Lyssa Description[edit] She personifies mad rage and frenzy, as well as rabies in animals. In Herakles she is called upon by Hera to inflict the hero Heracles with insanity. In this scenario she is shown to take a temperate, measured approach to her role, professing "not to use [her powers] in anger against friends, nor [to] have any joy in visiting the homes of men." Greek vase-paintings of the period indicate her involvement in the myth of Aktaion, the hunter torn apart by his own, maddened dogs as a punishment for looking on the naked form of the goddess Artemis. References[edit] External links[edit]
Goddess Myths,Traditions And Wisdom From Around The Globe. The Grigori The Watchers The Lord spoke: "Have no fear, Enoch, good man and scribe of goodness. Come hear my voice. Go speak to the Watchers of Heaven, who have sent you to intercede for them. Tell them, You should intercede for men, and not men for you. (1 Enoch) In the early days after the Fall, before the demons had escaped from Hell and before the War had begun in earnest, the Seraphim Council debated long and long about how best to safeguard humanity. Seemingly in answer, God created the Grigori, the Eight Choir. The Grigori were truly the most "human" of angels. The Grigori were also the only angels who really felt comfortable on Earth, and who didn't mind staying there. It made them very, very effective at their jobs. The "Second Fall" In 11,600 B.C., it came to the attention of Heaven that the Grigori had become entirely too human; they had taken wives, started families, and some were even succumbing to debauchery, immersing themselves in corporeal pleasures. The Grigori Today Resonance David
Folktexts: A library of folktales, folklore, fairy tales, and mythology, page 1 page 1 edited and/or translated by D. Return to: Abducted by Aliens. Bald Stories: Folktales about Hairless Men. Cain and Abel. Dancing in Thorns. East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Fairies' Hope for Christian Salvation. INC: The Grigori (unofficial version) (unofficial version) by "Kirt A. Dankmyer -- aka Loki" (dankmyka@wfu.edu) Here is my version of the Grigori. It was raining. Fredrico didn't like the way the man had been standing there, watching him from across the street, waiting. Fredrico decided to ignore him while he locked up for the night. And nearly jumped out of his skin, when a voice behind him spoke: "If I could make a suggestion." Fredrico whipped around. "No," said the man. Fredrico looked at the chain. Outcasts one and all, shunned and heavily Discordant, there are still some Grigori left on Earth. Grigori have a resonance for fine detail. Nothing, no tiny detail, is beneath a Watcher's notice. This fine eye for detail also gives the Grigori an intuitive insight into any activity a human or Celestial might be undertaking. The fact that this part of their resonance can be applied to any activity is part of what tripped up the Grigori in the first place. Intimacy with humans generates dissonance in a Watcher. Blandine. David.
Salem: Witchcraft Hysteria@nationalgeographic.com Salem’s time to kill—all the more tragic for its theological roots—claimed 25 lives. Nineteen “witches” were hanged at Gallows Hill in 1692, and one defendant, Giles Cory, was tortured to death for refusing to enter a plea at his trial. Five others, including an infant, died in prison. Each of the four rounds of executions deepened the dismay of many of the New Englanders who watched the witchcraft hysteria run its course. On October 3, 1692, the Reverend Increase Mather, president of Harvard College, denounced the use of so-called spectral evidence. “It were better,” Mather admonished his fellow ministers (including his son Cotton), “that ten suspected witches should escape than one innocent person should be condemned.” Gov. In May 1693 Phips pardoned all those who were still in prison on witchcraft charges. The time to heal fell under the gentle hand of the Reverend Joseph Green, who in 1697 succeeded Samuel Parris as minister in Salem Village. Click to continue.
In Nomine Characters I've taken over the In Nomine Collection's Rogue's Gallery. Sorry to change the format so abruptly, but I'm trying to make it mesh with my GURPS Character Archive. Same rules as with the GURPS lot -- if you're not comfortable with a concept, don't read it. I'm not going to deal with the black background-white text trick, though. The game already requires one to be mature about religion being depicted in a game; if there are sexual issues in these pages (and there are some), you'll have to be mature about them, too. Some Words may be duplicated -- different people have different "takes" on what a Word-bound would be like, and whether they'd be an Archangel or not. Though these pages are located at the Steve Jackson Games web-site, the characters contained within are NOT canon! (Back to The In Nomine Collection)(Back to the Real McCoy page)(To the GURPS Characters page) (links are definitely broken over here, though not many...) This page has been visited:
Halloween Shines Light on Witchcraft Today Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News October 28, 2002 Fillet of a fenny snake, In the caldron boil and bake: Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble; Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. From William Shakespeare's Macbeth Act IV, Scene I In William Shakespeare's England, the practice of witchcraft was already ancient. The celebration of nature—the worship of earth, sky, and the changing seasons—is humankind's oldest faith. In the modern world witchcraft can seem outdated, a taboo practice with little relevance in a society of science. Filmmakers for the National Geographic Channel set out to find modern witches for Taboo: Witchcraft, which airs Monday, October 28, at 9 p.m. There is no question that witchcraft exists. For believers, witchcraft is clearly as relevant as ever before. From Magic or the Mind?
