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ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

, holy, holy, unto one hundred and fifty six times holy be our lady that rideth upon the beast! holy, holy, holy, unto the number of times necessary and appropriate be our lady isis in her millions-of-names, all-mother, genetrix-meretrix! yet holier than all these to me is laylah, night and death; for her do i blaspheme alike the finite and the the infinite. so wrote not frater perdurabo, but the imp crowley in his name. for forgery let him suffer penal servitude for seven years; or at least let him do pranayama all the way home-home? nay! but to the house of the harlot whom he loveth not. for it is laylah that he loveth. and yet who knoweth which is crowley, and which is frater perdurabo? book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 118 [122] commentary( nu-digamma) the number of

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4 2

o! but perhaps that was just the natural awe that i suppose one must always feel, even when one doesn't know, you know. i wonder, now, if we could get him to a little dinner. one could always pretend one didn't know who he was! let me see, now! caviar de sterlet royale- carr. consomm royale, sole la royale, haunch of royal venison- can't insult him with mere baron of beef- pouding royale, glace l'imp ratrice, canap royale- you'll be able to "feed" him all right! mrs. ossory. how clever you are, professor! thank you so much. now who should we ask to meet him? carr. i rather expect you'll have to meet him "alone" mrs. ossory "t te -t te" but would that be quite "proper" professor? carr. how very english- all you english think that. but- royalty has its own etiquette["enter" charley. come alo

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 6

s coming to cut all your heads off. laylah. leave her with us! ride back on a fresh horse, and bear aid to the prince["exit" achmet ledmiya["at window. there is a tumult in the courtyard, and a great wailing["wailing without" laylah. the sun will be set in an hour. one hour more of favour and protection for my boy, oh god of battles! the child. our god is love! he will protect me, i know. laylah. imp! be silent! how you startled me! and now i look at you- what is it? what is it? you frighten me. take her away- there, with the pipe-slaves [fatma "takes the child down stage to the pipe-slaves" 88 the child. you are ugly, you black creature! ledmiya. oh! oh["she runs to" laylah "and hides in the folds of her dress" laylah. what now? ledmiya. they are bringing in a corpse. laylah. oh my god- i

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

e emperor nicholas, which must have come from the tomb of petemenophis] in the el-assasif] and was made during the xxvith dynasty some more recent compiler of the hermetic books has evidently paraphrased it for the ritual of turin" bunsen, egypt's place in universal history, london, 1867, p. 1142. the block of stone to which dr. birch refers is described by gol nischeff, inventaire de la ermitage imp rial, collection gyptienne, no. 1101, pp. 169, 170. m. maspero thinks it was meant to be a "pr tendu fac-simil" of the original slab, which, according to the rubric, was found in the temple of thoth, revue de l'histoire des religions, t. xv, p. 299, and tudes de mythologie, t i, p. 368. 6 todtenbuch (einleitung, p. 139. mr. renouf also holds this opinion, trans. see. bibl. arch, 1803, p. 6* i

s said to be "happy with his ka"[2] in the next world, and his ka is joined unto his body in "the great dwelling [3] his body [1. the first scholar who seriously examined the meaning of the word was dr. birch, who collected several examples of the use and discussed them in his m moire sur une pat re gyptienne du mus e du louvre, paris, 1858, p. 59 ff (extrait du t. xxiv. des m moires de la soci t imp riale des antiquaires de france. dr. birch translated the word by tre, personne, embl me, divin, g nie, principe, esprit. in september, 1878, v. maspero explained to the members of the congress of lyons the views which he held concerning this word, and which he had for the past five years been teaching in the coll ge de france, and said "le ka est une sorte de double de la personne humaine d'u

t personality, to which, after death, the egyptians gave a material form. it was a subordinate part of the human being during life, but after death it became active; and to it the offerings brought to the tomb by the relatives of the dead were dedicated. it was believed that it returned to the body and had a share in its re-vivification. see birch, m moire sur une pat re gyptienne (in trans. soc. imp. des antiquaires de france, 1858; chabas, papyrus magique, pp. 28, 29; maspero, tude sur quelques peintures, p. 191 ff; trans. soc. bibl. arch, vol. vi, p. 494 ff; brugsch, aegyptologie, p. 181; wiedemann, religion der alien aegypter, p. 126 f. 2 the deceased is always identified with osiris, or the sun which has set, the judge and god of the dead. as the sun sets in the west and rises again i

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

wdness of the judge who tried the case. a man by the name of edmund robinson thought to profit by the general belief in witchcraft. he told his young son, a boy of 11, to say that he had encountered two dogs in the field, and he tried to get them to catch a hare. when the animals would not obey his bidding, he tied them to a post and whipped them, when they immediately turned into a witch and her imp. the fiction gained such credence that robinson declared that his son possessed a sort of second-sight, which enabled him to distinguish a witch at a glance. he took the boy to the neighboring churches, set him on a bench, and bade him point out the witches. the boy identified 17 persons, and the jury convicted them. they might have been hanged were it not for the judge s suspicions about the

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

fairies of other countries. according to w. crooke, author of religion and folklore of northern india (1926, the jak is the modern representative of the yaksha, who in better times was the attendant of kuvera, the god of wealth, in which duty he was assisted by the guhyaka. the character of the yaksha is not very certain. he was called punay-janas, the good people, but he sometimes appears as an imp of evil. in the folk-tales, it must be admitted, the yakshas have an equivocal reputation. in one story the female, or yakshini, bewilders travellers at night, makes horns grow on their foreheads, and finally devours them; in another the yakshas have, like the churel, feet turned the wrong way and squinting eyes; in a third they separate the hero from the heroine because he failed to make due

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

s, after a failed 1968 experiment that so terrified her that she ended up in a mental hospital. she was released when no evidence of psychopathology could be uncovered. h weig and his associates are here to re j u venate earth and its inhabitants. they plan to accomplish these changes via communication with contactees, who will be led to c e rtain disciples and. specific discove r i e s that will imp rove humanity s lot and eart h s enviro n m e n t. see also: channeling further reading sprinkle, r. leo, 1999. soul samples: personal explo- rations in reincarnation and ufo experiences. columbus, nc: granite publishing. hybrid beings hybrid beings are entities who are part human and part humanoid. they figure in a number of accounts of ufo abductions. female abductees sometimes report anomal

