Showing posts with label all of them witches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label all of them witches. Show all posts
7/30/18
8/20/17
W.I.T.C.H
W.I.T.C.H.
can stand for any number of things: it can mean
‘Witches’ International Troublemaker Conspiracy From Hell"
‘Witches Invoking Transformative Channels of Healing"
’ ‘Women Inspired to Tear down Constructs of Hate"
WE USE ANONYMITY AS A TOOL TO DISMANTLE THE WHITE SUPREMACIST PATRIARCHY
The figure of the witch is a powerful symbol.
Though most iconic in the popular imagination as a dramatic silhouette with a pointed hat and black garments, a witch can be anyone.
Witches are not just from Europe, and don’t just practice Wicca.
We exist in a broad range of cultures and traditions
(and in fact, black and indigenous witches have historically been persecuted by witch hunts more than anyone else.)
We are everywhere.
We are your sisters,
your neighbors,
your teachers,
your bartenders,
your mechanics,
your check-out clerks,
your drivers and your nurses.
Our costume is theatrical, instantly recognizable and unifying, reflecting the millions of witches who came before us and the legions of us who exist today. For every black-veiled witch in a pointed hat you may see holding signs on street corners or performing rituals in public squares, there are vast numbers of anonymous witches, solitary or working in covens, sending their energies into the swirling mass from which we draw our inspiration and motivation.
2/24/17
4/20/15
CAMERON TEA SALON
~PRESENTS~
CAMERON TEA SALON
APRIL 23ND
5PM TILL 7PM
$5 COVER
TEA & SWEETIES WILL BE SERVED
PLEASE JOIN US IN HONORING CAMERON'S 93RD BIRTHDAY
Marjorie Cameron, (April 23, 1922 – June 24, 1995), known simply as "Cameron," was an artist, poet, actress, occultist, and wife of rocket pioneer and occultist Jack Parsons. After serving in the U.S. Navy during the Second World War, Cameron settled in Pasadena, California, and met Parsons, who believed her to be the "Elemental woman"—an earthly incarnation of the Thelemite goddess Babalon—that he and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard had invoked in the early stages of a series of sex magick rituals called the Babalon Working. She is now regarded as a countercultural icon and key figure in the development of postwar Los Angeles art.
1/31/14
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12/3/13
THE POWER OF THE WITCH~ 1971
An extremely rare documentary about Witchcraft aired once in the UK in 1971.
Featuring contributions from Eleanor Bone, Cecil Williamson, Alex & Maxine Sanders, Doreen Valiente et al. Very much of its time and with some very rare footage, also includes reference to the famously unsolved murder of Charles Walton on Meon Hill.
10/31/13
WITCHES & BROOMSTICKS
The popular icon of a witch is an ugly old woman riding across the sky on her magic broomstick and wearing a pointed hat. But as with all mythologies there is an element of truth behind the image. Witches did ride brooms, after a fashion, the brooms were magic, in a way, and the pointed hat was the mildest of the punishments inflicted on them for their activities.
During the time leading up to the witchcraft trials in Europe, the staple bread was made with rye. In a small town where the bread was fresh baked this was just fine, but as Europe began to urbanize and the bread took more time to get from bakery to grocer, the rye bread began to host a mold called "ergot".
Ergot, in high doses, can be lethal, a fact that led to the rise in popularity of wheat bread, which is resistant to ergot mold.
In smaller doses, ergot is a powerful hallucinogenic drug. And because the enjoyment of such things is not confined to this age alone, it became quite popular among those who were inclined towards herbalism and folk cures. Ergot is mentioned in Shakespeare's plays, and turns up in virtually every contemporary writing of the witchcraft age. In particular, it is the inevitable central ingredient in the ointment that witches rubbed their flying broomsticks with.
When ergot is eaten, there was the risk of death, but when absorbed through the thin tissues of the female genitals, the hallucinogenic effects were more pronounced with less ill effects. The modern image of a witch riding a broomstick was inspired by the sight of a woman rubbing herself on the drug coated smooth stick of her broom, writhing in the throes of hallucinations, and no doubt, some intense orgasms as well. To her unsophisticated neighbors, such a sight would have been terrifying. The lack of an equivalent mechanism for men is one reason why "witchcraft" was seen as a predominantly female phenomenon. The addition of clothing to the witch is a modern embellishment to protect 'Family Values'.
In any event, what follows is a brief expansion on witches, brooms, and ergot, illustrated by woodcuts and engravings from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.
The first stories of "flying ointments" were recorded in the early 1400's. In those cases, mention was made only that the witches dreamt they were flying. Watched all night long, the witches were not seen to actually leave, but would awake with lurid stories of far away gatherings.
While the forged "grimoires" produced by the clergy prosecutors wove lurid tales of the boiled fat of a child as the central ingredient of the flying potion, the reality is that the concoction was based on easily available herbs such as aconite, nightshade, belladonna, alcohol, and ergot.
The clergy, eager to so horrify the masses as to remove all resistance to the abuses of the Inquisition cast all witches as a threat to the children, just as Hitler would later do to the Jews, and the present government to the internet and Muslims. This myth of using a child's fat for a flying potion has no basis in historical fact, but persists to this very day, and was used as a story element in the film, "Warlock".
Of all the folk drugs available to the witches, ergot was the most powerful, and the most dangerous. In use as a hallucinogen it was absorbed through the skin, most quickly through the thin tissues of the female genitals. "Flying ointment" was administered by rubbing it on a smooth wooden pole such as a broomstick, and then "riding" the pole.
From the 17th century, a more conventional (and clothed) view of witches and broomsticks. Gone by this point are the original roots of the legend. The witches are now clothed, the brooms are far less phallic and far more aerodynamic, and the pilots operate under the "24 hour from bottle to throttle" rule!
10/24/13
BURN WITCH BURN
PRESENTS
16MM MOVIE NITE
ANTEBELLUM ia obsessed with B&W sci-fi and monster films from the 1950s.
please join us for our screening of
BURN WITCH BURN
ORIGINAL 16MM FILM projected on a screen!
OCTOBER 25TH
7PM
$7 ADVANCE PURCHASE
$10 DAY OF THE SCREENING
NO~HOST BAR
KINKY ART
LIVELY PRE & POST SCREENING CHAT
BEAUTIFUL PATIO FOR PRE & POST SCREENING RELAXATION
ANTEBELLUM
1643 N LAS PALMAS AVE
HOLLYWOOD, CA 90028
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Based upon the 1943 Fritz Leiber novel Conjure Wife.
Norman Taylor ( sexy~ Peter Wyngarde) is a psychology professor lecturing about belief systems and superstition.
He discovers that his wife, Tansy (Janet Blair), is practicing witchcraft.
She insists that her charms have been responsible for his rapid advancement in his academic career and for his general well-being.
Norman is angered by her acceptance of superstition. He forces her to burn all of her magical paraphernalia. Almost immediately, things start to go wrong!
While the film was accessible to an under-aged audience in the U.S., it was rated "X" (adults only) in the UK on its initial release. It was later re-rated 15, then 12 for UK home video releases.
10/23/13
A ZEBRA & A WITCH
@ antebellum opening night~ ALL OF THEM WITCHES!
ZEBRA~ BARRY MORSE.... WITCH~ SUSAN KORNFELD
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