...assumed by that sub-family in 1279. Their power peaked during the mid-16th century, and was virtually gone by 1658. With the death of the wife of György Rák
...to her castle by their parents to learn noble manners. In the early 17th century, parents of substantial position often wished their daughters to be educate
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...rants brought older versions of the tradition to North America in the 19th century.
...have embraced Halloween as a part of American pop culture in the late 20th century.
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...l in debt to the Templars) plotted to destroy the order. On Friday October 13th 1307, Philip IV had Grand Master Jacques de Molay and 140 other knights arr
In his 19th-century Occultist reincarnation, a well known depiction shows Baphomet in the form
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...he time the Poetic Edda came to be compiled in the late 12th or early 13th century, these rituals had given rise to legends of supernatural battle-maidens who
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...ication to Hekate (Plate XXXVIII. a), in writing of the style of the sixth century. The goddess is seated on a throne with a chaplet bound round her head; she
...m, now in Berlin. In the Argolid, near the shrine of the Dioscuri, the 2nd-century CE traveller Pausanias saw the temple of Hecate opposite the sanctuary of E
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...culine forms, while the corresponding feminine form (first found in eighth century glosses) was ''ælfen'' or ''elfen'' (with a possible feminine plural ''-æ
...ut the history of Mainland European West Germanic. By the earlier eleventh century ''ælf'' could denote a female.<ref>'''Elves in Anglo-Saxon England: Matter
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[[Image:Altar Selene Louvre Ma508.jpg|thumb|left|300px|A 2nd-century sculpture of the moon goddess [[Selene]] accompanied by Hesperus and Phosph
In the '''Vulgate''', an early-5th-century translation of the Bible into Latin by Jerome, ''Lucifer'' is a Latin word
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...olved human being known as a [[Newtype]], predominantly in the [[Universal Century]] timeline. This happens when humanity begins to migrate to space, and to a
*In ''[[Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood]]'', the main character accidentally [[resurrection
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..., who show an awareness of Kali's ambivalent nature. Ramakrishna, the 19th century, Bengali saint, was also a great devotee of Kali; the western popularity of
...d immigrant South-Asians (primarily centered near Kolkata, circa 13th-19th century CE) who took the goddess Kali as their deity. Although much controversy sur
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...e and Rome, in the Islamic empire, and then in Europe up to the nineteenth century — in a complex network of schools and philosophical systems spanning
...cianism, an important [[esotericism|esoteric]] movement of the seventeenth century. In the course of the early modern period, as mainstream alchemy evolved in
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...its history. In his work, ''Kabbalah'', Gershom Scholem, a prominent 20th century scholar of that field, stated: ''The Kabbalah is not a single system with b
[[Thomas Aquinas]], a Christian mystic of the [[13th century]], defined it as ''cognitio dei experimentalis'' (experiential knowledge of
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...ts of the Wendigo myth by explorers and missionaries date back to the 17th century. They describe it rather generically as a [[werewolf]], [[devil]], or [[can
...endigo murder trials took place in Canada around the beginning of the 20th century. The anthropologist Morton Teicher has described the alleged clinical cond
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During the 16th century, there was even a whole clan (48 people) of cannibalistic murderers in Scot
...A., during 1687 was later described in this letter sent to France: “On the 13th (of July) about four o’clock in the afternoon, having passed through two
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