Warlock in Training

Warlock in Training

Author: T J Nichols

Publisher: Tj Nichols

Published: 2020-01-13

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780648722823

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Angus Donohue doesn't want to be a warlock. He believes draining demons for magic is evil, but it's a dangerous opinion to have--his father is a powerful and well-connected warlock, and Angus is expected to follow the family tradition. His only way out is to fail the demon summoning class. Failure means expulsion from the Warlock College. Despite Angus's best efforts to fumble the summoning, it works. Although not the way anyone expects. Angus's demon, Saka, is a powerful mage with his own need for a warlock. Saka wants to use Angus in a ritual to rebalance the magic that is being stripped from Demonside by warlocks. If Angus survives his demon's desires and the perils of Demonside, he'll have to face the Warlock College and their demands. Angus must choose: obey the College and forget about Demonside or trust Saka and try to fix the damage before it's too late. Whatever he does, he is in the middle of a war he isn't qualified to fight.


Studies in Demonology

Studies in Demonology

Author: TJ Nichols

Publisher: TJ Nichols

Published:

Total Pages: 958

ISBN-13:

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Angus Donohue doesn't want to be a warlock. But he's caught up in war he's not ready to fight. As his understanding of magic grows so does the danger...and the forbidden love for his demon. With the fate of two worlds hanging in the balance Angus will have to pick a side. Human or demon? keyword: complete series, gay fantasy trilogy, demon romance, monster romance, reluctant hero, demon mage, gay witch, magical romance, portal fantasy


The Science of Demons

The Science of Demons

Author: Jan Machielsen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-03-18

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 135133364X

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Witches, ghosts, fairies. Premodern Europe was filled with strange creatures, with the devil lurking behind them all. But were his powers real? Did his powers have limits? Or were tales of the demonic all one grand illusion? Physicians, lawyers, and theologians at different times and places answered these questions differently and disagreed bitterly. The demonic took many forms in medieval and early modern Europe. By examining individual authors from across the continent, this book reveals the many purposes to which the devil could be put, both during the late medieval fight against heresy and during the age of Reformations. It explores what it was like to live with demons, and how careers and identities were constructed out of battles against them – or against those who granted them too much power. Together, contributors chart the history of the devil from his emergence during the 1300s as a threatening figure – who made pacts with human allies and appeared bodily – through to the comprehensive but controversial demonologies of the turn of the seventeenth century, when European witch-hunting entered its deadliest phase. This book is essential reading for all students and researchers of the history of the supernatural in medieval and early modern Europe.


Biblical Demonology

Biblical Demonology

Author: Merrill F. Unger

Publisher: Kregel Publications

Published: 1994-04-15

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780825493973

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"The supreme merit of Biblical Demonology is that it holds closely to the Word of God. . . . It will remain for many years to come the standard treatment of biblical demonology." —Dr. Wilbur M. Smith


Witchcraft, Demonology and Magic

Witchcraft, Demonology and Magic

Author: Marina Montesano

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2020-05-20

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 3039289594

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Witchcraft and magic are topics of enduring interest for many reasons. The main one lies in their extraordinary interdisciplinarity: anthropologists, folklorists, historians, and more have contributed to build a body of work of extreme variety and consistence. Of course, this also means that the subjects themselves are not easy to assess. In a very general way, we can define witchcraft as a supernatural means to cause harm, death, or misfortune, while magic also belongs to the field of supernatural, or at least esoteric knowledge, but can be used to less dangerous effects (e.g., divination and astrology). In Western civilization, however, the witch hunt has set a very peculiar perspective in which diabolical witchcraft, the invention of the Sabbat, the persecution of many thousands of (mostly) female and (sometimes) male presumed witches gave way to a phenomenon that is fundamentally different from traditional witchcraft. This Special Issue of Religions dedicated to Witchcraft, Demonology, and Magic features nine articles that deal with four different regions of Europe (England, Germany, Hungary, and Italy) between Late Medieval and Modern times in different contexts and social milieus. Far from pretending to offer a complete picture, they focus on some topics that are central to the research in those fields and fit well in the current “cumulative concept of Western witchcraft” that rules out all mono-causality theories, investigating a plurality of causes.


