Michael D. Bailey

I've learned that the word 'Sabbath' designating witches' meeting is a direct result of Middle Ages anti-Jewry attitudes, for they were at first called "Synagogues", an edict that incited this hatred as "Jews as Christ-killers" was planted by Constantine the Great, separating Christians who claimed to be "true Jews following a true Messiah" up to 4th century. Constatine put a wedge between Christians and Hebrews and put a sword of war and hate between them, for political purposes primarily. This book explores several anti-witch treatises emerging in the first half of the 15th century in detail, giving short biographies of their authors, each with its own "taint" of hatred and fantasy, approaching the topic from somewhat different but similar perspectives. It appears that before old, perverted fanatical zealots of Christianity invented the term "Witches' Sabbath", cunning females (knowledgeable) were revered in Europe as the "Good ones" or the "Good ladies". There was more evil penned by those ignorant religious imbeciles in their malignant imagination, than all the hells and devils could conjure at one time. Pope XXII started the war on "demonic" magic in 1320, but it was not until forming and formulation of the inquisition that working hard to prove the maleficient nature of all activities related to magick in order to have hands full of blood in the following centuries. What encharmed me was that one witch was raptured by the good Goddess Diana into the night-flight, as if Christianity was by and large ignored by the Gods and Goddesses that attempted to assist the toiling men and women in ancient ways. Most of the descriptions of the Sabbath are similar to a darker, orgiastic Dionisiac ceremony. From a different book I know that when Christian sects mixed with a Dionisian cult on Sicily in the early centuries, Christians were rejoicing in "love" of sexual orgies, tearing animals apart and thusly worshipping their deity of Israelite import - I wonder whether these Christian-Dionisiac cults were the basis for later Stregheria, mixed with Graeco-Roman mystery cults and traditions, but it is a far-fetched speculation. Personally, I follow Austin Osmane Spare's theory that witchcraft is a degenerated form of female priesthoods of high antique mixed with folk religion and Christianity, yet - may shadow witches forgive - they too had their place in circus omnia of this Divine spectacle.

Post Scripta:

Sadly, I see the same processes in modern day Poland in which fanatical catholic backward
idiots are trying to push their religion down the throats of others with the same old decrepid ignorant attitudes of deluded, malignant- truly - perverted zeal under the sign of the cross, tying it with a political agenda and conspirationally seductive topoi and motions that are sembland of a much earlier age, not that of secular scientific approach - the worst past is - populist right-wing Christian agendas are merely a repetition of the story oh-so-known from before.

Thanks!… (mere)

I've learned that the word 'Sabbath' designating witches' meeting is a direct result of Middle Ages anti-Jewry attitudes, for they were at first called "Synagogues", an edict that incited this hatred as "Jews as Christ-killers" was planted by Constantine the Great, separating Christians who claimed to be "true Jews following a true Messiah" up to 4th century. Constatine put a wedge between Christians and Hebrews and put a sword of war and hate between them, for political purposes primarily. This book explores several anti-witch treatises emerging in the first half of the 15th century in detail, giving short biographies of their authors, each with its own "taint" of hatred and fantasy, approaching the topic from somewhat different but similar perspectives. It appears that before old, perverted fanatical zealots of Christianity invented the term "Witches' Sabbath", cunning females (knowledgeable) were revered in Europe as the "Good ones" or the "Good ladies". There was more evil penned by those ignorant religious imbeciles in their malignant imagination, than all the hells and devils could conjure at one time. Pope XXII started the war on "demonic" magic in 1320, but it was not until forming and formulation of the inquisition that working hard to prove the maleficient nature of all activities related to magick in order to have hands full of blood in the following centuries. What encharmed me was that one witch was raptured by the good Goddess Diana into the night-flight, as if Christianity was by and large ignored by the Gods and Goddesses that attempted to assist the toiling men and women in ancient ways. Most of the descriptions of the Sabbath are similar to a darker, orgiastic Dionisiac ceremony. From a different book I know that when Christian sects mixed with a Dionisian cult on Sicily in the early centuries, Christians were rejoicing in "love" of sexual orgies, tearing animals apart and thusly worshipping their deity of Israelite import - I wonder whether these Christian-Dionisiac cults were the basis for later Stregheria, mixed with Graeco-Roman mystery cults and traditions, but it is a far-fetched speculation. Personally, I follow Austin Osmane Spare's theory that witchcraft is a degenerated form of female priesthoods of high antique mixed with folk religion and Christianity, yet - may shadow witches forgive - they too had their place in circus omnia of this Divine spectacle.

Post Scripta:

Sadly, I see the same processes in modern day Poland in which fanatical catholic backward
idiots are trying to push their religion down the throats of others with the same old decrepid ignorant attitudes of deluded, malignant- truly - perverted zeal under the sign of the cross, tying it with a political agenda and conspirationally seductive topoi and motions that are sembland of a much earlier age, not that of secular scientific approach - the worst past is - populist right-wing Christian agendas are merely a repetition of the story oh-so-known from before.

Thanks!… (mere)