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Index
1734 Tradition, 134
Abramelin, 91, 138
aconite, 26
acupuncture, 75
Acropolis, 18
Actaeon, 24
Ad Extirpanda (Innocent IV), 69
Adam, 72
Aden, 95
Adherents.com, 168
Adler, Margot, 121, 157, 159, 161, 169, 175, 198-9
Aeaea, 22
Aeëtes, 22, 25, 27
Aegeus, 29
Aegina, 19
Aeson, 29
Aestyan, 34
Agobard, 63, 64
Alan of Lille, 68
Albigenses, 68
Alcamenes, 19
alchemy, 85, 93
Alcis, 34
Alex Sanders Lectures, The (Sanders), 140
Alexander IV, 69
Alexandria, 57
Alexandrianism, 141, 143, 150, 190; see also Sanders, Alex
Alfred, King of Wessex, 64
Algard Wicca, 150
Allah, Crowley's views on, 97
alrunae, 39
Alsace, 81
Ancrya, Council of, 65
Anderson, Victor, 147-8
Andrews, Allen, 116
angel, Devil in the form of, 67; guardian, 195, 196, 197
Angerbode, 32, 43-4
Angles, 34
Anglesey, 38
animals, magical uses of, 27, 33, 37, 46, 48; sacrifice of, 9-10, 19, 24, 27, 38; transformation into, 22-5, 31, 48, 49, 50, 59, 73, 211; see also birds
animal magnetism, 197
Ankh-f-n-Khonsu, 95
anti-Catholicism, 87
Aphrodite, 28, 109
Apollo, 17; as Apollo Delphinios, 18
Apostles, 58
apostasy, 73
Apuleius, Lucius, 15
Aquarian Age, 210
Aquinas, St Thomas, 69
Aradia, 88-90, 174, 178, 187, 193
Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches (Leland), 88-9, 174
Ares, Field of, 27
Argo, 26, 28
Argonauts, 27, 28, 29
Argos, 18
Arianrhod, 109
Armstrong, Ann, 173
Arnkell, 47-8
Artemis, 109
Arthur, King, 172
Asia Minor, 16, 36
Asgard, 43
Astarte, 109
astral projection, 186
astrology, 62, 64, 85, 136, 216
astronomy, 36
Athame, 107, 108, 136, 149, 193
Athens, 18, 19, 29
Attica, 19
August, Eve of, 107; Gule of, 100
Augustine, St, of Canterbury, 59, 62
Augustine, St, of Hippo, 57-8
Auldearne, 173
Aurinia, 35
Australia, 169, 216
Austria, 81
Aviones, 34
Bacchanalia, 17
Bacchus, 17, 66
Balder, 172
Balfour, Alison, 76
Balkans, 36
Bamberg, Witch-house of, 76
Barbato, St, 64
Barbelognostics, 68
Bardon, Franz, 140
Bates, Selidy, 139
Bavaria, 81
Belgium, 169
Beltane, 139, 189; see also May Eve and Walpurgisnacht
Benevento, 89, 90
Berger, Helen A., 158, 164, 165, 169
Berhta (Berta), 52
Berlin, 86
Berne, 73
Berthold, 52
Besant-Scott, Mabel, 125
Beth, Rae, 199-200
Bexhill, 139
Bewitched (TV series), 165
Bibby, Mary, 137
Bible, 56, 58, 63, 64, 71, 72, 75, 105, 217
Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 91
birds, 35, 60; see also crows, eagles, falcons and owls
Black Mass, 100
Black Sea, 27
Blackwood, Algernon, 93
Blavatsky, Helene, 129, 137
blue, symbolism of, 46, 49, 136, 147
Blue Lodges, 113, 116
Blum, Ralph, 42
Bombo, 20
Book of the Law, The (Crowley), 110, 113, 196
Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, The (Mathers), 91
Book of Shadows, 106, 119, 121, 122, 126, 128, 137, 214
Boniface, St, 61
Boniface VIII, 70
Boston, 146
Boulak Museum, 95
Bourne, Nigel, 139, 168
Bournemouth, 126
Bovet, Richard, 105
Bracelin, Jack L., 116, 128
Bradford, 91
brahmin, 36, 199
bran, 21
Bride, 109
Brierley, Peter, 215
Brighton, 132
Britain, 36, 38, 42, 59, 70, 86, 137, 213; modern witchcraft in, 156-217 passim, 219; see also England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales
British Museum, 91
Brocken, 155
Bronze Age, 33, 41
broomsticks, 40, 49, 53, 77, 223
Buckland, Raymond, 144-6, 150
Buckland, Rosemary, 144, 145
Budapest, Zsusanna, 149-50
Buddha, Crowley's views on, 97
Building of the Pyramid ritual, 112, 113
bulls, 26, 59
Bunyan, John, 71
Burchard, Bishop of Worms, 65
Burley, 134
'Burning Times', 12
Butler, E.M., 58
cabbala, 91, 92; Gardner on, 114
Cabot, Laurie, 146-7
Caesar, Julius, 36, 38
Cain, 90
Cairo, 95
calendar, 34, 35, 36
California, 134, 136, 148, 170, 199
Calliope, 17
Cambridgeshire, 78
Canada, 97, 158, 169
Candlemas, 100
Canidia, 22
Canne, John, see Tannere, John
cannibalism, 67, 68
Canon Episcopi, 58, 65, 67, 69, 72, 100
Canterbury, 59
Capitulatio de partibus Saxioniae, 62
Caria, 16, 18
Carey, Archbishop Dr George, 215
Carpenter, Dennis, 122-3
Carthage, 57