. i grabbed the table. i slid my feet along the 176 mince-pie martians carpet, and i got on the settee, and i didn t k n ow how long i was there. ooh! i was dead (budden, 1988. she lay incapacitated until five o clock that afternoon. fi n a l l y, her s t rength was sufficiently re s t o red so that she was able to phone her husband, a neighbor, and the police. in vestigators found an oval-shaped imp ression in the backyard snow. hingley complained that her clock, radio, and television we re no longer functioning. the cassette tapes that she said the beings had touched we re ruined. she suffered a range of physical d i s c o m f o rts in her eyes, ears, and jaw. he r doctor became alarmed enough about her well-being that he ord e red her to stay home f rom work for two weeks. as outlandish

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

nd, and le carosse dii roi hugon^ who rides round the city walls at night, and beats or carries off all that encounter him. here also king hugo capet's carriage represents that of a heathen god; in poitou they call it cjiassegallerie. in the forest of fontainebleau le grand veneur is supposed to hunt. in gervase of tilbury's time the bintish woods already rang yvith king arthur's mighty hunt (ot. imp. 2, 12 'narrautibus nemorum custodibus, quos forestarios vulgus nominat, se alternis diebus circa horam meridianam et in primo noctium conticinio sub plenilunio luna lucente saepissime videre militum copiam, venantium et canum et cornuum strepitum, qui sciscitantibus se de societate et familia arturi esse affirmant' the complaynt of scotland p. 97-8 says' arthour knycht he raid on nycht with g

woman unhurt, whom he knew very well, and who begged hard that he would not betray her, but get some clothes sent her from her house. he thi-ew her his handkerchief to cover herself with, and sent the clothes (mone's anz. 6, 395. niclas von wyle,in the dedication to his translation of apuleius, tells us of a different case, which he had heard from the lips of michel von pfullendorf, clerk to the imp. treasury: an innkeeper had through a ivoman's witcheries (gemecht, conf. make= conjure, p. 1032) been a ivild goose for more than a year, and flown about with other such geese, till one day a goose that he was quarrelling and snapping with, happened to tear from off his nech the little herchief m which the enchantment was knit up: again therefore a swan-ring, except that the witch does not we

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

und wieder raus 2 (in, and out again, 1 seb. frank s weltbuch 51a thus describes the shrovetide custom in fran conia: four of them hold a sheet by his 4 corners, whereon is laid a straw puppet in hose, jerkin and mask, like a dead man, the which they toss up by the 4 corners, and catch him again in the sheet. this they do the whole town through. at midlent they make in some places a straw man or imp, arrayed as a death, him the assembled youth bear into the nigh lying villages. and by some they be well received, eased and fed with dried pears, milk and peas; by others, which hold it a presage of coming death, evil entreated and driven from their homesteads with foul words and oftentimes with buffets. 2 this seems to indicate, that the deity of death is not to be annihilated by the ducking

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

e tumbledown fire station on my left, and noticed the red faced, bushy-bearded, watery eyed old man in nondescript rags who sat on a bench in front of it talking with a pair of unkempt but not abnormal looking firemen. this, of course, must be zodak allen, the half-crazed, liquorish nonagenarian whose tales of old innsmouth and its shadow were so hideous and incredible. iii it must have been some imp of the perverse- or some sardonic pull from dark, hidden sources- which made me change my plans as i did. i had long before resolved to limit my observations to architecture alone, and i was even then hurrying toward the square in an effort to get quick transportation out of this festering city of death and decay; but the sight of old zadok allen set up new currents in my mind and made me slac

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

tumbledown fire station on my left, and noticed the red faced, bushy-bearded, watery eyed old man in nondescript rags who sat on a bench in front of it talking with a pair of unkempt but not abnormal looking firemen. this, of course, must be zodak allen, the half-crazed, liquorish nonagenarian whose tales of old innsmouth and its shadow were so hideous and incredible. i i i it must have been some imp of the perverse- or some sardonic pull from dark, hidden sources- which made me change my plans as i did. i had long before resolved to limit my observations to architecture alone, and i was even then hurrying toward the square in an effort to get quick transportation out of this festering city of death and decay; but the sight of old zadok allen set up new currents in my mind and made me slac

INTRODUCTION TO THE SEVEN FACES OF DARKNESS

xample (they have learned how to initiate. now they can take on the inner darkness and make it glow with its own self-created light. human beings are besieged with four self-fears. after they have met their outwarddirected fears (fear of want, fear of violence, fear of abandonment, and so forth, the inward-directed fears remain. the inward-directed fears are 1. fear of the unknown impulse (or the imp of the perverse, 2. fear of the future, 3. fear of wasted time, and 4. fear of the unverifiable. each of these fears stops action, sours life, and limits one's sovereignty. let us identify each in turn, and explain how the fourth phase of initiation gives opportunity to overcome these fears. fear of the unknown impulse how many times has your life taken a certain turn, based on no clear reason

ISIS UNVEILED

was to act unkindly, even toward a devil, felt compelled to puni^ him by fixing the troublesome devil on the very sentence on which he stopped, by clasping the book. at another time the same devil ap- peared under the shape of a monk. he grinned so horribly that dominic, in order to get rid of him, ordered the devil-monkey to take the candle and hold it for him until he had done reading. the poor imp did so, and held it until it was consumed to the very end of the wick; and notwithstanding his pitiful cries for mercy the saint compelled him to hold it till his fingers were burned to the bones! enough! the approbation with which this book was received by the 154. see the dediiu and fao, de, ch. xxriii. digitizecoy google the indecency of 'the golden legend' 79 church, and the peculiar sanct

LAITMAN M KABBALAH REVEALED

s. there are no other options. freedom of choice is possible when both options are clearly visible and equally appealing (or unappealing. if i can only see one option, i will have to follow it. therefore, to choose freely, i have to see my own nature and the creator s nature. only if i don t know which is more pleasurable can i make a truly free choice and neutralize my ego. 150 kabbalah revealed imp l eme n t i n g f r e e c h o i c e the first principle in spiritual work is faith above reason. so before we talk about implementing free choice, we must explain the kabbalistic meanings of faith and reason. faith in just about every religion and belief system on earth, faith is used as a means to compensate for what we cannot see or clearly perceive. in other words, because we cannot see god

