WITCHES

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Did you say Witches?  The time has arrived and we have decided that these powerful and feared, beautiful or sometimes horribly ugly ladies deserve a section all to themselves.

These popular ladies can be found and are a part of numerous familiar stories and fairy tales - whether they are friendly and helpful or downright evil, angry and bitter.

Being part of a fairy tale or story is one thing – but these women were also part of real life occurrences.  In the 1400’s, they were deemed a true beings living amongst the general population.



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Whether capable of positive or negative sorcery, these ladies were not usually welcome in any community.

History tells us of numerous accounts of citizens going to great lengths to eradicate any woman suspected of any kind of magic or sorcery.  The burning of individuals accused of sorcery was at one point in time, a little too common place of an event.

In 1487, Heinrich Kramer wrote a manual called “Malleus Maleficarum” that explained how to identify witches and how to destroy them.  This novel was used by the Inquisition to hunt down and prosecute individuals suspected or witchery.

If things went wrong, sickness, poor crops or persons dying from causes that could not be explained – black magic and sorcery were quickly blamed as the cause.  If a seemingly happy family man was to suddenly commit adultery or murder – well, it must have been caused by a spell or some sort of evil magic.

At one point in time, it was far too easy to blame a sorceress for any of life’s negative occurrences.  They were even once thought of as being in league with the Devil and part of his army against the Christians.  In other accounts, they were declared their as an evil force acting all on their own to cause misery, chaos and destruction among society.

Please enjoy our collection of magical ladies and hags found below.






THE A-Z LIST

Aswang - Evil vampire-like witch

Baba Yaga - Frail looking woman with jewelry made of bones

Black Annis - Blue faced old hag with sharp iron claws

Grey Sisters - Three sisters that share one eye

Morgan Le Fay - Human female capable of shape-shifting




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