🧙🏻‍♀️Traditions & Folklores🧹 Cette saison 5, dans Une année en Magie, nous partons à la découvertes des traditions et des folklores d’ici et d’ailleurs qui ont forgé notre magie, et ont fait d’elle la mosaïque de croyances, d’ésotérismes et de pratiques qu’elle est aujourd’hui. Parce qu’il est important de savoir d’où l’on vient pour savoir où l’on va, nous allons aller encore plus loin dans notre étude de l’Histoire, des célébrations humaines, des panthéons et des anciens rites et sortilèges, toujours dans l’idée de construire une pratique qui vous ressemble, à vous, et à personne d’autre 🌿 ⭐️On se retrouve dès le 3 Février pour le premier numéro, sur Patreon !⭐️ #uneanneeenmagie #uaem #patreon #patreoncreator #witch #witchcraft #traditionalwitchcraft #traditions #history #folklore #claudelecouteux #broomstick #witchbroom #historyofwitchcraft #witchcrafthistory #esoterism #occult #occultism #study #pagan #paganism #polytheism #roots #magic #magicspell #spellcraft #witchspells #witchery #practicalmagic #everydaywitch 📚 Superstitions & Croyances des pays de France (Marie-Charlotte Delmas), Fées, Sorcières et Loups-Garous au Moyen-Âge (Claude Lecouteux) https://www.instagram.com/p/CneL6EHtqDw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

19th September 1692, Salem resident Giles Cory refuses to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty being accused of being a Wizard, after his wife was accused of Witchcraft. Due to the proceeding of the law in 17th century New England, without a plea the Witchcraft court of Oyer and Terminer could not proceed with a trial, and the action was taken to proceed with ‘Peine Forte Et Dure’ or pressing under stones to force a plea; the only time this form of turture was ever used in American history. After two days of rocks and boulders being piled up on top of boards which covered the naked 80 year old Giles Corey, he finally died, all the time refusing to plead. His last words were recorded as either “More rocks.” orr, "Damn you. I curse you and Salem!" Three days later, his wife Martha Cory alongside Margaret Scott, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Willmott Redd, Samuel Wardwell, and Mary Parker are hanged upon the charges of Witchcraft. The last people to be executed during the Salem Witch Trials. As well as the ghosts of those executed recorded as being seen after their death, such as the ghost of Mary Easty who proclaimed their innocence to Mary Herrick of Wenham, MA on the 22nd of September, the same day the last victims of the trials were executed; some Salem legends also proclaim the sightings as a curse. One legend states that Giles Corey’s ghost is seen before a disaster is about to strike Salem. His ghost was reputedly seen the night before the ‘Great Fire’ of 1914, in which large areas of the city were destroyed. The position of Sheriff of Essex County, also was said to have been cursed, due to the involvement of (continued in the comments). #darkillustration #darkillustrations #witchcrafthistory #witchhistory #17thcentury #17thcenturyart #superstitions #folklore #strangehistory #witchtrials #witchfindergeneral #witchartist #morbidhistory #witchtrials1692 #historyofwitchcraft #witchpersecution #salemmassachusetts #salemwitch #salemwitchtrials #witchcraft #witchcrafttrials #historyofwitches #newenglandhistory #newenglandwitch #newenglandwitches #colonialnewengland #witchesofnewengland #newengland #witchcraftaesthetic #16thcenturyhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CUNdnOVFBsu/?utm_medium=tumblr

