When talking about crimes of witchcraft, the Western world always looks to the past or to foreign countries, in the hope of removing the worst images from them. Witchcraft in the West is normally associated with esotericism and magic, spirituality and personal help, the vindication of feminism and paganism. However, all this avoidance means that,...

After a review of alchemy in Egypt, Greece and Rome, the so-called Dark Age, the Middle Ages, arrives in Europe. However, although a lot of knowledge is lost on the continent, also the copying work and, above all, the contact with Islamic culture, also widespread as Arabic, will give way to a new era with an alchemy that,...

Without a doubt one of the most recognized objects in the world of divination, magic, and even the realm of fantasy, are crystal balls. Crystals and minerals, in and of themselves, have always had a strong esoteric relationship. Crystallomancy is the art of divination through crystals, which can be a ball, a mirror, a precious gem, or any mineral,...

Japan's Sessho-Seki Cursed Stone (殺生石, literally, Killer Stone) has received a lot of attention in recent days, despite its ancient legend. A Kyubi, nine-tailed fox, under the guise of a beautiful woman named Tamamo-no-Mae, made a place for herself at court. Everyone praised her multiple knowledge, her natural grace, and one of her characteristics...

As in so many other places, in Australia there was an Aboriginal shamanism halfway between medicine, magic and spiritual guidance. To this day it still exists in some of the small aboriginal communities, although they are more an attempt to disseminate and revalue their own culture and traditions than true shamanism, that is, believed and felt. The...

Korean talismans are varied and original, but without a doubt, due to the rise of Western viewing of Korean audiovisual productions, one of the most striking is the bujeok. The bujeok (부적, literally, "talisman") basically consists of a strip of yellow paper - a traditional Korean paper called hanji - on which one writes with red ink. Yellow in...

Yule (Júl) is the name given by the Germanic and Nordic peoples to the period that follows the winter solstice (December 21-22 in the northern hemisphere and June 21-22 in the southern hemisphere). Throughout the world it has always been a festival of great relevance due to the importance of the movement of the sun from these dates, in relation...

The Oracle of Delphi is located in a privileged location in the natural region of Phocis, isolated, with impressive views, and, consequently, an ideal spiritual environment. The history of the sanctuary is long and mythologically there are many divinities who were named patrons of the place, until two gods predominated: Gaia, the goddess of the...

In 1692, in the British colony of Salem, a mass hysteria regarding witchcraft established itself. Much has been said about the possible causes of it, considering religious fanaticism, quarrels between inhabitants, hallucinations produced by fungi. In view of these three possible hypotheses and the numerous subsequent studies, everything may have...

The accusation occurred in an indigenous Tzotzil community of Cuchulumtic, in Chiapas, in Mexico. The affected person, a 35-year-old man who professes the evangelical religion, alleged health problems, derived from ingesting an alleged bewitched recipe that his mother had offered him, a broth in which the woman had put chickens, worms and herbs. in...

Santa Muerte is a cult that is not officially accepted, and yet it has more followers every day, not only in Mexico, where it originates, but all over the world. She has suffered the stage of considering herself diabolical and that of being a new version of the virgin, that of being an entity for the marginalized or of a...

As seen in previous articles, seals or sigils are tools of the magician to represent a magical space in a controlled and closed environment. But they were also the signatures of the spiritual entities that practitioners try to contact and obtain favors. While general ritual magical seals can be created directly by the practitioner, through the...