LEWIS JAMES SATANISM TODAY AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION FOLKLORE AND POPULAR CULTURE

s teats or witches marks. individuals with supernumerary nipples sometimes called monkey teats, a not uncommon condition were especially suspect as witches. tortured by agents of the inquisition, accused witches often confessed to feeding imps by such means. some of the witches executed in salem, massachusetts, were said to have had witches marks with which they fed diabolical familiars. see also imp for further reading: guiley, rosemary. the encyclopedia ofwitches and witchcraft. new york: facts on file, 1989. fantasia the final segment of this 1940 disney animation film features the dead rising and dancing before the diabolical master chernobog, who comes alive and causes graves to open. the great masters of classical composition, tchaikovsky, bach, beethoven, etc. provide the music for

onsequences of his actions would be punishment, but he preferred remaining true to his love of god (and the consequences of being condemned to hell) over being untrue to his love of god and remaining in heaven. see also islam; jinn for further reading: the encyclopaedia of islam. leiden: e. j. brill, 1978. glass, cyril. the concise encyclopedia of islam. san francisco: harper san francisco, 1989. imp imps are minor evil spirits, rather like infernal fairies. the word from old english impian, to graft, means offshoot or cutting, a term that conveys the impression of imps being offshoots of satan. imps have also been described as the i 121 122 incubi and succubi demonic equivalent of guardian angels, who tempt one to evil acts rather than incline one to good acts. for the consciously evil pe

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

hierophant of the mysteries of cybele, this symbolic figure personifies the shekinah, or divine wisdom. in the pseudo-egyptian tarot the priestess is veiled, a reminder that the full countenance truth is not revealed to uninitiated man. a veil also covers one-half of her book, thus intimating that but one-half of the mystery of being can be comprehended. the third numbered major trump is called l'imp ratrice, the empress, and has been likened to the "woman clothed with the sun" described in the apocalypse. on this card appears the winged figure of a woman seated upon a throne, supporting with her right hand a shield emblazoned with a phoenix and holding in her left a scepter surmounted by an orb or trifoliate flower. beneath her left foot is sometimes shown the crescent. either the empress

of the college of the mysteries she is the alma mater out of whose body the initiate has "born again" in the pseudo-egyptian tarot the empress is shown seated upon a cube filled with eyes and a bird is balanced upon the forefinger other left hand. the upper part of her body is surrounded by a radiant golden nimbus. being emblematic of the power from which emanates the entire tangible universe, l'imp ratrice is frequently symbolized as pregnant. the fourth numbered major trump is called l'empereur, the emperor, and by its numerical value is directly associated with the great deity revered by the pythagoreans under the form of the tetrad. his symbols declare the emperor to be the demiurgus, the great king of the inferior world. the emperor is dressed in armor and his throne is a cube stone

im was given the child. the editor of the sacred books and early literature of the east calls attention to the peculiar spirit with which the childhood of jesus is treated in most of the apocryphal books of the new testament, particularly in one work attributed to the doubting thomas, the earliest known greek version of which dates from about a.d. 200 "the child christ is represented almost as an imp, cursing and destroying those who annoy him" this apocryphal work, calculated to inspire its readers with fear and trembling, was popular during the middle ages because it was in full accord with the cruel and persecuting spirit of medi val christianity. like many other early sacred books, the book of thomas was fabricated for two closely allied purposes: first, to outshine the pagans in mirac

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

sired powers of the elemental. once combined and consecrated the sorcerer is able, with blood or sexual fluid, to endow a form of life upon the elemental on the astral plane. the guardian should be given direct instructions at the creation, and all belief focused on this purpose. nothing should be said to the elemental after this because they consist of pure will. once you feel the purpose of the imp is served, the elemental may be banished and the sigil destroyed after a concentration phase of reabsorbing the elemental. elementals are sometimes employed by the sorcerer in the activities of the witches sabbat. therein magickians and sorcerers enter the astral plane for congress and union, celebration and a mutual harnessing of individual power. this goes well beyond all dogmatic forms sinc

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

hephaestus demanded that zeus (jupiter) should repay him all the gifts he had made in order to win aphrodite s hand, but in the end settled for a fine to be paid by ares. amid much laughter, poseidon offered to stand surety for the debt, and so the lovers were freed. golden goddess aphrodite is called golden by the poet hesiod. she is also called laughter-loving, although here the joke is on her. imp of desire some sources say that eros (cupid) was aphrodite s son by either ares, hermes, or even by her father zeus. others say that he was the first god, and hatched from the world egg at the beginning of time. cunning net when hephaestus learned of aphrodite s betrayal, he made a net of fine metal to catch the lovers. hephaestus was the blacksmith god and was worshiped in athens as the patro

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

dread ravage. only then does the prospect open of breaking the unconscious projection, the ending of which discloses the world and the whole of life in a totally different light "one thing only, brother, do i proclaim" said the buddha "now as before. suffering and deliverance from suffering" these restricting circumstances and bonds are only the gates of the wilderness. the use of the word "gate"imp1ies a means both of egress and ingress. by these gates we have entered, and by them also may we go out if so we choose, to enter the brilliance of the dawning sun, and perchance greet the rising of the spiritual splendour. for "after the formless, the void, and the darkness, then cometh the knowledge of the light" as intimated above, one first must have realised that one's soul is lost in dark

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

came tumbling down. no, not death: birth. ii mahound 1 gibreel when he submits to the inevitable, when he slides heavy-lidded towards visions of his angeling, passes his loving mother who has a different name for him, shaitan, she calls him, just like shaitan, same to same, because he has been fooling around with the tiffins to be carried into the city for the office workers' lunch, mischeevious imp, she slices the air with her hand, rascal has been putting muslim meat compartments into hindu non-veg tiffin-carriers, customers are up in arms. little devil, she scolds, but then folds him in her arms, my little farishta, boys will be boys, and he falls past her into sleep, growing bigger as he falls and the falling begins to feel like flight, his mother's voice wafts distantly up to him, ba

arms and howled with delight. chamcha wanted to speak, but was afraid that he would find his voice mutated into goat--bleats, and, besides, the policeman's boot had begun to press harder than ever on his chest, and it was hard to form any words. what puzzled chamcha was that a circumstance which struck him as utterly bewildering and unprecedented- that is, his metamorphosis into this supernatural imp- was being treated by the others as if it were the most banal and familiar matter they could imagine "this isn't england" he thought, not for the first or last time. how could it be, after all; where in all that moderate and common--sensical land was there room for such a police van in whose interior such events as these might plausibly transpire? he was being forced towards the conclusion tha

around the apartment, banging into the furniture, slamming doors "it exploits his sickness, has nothing to do with his present needs, and shows an utter contempt for his own wishes. he's retired; can't you people respect that? he doesn't want to be a star. and will you please stand still. i'm not going to eat you" he stopped running, but kept a cautious sofa between them "please see that this is imp imp imp" he cried, his stammer crippling his tongue on account of his anxiety "can the moomoon retire? also, excuse, there are his seven sig sig sig _signatures. committing him absolutely. unless and until you decide to commit him to a papapa" he gave up, sweating freely"_a what "pagal khana. asylum. that would be another wwwway" allie lifted a heavy brass inkwell in the shape of mount everest

