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Demon Biographies: Asmodeus
One thing that really winds me up is a statement that you often hear from Neo-Pagan wishful thinkers: ‘The Christian demons are just the gods of pagan religions.’ I don’t like to speak in absolutes,...
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Were the Witch Hunters Bad People? Six Types of People Who Persecuted Witches
This blog post comes after a Twitter conversation with the awesome writer and publisher Theo Paijmans. One of the biggest motivations behind the history title I’m writing at the moment is to look at...
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Familiars: A Very British Witchcraft
While the witch’s familiar can be found in other countries (I found some in some French cases), it represents one of the features that most separates the English witch from her continental counterpart....
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Liber Vaccae — The Book of WTF?!?
This article exists behind a disclaimer: the magical book I’m about to write about is just weird. It’s weird, it’s disgusting, and there are a lot bodily fluids involved. Enter at your own risk. Do you...
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Why the English Never Tortured Witches
This blog post comes from a conversation I had with someone in a pub. I can’t remember how the conversation had come around to witches – it was somewhere between one of them having a go at me for not...
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Why Didn’t the Witches Use Magic to Escape Their Captors?
For anyone studying the history of Witchcraft, this title is the question that you can’t quite believe nobody asked. In the pamphlet, The Severall Facets of Witch-crafte (1585), we can observe the...
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Did King James Believe in Witches (English Edition)
In the second of our articles about the Witch trials of King James VI (see the note at the bottom of my previous article to explain why I’m not calling him ‘James VI & I’) we shall take up James’...
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Sceptics in the Witch Trials
I’m in the latest issue of The Skeptic at the moment, writing about standards of proof when looking at medieval and Early Modern sources (largely medieval in that article) who present the supernatural...
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Did the North Berwick Witches Actually Do Any Magic?
Blog readers have my apologies for the lateness of this, the first post of my monthly blogging — February has seen me contract Vestibular Neuronitis, a condition affecting my balance. As such February...
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Blackness and the Demon in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
This is very much a work in progress and all input is gratefully received. I have deliberately steered away from making any analogy with modern society simply because I don’t have the expertise to do...
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