Witchcraft and Demonology in South-West England, 1640-1789

Witchcraft and Demonology in South-West England, 1640-1789

Author: J. Barry

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2016-04-05

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 9781349332298

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Using south-western England as a focus for considering the continued place of witchcraft and demonology in provincial culture in the period between the English and French revolutions, Barry shows how witch-beliefs were intricately woven into the fabric of daily life, even at a time when they arguably ceased to be of interest to the educated.


Introduction to Demonology

Introduction to Demonology

Author: Michael Freze

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-11-04

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781979524155

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"Introduction to Demonology: A Study of the Devil and Demons" is a beginning primer for anyone interested in a Catholic view of demonology. Topics include a lengthy dictionary, spiritual warfare, temptation, obsession, infiltration, possession, exorcism, witchcraft, sorcery, the occult, Satanism, and much more. Author Michael Freze, S.F.O., is a Catholic author of dozens of published books, including a bestseller for Our Sunday Visitor. He has written a 12-volume series on demonology which was given the Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur by former Bishop of the Diocese of Helena, Montana, the Most Reverend Elden F. Curtiss (later apointed Archbishop to the Diocese of Omaha, Nebraska). The author has appeared on numerous national television shows including "The Phil Donahue Show," "The Liza Show," "The History Channel," as well as several appearances on EWTN ("Mother Angelica Live!").


Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania

Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania

Author: Gábor Klaniczay

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-11-29

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 3319547569

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This book provides a selection of studies on witchcraft and demonology by those involved in an interdisciplinary research group begun in Hungary thirty years ago. They examine urban and rural witchcraft conflicts from early modern times to the present, from a region hitherto rarely taken into consideration in witchcraft research. Special attention is given to healers, midwives, and cunning folk, including archaic sorcerer figures such as the táltos; whose ambivalent role is analysed in social, legal, medical and religious contexts. This volume examines how waves of persecution emerged and declined, and how witchcraft was decriminalised. Fascinating case-studies on vindictive witch-hunters, quarrelling neighbours, rivalling midwives, cunning shepherds, weather magician impostors, and exorcist Franciscan friars provide a colourful picture of Hungarian and Transylvanian folk beliefs and mythologies, as well as insights into historical and contemporary issues.


Demons in the Details

Demons in the Details

Author: Sara Ronis

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2022-08-09

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0520386183

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The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters, and it also includes many laws that attempt to regulate such encounters. In this book, Sara Ronis takes the reader on a journey across the rabbinic canon, exploring how late antique rabbis imagined, feared, and controlled demons. Ronis contextualizes the Talmud's thought within the rich cultural matrix of Sasanian Babylonia, placing rabbinic thinking in conversation with Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Syriac Christian, Zoroastrian, and Second Temple Jewish texts about demons to delve into the interactive communal context in which the rabbis created boundaries between the human and the supernatural, and between themselves and other religious communities. Demons in the Details explores the wide range of ways that the rabbis participated in broader discussions about beliefs and practices with their neighbors, out of which they created a profoundly Jewish demonology.


Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe

Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe

Author: Julian Goodare

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-08-11

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1000080803

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Demonology – the intellectual study of demons and their powers – contributed to the prosecution of thousands of witches. But how exactly did intellectual ideas relate to prosecutions? Recent scholarship has shown that some of the demonologists’ concerns remained at an abstract intellectual level, while some of the judges’ concerns reflected popular culture. This book brings demonology and witch-hunting back together, while placing both topics in their specific regional cultures. The book’s chapters, each written by a leading scholar, cover most regions of Europe, from Scandinavia and Britain through to Germany, France and Switzerland, and Italy and Spain. By focusing on various intellectual levels of demonology, from sophisticated demonological thought to the development of specific demonological ideas and ideas within the witch trial environment, the book offers a thorough examination of the relationship between demonology and witch-hunting. Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe is essential reading for all students and researchers of the history of demonology, witch-hunting and early modern Europe.