October 9th 1562, death of Catholic priest, Italian anatomist, namesake of the Fallopian tubes, and pioneer of condom use to prohibit sexually transmitted diseases, Gabriel Fallopius; one of the most important figures in medicine and anatomy in the sixteenth century, despite his death on this day aged only 39. Fallopius inherited and continued the anatomical work begun in Padua, Italy by his predecessor Vesalius, the pioneer of modern anatomical study, and author of ‘De humani corporis fabrica’ (On the Fabric of the Human Body), published in 1543. Vesalius it was noted last week died on the 2nd of October 1564, by the effects of a shipwreck, on his way to the Holy Land in mysterious circumstances, accused by his detractors of performing an autopsy on a living person, and fleeing from the Inquisition. As a young man Vesalius had been taught by Dutch physician, mathematician, cartographer, philosopher, and instrument maker Gemma Frisius, who also taught the Welsh astronomer, astrologer and occult philosopher John Dee. As head of anatomy at the University of Padua, Fallopius taught Hieronymus Fabricius, known as the "The Father of Embryology”. In 1594, Fabricius designed the first theatre for public anatomical dissections, and also designed an orthopedic exoskeleton he called the ‘Oplomoclion’. Fabricius would himself teach the English physician William Harvey, the first known physician to completely map systemic circulation, and describe in detail the properties of blood pumped to the brain and the rest of the body by the heart. Theories he would publish in 1628 as ‘De Motu Cordis’. Harvey also from 1618 was 'Physician Extraordinary' to King James I. In keeping with the monarch’s paranoia (Continued in the comments). #darkillustration #darkillustrations #witchcrafthistory #witchhistory #16thcentury #17thcentury #17thcenturyart #historyofscience #superstitions #folklore #strangehistory #historyofphilosophy #williamharvey #witchtrials #jamesi #witchfindergeneral #pendlewitches #folklore #witchartist #morbidhistory #anatomical #anatomicalart #historyofanatomy #scientificrevolution #fallopian #sciencehistory #anatomy #anatomytheatre #physician #sciences https://www.instagram.com/p/CUxhYvllQed/?utm_medium=tumblr

Witches and Cyriptids on the Moone! 🌝 Scientific Dichotomies 1571 - 1835 A tale in three Parts. 📚 Part I 📖 🔭 23rd December, 1672 Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn. On the same day in 1690 English astronomer John Flamsteed observes Uranus without realizing it was at that point still undiscovered. The discovery would later be credited to Sir William Herschel on March 13th, 1781, William Herschel believed that life existed on other planets, and in 1778 wrote that he had observed lunar towns. The idea however that life existed on the moon, or on these newly discovered planets was already by Herschel time an old idea. On the night of the 26th July 1609, English astronomer, mathematician, and ethnographer, Thomas Harriot made the first map of the moon, followed by Galileo’s map four months later, and Italian astronomer Geminiano Montanari 1662 map. At this same time in the late 1620’s, English bishop Francis Godwin, writing under the pseudonym of Domingo Gonsales, wrote what is considered as the first science fiction novel ‘The Man in the Moone’. The story describes Gonsales’ twelve day journey to the moon, using a flying machine tethered to a species of powerful swans he calls the ‘gansa 🦢 . On the surface he encounters the Lunars, inhabiting a utopian paradise. 🎈 The 18th and 19th century saw an increase in folklore and scientific speculation, including the possibility of life on other planets, aided by the first accessions of balloons, the first experiments with flight; and with men and woman leaving the earth’s surface for the first time, William Blake mocked the balloon fascination in his unfinished “An Island in the Moon” written in 1784. 📖 Part II & III in the comments. #historyofastronomy #williamherschel #issacnewton #johanneskepler #historyofscience #greatmoonhoax #illustration #illustrationartist #darkillustration #strangehistory #weirdhistory #themaninthemoon #scientificrevolution #witchcrafthistory #witchart #balloonartist #lifeonthemoon #edgarallenpoeart #edgarallenpoe #historicalillustration #interestingfinds #interestingart #cryptids #cryptidsighting #johnherschel #ballonmania https://www.instagram.com/p/CJTo5KmHvFp/?igshid=19yismmj2h1t7

19th July 1692, Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, Sarah Good and Sarah Wildes, are hanged at Gallows Hill, Salem as part of the Salem Witch Trials. Between February 1692 and May 1693, more than two hundred people would be accused, with thirty being found guilty, nineteen of whom were hanged, and Giles Corey who refused to plead was pressed to death by large stones. The Salem Witch Trials are now known to history as the largest case in Colonial America of mass hysteria. Art shown is available on the website, www.ofgraveconcern.com/witchcraftandmagic You are invited to follow @ofgrave.concern for more tales of the gothic, strange and macabre. #darkillustration #darkillustrations #witchcrafthistory #witchhistory #17thcentury #17thcenturyart #superstitions #folklore #strangehistory #witchtrials #witchfindergeneral #witchartist #morbidhistory #witchtrials1692 #historyofwitchcraft #witchpersecution #salemmassachusetts #salemwitch #salemwitchtrials #witchcraft #witchcrafttrials #historyofwitches #newenglandhistory #newenglandwitch #newenglandwitches #colonialnewengland #witchesofnewengland #newengland #witchcraftaesthetic #16thcenturyhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CRhAUguFY4j/?utm_medium=tumblr

