Magic in the Greco-Roman world

Ever since “Tom” died, his mother, Anna LaFarge, began to lose her memories faster. Like a leak growing into a waterfall, a few fuzzy moments became much more. Every day she chanted simple tasks to herself like some magic spell in hopes she might remember it the next. The other townspeople noticed her madness when her occasional visits to town suddenly became more frequent. She ran through town daily, asking for her son although everyone knew he was dead. One month after the mysterious, shape-shifting Martian died, she was making her usual runs through town; however, she was far more distressed than normal. Running as fast as her thin legs could carry her through town, she stopped everyone she came across to interrogate them. Anna’s memories…

Ancient Studies Y4-L3 Greco-Roman Witches and Wizards Welcome back, students! I’m glad to see that you are all suitably dressed for this rather chilly weather. Fall is beautiful, but requires rather more scarves than one expects! No time for togas today, so let’s jump right into our lesson. During the ages of the Greco-Romans there were countless witches and wizards. Some of them lead normal lives, while many of them were extraordinary in the discoveries they made, the knowledge they passed on…

Magic in the ancient world played an important part of the social and cultural structure of many communities. Used in everyday life and encouraged by philosophers, magic was not an alien concept to ancient civilizations. Contemporary views of ancient magic often paint a world enamored with oracles and priests; ancient people were blindly fascinated with seemingly impossible powers. The truth; however, is that the prosecution of witches and magicians is not a phenomenon only appearing in recent…

The Greco-Roman pantheon and the Norse pantheon are extremely similar to one another with similar roles. From Thor to Jupiter to Odin to Hephaestus, the gods in the pantheons. The “trickster” archetype is common throughout both even though it has a more obvious presence in the Norse Pantheon. The honorable warrior and thunder lord archetypes are almost explicitly the same since honorable warriors were at the height of both societies. The main goddesses in both are also extremely similar in their…

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was the opposite of halah, the permissible” “A harem was about private space and the rules regulating it…it did not need walls. Once you knew what was forbidden, you carried the harem within. You had it in your head, inscribed under your forehead and under your skin”. An invisible harem was essentially a law that were constantly with you because you carried it in your mind (61-62) .The cosmic frontier is a way to combat the harem and hudud that people face, “you dream of escape. And magic…

Before Hitler & the Nazi Germany made it popular during the World War II by using this symbol as their emblem, this symbol related to something entirely different, it had different meanings in various civilizations, having its traces as back as 10,000 BC, the swastika symbolizes as of positivity & prosperity to most of the civilization. It is one of the most paramount and widespread symbols in archaic religion and today’s modern world as well. Here are 10 interesting things that you probably…

Every aspect of the film is imbued, created and viewed through the lens of the black female spectator as filmmaker. Nana is arguably the center of the film – she’s an old wise woman and the leader of the Peazant family. She is regarded as the seat of knowledge in the family – which is already a subversion of mainstream cinema that usually gives that type of knowledge to old white men. Nana Peazant’s knowledge is ancestral and cultural, yet gives her the wisdom of any great scholar - the African…

lunatic and a drunkard. He spread the rumour that Poe intakes a lot of opium though the truth was that Poe had swored not to take opium in his entire life just after the first intake which was some sort of medication. Grisworld even said that Poe is a taboo to the society for he wonders in the streets cursing and uttering obscenities. But just like other writers, Poe had a few defenders too. George Graham and Mrs. Whitman issued ‘Edgar Poe and His Critics’ in 1860. Poe’s fame was celebrated…