sunak is absolutely finished.
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The Bath of Venus (1898-1904, oil on canvas) | Charles Shannon
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Two Elves by John Quincy Adams (Late 19th - Early 20th Century)
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Evening Mood by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1882)
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The Witches by Hans Baldung (1510)
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Daniele Accossato (1987-)
Kidnapped Love, 2015
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If you’re curious about Europe’s witch hunts and what Europeans believed about witches in general, Dr. Justin Sledge has an amazing set of videos on this topic: Witchcraft - The Witch Flight to the Sabbat - From Inquisitional Myth to Psychedelic Flying Ointment
Demonology and Demonologists - Scholastics and Inquisitors - Foundations of the Witch Trials Witches Witch-Hunting and Magic in Early-Modern Europe (FIA Lecture) The Witch Trials and the Rise of Modernity and Capitalism - Sylvia Federici - Caliban and the Witch These are all great videos, and I recommend them because they go into depth that’s hard to find elsewhere. If the history of magic and witchcraft interests you, these will not disappoint!
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JSTOR Articles on the History of Witchcraft, Witch Trials, and Folk Magic Beliefs
This is a partial of of articles on these subjects that can be found in the JSTOR archives. This is not exhaustive - this is just the portion I've saved for my own studies (I've read and referenced about a third of them so far) and I encourage readers and researchers to do their own digging. I recommend the articles by Ronald Hutton, Owen Davies, Mary Beth Norton, Malcolm Gaskill, Michael D. Bailey, and Willem de Blecourt as a place to start.
If you don't have personal access to JSTOR, you may be able to access the archive through your local library, university, museum, or historical society.
Full text list of titles below the cut:
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Worldcat is my bestie and my one true love!! Not only does it tell you what library a book is at, but it also price compares different used book sites against each other for easy view! It's how I got Tarot For the Master for $10!!
Oh, and since I have your attention: z-library (books and textbooks) and sci-hub (gatekept scientific journal articles.) I just ripped a textbook for class off z-library and snatched a required reading from sci-hub. Life is good and education should be accessible at every stage and station of life.
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Leonid Meteor Storm, as seen over N. America 188 yrs ago #onthisday on the night of Nov 12-13th, 1833, pictured in E. Weiß’s Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt (1888).⠀ ⠀ More meteors (and comets) in our post “Flowers of the Sky” — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/flowers-of-the-sky #otd
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The Tinkerbell Effect refers to things that only exist because people believe in them- like taking a placebo pill and feeling better because you’ve convinced yourself it was real medicine.
There’s also a Reverse Tinkerbell Effect, where the more you believe in something the more it’s bound to vanish - like being so convinced it’s safe to drive that cars actually become more dangerous because your illusion of safety causes you to drive with less caution.
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Entrance Atrium to the Villa San Marco in Castellammare di Stabia, in the background you can see the Sacellum (sacred enclosure).
Photo by Silvia Vacca
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A 2000 years old Roman road sign pointing the way to a brothel. https://www.instagram.com/p/CaiIpVlKDaIkm2f7p72jRTn8K_PqLC40VPV-Hw0/?utm_medium=tumblr
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Sigillum Dei, Wax Disks is an #Esoteric wax artwork created by John Dee in 1582. It lives at the The British Museum in London
These wax disks were created by the scientist and magician John Dee, to act as the anchors for his Holy Table — a platform designed for divination and contacting angelic beings. On top of the Holy Table sat an obsidian mirror for scrying, and these wax seals were placed under each leg of the table.
Inscribed on each disk is the Sigillum Dei, or the Sigil of God, composed of two circles, a pentagram, and three heptagons. The heptagram contains the names of the seven archangels: Cafziel, Satquiel, Amael, Raphael, Anael, Michael, Gabriel — and around the edge of the seal is the 'full name of God' — 72 latin letters:
h, t, o, e, x, o, r, a, b, a, s, la, y, q, c, i, y, s, t, a, l, g, a, a, o, n, o, s, v, l, a, r, y, c, e, k, s, p, f, y, o, m, e, n, e, a, u, a, r, e, l, a, t, e, d, a, t, o, n, o, n, a, o, y, l, e, p, o, t, m, a
The Sigillum Dei predates John Dee, who discovered it while compiling his massive library of esoteric and scientific manuscripts. The earliest known use of the Sigillum is in the The Sworn Book of Honorius, a medieval grimoire dating to before 1347 — a copy of which is thought to have been owned by Dee.
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The kiss sculpture in Vienna Central cemetery.
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Soviet Bus Stops | Christopher Herwig