5 Terrifying Serial Killers Who Happened to Be Animals The most dangerous animal on earth is man -- nothing you read in this article will change that. Animals kill for food and territory, and out of fear, but it takes a man to kill repeatedly, just for the fun of it. Well ... usually. #5. Photos.com The Time: 1957 The Place: Mysore, Near Bangalore The sloth bear of India sounds like the most harmless animal to carry the "bear" name outside of the koala. Wilfried Berns"You'd be surprised how good thin-sliced face tastes on a toasted bagel." That is precisely what the people of Nagvara Hills near Bangalore learned when a sloth bear decided to start murdering them. We're going to pause the article here so you can read that last sentence a couple more times. Possibly while picturing this. Over the course of several days, the enraged sloth bear mutilated about three dozen rural folk. Getty"A moment on the lips means a lifetime on the hips." There are three theories as to what caused this sloth bear's insatiable hatred for human beings. #4. Getty #3.
Witchcraft in Salem Village: Intersections of Religion and Society, Divining America, TeacherServe®, National Humanities Center Witchcraft in Salem Village: Intersections of Religion and Society Brief excerpts from referenced books: from Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), 103, 104, 105, 109. To understand this intensity [of the emotions underlying the trials], we must recognize the fact—self-evident to the men and women of Salem Village—that what was going on was not simply a personal quarrel, an economic dispute, or even a struggle for power, but a mortal conflict involving the very nature of the community itself. Given the social assumptions which prevailed in seventeenth-century New England, it was a perfectly normal procedure for a town to rid itself of deviant or threatening individuals—by changing them if possible, by exile or execution if necessary. In 1692, Salem was contested ground, not just by the Putnam and Porter clans, but by whole cultures. from John P. from Carol F. from David D.
Woman suspected of witchcraft burned alive (CNN) -- A woman in rural Papua New Guinea was bound and gagged, tied to a log and set ablaze on a pile of tires this week, possibly because villagers suspected her of being a witch, police said Thursday. Her death adds to a growing list of men and women who have been accused of sorcery and then tortured or killed in the South Pacific island nation, where traditional beliefs hold sway in many regions. The victims are often scapegoats for someone else's unexplained death, and bands of tribesmen collude to mete out justice to them for their supposed magical powers, police said. "We have had difficulties in a number of previous incidents convincing people to come forward with information," said Simon Kauba, assistant commissioner of police and commander of the Highlands region, where the killing occurred. "We are trying to persuade them to help. "When the people living nearby went to the dump site to investigate what caused the fire, they found a human being burning in the flames," he said.
Witchcraft, Wicca This is an archived entry. It is relevant, but no longer updated. See also our newer resources on Witchcraft Witchcraft, or Wicca, is a form of neo-Paganism. It is officially recognized as a religion by the U.S. government. This is a diverse movement that knows no central authority. Note that while all witches are pagans, not all pagans are witches. Wicca. Witch. Witchcraft, (Also known as wicca, the craft, or the craft of the wise. ) An antidogmatic, antiauthoritarian, diverse, decentralized, eclectic, experience-based, nature-oriented religious movement whose followers are polytheists and/or pantheists, and/or panentheists, and in some sense believe in or experience and/or invoke and/or worship the Mother Goddess and generally here consort, the Horned God, as well. As Craig Hawkins points out in Goddess Worship, Witchcraft and Neo-Paganism , Wicca prides itself in being a diverse movement. (...) Local Wiccans have come out against the claim the books promote their religion. Witchcraft
How Witchcraft Works - HowStuffWorks Maybe you've read all of the Harry Potter books and watched every episode of Charmed or Bewitched, so you think you know what witches are all about. Modern witches don't exactly fit most of the TV and movie characters you've seen, however. Are they good? Are they evil? Do they cast spells to cause bad things to happen? The true definition of a witch, as well as the history of witches in general, is widely debated. In this article, we'll delve into the mysterious and hidden world of the modern witch, muddle through some of the witch's disputed history, find out why Halloween is a big night for them and take a peek into some of their rituals. Belief in magic and witchcraft has been around since the beginning of time.
They Called It Witchcraft ITHACA, N.Y.— In 17th-century New England, almost everyone believed in witches. Struggling to survive in a vast and sometimes unforgiving land, America's earliest settlers understood themselves to be surrounded by an inscrutable universe filled with invisible spirits -- both benevolent and evil -- that affected their lives. They often attributed the sudden illness of a child, a household disaster or a financial setback to a witch's curse. The belief in witchcraft was, at bottom, an attempt to make sense of the unknown. While witchcraft was often feared, it was punished only infrequently. In the first 70 years of the New England settlements, about 100 people were formally charged with being witches; fewer than two dozen were convicted and fewer still were executed. Then came 1692. Judging by previous incidents, one would have expected the episode to end there. The key afflicted accusers in the Salem crisis were frontier refugees whose families had been wiped out in the wars.