Cassandra, 22
Cathars, 68
catharsis, 25
cats, 46, 49, 50, 53, 55, 68, 77, 148
cauchemar, see mara
cauldron, 27, 44, 53
Cauldron, The (magazine), 162
Cave of Bats, 173
'Celtic Twilight', 92, 210
Celts, 36
Ceremony of the 5º = 6? Grade of Adeptus Minor, 112
Ceremony of the Opening of the Veil, 110
Cernunnos, 178, 193
Cerridwen, 109
Cevennes, 155
Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 94, 116
Channel Islands, 170
Charge of the Goddess, the, 111, 127-8; see also Lift Up the Veil ritual
Charlemagne, 62, 63, 64
Charles II (Charles the Bald), 64
Charmed (TV series), 157, 165
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 199
Chelmsford, 78
Cheshire, 139, 141
chickens, 19
hens, 47
Chicago, 87
Childeric III, 60-1, 62, 63
China, 94, 217
Christianity, 87; crisis of, 214-7; Orthodox, 171; spread of, 39; witchcraft persecuted by, 33, 55-82 passim, 212
Christianization, 40, 55-6, 58-9; see also post-Christianization
Chrysotomus, Dio, 36
Chthonia, 17
Church and School of Wicca, 150
Circe, 11, 21, 22-5, 28, 30, 92, 211; etymology of, 22; parentage of, 22
circle, casting of, 107, 108, 113, 130, 193, 197
clairvoyance, 185, 217
Clan of Tubal Cain, 130-4 passim
Clarke, Jane, 80
Claudius, 38
Cleary, Bridget, 81
Clonmel, 81
Clovis, 39
Clutterbuck, Dorothy, ('Old'), 124, 126
Cnut, 99
'Coal Black Smith, The' (traditional), 131
Cochran, Tara, 145, 146
Cochrane, Robert, 121, 129, 130-4, 137, 150
Coeus, 17
Colchis, 27, 28
Colley, Thomas, 80
Colombo, 95
Columba, St, 59
Compost coven, 150
Concordance of Discordant Canons (Gratian), 65
Confessional of Egbert, The, 61
Confessions of Aleister Crowley, The (Crowley), 95
Consecration Ceremony of the Vault of the Adepti, 112
Constantine, 56
Corybantes, 19, 25
Council of Witchcraft Elders, 139
coven, 100, 109, 171-7 passim
Crow Haven Corner, 146
cows, 62
Craft, The (film), 177
crocus, Colchian, 26
crop-blasting, 62, 88
crossroads, 10, 16, 18, 19-20, 21
crows, 27, 37
Crowley, Aleister, 11-2, 93-8, 102, 117, 212-3; Gardner and, 104-5, 106, 108-14, 115, 118-20, 127; Leek and, 134, 136; on magic, 194-7, 202; Sanders and, 138; Valiente and, 129
Crowley, Rose, 94-6
Crowley, Vivianne, 158, 159, 161, 164, 165, 168-9
Crowther, Arnold, 118
Crowther, Patricia, 140-1
cunningmen, 85, 99
curses, 92, 204, 214; proscribed by law, 62; Requiem Mass used for, 60; as revolutionary, 88
Cybele, 178
Cyprus, 117
Dactyls, 21
Daemonolgie (James VI and I), 78, 105
Dafo (Woodley-Grimes), 117, 124-5, 126
Danube, 33
dead, communication with, 185, 186; spirits of the, 16, 18, 26, 48, 52, 216; the untimely, 19
death, Crowley's views on, 97; personification of, 43; ritual, 38, 198
Decretum (Burchard), 65
Dee, John, 85
degrees, 92, 107, 116
Demdike, Nick, 140
demons, copulation with, 39, 69, 73, 77
Denmark, 81
Devil, 131, 155, 178; iconography of, 66; magic an illusion of, 63, 66, 69; mark of, 75, 100, 101; Murray on, 99, 100, 105; pact with, 10, 30, 68, 69, 70, 72, 77, 78, 100, 101, 103, 126, 214; thirteen associated with, 172; as title of office, 174; women and, 65; worship of, 24, 67-70, 77, 86, 87, 99, 128, 175; see also Satan and Satanism
devils, see demons
Diana, 16, 24, 39, 40, 67, 88-90, 96, 109, 132, 178; witchcraft as cult of, 65, 99-100
Dianic Wicca, 149
Diary of a Witch (Leek), 136
Didyma, 18
Dione, 109
Dionysus, 19, 66, 86
Dipsias, 22
disenchantment, 217-9, 221, 222, 223
distaff, 40, 48, 49
divination, 34-5, 36, 41, 47, 48, 56, 60, 61, 63, 64
dogs, 16, 19, 20, 21, 69
Dominicans, 69
dragons, 25, 26, 27, 29, 49
Drawing Down the Moon ritual, 26, 107, 109, 110, 111, 127, 178, 187
dreams, 37, 64
Drifa, 51
drugs, use of, 25, 93, 133, 137, 141, 197
druids, 36-8, 85, 215; decline of, 38; etymology of, 36; mistletoe and, 36-8; outlawed by Romans, 38; role of, 36-7
drycraeft, 61
Dukakis, Michael, 147
Dumbshaf, 52
Dürer, Albrecht, 113
eagles, 37
Earth Spirit Festival, 190
East Anglia, 170
Easter, 100
Ecole pratique des hautes études (Sciences religieuses), 115
ecsomatic experience, 185-6
