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Jinx Dawson (born 1950), ceremonial magician, artist, founder of rock band Coven, recording artist; Savitri Devi (1905–1982), Greek writer on Hinduism, Nazi spy and leading figure of Esoteric Nazism; Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961), American modernist poet, known under the pseudonym H.D. [31] Gerina Dunwich (born 1959), witch and occult writer
Two copies of the painting were produced. The two paintings and a study depict a witch or sorceress using a wand to draw a fiery magic circle on the Earth to create a ritual space for her ceremonial magic. As was common in the period, Waterhouse repeated his subject on a smaller scale, probably at the request of a collector.
How the witch archetype is viewed typically depends on the religious and political context as well as the social context and its gender politics. [2] Jean La Fontaine wrote that the "stereotype of evil appears not to have been closely connected to the actions of real people except when it was mobilised against the current enemies of the Church ...
Witches depicted in paintings, statues, and other single-image media. Pages in category "Witches in art" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
Jazz was often called the Devil's music by its critics in the 1920s. [3]The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" (1968) features Mick Jagger speaking as the Devil. "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" (1979) by the Charlie Daniels Band was the first modern popular song to feature a battle between the devil and a musician.
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With the diminution of pulp magazine sales in the late 1940s, the focus of sword and sorcery shifted to small-press books. Arkham House published collections by Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and Fritz Leiber that included some of their sword and sorcery work. [36] Writer Jack Vance published the book The Dying Earth in 1950.
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