Topic
Witches
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Adze
The adze is a vampire spirit of the Ewe people of Ghana and Togo. It slips into homes as a firefly, drinks children’s blood,…
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Funken Witch
At the Funken fires in Vorarlberg and other Alemannic areas, a witch effigy is burned each year atop a tall wooden tower. The fire…
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Witches’ Sabbath
The witches’ sabbath is the nighttime gathering with the Devil described by early modern judges and theologians. In Basque Zugarramurdi it led to history’s…
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Bruxa
The bruxa is the night witch of Portugal and Galicia. She turns into a bird, slips through any crack, and is a threat above…
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Aswang
In the Philippines, aswang is the umbrella term for a whole family of feared beings: vampires, shapeshifters, witches and ghouls who live like ordinary…
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Baba Yaga
Baba Yaga is the old woman of the forest in Russian and East Slavic fairy tales. She lives in a hut on chicken legs,…
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The Witches of Zugarramurdi – The Largest Witch Trial in History and the Inquisitor Who Stopped it!
In November 1610 the Spanish Inquisition burns people from the Basque village of Zugarramurdi at Logroño as devil-worshippers – the climax of the largest…
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The Fire Burns — But the Witch Is Lying | The Invented Tradition From the Alps
Every year on the first weekend after Ash Wednesday, thirty-metre wooden towers are erected across Vorarlberg, Austria — and set ablaze along with a…