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

a female; yet it moved not as move even the ghosts that simulate the living. it seemed rather to crawl as some vast misshapen reptile; and pausing, at length it cowered beside the table which held the mystic volume, and again fixed its eyes through the filmy veil on the rash invoker. all fancies, the most grotesque, of monk or painter in the early north, would have failed to give to the visage of imp or fiend that aspect of deadly malignity which spoke to the shuddering nature in those eyes alone. all else so dark, shrouded, veiled and larva-like. but that burning glare so intense, so livid, yet so living, had in it something that was almost human in its passion of hate and mockery, something that served to show that the shadowy horror was not all a spirit, but partook of matter enough, at

TEXE MARRS CODEX MAGICA SECRET SIGNS MYSTERIOUS SYMBOLS AND HIDDEN CODES OF THE ILLUMINATI

itual rigmarole? why do some of the world's richest and influential men take the risks they do in working their demonic magical acts in plain sight, so that they are pictured doing it in major newsmagazines and newspapers, on television, and in other avenues with huge potential audiences? edgar allen poe, the famous novelist of dark mood and mysterious suspense, once wrote a tale "perverse of the imp" in which he suggested that criminals often have an overwhelming, all consuming desire to publicly confess their devious crimes. could it be this is why the illuminati so flagrantly flaunt their occultic wares? is it that they possess a unique taste for deceit and chicanery? or is the performance in plain sight accomplished because it is believed to infuse power and mastery into their sought f

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erged from the darkness. saber-toothed tigers stalked them; cave bears mauled them, and rival hominid species struggled against them for survival. ancient nightterrors surface in the dreams and imaginations of present-day humans, and sometimes the monsters turn out to be real. 57 chapter exploration apelike monsters bigfoot orang pendek skunk ape yeti creatures of the night chupacabra ghoul golem imp incubus jersey devil succubus vampire werewolf monsters of land, sea, and air dragons loch ness and other lake monsters sea serpents thunderbirds wee folk and their friends elves fairies gnomes goblins gremlins leprechauns menehune mermaids nisse selkies trolls actors who faced (or became) movie monsters introduction some psychologists have suggested that there is something within the human ps

jewish sector. m delving deeper frankenstein and the golem. jewish gothic [online] http//www. jewishgothic.com/golem.html. kaplan, aryeh. sefer yetsirah: the book of creation in theory and practice. new york: samuel weiser, 1990. unterman, alan. dictionary of jewish lore and legend. london and new york: thames and hudson, 1991. winkler, gershon. the golem of prague. new york: judaica press, 1994. imp in old english impe means a young plant shoot or a tree sapling. over the years, the word came to refer to smallish entities that were direct offspring of the devil and sent from hell to do evil deeds to humans on earth. imps might well be called junior demons, and one of their principal assignments, according to christian authorities, was to disguise themselves as black cats, owls, ravens, or

mans on earth. imps might well be called junior demons, and one of their principal assignments, according to christian authorities, was to disguise themselves as black cats, owls, ravens, or some other animal and serve as a witch s familiar. in many of the transcripts of the european witchcraft trials, the demonic spirit given by the devil to a witch to do his or her bidding was referred to as an imp. in most of the descriptions of imps given by witches or those theologians who claimed to have exorcised the entities, their appearance apart from the animals they possessed was always a solid black in color. since they were creatures without souls sired by the devil, imps were condemned to be dark shadow beings, forever denied the light of god. over the centuries, the meaning of the word has

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL

all the qualifications necessary to become a professional witchhunter. it is known that both hopkins and his assistant stearne were puritans, and those who knew them stated that they were men of deep religious convictions. hopkins seemed to have a general knowledge of some of the european literature on witchcraft.enough, at least, to have become convinced that all witches received a familiar, an imp often disguised as a cat or some other t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d magic and sorcery 111 either guilty or innocent, of course, the accused witch was eliminated as a real or a potential emissary of satan on earth. animal, after they had signed a pact with satan. hopkins believed the familiar sustained itself by feeding upon the witch

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

he witch, any creature of therequired kind would be sufficiently good to draw omens from. the divining familiar was, as the name i havegiven to it implies, used only for prophetic purposes, and the use of divination by its means is almostuniversal. the domestic familiar was entirely different. it was always a small animal, which belonged to thewitch, was kept in her house, and was often called an imp or a spirit, and occasionally a devil, was fed in aspecial manner and was used only to carry out the commands of the witch. the geographical distribution ofthe domestic familiar suggests that it was in origin scandinavian, finnish or lapp. a scientific study of thesubject might throw light on some of the religious beliefs and practices of the early invaders of our easternshores.originally the

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

a lock of the witches' hair, or of some other equally trifling object. they were then obliged to seal their denial of the christian faith by trampling on the cross and blaspheming the saints. the devil then, or in the course of the meeting, had sexual intercourse with the new witch, placed his mark upon some concealed part of her body, very commonly in her sexual parts, and gave her a familiar or imp, who was to be at her bidding and assist in the perpetration of evil. all this was what may be called the business of the meeting, and when it was over, they all went to a great banquet, which was set out on tables, and which sometimes consisted of sumptuous viands, but more frequently of loathsome or unsubstantial food, so that the guests often left the meeting as hungry as though they had ta

commencer secher par la teste, vrayment trone, car il y paroist escartell, et comme estropiat, et sans bras, et en figure d un g ant t n breux et object fort recul. que s il y paroist en homme, c est en homme gehenn, tourment, rouge et flamboyant comme un feu qui sort d une fournaise ardente, homme effac, duquel la forme ne paroist qu a demy, avec une voix cass, morsondue, et non articul e, mais imp rieuse, bruiante, et effroyable. si bien qu on ne s auroit bonnement dire le voir s il est homme, tronc, ou beste. il est assis dans une chaire, dor e en apparence, mais flamboiante: la royne ddu sabbat son cost, qui est quelque sorci re qu il 222 on the worship of the side sat the queen of the sabbath, one of the witches whom he had debauched, to whom he chose to give greater honour than to t

