A sorceress in ancient Tuscany who is said to have composed a learned work on the nature of prognostications, especially those concerning thunder and lightening. The work is claimed to be irretrievably lost.
Sorcerer or Sorceress
Indiscriminate terms for those who use (or are suspected of using) magic, especially when acting as independent agents and/or using their magic for "evil" purposes.
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And it is very significant that all three, Naim, Naioth and Endor, where the sorceress that assisted Saul is supposed to have lived, are in the same locality by Mount Tabor.
It is written in the form of a dialogue between the great sorceress Circe and her assistant or apprentice Moeris. It opens with Circe's incantations to the planets which appear to be based on Agrippa, De Occult. Phil. II, lix.
A male that performs sorcery is called sorcerer; a female, sorceress. See , , , and .
Related , , , and .
Swedenborg became intrigued by the similarity of Yogic techniques of meditation and sexual magic to Kabbalistic techniques, and he referred to Indian sorceresses and magicians, who were skilled in "abominable arts, ...
The 15th century viewer might have simply seen the image as an allegorical female religious figure such as a Sibylline prophetess or even as a sorceress (Gurevich 1988). Images of the Sibyls were readily available in public places.
The only shred of excuse which might be offered in his defense is that, blinded by the spell of fanaticism, Cyril considered Hypatia to be a sorceress in league with the Devil.
See the Sorceress (pictured at left). Much closer to what is meant by real shamanic shapeshifting would be Susan Seddon Boulet's "Animal Spirit" cards (see Peacock), but they are an oracle and are not the subject of this series of reviews.
 See also: Spirit, Magic, Christ, World, Death
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