Book of Shadows Entries Quotations: >< "Beware the mage, and bid him well, for he has power beyond your ken." -WITCHES, WARLOCKS, AND MAGES, Altus Polydarmus, 1618 >< >< "Beware the witch, for she will bind you with black magick, making you forget your home, your loved ones, yea, even your own face." -WORDS OF PRUDENCE, TERRANCE HOPE, 1723 >< >< "Roam not at night, for sorcerers use all phases of the moon for their craft. Be you safe at home till the sun lights the sky and drives evil to its lair again." -NOTES OF A SERVANT OF GOD, Brother Paolo Frederico, 1693 >< >< "They dance skyclad beneath the blood moon in their unholy rites, and beware to any who bespy them, for you will turn to stone where you stand." -WITCHES, WARLOCKS, AND MAGES, Altus Polydarmus, 1618 >< >< "A witch may be a woman or man. The feminine power is as fierce and terrifying as the masculine power, and both are to be feared." -THERE ARE WITCHES AMONG US, Susanna Gregg, 1917 >< >< "They keep records of theor deeds and write them in their book of shadows. No mere mortal can read their unnatural codes, for their words are for their kind alone." -HIDDEN EVIL, ANDREJ KWERTOWSKI, 1708 >< >< "In many villages, innocents turn to their local witch as a healer, midwife, and sorceress. I say, better to summit to the will of God, for death must come to all in time." -MOTHER CLARE MICHAEL, from a letter to her niece, 1824 >< >< "There exist Seven Houses of Witchery. They keep to themselves, marrying within their clans. Their children are most unnatural, with night-seeing eyes and inhuman powers." WITCHES, MAGES, AND WARLOCKS, Altus Polydarmus, 1618 >< >< "Each of the Seven Houses has a name and a craft. An ordinary man has no hope against these witches: better to commend yourself to God than to engage in battle with the Seven Clans." -THE SEVEN GREAT CLANS, Thomas Mack, 1845 >< >< "If a woman lies with a witch of the Seven Houses, she will bear no child except he wills it. If a man lies with a witch of the Seven Houses, she will bear no child." THE WAYS OF WITCHES, Gunnar Thorvildsen, 1740 >< >< "Nights of a full moon or the new moon are especially powerful for working magick." -PRACTICAL LUNAR RITUALS, Marek Hawksight, 1978 >< >< "Should you be caught amidst two warring clans, lie belly to earth and say your prayers." -Old Scottish saying >< >< "If you look, you will see the mark of a House on its progeny. These marks take many forms, but a trained witchfinder can always discover one." -NOTES OF A SERVANT OF GOD, Brother Paolo Frederico, 1693 >< >< "The king and queen longed for a child for many years and finally adopted an infant girl. But to their misfortune, the child was destined to grow enormous and devour them with her steely teeth." -From a Russian fairy tale >< >< "There is power in the plants of the earth and the animals, in every living thing, in weather, in time, in motion. If you are in tune with the universe, you can tap into its power." -TO BE A WITCH, Sarah Morningstar, 1982 >< >< "There is no choice about being a witch. Either you are or you aren't. It's in the blood. " -Tim McClellan, aka Feargus the Bright >< >< "In 1217 witchfinders imprisoned a Vikraut witch. Yet on the following morn the cell was empty. Thus comes the saying `Better to kill a witch three times than to lock her up once,' for a witch cannot be contained." -WITCHES, MAGES, AND WARLOCKS, Altus Polydarmus, 1618 >< >< "Forget not that witches live among us as neighbors, and practice their craft in secret, even as we conduct honest, God-fearing lives." -WITCHES, MAGES, AND WARLOCKS, Altus Polydarmus, 1618 >< >< "Witches can fly on their enchanted broomsticks, fabricated not only for sweeping." -WITCHES AND DEMONS, Jean-Luc Bellefleur, 1817 >< >< "Men are natural warriors, but a woman in battle is truly bloodthirsty." -Old Scottish saying >< >< "Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched but the Goddess's magick." -SABINA FALCONWING, in a San Francisco coffe shop, 1980 >< >< "Beware the witches' new year, their night of unholy rites. It falls before All Saints' Eve. On that day, the line between this world and the next is thin, easily broken." -WITCHES, MAGES, AND WARLOCKS, Altus Polydarmus, 1618 >< |
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