Eddas, 33, 52; Elder (Poetic), 33, 41; Younger, 33
Edgar, 99
Edinburgh, 91
Edmund, Earl of Kent, 70
Edward II, 70
Edward III, 172
Edward VI, 76
Egbert, 61
eggs, 19, 37
Egypt, 15, 36, 98, 141; gods of, 95, 96, 112, 138, 185; Crowley in, 94-6
Einodia, as title of Hecate, 16, 17; Thessalian goddess called, 18
Eiriks Saga Rauða, 46
Eko, Eko, Azarak, 127, 128
Elbe, 64
Eleusis, 18, 19
Eliade, Mircea, 167, 168
Elizabeth I, 76, 85
Ellida, 49-50
Elliot, T.S., 41
England, 39, 59, 64, 76-7, 80, 81, 95, 99, 101, 117, 124, 126, 130, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 139, 141, 143, 173; Church of, 214-5; Civil War in, 78; Golden Dawn in, 91, 94; modern Witchcraft in, 170-1; witchcraft surviving in, 104, 106, 127
Enlightenment, the, 80, 212
Ephesos, 19
Ephesian Letters, 20
Epipurgidia, 19
Equinox, The (Crowley), 117, 118, 119
Ereschigal, 20-1
ergi, 45, 53
Erichtho, 22, 40
Erick of the Windy Hat, 32
Erythai, 19
Essex, 78
Estonia, 59, 81
Ethelstan, 64
ethnicity, 163-4
Ethnographical Society, 115
Etruscan Roman Remains (Leland), 88
Eudoses, 34
Euripides, 30
Europe, northern, 32-54, 164, 211
Eurydice, 17
Eve, 72
evil, 9, 31, 39, 50, 56, 64, 72, 128, 155, 193, 211, 214, 223
Exeter, Duke of, 76
Exorcist, The (film), 145
Eyrbyggja Saga, 47
Faery Tradition, 148, 150
falcons, 22, 49
familiars, 75, 77, 214
Farr, Florence, 93
Farrar, Janet, 106, 109, 121, 167, 168
Farrar, Stewart, 106, 109, 121, 129, 143, 148, 167, 168
feasting, ritual use of, 24-5, 31, 70, 90, 100, 175, 211
February Eve, 107
Fellowship of Crotona, 113, 117, 119
feminism, 87-8, 149-50, 165-6, 213
Feminist Book of Lights and Shadows, The (Budapest), 149
fence-rail, 52, 53
Fenrer, 32, 39; see also Fenris
Fenris, 43, 44; see also Fenrer
fertility, witchcraft as cult of, 100, 103
Field, Arnold, 116
Filimer, 39
Finland, 44, 51, 169
First Rosicrucian Theatre in England, 117, 125, 197
fish, 19
flagellation, see scourge
Florence, 88
flying, 40, 51, 52, 53, 65, 69, 77
Folk-Lore Society, 98, 115
Forever Forests, 148
Forfar, 101
fortune-telling, see divination
France, 60, 62, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 101, 115, 116, 155, 169, 171, 173; Leek in, 134; Leland in, 88
frankincense, 19
Frau Gode (Wode), 52
Frazer, Sir J.G., 104
Fredegond, 39
Freemasonry, 85, 90, 102, 212; Wicca and, 108, 109, 110, 111, 116, 127
Freud, Sigmund, 194, 195, 196; see also psychoanalysis
Freyja, 44, 46, 49
Freyr, 42
Friday the 13th, 171, 172
Friedkin, William, 145
Frithiof, 45, 49-50
Frost, Gavin and Yvonne, 150
fruit, 19
Fuller, J.F.C., 127
Futhark, 41-2
Gage, Matilda Joslyn, 87-8
galdr, 40-1
galdor, 61
gand-reið, 49
Gairdner, Grissell, 116
Gardner, Gerald, 11-2, 96, 101, 102, 103-29, 130, 135, 143, 144, 148, 156, 159, 166, 177, 178, 210, 213; on coven structure, 172-3, 174; on magic, 196-7, 209; Sanders and, 140-1
Gardnerianism, 136, 137, 146, 147, 150, 163, 190
garlic, 19
garter, wearing of, 100, 101, 172-3; Order of the, 172
Garm, 44
Gaul, 32, 33, 36, 57, 58
Gauls, the, 36
Geirriðr, 48
Georgia, 27
Georgianism, 150
Germania, 32-5
Germania (Tacitus), 33
Germany, 33, 41, 52, 53, 59, 71, 76, 81, 86, 91, 169, 171
Germans, 36, 40, 64, 86; divination amongst, 34, 41; role of women, 32-3, 34-5, 62
Gibbon, Edward, 56
Gïoll, 43
Glass, Justine, 132, 133
Glenstrae, Count of, 92
Glyn Dwr, Owain, 137-8
Gnostic Mass, 109-10, 111, 113
Gnosticism, 68
goats, 16, 19, 48, 66, 99, 131
kids, 47
God of the Witches, The (Murray), 98
Goetia, 92
Goetia, The (Mathers), 94
Golden Dawn, Hermetic Order of the, 90-4, 108, 112, 113, 118, 212
Golden Fleece, 26, 27, 29, 31
Gorge du Loup, 134
Gorgo, 20
Gowdie, Isobel, 173
Graves, Robert, 104-5, 131
Great Beast, The (Symonds), 127
Great Pyramid, 94
Great Rite, 111, 112, 113, 142
Greece, ancient, 11, 15-31, 32, 55, 164, 211; classical, 217, 222
Green Egg (magazine), 158, 159, 164, 165
Green Man, 66, 148
Greenwood, Susan, 115, 158, 159, 161, 164
Gregory VII, 60, 66
Gregory, IX
Grettir, 47
Grettis Saga Ásmundarsonar, 47
