The Witchcraft Medicine : How to Be Healthy and Productive Using Music and Sound

Introduction: Is Witchcraft Medicine Good Medicine? vi WOLF-DIETER STORL 1. The Wild Earth and Its Children 1(28) The Power of the Wilderness Divine Visitors to the Small Cultural Island Midsummer's Dream The August Festival The Equinox The Time of the Dead: Samhain, Halloween Rites of Initiation 2. The Old Woman in the Hedgerow 29(11) The Chimney The Wrath of Venus The New Science 3. The Witch As Shaman 40(19) Devil Worship The Buck: The Divine Dispenser The World Tree The Flight to the Holy Mountain Flying Ointment Sex and Fertility Magic Weather Magic 4. Midwives: Fertility and Birth 59(12) The Way into Existence The Children Springs at Lolarka Kund The Time of Begetting Pregnancy Birth The Hebe Ahnin and the Men's Childbed After the Birth 5. The Mother of Death 71(8) Flowers for the Dead The Festival of the Dead The Dead and Vegetation The Dead As Dispensers of Fertility CHRISTIAN RÄTSCH 6. Witchcraft Medicine: The Legacy of Hecate 79(64) Gardens of the Gods and Herbs of the Witches The Garden of the Great Goddess The Garden of Hecate The Garden of Medea The Garden of Circe The Garden of Artemis Flying Ointments and Lovers' Salves As Medicine Pharmakon Wine CLAUDIA MULLER-EBELING 7. Images of Witches: The Demonization of Nature's Healing Powers 143(55) The Image of the Witch Mary: The Chaste Cultural Heroine The Witch: The Sensuous Natural Woman The Demonization of Nature and Sensuality Sinister Companions of the Witch "Poison Mixers" and Healers The Demonization of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants The Healing of the Microcosm and the Macrocosm Rübezahl: Herbalist and Weather God Seeress and Goddess of Fate From the Goddess to the Witch The Witch As the Temptation of Saint Anthony Saturn: Master of the Witches The Painters of Witches CHRISTIAN RÄTSCH 8. Witches' Medicine-Forbidden Medicine: From the Inquisition to the Drug Laws 198(12) Coca and Cocaine Poppy and Opium Mescaline and Psilocybin: The Forbidden Souls of the Gods Ayahuasca:: The Conquest Is Not Over The "Drug" Business News Update: Hemp Seeds Outlawed? Appendix: European Plants Associated with Witches and Devils 210(11) Bibliography 221(11) Acknowledgments 232(1) Index 233