la moiti de son pied gauche pour avoir la facult de gu rir, et la libert de voir le sabbat simplement sans estre oblig autre chose. et disoit que le sabbot se faisoit presque tousjours environ la minuit, un carrefour, le plus souvent la nuict du mercredy et du vendredy: que le diable cherchoit la nuict la plus orageuse qu il pouvoit, asin que les vents et les orages portassent plus loing et plus imp tueusement leurs poudres; que deux diables notables pr sidoient en ces sabbats, le grand negre qu on appelloit maistre leonard, et un autre petit diable que maistre leonard subrogeoit quelquefois en sa place, qu ils appellent jean mullin; qu on adorait le grand maistre, 228 on the worship of the kissed his posteriors, there were about sixty of them dancing without dress, back to back, each wit

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nourishing fairy children at their breasts. when their duties were fulfilled, they were either permitted to return to the human world, or were allowed to stay on in the fairy world. this myth suggests that fairies are nourished in some way on the vitality of human beings, which in the tales of the abduction of nursemaids is represented by human milk. we see in this an echo of the witch's familiar imp, asserted by the demonologists to nourish itself by sucking the blood of the witch at a small protrusion similar to a mole that was known as the witch's teat. in both instances, it is vital energy, not the physical materials of milk or blood, that provides the nourishment for the spirit-although the vital force may be said to be present within the blood, and to a lesser degree within the milk

, and singing and hollering at the tops of their voices. most of them are drunk. the townspeople watch them with amusement from the sidewalks. now and then, the painted revelers seize one of the onlookers and refuse to release him until he ransoms his freedom with a coin. when the procession reaches the town square, the chains are symbolically struck off the necks of the naked man and woman by an imp wielding a sword, and the giant devilish figure is set on fire. the ruling intelligence is pan, god of nature. the flutes invoke his presence at the celebration in the form of a goat that is led along after the statue. for the price of a coin, the masked revelers will let you ask your questions of the goat, who will bleat to indicate an affirmative response. xvi the blasted tower hebrew letter

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

gaolers could not catch it, they regarded it as proof that it was the devil's messenger. by the time the woman had sat on the stool for twenty-four hours without food, water or rest, she was usually ready to confess to anything. the fact that she might recant later was not much help to her; her gaolers could always embroider their evidence with accounts of their valiant attempts to catch satan's imps. 5 perhaps becausethey led such wretched lives, children were often the first to accuse their parents. one testimony was sufficient to hang a person. a child who felt he had been unjustly punished might run to the village gossip with the news that his mother had been visited by an owl at dead of night. the fact that the owl had nested outside his home ever since he could remember would be con

soon as he entered the building he felt at home. built as a memorial to a lancashire 61 cotton merchant who was a devout christian, the library was a monument of stone and wood. while at first appearance it looked like a church, a keener glance recognized the hallmark ofa stonemason trained in witchcraft. peering out from the top ofpillars were little stone mice with devils' faces; cats, demons, imps and dragons crouched in corners and crevices, in the boardroom where the interview took place, alex had difficulty keeping his eyes off the magnificent framed papyrus specimens on the walls and the egyptian. bills of sale for servants. the wages, explained the library official, were very low; only eight pounds a week which, in 1963, was about the lowest rate for any job. alex assured him that

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

esom, besom long and lithe made from ash and willow withe tied with thongs of willow bark in running stream at moonset dark. with a pentagram indighted as the ritual fire is lighted; sweep ye circle, deosil, sweep out evil, sweep out ill, make the round of the ground where we do the lady's will. besom, besom, lady's broom sweep out darkness, sweep out doom rid ye lady's hallowed ground of demons, imps and hell's red hound; then set ye down on her green earth by running stream or mistress' hearth 'till called once more on sabbath night to cleans once more the dancing site. notes i understand that this chant was written by lady tamara of the wcc (however, i have no evidence for this except hearsay, and the fact that the wcc appears to use it, so i may be wrong) l there is absolutely no reaso

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

arth, heaven, and hell to grant the request. give mewhat i ask, and thou shalt have honour and offerings; refuse, and i will vex thee by insult. socanidia and her kind boasted that they could compelthe gods to appear. this is all classic. no oneever heard of a satanic witch invoking or threatening the trinity, or christ or even the angels orsaints. in fact, they cannot even compelthe devil or his imps to obey they work entirely by hisgood-will as slaves. but in the old italian lore the sorcerer or witch is all or nothing, and aims at limit-less will or power.of the ancient belief in the virtues of a perforated stone i need not speak. but it is to be remarkedthat in the invocation the witch goes forth in the earliest morning to seekfor verbena or verbain. theancient persian magi, or rather

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hysiological facts. two years later, he published his findings in fenomeni medianici. in botazzi s later years he taught the history of science at cambridge university and went on to do numerous studies on leonardo da vinci until his death on december 19, 1941 in diso, italy. sources: gillispie, charles goulston, ed. dictionary of scientific biography. 16 vols. new york: scribner, 1970.80. bottle imps a class of german spirits similar in many ways to familiars. the following is a paraphrase of the prescription in an old manuscript in the bodleian library, oxford, england (ms. ashmole 1406, for the purpose of securing one of these fairies: first, take a broad square crystal or venetian glass, about three inches in breadth and length. lay it in the blood of a white hen on three wednesdays or