Griffin, David Ray, 123
Grimald, 63
groves, sacred, 34, 35, 36, 38, 148
Guibert of Nogents, 68
Gypsey Sorcery and Fortune-Telling (Leland), 88
Gypsies, 135, 144, 145
Had (Hadit), 95, 96
Hades, 17
Hagal, 42
hällristningar, 41
haliurunae, 39
hag, 50, 55, 96
Hallowe'en (All Hallows Eve), 100, 132, 168, 189
Ham, 45, 49, 51
hamingja, 44, 48
hand-fasting, see marriage
Hans Breitman's Ballads (Leland), 88
Hardy, Rt Revd Robert, 215
hares, 37, 100, 131
Harlow, Alison, 148
Harrow, Judith, 122
Hartley, Christine, 125
Harvey, Graham, 167, 168
Hastings, funeral of Alex Sanders in, 139
Hati, 44
haugi, 48
haugbui, 48
Havamal, 40
hazel, 184
healing, 11, 59, 140, 190, 204, 205, 206, 209, 214
Hebe, 27
Hecate, 11, 16-22, 86, 178, 211; blood-drinking of, 20; Crowley's views of, 96-7; cultic sites of, 18; darkness associated with, 16, 20; daughters of, 21-2; dead associated with, 16, 18, 19; dogs associated with, 16, 19, 20, 21; flesh-eating habits of, 18; lambs, black, associated with, 19, 46; goats associated with, 16, 19; horns associated with, 16; horses associated with, 16; Medea and, 25, 26, 27, 28; moon associated with, 16, 19, 20; names associated with, 20; protective aspects of, 19; Roman worship of, 19; sacred days of, 18, 19; sacrifices made to, 19-20, 27; snakes (serpents) associated with, 18, 21, 211; titles of, 17, 18, 21; wild boar associated with, 16
Hecateae, 20
hedgewitchcraft, 199-200
Heidi (Heid), 45-6, 47, 49, 51
Hel, 43, 52
Hell, 52, 55, 70
Helge, 49-50
Henry VIII, 76
Hera Akraia, 29, 30
Heracles (Hercules), 28, 34
Herla, 52
Herlechin, 52
Hermes, 16, 24
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, see Golden Dawn
Hermeticism, 92
Hermod, 43, 45
Herne, 52
Herodias, 65
Hertfordshire, 80
Hesiod, 17
High Magic's Aid (Gardner), 103, 104, 107, 112, 119, 120, 125, 126
Hill, Napoleon, 196
hippy movement, 121, 213
Högni, 46
Holda, 40, 52
Holland, 52, 169
hölle, 52
Holler (Holla), 52, 53
Hollywood, 149
Holy Book of Women's Mysteries, The (Budapest), 149
Homer, 22, 23
homosexuality, 45
honey, 19, 90
Honeysuckle coven, 150
Hopkins, Matthew, 77, 78-9
Horace, 22
horns, 16, 31,
Horned God, 100, 131, 147, 185
Horsa coven, 135, 136, 146
horses, 16, 33, 35, 50, 53
Horus, 95-6, 112; Rites of, 138
House of the Goddess, 168
Huld (Hulda), 46, 51
Huldra, 52
Hungary, 81, 149
Huns, 39
Huntingdonshire, 78
Hutin, Dr Serge, 115
'Hymn to the Mother of the Gods' (Julian), 9
'Hymn to Pan' (Crowley), 117
Iceland, 41, 169
Illuminati, 85
India, 36, 199, 217
initiation, 17, 21, 23, 24, 29, 97, 109, 117, 126, 136, 141, 190, 214; degree system of, 92, 107, 110-1, 116, 142; sex and, 25, 31, 147, 211
INFORM, 164, 165
Innocent IV, 69
Innocent VIII, 71
Inquisition, 69-71, 74, 86, 223
invented tradition, 104, 114
Iolcus, 29
Iona, 59
Ionia, 19
Iörmungandr, 43
Ipswich, 78
Ireland, 36, 77, 148, 170; see also Northern Ireland
iron pyrites, 33
Ironwood, 43
Isis, 34; Temple of, 146, 147
Isis-Urania Temple, 91, 94
Isle of Man, 115, 140, 144
Italy, 64, 70, 71, 88-9, 169
Ivanhoe (Scott), 86-7
James VI of Scotland, I of England, 76, 78, 105
Japan, 169
Jarke, Karl Ernst, 85, 98, 101
Jason, 16, 27-31, 32
Jayran, Shan, see Shan
Jennings, Hargrave, 194
Jersey, 170
Jesus, 58, 65, 88, 172, 217; Crowley's views on, 96, 97
John XXII, 70
John Bull (magazine), 93
Jones, Charles Stansfield, 97-8, 115
Jones, Gwilym P., 109
Jones, Evan John, 129, 131
Jones, Prudence, 114, 115
Julian, 9
juniper, 26
Jupiter, in magic, 97, 202; Temple of, 57
Jötunheim, 43
Kabbalah Denudata (Rosenroth), 91
Kabbalah Unveiled, The (Mathers), 91
Kant, Immanuel, 194
Katla, 47-8
Kelly, Aidan, 107, 108, 109, 111-3, 115, 122
Kemelek, Grace, 135
Kemp, Anthony, 158
Kempten, 81
Ketill, 52
Key of Solomon the King, The (Mathers), 91, 104, 112, 119, 127, 213
King, Francis, 117, 167
Kipling, Rudyard, 104, 127
Kirkpatrick, R.G., 163
Kirlian photography, 197
kiss, ritual use of, 68, 100, 109, 110, 111, 187
Knights Templar, 77
knives, 33; see also Athame
Knoop, Douglas, 109
Kormak, 49, 50
