Witchcraft Medicine by Müller-Ebeling, Claudia -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Acknowledgments Contents Introduction: Is Witchcraft Medicine Good Medicine? Wolf-Dieter Storl

1. The Wild Earth and Its Children

The Power of the Wilderness Divine Visitors to the Small Cultural Island Midsummer’s Dream The August Festival The Equinox The Time of the Dead: Samhain, Halloween Rites of Initiation

2. The Old Woman in the Hedgerow

The Chimney The Wrath of Venus The New Science

3. The Witch As Shaman

Devil Worship The Buck: The Divine Dispenser The World Tree The Flight to the Holy Mountain Flying Ointment Sex and Fertility Magic Weather Magic

4. Midwives: Fertility and Birth

The Way into Existence The Children Springs at Lolarka Kund The Time of Begetting Pregnancy Birth The Hebe-Ahnin and the Men’s Childbed After the Birth

5. The Mother of Death

Flowers for the Dead The Festival of the Dead The Dead and Vegetation The Dead As Dispensers of Fertility

Christian Rätsch

6. Witchcraft Medicine: The Legacy of Hecate

Gardens of the Gods and Herbs of the Witches The Garden of the Great Goddess The Garden of Hecate The Garden of Medea The Garden of Circe The Garden of Artemis Flying Ointments and Lovers’ Salves As Medicine Pharmakon Wine

Claudia Müller-Ebeling

7. Images of Witches: The Demonization of Nature’s Healing Powers

The Image of the Witch Mary: The Chaste Cultural Heroine The Witch: The Sensuous Natural Woman The Demonization of Nature and Sensuality Sinister Companions of the Witch “Poison Mixers” and Healers The Demonization of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants The Healing of the Microcosm and the Macrocosm Rübezahl: Herbalist and Weather God Seeress and Goddess of Fate From the Goddess to the Witch The Witch As the Temptation of Saint Anthony Saturn: Master of the Witches The Painters of Witches

Christian Rätsch

Coca and Cocaine Poppy and Opium Mescaline and Psilocybin: The Forbidden Souls of the Gods Ayahuasca: The Conquest Is Not Over The “Drug” Business News Update: Hemp Seeds Outlawed!

Appendix: European Plants Associated with Witches and Devils Footnotes Notes Bibliography About the Author About Inner Traditions Copyright