, his methodology of gathering numerous reports of sittings and subjecting them to comparative analysis has been more fully understood and appreciated. bozzano s pioneer researches have not been fully recognized outside europe, because most of his many books have not been translated into english. among the few available to english- speaking readers are animism and spiritism (1932, polyglot bottle imps encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 208 mediumship (1932, and discarnate influence in human life (1938. bozzano also contributed a preface and articles to modern psychic mysteries by gwendolyn k. hack (1929. sources: alvarado, c. s. the life and work of an italian psychical researcher; a review of ernesto bozzano: la vite a l opera by giovanni iannuzzo. journal of the american

mmonwealth of elves, fauns, and fairies (1691, robert kirk describes the fairy arrow as being tipped with yellow flint and states that it inflicts a mortal wound without breaking the skin. he also says that he examined such wounds. it is even on record that an irish bishop was thus shot at by an evil spirit, and it was said that the arrows were manufactured by the devil with the help of attendant imps who roughhewed them while the archfiend finished the work. cases are on record of elf arrows allegedly made and used by the witches of scotland within historic times. in 1662 isobel gowdie confessed that she had seen such elf arrows made. similar superstitions regarding these remnants of the stone age prevail in italy, africa, and turkey. sources: kirk, robert. the secret commonwealth of elve

two of them were hes, and the other two shes were to punish with lameness and other diseases of bodily harm. one he, like a gray cat, is called tittey; the second, like a black cat, is called jack; one she, like a black toad, is called pigin; and the other, like a black lamb, is called tyffin. elizabeth bennet said she had a familiar called suckin, being black like a dog. alice manfield had four imps, robin, jack, william, and puppet, two hes and two shes, all like unto black cats. agnes heard had six familiars that were blackbirds, white-speckled and all black. sources: gleadow, rupert. magic and divination. wakefield, england: ep publishing, 1976. maple, eric. the complete book of witchcraft and demonology: witches, devils, and ghosts in western civilization. south brunswick, n.j: a. s

s hand and causing thunder to dart from his sleeve. it was related by benno that on one occasion he left his magic book behind him at his villa. entrusting two of his servants with the task of returning for it, he warned them not to look into it on pain of the most awful punishment. curiosity overcame the fears of one of them, and, opening the book, he pronounced some words. immediately a band of imps appeared and asked what they commanded. the terrified servants begged the demons to cast down as much of the city wall as lay in their way; thus they escaped punishment for their disobedience. notwithstanding such folklore, there is no real evidence that gregory practiced sorcery. gregory, anita (kohsen) encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 668 grenzgebiete der wissenschaft (jou

able positions, occasionally binding them with cords, and compelled them to remain so without food or sleep for 24 hours. they walked the person up and down a room, one taking him or her under each arm, till the accused dropped down with fatigue. they carefully swept the room in which the experiment was made so that they might keep away spiders and flies, which were supposed to be devils or their imps in disguise. the inquisition of hopkins and his confederates culminated in 1646. so many persons had been committed to prison on suspicion of witchcraft that the government was compelled to take the affair in hand. the rural magistrates before whom hopkins and his confederates brought their victims were obliged, willingly or unwillingly, to commit those accused for trial. to defend himself, h

FAUST

and mind is devil, they nurture doubt, in doubt they revel, their hybrid, monstrous progeny. that s not for us- our emperor s ancient land has seen arise two castes alone who worthily uphold his throne: the saints and knights. firm do they stand, defying every tempest day by day and taking church and state in pay. in rabble minds that breed confusion revolt arises like a tide. heretics, wizards! imps of delusion! they ruin town and country-side. them will you now with brazen juggle into this lofty circle smuggle, while in a heart depraved you snuggle. fools, wizards, heretics are near allied. mephistopheles i see the learned man in what you say! what you don t touch, for you lies miles away; what you don t grasp, is wholly lost to you; what you don t reckon, you believe not true; what you

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

ril 2nd, and a gathering of the clouds about his consciousness. there is a sense of spectral whirling through liquid gulfs of infinity, of dizzying rides through reeling universes on a comets tail, and of hysterical plunges from the pit to the moon and from the moon back again to the pit, all livened by a cachinnating chorus of the distorted, hilarious elder gods and the green, bat-winged mocking imps of tartarus. out of that dream came rescue-the vigilant, the vice-admiralty court, the streets of dunedin, and the long voyage back home to the old house by the egeberg. he could not tell- they would think him mad. he would write of what he knew before death came, but his wife must not guess. death would be a boon if only it could blot out the memories. that was the document i read, and now i

nhallowed rites and conclaves of the indians, amidst which they called forbidden shapes of shadow out of the great rounded hills, and made wild orgiastic prayers that were answered by loud crackings and rumblings from the ground below. in 1747 the reverend abijah hoadley, newly come to the congregational church at dunwich village, preached a memorable sermon on the close presence of satan and his imps; in which he said "it must be allow'd, that these blasphemies of an infernall train of daemons are matters of too common knowledge to be deny'd; the cursed voices of azazel and buzrael, of beelzebub and belial, being heard now from under ground by above a score of credible witnesses now living. i myself did not more than a fortnight ago catch a very plain discourse of evill powers in the hill

mustn't take too much stock in what people here say. they're hard to get started, but once they do get started they never let up. they've been telling things about innsmouth- whispering 'em, mostly- for the last hundred years, i guess, and i gather they're more scared than anything else. some of the stories would make you laugh- about old captain marsh driving bargains with the devil and bringing imps out of hell to live in innsmouth, or about some kind of devil-worship and awful sacrifices in some place near the wharves that people stumbled on around 1845 or thereabouts- but i come from panton, vermont, and that kind of story don't go down with me "you ought to hear, though, what some of the old-timers tell about the black reef off the coast- devil reef, they call it. it's well above wate

HP LOVECRAFT THE CALL OF CTHULHU

april, and a gathering of the clouds about his consciousness. there is a sense of spectral whirling through liquid gulfs of infinity, of dizzying rides through reeling universes on a comet's tail, and of hysterical plunges from the pit to the moon and from the moon back again to the pit, all livened by a cachinnating chorus of the distorted, hilarious elder gods and the green, bat-winged mucking imps of tartarus. out of that dream came rescue- the vigilant the viceadmiralty court, the streets of dunedin, and the long voyage back home to the old house by the egeberg he could not tell -they would think him mad. he would write of what he knew before death came, but his wife must not guess. death would be a boon if only it could blot out the memories. that was the document i read, and now i h

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

mustn't take too much stock in what people here say. they're hard to get started, but once they do get started they never let up. they've been telling things about innsmouth- whispering 'em, mostly- for the last hundred years, i guess, and i gather they're more scared than anything else. some of the stories would make you laugh- about old captain marsh driving bargains with the devil and bringing imps out of hell to live in innsmouth, or about some kind of devilworship and awful sacrifices in some place near the wharves that people stumbled on around 1845 or there-abouts- but i come from panton, vermont, and that kind of story don't go down with me "you ought to hear, though, what some of the old-timers tell about the black reef off the coast- devil reef, they call it. it's well above wate