Kormaks Saga, 49
Kourotrophos, 17
Kramer, Heinrich, 71-5, 105
Kyle, Richard, 158, 159, 164, 167, 168
Kyteler, Dame Alice, 70, 77
'Lady Olwen', see Wilson, Monique
Laertius, Diogenes, 36
Lagina, 18
lambs, black, 10, 19, 46; see also rams
Lammas, 100, 184
Lancaster, 140
Langton, Walter, 77
Lapland, 44
Laughing Goddess coven, 149
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, 148
Laws of Aelfred, 10
'Laws of the Craft', 128-9
Leeds, 157
Leek, Sybil, 134-7, 146, 150
Leges Langobardicus, 63
Leigh, Molly, 134
Leland, Charles G., 88-90, 98, 101, 104, 106, 113, 127, 156, 159, 213
Leo VII, 66
Leptinnes, Council of, 61
Lesser Key of Solomon the King, The (Mathers), 91
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (Scott), 86, 174
Liberal Catholic Church, 143
Lift Up the Veil ritual, 107, 109-10, 111
Lincoln, 215, 216
lions, mountain, 23, 25
List of Superstitions, 61
Lithuania, 169
Ljot, 46
Lodfafner, 40
Lodfafner's Song, 39
Loki, 11, 43, 45, 172
Lombards, 64
Lombardy, 70
London, British Museum in, 91; Gardner in, 126; modern Witchcraft in, 170-1, 193; Murray in, 98; Isis-Urania Temple in, 91, 94; Alex Sanders in, 139; Maxine Sanders in, 143; Tower of, 76; Valiente born in, 129
Los Angeles, 136, 149
Lucan, 40
Lucifer, 56, 88
Luhrmann, Tanya, 157, 159, 161, 163, 167
Lycos, 168
lynx, 33
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 21, 40, 44, 77, 145, 171
McCombie, Josephine, 116
MacGregor, 92
'Maddalena', 88-9
magi, 15, 36, 199
magic, black, 39, 44, 67, 69, 70, 78, 92, 128, 139; definition of magic, 193-204, 214; effect of magic, 206-9; etymology of magic, 10, 199; high (ceremonial) magic, 92; magic as illusion of the Devil, 63-4, 66, 60; images used in magic, 62, 70; ingredients used in magic, 19, 21, 24, 26; laws against magic, 58-63; low (Goetic) magic, 92; Northern European magic, 40-2; problem of magic, 57-8; practice of magic, 200-1; psychological interpretation of magic, 194-5, 196, 198-200; revival of magic, 11; magic as salvational, 218, 219, 221-2; sex magic, 112, 197; use of magic, 204-6; 'weapons' used in magic, 107, 108, 113, 126, 174, 196, 197; witchcraft and magic, 187, 209
magick, 194-7
Magick in Theory and Practice (Crowley), 113, 118, 195
Magnus, Albertus, 69
magoi, 10, 15
Mahoney, John, 167
maleficia, see magic, black
Malleus Maleficarum (Kramer and Sprenger), 66, 71-5
Managarm, 44
Manchester, 137
Manningtree, 78, 79
Mannus, 34
Mapp, Walter, 68
mara, 50-1
Marcellininus, Ammianus, 199
Marcellus, 57
le Mareschal, Robert, 70
Marlow, Louis, see Wilkinson, Louis
marriage, 190, 214
Mars, 34
Martin, Bishop of Tours, 57
mascae, 63
Massachusetts, 77, 78, 79-80, 146-7, 170
Math, John, 132
Mathers, Samuel Liddell 'MacGregor', 90-4, 104, 106, 113, 119
matriarchy, 87, 105
May Eve, 40, 86, 100, 107, 109; see also Walpurgisnacht
Mecklenburg, 52
Medea, 11, 21-2, 25-31, 32, 92, 211; Hecate and Medea, 25, 26; Medea as foundress of religious cult, 29; Medea as initiatrix, 29; parentage of Medea, 25-6; snakes (serpents) associated with Medea, 26, 28
Medes, 199
medicine, herbal, 36, 86
meditation, 197
Melton, J.G., 114, 115, 161, 164
Melusine, 109
Melville, Joy, 167, 168
Mendelssohn, Felix, 86
Mendocino County, 148
Mercury, 34, 202
Merlin, 38
Mesmer, Friedrich Anton, 197
Metamorphoses (Ovid), 27
'Michael', 198-9
Michelet, Jules, 87-8, 90
Midgard, 32, 39, 40, 43, 53, 56
Midlands, 170-1
Miletos, 18
milk, stealing of by magic, 64
mistletoe, 36-8
method of cutting, 37
names known by, 37
Mistley, 79
Mödgud, 43
moly, 24
Mona (Mon), 38
Mone, Franz Josef, 86, 98, 101
Monodiae (Guibert), 68
monotheism, 136, 179-81, 219
moon, the, 178, 187, 193, 202; calendrical uses of the moon, 34, 35; Diana associated with the moon, 16; Hecate associated with the moon, 16, 19, 20; Lucifer associated with the moon, 88; see also Drawing Down the Moon ritual
'moots', 170
Mormo, 20
Morris, Maxine, see Sanders, Maxine
Morris, May, 141
Mother Earth, 34, 148, 210
mouse, 73
