When we talk about witches, we usually imagine a typical old and decrepit old woman, long, hooked nose, and black clothing worn.
However, several centuries ago was considered a witch any woman able to cast spells and make potions, no matter what were his true appearance or condition. Witches of all types have existed in every civilization, from the common witch of the Middle Ages to the present tribes living in central and southern Africa. By definition, a witch is a person who is believed to possess supernatural powers used for different purposes, from curses to heal the sick with magic herbs. Common beliefs that witches are able to to heal even the most irreparable diseases with strange ointments, to kill with a glance or by some sort of spell to control the weather, fly and even transform into any kind of animal. While many of these techniques they could use their magic for a good purpose, in most cultures, witches were seen as agents of evil and misfortune carriers. In ancient Greek and Roman literature rife with stories about witches, which they said they spent most of the time creating magic potions with herbs and animal parts. Were described as women barefoot, long-haired and disheveled. It was said that frequented the cemetery, where to find him midnight unearthing bones and collecting plants or worshiping Diana, goddess of the moon and hunting, or Hecate, the goddess of fertility and queen of the night. He even said that some were able to awaken the spirits of the dead or kill with a glance. During the Middle Ages, the word "witch" was used most often to refer to the local wise woman, who used herbs for healing, preparing amulets to ward off evil spirits and practiced divination to locate objects lost or identify criminals, some even believed that they could perform feats as impressive as ward off rain, predict the future or get good winds for navigation. For this reason they were feared and respected by his neighbors, who came to them for help and advice, however, there was always some kind of suspicion for fear of their anger if they should be angry The biggest difference between a sorcerer and a Witch is its magical powers, since wizards have always been regarded as being more powerful, so they were more respected and feared.
These wise women of the villages were the first to be charged and convicted in the so-called demonic practices, witch hunt era of terror and persecution that swept Europe during the XVI and XVII. However, these charges were not slow to affect women and men of any profession or status, but the female always prevailed. Considered heretics (enemies of the Christian Church) and worshipers and servants of the devil, the accused were blamed for everything from crop failure to the sudden death of a child. It was said that witches were associated with demons, who owed their powers, and participated regularly in gruesome ritual murders, acts of vampirism and cannibalism. The most popular meetings in which they participated were known aquelarresEn a society dominated by men, where women often do not have rights or property, a woman who was not under the control of a parent or husband was seen as a threat to society, or at best with suspicion.
is clear that current and witches do not look frightening witches who met with a hook nose, bulging eyes, skinny and sharp hands, dressed in a conical hat and robes with black capes and flying his broomstick that perhaps inspired him to JK Rowling in her invention quiditch game which involved the famous pupils of Dumbledore in the wizard school of Hogwarts.
literature has provided hospitality to these women with special powers, and I remember for example Puella Andrea and witches were very beautiful, such as Michael Burt describes in his fascinating novel The case of celestial trumpets were favorite reading of Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares.
John Updike, but makes no mention of the aesthetic appearance of the three women with magical powers in his novel The Witches of Eastwick, it presents them as normal women in the course of the story come to be manipulated by a sinister character to the exercise of their spells
As all things evolve through history we can say that the sinister figure of the witch medieval witch has now become beautiful, full of tenderness, kind, cheerful, lovely, delicate and exquisite, dreamy and emotive deceitful and charming, hyperactive and resolved. Today the poets know that it is a holy office to go after the witches to be burned at the stake of the passion of love, far from the pots of the witches of Macbeth.
However, as noted by Professor Sheldon Cashdan, professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, hundreds of witches in fairy tales and their counterparts - witches, ogres, and vengeful queens evil stepmothers have had a sad and violent end. Article taken CESAR NUNEZ WHEN YOUNG WITCHES
http://mensual.prensa.com/mensual/contenido/2006/01/08/hoy/mosaico/20061613224.html stopped flying the Fates The Fates are beings of Greek mythology (the Roman equivalent is the Fates or Fatum). Though he recognizes in certain passages as daughters of Zeus and Themis, is more likely, however they are daughters of Nyx, the Night, conceived goddess alone (Hesiod Theogony).
The Fates are three, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, the "spinning", "which assigns the destination" and "inflexible." They are the personification of destiny, and his mission on the horizon Greek mythology, is to assign the destination to the beings who are born, Department luck and misfortune.
As goddesses of fate watch because the fate of each one is met, including the gods themselves. Attend the birth of every being, spin and predict their future destiny. They are represented as three severe-looking women: Clotho, with a distaff, Lachesis, with a pen or a world and Atropos, with a scale.
representation was most commonly used three spinners or a melancholy old maids. Shakespeare was inspired by this myth to create the three witches appear in Macbeth, whose involvement is critical for the fate of the protagonist.
are the fates of the Romans (Nona and Morta Tenth). Norse mythology with equivalent: the Norns. Another meaning: The moira means in Greek mythology the fates not only but as the destination itself. It is the fate that governs the life and deeds of heroes, such as dragging Oedipus inevitable karma.
Hecate Hecate (Greek or Ἑκάτα Ἑκάτη Hekate Hekate) was originally a goddess of the wilderness and childbirth, first nationalized Mycenaean Greece [1] or Thrace, but originating from the Carian Anatolia, [2] the region that witnessed most of their names theophoric as Hecateo or Hecatomnus, [3] and where the Great Goddess Hecate remained until historic times, in its unique [4] place of worship in Lagina. William Berg notes that "since children are not baptized in honor of spectra, it is safe to assume that Carian theophoric names including hekat, allude to a major deity free from the dark and unpleasant ties to the underworld and witchcraft, Hecate was in classical Athens. "
Hecate monuments in Phrygia and Caria are numerous but late. [6] Popular cults venerating her as a mother goddess made him a built-in Greek mythology. In the Ptolemaic Alexandria end up buying their connotations as a goddess of sorcery and her role as "Queen of Ghosts", under whose appearance was transmitted tripled postrenacentista culture. One aspect is represented in the Roman Trivia.
The oldest inscriptions found in the late archaic Miletus, close to Caria, where Hecate is a protector of the entries. [7
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