19th June 1603, German women Merga Bien arrested for witchcraft in Fulda, Germany, part of Fulda witch trials. One of the four major witch trials in German history, alongside the Trier, Würzburg, and Bamberg witch trials. Placed in jail she was forced to admit to killing her second husband and their children, alongside intercourse with the Devil, which her current pregnancy at the time of her arrest, was considered the result of. Found guilty she was burned alive at the stake in Fulda in the autumn of 1603. The Fulda Witchtrials also claimed the lives of a further 249 people. 19th June 1656, wealthy widow Ann Hibbins is executed by hanging for witchcraft in Boston, Massachusetts. Her death was the third hanging for witchcraft in Boston history, with the first two being Margaret Jones, of Charlestown in 1648, and Goodwife Kendall, of Cambridge in 1650. Hibbins was later fictionalized in ‘The Scarlet Letter’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The main character Hester Prynne, frequently meets a witch named Mistress Hibbins. All art shown is for sale at: www.ofgraveconcern.com/witchcraftandmagic You are invited to follow @ofgrave.concern for more tales of the gothic, strange and macabre. #darkillustration #darkillustrations #witchcrafthistory #witchhistory #17thcentury #17thcenturyart #superstitions #folklore #strangehistory #witchtrials #witchfindergeneral #folklore #witchartist #morbidhistory #witchtrials1692 #historyofwitchcraft #witchpersecution #salemmassachusetts #salemwitch #salemwitchtrials #witchcraft #witchcrafttrials #historyofwitches #newenglandhistory #newenglandwitch #newenglandwitches #colonialnewengland #witchesofnewengland #newengland #fulda https://www.instagram.com/p/CQRK7yqHlC0/?utm_medium=tumblr

June 9th 1628, colonist Thomas Morton, founder of the colony of Merrymount, (Modern day Quincy, MA), is marooned by the Puritans of Plymouth on the deserted Isles of Shoals, off the coast of New Hampshire; accused of reviving pagan customs including a maypole at Merrymount, and invoking Pagan songs to Neptune, Triton, and Venus. Morton’s colony was attacked by the Puritan militia under Myles Standish, who arrested Morton, and chopped down the Maypole. Morton managed to escape back to England, where he successfully sued the Massachusetts Bay Company. This led in 1635, to the revoking of the company's Royal charter. June 10th 1692, Bridget Bishop, is hanged for witchcraft as the first victim of the Salem witch trials. Her trial was recorded by Puritan minister Cotton Mather in his work "The Wonders of the Invisible World." In the book, Mather records that several people testified against Bishop, stating that her shape would pinch, choke or bite them. The shape also threatened to drown one victim if she did not write her name in a certain book. During the trial, anytime Bishop would look upon one of those supposed to be tortured by her, they would be immediately struck down and only her touch would revive them. More allegations were made during the trial including that of a woman saying that the apparition of Bishop tore her coat, upon further examination her coat was found to be torn in the exact spot. Following the hanging Judge Nathaniel Saltonstall resigned from the court, and was replaced with Jonathan Corwin, whose house built between 1620 and 1642, ironically now known at the ‘Witch House’; still stands today in Salem, (continued in the comments) #darkillustration #darkillustrations #witchcrafthistory #witchhistory #17thcentury #17thcenturyart #superstitions #folklore #strangehistory #witchtrials #pendlewitches #witchartist #witchtrial #witchtrials1692 #historyofwitchcraft #witchpersecution #salemmassachusetts #salemwitch #salemwitchtrials #witchcraft #witchcrafttrials #historyofwitches #colonialhistory #newenglandhistory #newenglandwitch #newenglandwitches #massachusettshistory #colonialnewengland #witchesofnewengland #newengland https://www.instagram.com/p/CP8h3tBHwdz/?utm_medium=tumblr

So, a big part of what informs my craft is the history of it. As a result I have become quite the witchcraft history buff.  I like to know where it’s come from and track the journey of witchcraft to the modern day, and this history also informs my craft. I practice in a pretty similar way to olde world cunning-folk. I don’t take money from people if they come for my help, I barter and trade. I work closely with the elements and ingredients around me and I go to people, rather than have them come to me.  Any way, one of the ways I learn about these things is through podcasts. And if you want a really in-depth podcast on a major event in the history of witchcraft, Salem, Unobscured is probably the best.  It’s available on all major podcast catchers, my favourite is castbox and I highly recommend it.