General information about Curse Tablets has been gathered from Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds by Daniel Ogden, specifically his chapter “Curses.” This essay focuses on the curse tablets of Ancient Greece in the Classical and Hellenistic period. Buried across what was Ancient Greece are curse tablets, or binding spells (in ...
My friend was 29 when she found out she had cancer. It had started in her pancreas and quickly spread everywhere: liver, lungs, lymph nodes, and womb. Like almost anyone sentenced to death at 29, she looked around desperately for some promise of hope. That promise came in the form of tong ren–a form of ...
Voodoo is perhaps one of the more famous pagan religions in North America. A mixture of African tribal shamanism and the Catholic beliefs that were forced on the slaves when they came to Haiti, Voodoo has grown and spread over a large portion of the Caribbean and has made its way up into America. Voodoo ...
There are basically three different types of White Elephant Gift Parties, so I’ll take each type (and recommended gifts) one at a time. The best part about this is that you can obtain almost all of these gift ideas at Amazon.com (if you want to plan ahead that far) or from local convenience or grocery ...
Back in the eighties and nineties when shoulder pads were in style, I almost always removed them from the insides of my blouses and tops. Maybe shoulder pads looked good on a tall skinny model, but I didn’t need to look like a broad-shouldered football player in my stylish shirts. Besides, even the shoulder pads ...
There has been very few critical attention paid to North-American writer Shirley Jackson. The first book-length study on her life and works was published long ten years after her death, in 1975. It is Lenemaja Friedman’s Shirley Jackson, a still important and useful work despite the fact it does not mention witchcraft nor anything related ...
I remember when I first got hold of book by Dean Koontz. Being an avid Stephan King fan I passed immediate judgment by calling this author an SK Wannabe. However as I read the book, I grew to not like his style after just a few pages and I ended up closing it up, vowing ...