Murray, Margaret, 98-101, 104, 106, 117, 120, 121, 125, 127, 144, 156, 159, 213; on coven structure, 172-4
Music of Poetry, The (Elliot), 41
Myron, 19
myrrh, 19
mysteries, Roman, 113; Saracen, 109
mysticism, Christian, 92, 196; Eastern, 195
Naharvalians, 34
National Alliance of Pantheists, 146, 147
necromancy, 24, 48, 60
Necromancy (film), 145
'Ned', 128
Nemeton, 148
Neophyte Ritual, 92, 112, 113
Nero, 58
Nerthus, 52
Nesnick, Mary, 150
Neuburg, Victor, 97
Neuro-Linguistic Programming, 196
neurosis, 195
New England, 145, 158, 164
New Forest, 124; coven in the New Forest, 107, 120, 127, 135; Leek in the New Forest, 134; Gardner in the New Forest, 117
New Wiccan Church, 167
New York, 136, 170
Newburgh, 116
Newcastle, 173
Nifl-heim, 43
nightmare, see mara
Norfolk, 78
North, Dolores, 125
North, Roger, 80
Northern Ireland, 171; see also Ireland
Northumbria, 99
Norway, 41, 169
November Eve, 107
nudity, 89, 90, 95, 112, 113, 126, 130, 137, 142, 173, 187, 197, 198
Nuit, 95, 96
Nuithones, 34
numinous phenomena, 186, 191, 213
Nuremberg, 91
oak, 36, 37
Oakland, 149
'Occult Census', see Sorcerer's Apprentice
occultism, 90-98 passim, 222, 223
Odd, 47-8
Odin, 11, 32, 40, 41, 43, 44-5, 66, 211; Odin banned by Council of Leptinnes, 61; etymology of Odin, 51; Odin leader of Wild Hunt, 51-2
Odysseus, 16, 23-5, 28, 31, 211
Oeagrus, 17
Ohio, 170
Oklahoma, 146
Olympius, 57
Olympus, Mount, 15, 16
Ordo Templi Orientis, 97, 112, 113, 118, 119
orgone, 197
orgy, 17, 19, 24-5, 31, 67-70, 77, 87, 89, 155, 175, 211, 223
Orkney, 76
ørlög, 41, 44
Orleans, 67, 68, 69
Orpheus, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 211
Osbourne, 80
Osiris, 95, 112
OTO, see Ordo Templi Orientis
out-of-the-body experience, 186
Ovid, 22, 27
Owain Glyn Dwr, see Glyn Dwr, Owain
owls, 27
Pagan Spirit Gathering, 148
Paganism, Crowley on, 97
à Paramo, Ludovicus, 74
Pamphile, 22
Pan, 66, 87
Pannonia, 33
paranormal, 216; see also psychic phenomena
Paris, 68; Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 91; Council of Paris, 63, 64, 105; Crowley and Paris, 94, 97, 118; Golden Dawn Temple in Paris, 91; Mathers in Paris, 92, 94; Parlement of Paris, 81; University of Paris (Sorbonne), 70, 115
Paris Working, 97, 112
Parthia, 25
Patterson, George, 150
'Paul', 142
Pausanias, 19
Pelias, 29
Pendderwen, Gwydion, 148
'pentacle', ritual of, 107, 108
Pentagram (magazine), 131, 132
Pentagram, Ritual of the, 108
Pennick, Nigel, 114, 115
Perchta, 52
Perse, 22
Persia, 15, 36, 199
personality, 195, 198
Peter, St, 57-8
Church of, the Apostle, 61
Petrie, Sir Flinders, 98, 117
pharmakon, 10-1
Philadelphia, 88
Phobantia, 21
Phoebe, 16-7
'Phoenix', 145
Phosphoros, 17
phrenology, 136
pig, see swine
Pilgrim's Progress (Bunyan), 71
Pirate, The (Scott), 86-7
plants, magical uses of, 19, 21, 26, 27, 33, 36-8
Plato, 194
Pluto, 17
Plymouth Brethren, 93
Po valley, 64
poison, use of, 10-11, 22, 26, 29, 58, 63, 64, 88
Poland, 81, 169
polypharmakos, 26
Port Said, 95
Portugal, 81, 169
post-Christianization, 12, 214-7 passim
Potter, Harry, 168
Preliminary Invocation, 94, 95
Priapus, 87
Propolos, 17
'Proposed Rules for the Craft' ('Ned'), 128
Propylaia, 17
psychic phenomena, 185-6
psychoanalysis, 25, 194-5
Ra-Hoor-Khuit, see Horus
Rabinovitch, Shelley, 158, 159
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 194
rams, 27, 31; see also lambs, black
Reclaiming, 148, 150
re-enchantment, 12, 217-23
Red Rose and the Cross of Gold, 91
Regardie, Israel, 113, 118, 129, 136
Regino of Prüm, 65
Reich, Wilhelm, 197
Reid, Gregory Watson MacGregor, 125
Rejuvenation, Charm of, 26, 27, 29
Reudignians, 34
revelation, 185-6
Rhine, 33
Rhoetia, 33
rhombus, 20
rite of passage, 189-90, 192, 214
ritual, 187-92
Robbins, Anthony, 196
Robin Goodfellow, 66
Robin Hood, 172
Roman Empire, 39, 56, 58-9
Romania, 168, 169
Romans, the, 19, 32-4, 36, 38
Rome, 164, 212; city of Rome, 33, 56; Synod of Rome, 61, 63
Rose, Elliot, 110
von Rosenroth, Knorr, 91
Rosi, Salvator, 113
Rosicrucians, 85
Rossthiof, 44-5, 47
Rotharius, 63
rowan, 33