KETAB E SIYAH

. with my own eyes i did behold 169 adonai yahweh, lord of infinitude, create man and woman from a lump of clay, crafting limb from its formless stuff as he did make the elohim, his sons and my brothers, from the smokeless flame. no other is there with the art to make such as beautiful and wise as man. forget that which you did perceive for it was but a dream that played you false wrought by base imps, most mischievous, to pleasure and fulfil their desire for the tricks and traps they work. know, then, that this is true, my own soul does well know it: but for god himself there is no god, la ilaha il allah! thus is it written. forget it not ever, for those that would a fire burns forever and eternal torment is their lot. this is the answer to your inquiry" much troubled were my children by

LEWIS JAMES SATANISM TODAY AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION FOLKLORE AND POPULAR CULTURE

d from old english impian, to graft, means offshoot or cutting, a term that conveys the impression of imps being offshoots of satan. imps have also been described as the i 121 122 incubi and succubi demonic equivalent of guardian angels, who tempt one to evil acts rather than incline one to good acts. for the consciously evil person, they are errand boys who carry out the bidding of their master. imps were also traditionally thought to be the familiars of witches. imps were low-maintenance demons and could be kept just about anywhere. usually tiny in size, some were said to look like small people, others like moles or even toads. they required some feeding, and particularly needed blood. see also familiars; satan for further reading: briggs, katharine. an encyclopedia of fairies. new york:

the spectacle could be quite convincing. eventually, so many innocent people were executed by the false testimony of prickers that in 1662 pricking for witchcraft was outlawed. after some of the prickers where imprisoned and, in some cases, executed, the practice quickly died out. witches marks or witches teats can also refer to special marks believed to serve the purpose of feeding familiars or imps, who were believed to have a craving for human blood. individuals with supernumerary nipples sometimes called monkey teats, a not uncommon condition were especially suspect as witches. tortured by agents of the inquisition, accused witches often confessed to feeding imps by such means. some of the witches executed in salem, massachusetts, were said to have had witches marks with which they fe

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

of the naked mountain was the wine it poured for me. 19. a wild country and a waning moon. clouds scudding over the sky. a circuit of pines, and of tall yews beyond. thou in the midst! 20. o all ye toads and cats rejoice! ye slimy things, come hither! 21. dance, dance to the lord our god! 22. he is he! he is he! he is he! 23. why should i go on? 24. why? why? comes the sudden cackle of a million imps of hell. 25. and the laughter runs. 26. but sickens not the universe; but shakes not the stars. 27. god! how i love thee! 28. i am walking in an asylum; all the men and women about me are insane. 8 liber liberi vel lapidis lazuli 29. oh madness! madness! madness! desirable art thou! 30. but i love thee, o god! 31. these men and women rave and howl; they froth out folly. 32. i begin to be afra

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the sabbat. primarily the sabbat is based on astral union and the shedding of restrictive dogma and day side denials which take place within each sorcerer's life unless they live with a harem far away from civilization. the sabbat as described in general takes place deep in the forest, when the moon stands full in the night. witches, both male and female attend with their elemental servitors and imps, who participate in the ceremony, celebrating according to their masters' will while in their astral form. one god form often presiding over the sabbath is known as oz or baphomet, among other names. this god form often manifests on the astral plane as either: a mental or psychic focus of the group, wherein the form is mutually established so that each thought pattern establishes a common lin

flesh, and may possess living bodies, but i know i successfully absorbed the elemental. i would however recommend that only an adept in such arts attempt such an act, since it can lead to madness if the will and mind are not strong. vampiric servitors- incubus- succubus- vampiric servitors can prove useful in the evocation and creation of elementals, either for the purpose of defense or as fetish imps. one particular method, which can prove useful in times of psychic war between two sorcerers, involves the creation of several servitors where each serves a different purpose. i have found such elementals are wonderful for a short evening of dreams and waking, however beyond that would prove rather dangerous, even to the point of obsession. such spirits should be controlled by the sorcerer, n

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nymphs, who always avoided their coarse rough sports. the satyrs were conspicuous figures in the train of dionysus, and, as we have seen, silenus their chief was tutor to the wine god. the older satyrs were called silens, and are represented in antique sculpture, as more nearly approaching the human form [175] in addition to the ordinary satyrs, artists delighted in depicting little satyrs, young imps, frolicking about the woods in a marvellous variety of droll attitudes. these little fellows greatly resemble their friends and companions, the panisci. in rural districts it was customary for the shepherds and peasants who attended the festivals of dionysus, to dress themselves in the skins of goats and other animals, and, under this disguise, they permitted themselves all kinds of playful t

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ied, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. the human inhabitants of titlipur, and its butterfly hordes, moved amongst one another with a kind of mutual disdain. the villagers and the zamindar's family had long ago abandoned the attempt to exclude the butterflies from their homes, so that now whenever a trunk was opened, a batch of wings would fly out of it like pandora's imps, changing colour as they rose; there were butterflies under the closed lids of the thunderboxes in the toilets of peristan, and inside every wardrobe, and between the pages of books. when you awoke you found the butterflies sleeping on your cheeks. the commonplace eventually becomes invisible, and mirza saeed had not really noticed the butterflies for a number of years. on the morning of his

could happen, your windows shattered in the middle of the night without any cause, you were knocked over in the street by invisible hands, in the shops you heard such abuse you felt like your ears would drop off but when you turned in the direction of the words you saw only empty air and smiling faces, and every day you heard about this boy, that girl, beaten up by ghosts- yes, a land of phantom imps, how to explain; best thing was to stay home, not go out for so much as to post a letter, stay in, lock the door, say your prayers, and the goblins would (maybe) stay away- reasons for defeat? baba, who could count them? not only was she a shopkeeper's wife and a kitchen slave, but even her own people could not be relied on- there were men she thought of as respectable types, sharif, giving t

nd partly of scorn, and the residences of the poor of confusion and material dreams. when you looked through an angel's eyes you saw essences instead of surfaces, you saw the decay of the soul blistering and bubbling on the skins of people in the street, you saw the generosity of certain spirits resting on their shoulders in the form of birds. as he roamed the metamorphosed city he saw bat-winged imps sitting on the corners of buildings made of deceits and glimpsed goblins oozing wormily through the broken tilework of public urinals for men. as once the thirteenth-century german monk richalmus would shut his eyes and instantly see clouds of minuscule demons surrounding every man and woman on earth, dancing like dust-specks in the sunlight, so now gibreel with open eyes and by the light of

that their presence at the battuta--mamoulian party was a thing to which she had been whole-heartedly opposed, acquiescing only after a terrible scene in which gibreel had roared that he would be kept a prisoner no longer, and that he was determined to make a further effort to re--enter his "real life- or that the effort of looking after a disturbed lover who was capable of seeing small bat-like imps hanging upside down in the refrigerator had worn allie thin as a worn-out shirt, forcing upon her the roles of nurse, scapegoat and crutch- requiring her, in sum, to act against her own complex and troubled nature- not knowing any of this, failing to comprehend that the gibreel at whom he was looking, and believed he saw, gibreel the embodiment of all the good fortune that the fury-haunted ch

