The Haunting Legend of the Bell Witch and Bell Witch Cave
Explore the chilling legend of the Bell Witch and Bell Witch Cave in Tennessee, home to paranormal mysteries and eerie encounters.
Unveiling the Witch of Endor: In the Bible and Beyond
The Witch of Endor takes up very little space in the Bible, but she’s an important character to some because she’s the only witch specifically mentioned in this text. She appears in the Book of Samuel, but only briefly. The Bible never mentions the witch by name. It doesn’t describe her in detail. Due to […]
Famous Occultist Aleister Crowley’s Last Words
People claim the famed occultist Aleister Crowley left the mortal plane with some interesting choice words, but it’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s fake about the magician’s life. Were Aleister Crowley’s last words profane or profound? Were they an admission of guilt or repentance for his witchy ways? Well, that really depends on […]
15 Remarkable Famous Witches from History
From a historical viewpoint, famous witches are defined in many ways. Self-proclaimed practitioners of witchcraft are witches. As are those society deemed witches without their consent. Officials labeled the unfortunate souls who they burned alive during the witch trials as such. Society has even mythologized peculiar folks rumored to have mysterious powers. Then, there are […]
How the Malleus Maleficarum Sparked Deadly Witch Hunts
Witch hunts are a terrible stain on our collective human history. They account for the murders of up to 60,000 women, and the Malleus Maleficarum justified the witch hunts more than any other text. Clergyman Heinrich Kraemer published the manuscript in 1486. In the years that followed, he used the book as a blueprint for […]