Royal Anthropological Society, 98
runastafr, 42
runemal, 40-1
runes, 40; Anglo-Saxon runes, 41, 42; development of the runes, 41; modern runes, 42; uses of the runes, 41, 47
Russell, Jeffrey B., 167
Russia, 134, 169
Saami, 44
Sabbat (Sabbath), witches', 10, 19, 25, 38-9, 77, 155, 191, 211; Cochrane on the Sabbat, 130; Gardner on the Sabbat, 107, 125; Leland on the Sabbat, 88; Michelet on the Sabbat, 87; Murray on the Sabbat, 100; Sabbat same as Treguenda, 90; Sabbat same as trolla-thing, 52
Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series), 157, 165, 177
sacrifice, 36, 56, 60, 61; animal sacrifice, 9-10, 19, 24, 38, 100; human sacrifice, 34, 37, 38, 67, 68, 87, 100; sacrifice in Wicca, 109
Sagana, 22
sage, 19
Salem, 77, 79-80, 146-7, 170
Salisbury, Countess of, 172
salt, 44, 76, 90, 107, 136
Samhain, see Hallowe'en
Samothrace, 18
San Francisco, 150
sandalwood, 21
Sanders, Alex, 106, 121, 137-42, 148, 150
Sanders, Maxine, 139, 141-3
Saracen Kiss, 109
Sarmaritans, 22
Satan, 43, 65, 66, 74, 87, 126; see also Devil
Satanism, 11, 56, 60, 65, 86, 128, 137; see also Devil, worship of
Saturn, 202
Saxnot, 61, 66
Saxony, 62
Scandinavia, 41, 52, 59, 62
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 194
Scotland, 59, 76, 80, 91, 99, 101, 170-1, 173, 215-6
Scott, G.G., 157, 159, 161, 163, 164, 165, 169
Scott, Sir Walter, 53, 86, 174
Scottish Historical Review, 98
scourge, 111-3, 130, 142, 197
seals, 48, 49
séance, etymology of, 44
Seax-Wica, 145-6
secrecy, 198
Secret Chiefs, 91
secularization, 81, 214-7 passim
seeds, 21, 27, 37
seið-hjallr, 44, 49-50
seið-kona, 41, 44, 46, 47, 48, 53
generic names of, 45-6
seiðr, 40-1, 44-52, 62
Selinus, 18
Serapis, Temple of, 57
sesame seeds, 21
Seymour, Charles, 125
Shakespeare, William, 21, 40, 44, 77, 159, 163, 171
shamanism, 17, 33, 37, 198
Shan, 168
shape-changing, 69; see also animals, transformation into
sheep, see lambs, black, and rams
Siberia, 43
sickle, use of, 37, 108
Siene, 88
Simon Magus, 57-8, 104
Simos, Miriam, see Starhawk
Singapore, 102, 116, 118
Singapura, 117
sitja, 48
sjonhverfing, 47
skald, 48
Sköll, 44
Skelking, 52
Sleipnir, 43, 51
Slovenia, 169
Smyth, Frank, 116
snakes (serpents), Hecate associated with snakes, 18, 21, 211; magical uses of snakes, 27, 33, 37; Medea associated with snakes, 26, 27, 28; snakes in Norse mythology, 43
Society for Creative Anachronism, 148
Soissons, 68, 69
solstices, 37, 66, 97, 100, 149, 189
Song of the Sybil, The, 45
Sorcerer's Apprentice (shop), 'Occult' Census conducted by, 156-7, 159, 161, 162, 163, 165, 167, 171
Sorcière, La (Michelet), 87-8
South Africa, 169
South Dakota, 170
spá (spae), 40-1
spá-kona, 41
Spain, 60, 81, 169, 173
Sphinx Lodge, 102, 116
Spiral Dance, The (Starhawk), 150
Sprengel, Anna, 91
Sprenger, James, 71-5, 105
Sri Lanka, see Ceylon
stags, 24, 27, 31, 59
'stang', 130
Starhawk, 121-2, 149-50
Staufer, 73
Stearne, John, 78-9
Stele of Revealing, 95
storax, 19
storms, ability to raise, 26, 45, 49, 62, 64, 69
strigae, 62-3
Suardones, 34
Suevians, 34
Suez, 95
Suffolk, 78
Sullivan, George, 125
Summa Contra Gentiles (Aquinas), 69
Summa Theologica (Aquinas), 69
Summis desiderantes affectibus (Innocent VIII), 71
Super illus specula (John XXII), 70
Susan B. Anthony coven, 149, 150
Sussex Downs, 132
Sweden , 32, 41, 101, 169
swine, 23, 24, 25, 48
Switzerland, 73, 81
Sybil Leek Inc., 136; see also Leek, Sybil
sylphs, 95
Symonds, John, 112, 127
synchronicity, 185, 186
Syria, 57
Tacitus, 33, 34-5, 36, 41, 52
'Tailesin', 131
talismans, 45, 46, 62
Talos, 26
Tannere, John, 70
Tantra, 190
Tarot, 216
Tartarus, 17
taufr, 46; see also talismans
Taylor, Joan Helen, 145
telekinesis, 185
telepathy, 185
Tennessee, 170
Terence, 72
Theodore, St, 59-60, 61
Theodosius, 56
Theoris, 22
'Theos', 145
theosis, 185, 186
Theseus, 26, 28
Thessaly, 15, 16, 18, 27
thirteen, 100, 171-5
Thor, 37, 61, 66
Thorbjorg, 46, 47
Thorkell, 46-7
Thorvaig, 49, 51
Thrace, 17
Titans, 17
toads, 55, 77
Toledo, Council of, 60
