tradition
Witchcraft
A European accusation-craft and later self-named practice. Not a pan-pagan church and not the witches’ sabbath as a second tradition.
European folklore
Witchcraft appears in European folklore.
Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable seats Witchcraft as the epidemic demonopathy that raged in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. A named Witchcraft in that historical folk-demonopathy speech, not a bare modern occult dump.
from Ebenezer Cobham Brewer · Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1870 (and later PD editions)
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Witchcraft is sacred to Planet Mercury.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, the herb under witchcraft-side government is under the planet Mercury and should be rightly gathered under his influence — planet Mercury governs that gathering.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
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Witchcraft is sacred to Mercury.
In Culpeper’s English Physician, the herb under Mercury’s government should be rightly gathered under his influence among witchcraft-side herbal notes — Mercury governs that gathering.
from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)
sacred to · sourced · documented
sources
- Dictionary of Phrase and Fable · Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
E. Cobham Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.
- The English Physician · Nicholas Culpeper
Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician (Complete Herbal).