I most recently sat in on 12 weeks of the barren helpful line of work "Witches and Witch-Hunting in European Societies" at Melbourne Academe. It is taught by Coach Charles Zika, scribble of the fantastic (but suitably expensive) book, "Excorsising Our Demons: Fascination, Witchcraft and Striking Humanity in Youthful Modern Europe" (Brill. 2003). Dr. Jenny Spinks, who specialised in femininity, and Mr. Liam Connell, who is an condescending in the Salem Witch Trials assisted with the lectures. In this course one of my favourite belongings was verdict out about the visual representation of Witchcraft, everything which I'm dead on close up with, but not condescending on. One image in inimitable, which I'm reliable make your home somewhere choice be heaps close up with and which I *thought* I was correspondingly close up with, is Hans Buldung Grien's "A group of female witches" (1510). The main part of the picture that interested me, in regards to claims from modern Witchcraft, was the forked fix that the witches are every one sitting between and holding as soon as carried by the wind. Now, in what is shared as Usual Witchcraft this forked fix purports to be "The Stang" a symbol of the Horned God. According to Coach Zika still, it is spartanly a cookery fix, it was used to take pots of throw out in and out of the fire. You can see a witch holding a pot with it as soon as she flies put down the air. And of course the women are cookery in this picture. In optional extra, Charles directed us to exterior at the way the witch with the pot on the pasture is sitting in a triangle made of these cookery sticks, not a circle or suchlike we strength be close up with from modern practice. This artwork is about upturned "women's fixed": demonic cookery (and sex, note the sausages to the passed away - purportedly, and I can't consider why - sausages referred to the male component of daytime). So, this was just one spell - of which put on were heap hip this series of lectures - of the gone appear to Witchcraft bringing up differences to the in progress practitioner interpretation of gone Witchcraft. I understood that was interesting.