torture, methods of torture, 75-6; use of torture 72, 74, 78, 81, 99, 174, 212
Toulouse, University of, 116
Tours, Council of, 63, 64
trees, 35; see also groves, sacred, hazel, oak, plants, magical uses of, and rowan
Treguenda, 90
Tring, 80
Trojan War, 23
trolla-thing, 52
Truzzi, Marcello, 164, 167
Tuisto, 34
Turkey, 18, 19
Tuscany, 88
Tyr, 42
Tysoe, Maryon, 167
UK, see Britain
Uller, 52
Underworld, 56
USA, 78, 79-80, 87, 121, 124, 133-4, 139, 141, 144-50 passim, 157-9, 161, 164, 165, 168, 169-70, 175
Utah, 170
utiseta, 48
Vala, 45
Valhalla, 45, 172
Valiente, Doreen, 12, 107, 125-30, 143, 146, 150, 213; and Cochrane, 130-3; and Gardner, 116, 119, 120
Vancouver, 97
Vanir, 44
Vanlandi, 51
Varagnac, Prof., 115
Varðlokur, see Warlock Song
Vecchia Religione, La, 88, 113
Veda, see Sanders, Maxine
Veleda, 35, 40
Venus, in magic, 202; Temple of Venus Celestial, 57
vervain, 27
Vespesian, reign of, 35
'The Villa of the Mysteries' (Macchioro), 113
vinegar, 21
Virginia, 145
virgins, 19, 21
visualization, 200
völva, 41, 45-6, 55
Voudoun (Voodoo), 45, 148
Vrau-elde, 52
Vulder, 52
Waldenses, 68, 69
Wales, 137, 170-1; Archbishop of Wales, 215; Prince of Wales, 172
Walpurgisnacht, 40, 86; see also May Eve
walrus, 47, 49, 50
Ward, Rev J., 125
Warlock Song, 47
Washington DC, 170
weasels, 33
web, imagery of, 23
Weber, Max, 217-9, 222
Welles, Orson, 145
Wenham, 78
Wenham, Jane, 80
werewolves, 23, 24, 27
Wessex, 64
Westcott, Dr Wynn, 90-1, 93
Weston-super-Mare, 91
Wewoka, 146
whales, 49, 50
Wharton, Alan, 141
Wheatley, Dennis, 126
White Goddess, The (Graves), 131
White Lady, 52
Wica, 104
wicca, 10
Wicca, 12, 102, 103-51 passim; see also witchcraft
wiccan, 64
Wiccaning, 190, 214
wiccecraeft, 64
wickerman, 38
wild boars, 16, 34, 49, 52
Wild Hunt, 40, 51-4
Wilde, Oscar, 117
Wilkinson, Louis, 117
will, concept of, 194-6
Williams, Most Revd Rowan, 215
Williamson, Cecil, 126
Wilson, Joseph, 134
Wilson, Monique, 144
wise women, 85, 87, 99
Witch Cult in Western Europe, The (Murray), 98-101 passim, 144
Witch Shop, 146
witch, representations of, 156, 213
witchcraft, accusation of, 9; witchcraft as Christian apostasy, 73; witchcraft as Christian heresy, 11, 40, 56, 65, 66-70, 73, 212; confession of witchcraft, 73, 81, 99; demographics of witchcraft, 156-71; detection of witchcraft, 71; etymology of witchcraft, 10; examination of accused, 75; feminism and witchcraft, 149-50, 165-6; witchcraft as fertility cult, 100, 103; geographic distribution of witchcraft, 169-71; group purpose of witchcraft, 176-7; laws against witchcraft, 58-63, 76-7, 212; mystical experience in witchcraft, 183-7, 213; nudity in witchcraft, 89, 90; numbers executed for crime of witchcraft, 74; organization of witchcraft, 171-7; persecution of witchcraft, 33, 55-82 passim, 212; punishment of witchcraft, 67, 71; reinterpretation of witchcraft, 11, 56, 85-90, 211; witchcraft as Satanism, 40, 51, 55, 177, 210; sexuality and witchcraft, 72, 96, 111-3; theology of witchcraft, 178-83, 213; trial procedure, 71, 73-4, 75
Witchcraft Research Association, 132
Witchcraft as a Science, 146
Witchcraft, The Sixth Sense - and Us (Glass), 132
Witchcraft Today (Gardner), 101, 106, 119, 144, 148, 166
Witches' Ball, 146
Witches of Eastwick, The (film), 165
Witches' League of Public Awareness, 146
Witches' Mill Museum of Magic and Witchcraft, 126, 144
Witches' Rune, the, 127
Wizard of Oz, The (film), 40
Woden, 32, 52; see also Odin
wolves, 23, 25, 32, 40, 43, 44, 49, 52
women, 16, 32, 33, 34-5; Crowley's views on women, 117; hatred of women(mysogyny), 61-2, 72; witchcraft and women, 65, 72, 96, 149-50, 211
Women's Spirituality Forum, 149
Women, Church, and State (Gage), 87
Woodford, Revd A.F.A, 90-1, 93
Woodman, Dr W.R., 90, 93
xenophrenia, 185, 186, 191, 213
'Ye Bok of Ye Art Magical', 107, 108, 109, 119
Yeats, W.B., 93
Ynglingsaga, 45, 51
Yoga, 92, 195, 216
York, Michael, 157, 158, 159, 165
Yorke, Gerald, 119
Zacharius, 61
Zeus, 17, 18, 21, 211
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