SATANGEL

ms, charles pace. the influence of the classical grimoire may even be seen in the ritual tools and circles as described in the wiccan book of shadows. chiefly it is the practice of evocation, of summoning and binding spirits by means of their names, signatures, by words of power, by magical glyphs and talisman. the powers and knowledge these devils grant is that of herbs and stones, the giving of imps and familiars, the location of riches, the healing of illness, of slaying at a distance, reconciling broken friendships, and bringing back strayed lovers. the classical grimoire of tradition may be composed and copied by cultured and educated hands, yet they give form and expression to desires and beliefs that might otherwise be described not merely as primitive, but even atavistic. its seemi

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

ob, and to murder, these are the natural desires of a man who is famishing. with a full belly, signor, we are at peace with all the world. that's right; you like the partridge! cospetto! when i myself have passed two or three days in the mountains, with nothing from sunset to sunrise but a black crust and an onion, i grow as fierce as a wolf. that's not the worst, too. in these times i see little imps dancing before me. oh, yes; fasting is as full of spectres as a field of battle" glyndon thought there was some sound philosophy in the reasoning of his companion; and certainly the more he ate and drank, the more the recollection of the past night and of mejnour's desertion faded from his mind. the casement was open, the breeze blew, the sun shone, all nature was merry; and merry as nature h

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s always a solid black in color. since they were creatures without souls sired by the devil, imps were condemned to be dark shadow beings, forever denied the light of god. over the centuries, the meaning of the word has lost its satanic implications. when one speaks of someone having an impish smile, one is likely to mean that that individual has wry sense of humor. to refer to children as little imps suggests that they are mischievous, rather than malignant. m delving deeper larousse dictionary of world folklore. new york: larousse, 1995. michelet, jules. satanism and witchcraft. new york: citadel press, 1939, 1960. walker, barbara. the woman s dictionary of symbols& sacred objects. edison, n.j: castle books, 1988. incubus according to ancient tradition, there are two main classifications

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ss would often be continued for days, the suspect fs feet might become bloody and bruised from the walking. while such an exhaustive and cruel regimen might not technically have been considered torture, its brutal effects produced the same results from its hapless victims. in the discovery of witches, a pamphlet hopkins published in 1647, he wrote that on one occasion he and stearne witnessed six imps attempting to sneak into the room where a witch was being watched. one was a whitish thing, not quite as large as a cat; another was something like a dog with sandy spots; and a third resembled a greyhound with long legs. it seemed the other three got away before the two witch-hunters got a good look at them. on this particular occasion, six townspeople whom hopkins had gathered as volunteers

one was a whitish thing, not quite as large as a cat; another was something like a dog with sandy spots; and a third resembled a greyhound with long legs. it seemed the other three got away before the two witch-hunters got a good look at them. on this particular occasion, six townspeople whom hopkins had gathered as volunteers in the watching part of the ordeal swore that they, too, had seen the imps approaching the witch, and their testimony was often used by hopkins to silence those skeptics who might doubt the reality of demonic familiars. the gswimming h part of hopkins fs threepart test was a foolproof method of determining the guilt or innocence of a witch. hopkins would have the witches bound in a painful position with their right thumb to their left big toe and their left thumb to

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

the lancashire witches met at malkin tower on good friday,[52]"first was the naming of the spirit, which alizon device, now prisoner at lancaster, had, but did not namehim, because shee was not there. the french evidence shows how these familiars could be used. silvainnevillon of orleans, condemned to death in 1615,[53] said "that there are witches who keep familiars(marionettes, which are little imps (diableteaux) in the form of toads, and give them to eat a mess of milkand flour and give them the first morsel, and they do not dare to absent themselves from the house withoutasking leave, and they must say how long they will be absent, as three or four days; and if they (the familiars)say that it is too much those who keep them dare not make the journey or go against their will. and whenth

on ofthe domestic familiar suggests that it was in origin scandinavian, finnish or lapp. a scientific study of thesubject might throw light on some of the religious beliefs and practices of the early invaders of our easternshores.originally the domestic familiar may have been in use in all parts of england. bishop hutchinson, whomade a special study of witches, says "i meet with little mention of imps in any country but ours, where thelaw makes the feeding, suckling or rewarding of them to be a felony. the records of it, however, are almostentirely from the eastern counties, especially essex and suffolk. the accounts show that the custom ofkeeping and using these familiars was very primitive, and may date back to the palaeolithic period.the domestic familiar was always a little creature242

l. the feeding of a familiar was clearly a ritual ceremony, for though motherwaterhouse's evidence gives the ceremony most completely there are many other instances which show thatwhen the creature had been used for magic it was given a drop of the witch's blood on its return. by degreesthe accounts of the ceremony were more and more exaggerated by the recorders till they developed intostories of imps sucking the witches' blood. in the seventeenth century no witch-trial in the eastern countieswas regarded as complete without full and lurid details of the witch and her familiars. the god of the witcheschapter iii. the priesthood32in illustrations (plate xii) the "imps, though described as small dogs, cats, or other little creatures, arerepresented as monsters. that they were really ordinary

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

definite intelligent astral entities residing and functioning in each of those media. in mediaeval literature, these earth-spirits are often called gnomes, while the waterspirits are spoken of as undines, the air-spirits as sylphs, and the ether-spirits as salamanders. in popular language they are known by many names-fairies, pixies, elves, brownies, peris, djinns, trolls, satyrs, fawns, kobolds, imps, goblins, good people-some of these titles being applied only to one variety, and others indiscriminately to all.lo2 according to theosophy, they are completely inhuman and have no connection with our line of spiritual evolution. leadbeater described them as "frequently human in shape and somewhat diminutive in size" they can take on any forms they like, being able to mold their astral substa

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