num_pages: 160
description: Witchcraft in antiquity, and particularly the Goddess Hekate, has never been seriously studied, but sidelined as an variety of magic, or as a purely literary phenomenon, or as identical to the much-later Salemists. Here, then, is the first complete and comprehensive study of the topic from the time of Homer to the Greek Magical Papyri (800 bc–400 ad), examining the slow stages by which Hekate was demonized and the mythology of the evil witch arose, and how it was not until hundreds of years later that the actual practice of witchcraft developed.
language: English
title: Rotting Goddess: The Origins of the Witch in Classical Antiquity
titlecomplete: Rotting Goddess: The Origins of the Witch in Classical Antiquity
genres: Magick, Witchcraft, Nonfiction, History, Paganism, Religion, Mythology
ratings_count: 45
publisher: Autonomedia