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Celebrations that have in common the first awakening of nature and the use of light have taken place for centuries around February 1 and 2. On these dates, female animals begin to generate milk for their future offspring, which makes it also the ideal time for humans to obtain milk, butter, cheese... The Celtic name of Imbolc has a close...

No, Ophiuchus is not a Zodiac sign. And it cannot be part of the horoscope either. Every year the same news appears, mixed with NASA statements and entertainment magazines, but the vast majority of broadcasters, in reality, have no real knowledge of how astrological or astronomical observation works, and they should not be confused.

The news about Jean Baptiste Alliette (1738 - 1791) is varied and confusing, however, the world of Tarot owes a lot to this French occultist who, with his name backwards, Etteilla, was the first professional tarot reader and created one of the first "playable" tarot decks, that is, intended for sale and personal use, and also paved the way for...

Despite being framed in the atmosphere of Christian Christmas, the truth is that these three plants already had their uses in pre-Christian cultures, both pagan and indigenous. Furthermore, over time and the rise of neo-paganism, they have regained their value as talismans of good fortune for dates in which friendship, family and good wishes have...

Santeria is, above all, a cultural migration from Africa to America; It is the religious group that results from the fusion of elements of the African Yoruba religion with Christian elements, a cult initiated by African slaves moved to the American continent, where it is most common today, where their descendants or Hispanic population affiliated...

The name "Witches' Night" is a name exclusively from Continental Europe and the Spanish-speaking world, however, its background is common to the entire Western world. Halloween is one of the many names given to what is perhaps the most popular "non-religious" holiday of pagan origin: Halloween, whose name comes from the English All Hallow's Eve,...

Before entering the medieval world, it is necessary to do a brief review of the vision of magic within Judaism. This is a complex issue, since many acts that for them had religious overtones, for us are directly and simply magical: see thaumaturgic (miraculous) acts developed by prestigious prophets or rabbis - from Moses to Ben Dosa or bar Yohai,...

(Since the initial article is written in Spanish, some of the plants did not match their names in English. In order for the article to make sense, we have kept only those plants that began with A also in English, and added those that , in the magical botanical article B, they changed to A when translated. All this with...

The Forer or Barnum effect is known as the effect produced on people by a sufficiently vague and general description of the personality and situation, with which it is inevitable to associate, together with continuous personal validation. They are vague and ambiguous writings, which end up fitting the issue of interest. It is mostly used in...

In Ancient Egypt there were a series of beliefs about evil beings that tormented both the living, taking away their sustenance, and the dead, on their way to meeting Osiris. The definition of demon is not, by any means, correct. Let us remember that the Greek demon, from which the word comes, is simply a spirit, and that it was...

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