The rotting goddess : the origin of the witch in classical antiquity's demonization of fertility religion /
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Brooklyn, N.Y. :
Autonomedia,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Hekate. She is a tree of life : Hekate and the cosmic axis ; Queen of Heaven, queen of Hell : Hekate-Enodia ; Underneath the moon : Hekate and Luna ; A howling at the gate : Hekate veneration and the myth of the witch
- pt. 2. The witch. Descent of the goddess : the morphology of the witch ; Nigra sum sed formosa : the witch as archetype
- pt. 3. Conclusion
- pt. 4 Appendices. Pirkei ovoth, or, Bottled spirits ; Into the cauldron : shamanism and the Roman witch literature.