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chapter

pp.

notes, pp.

1.

"Witches’ Salves : for Flying to the Sabbat"

1-11

134-61

2.

"From the Lioness of Women to the Night Travellers"

12-15

161-73

3.

"The Vagina of ... Venus"

16-31

174-221

4.

"Wild Women and Werewolves"

32-39

222-40

5.

"The Bedevilling of the Senses ... of Women"

40-59

240-68

6.

"Wolves, Death and the Island"

60-70

268-84

7.

"The Upside-down World"

71-75

284-91

8.

"Midsummernight’s Dream?"

76-88

291-310

10.

"The Half-Truths of the Coyote"

104-13

333-49

11.

"Dreamtime and Dream Journey"

114-24

349-63

"the state of my soul gradually approached that of ordered anarchy."

2 The tickets they issue are ... one-way, singles i.e. : the return part is missing." {For the arhant who hath achieved nirvan.a, there is no falling back, no return to praevious status.}

p. 135, n . 1:4

"dream mushrooms ... encountered ... with the Akan" (according to M. J. Field, Search for Security, London, 1960, p. 277).

p. 179, n. 1:16

"Porphyrios, according to Porta, Villa (Frankfurt/Main, 1592), p. 764, calls fly agaric broma theon [theon], food of the gods’ "...; ... the Mazatecs had a similar term, ‘flesh of the gods’ for Psilocybe mexicana".

p. 1

declaration by 3 S^ona women : "they met naked near a stand of three trees and rubbed their hands and faces with a white salve (mushonga) in order to ‘travel by night’, preferably on the backs of hyenas

p. 134, n. 1:4 "J. R. Crawford, Witchcraft and Sorcery in Rhodesia (London, 1967), pp. 52, 54; M. Gelfand, The African Witch (Edinburgh, 1967), p. 48".

p. 2

or anteaters. ... The witch then proceeded to explain : ‘On each occasion we travelled about naked and we appeared to travel through the air. ...’ "

p. 134, n. 1:2

"Kaguru witches hang onto the belly of a hyena while they fly through the air;

see T. O. Beidelman, Witchcraft in Ukaguru, in Middleton, J. and Winter, E. H. (eds) Witchcraft and Sorcery in East Africa (London, 1963), p. 64."

"J. W. Raum, in Die Ju:nglingsweihen der Su:d-Sotho-Sta:mme, Wiener Vo:lkskundliche Mitteilungen (1969), pp. 10, 20, mentions that the initiates of the Tlokwa ingest a narcotic mush prepared from the onion of leshoma (Buphane toxicaria) or bookgwe (Scilla lanceaefolia) and mafifimatsho (Phygelius capensis). ... The Zulu use iYoli, the ‘common kraal-weed’ (Datura stramonium) ...; see A. T. Bryant, Zulu Medicine and Medicine-Men (Cape Town, 1966), p. 73. In the Ulanga district a mush of boiled Datura fatuosa leaves is eaten as a narcotic – see F. Haerdi, Afrikanische Heilpflanzen (Basel, 1964), p. 175".

"bufotenine ... present in the seeds and leaves of the minosa, Ahadenantera peregrina, which in the past was used to prepare

"A. Puharich, The Sacred Mushroom (Garden City, 1974), p. 94".

the drug snuff cohoba, ... ingested by the inhabitants of the Antilles in order to ask the Devil for advice".

"B. de las Casas, ... Apologe`tica historia de las Indias I (Madrid, 1909), pp. 138, 445".

"Even today, Indians of Guatemala ... rub themselves with toad skin;

cf. N. M. Hellmuth, Comment, Current Anthropology (1974), p. 155".

p. 2

"Before flying to numu, the lower world, [she] anoints her body with ‘leaves and magic’ ... . It make her glisten like a gorgeous bird of paradise ... . After this preparation, she climbs the kayaru, a conifer, a flies off to the faraway lower world to fetch seeds, especially huyowana. Huyowana means ‘good fortune’."

p. 137, n. 1:5 "G. Ro`heim, Witches of Normanby-Island, Oceania (1948), pp. 282, 287, 288. The witch falls into a trance and ... her ‘soul’ (yaruyarua) flies away."

p. 136, n. 1:4

"Actual covens or organizations of witches have ... existed in Hungary up to the present day; ... the witches rubbed themselves with a ‘magic ointment’ in order to be able to fly."

T. Ko:rner, Die ungarischen Hexenorganisationen, Ethnographia (1969), p. 211.

p. 2

"Johannes Weier ... names ‘... clinging birthwort, tormetilla, nightshade ... .’ "

p. 3

Andre`s Laguna, of salve " ‘... composed of ... hemlock, nightshade, henbane, and mandrake.’ "

p. 140, n. 1:11

"According to parliamentary documents, such a salve consists of the following ingredients : mandrake root; henbane seed; grey barley, hemlock; nightshade berries, ... mixed with the juice of poppy".

p. 141, n. 1:11

"In the second chapter of his book, De la lycanthropie, transformation et extase des sorciers (Lyon, 1591), the physician Jean de Nynauld enumerates the following : ‘Belladonna root, nightshade, ... aconite, ... cinquefoil, calamus, ... poplar leaves, opium, henbane, hemlock, varieties of poppy".

"For such travelling, both men and women, that is, witches, use a salve called vngentum pharelis or ‘lighthouse ointment’. It is prepared from seven herbs, each one of which is picked on a certain day. Thus" :-

on __

they pick __

Sunday

heliotrope

Monday

crescent-shaped fern

Tuesday

verbena

Wednesday

spurge

Thursday

houseleek

Friday

maidenhair

(Saturday)

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p. 5

at Venus Mountain, as described by a transvectionist of Calbach : "he was a night traveller. He said that Frau Holle (to whom he travels) was a fine woman from the front, but from the back, she was like a hollow tree with a rough bark." {"The female wood-spirits ... might be fair to view from the front, but behind have an empty back like a hollow tree-stump or a wooden trough ... (Rooth 1961:118ff.)." (RNG, p. 25)}

150, n. 1:32

"the Norse Skrogsfu, a ... mistress of animals with pendulous breasts, is equally alluringly beautiful from the front, but from the back she is as hollow as a baking trough." {"Tales of such a mistress of the woods with a hollow back and rump are collected by Erixon (1961) from ... the south of O:stergo:tland. ... Tales of the skrogsrao are further discussed by Lindow (1978) ... . These beings often took mortals as lovers" (RNG, p. 26).}

p. 11 Salves were used by witches in Celtic regions.

p. 161, n. 1:61 "R. Holinshed, Chronicles (London, 1587)".

p. 11 "A North German legend tells of a midwife who was fetched into the mountain by ‘white women’. There she was able to rub a little ‘elves salve’ under her eyes. After returning to the realm of mortals, the ointment made it possible for her to see the inhabitants of the lower world."

p. 161, n. 1:62 "See G. F. Meyer, Schleswig-Holsteiner Sagen (Jena, 1929), p. 34; and W. Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries (Rennes, 1909), p. 104. The smearing with a ‘troll salve’ ...; see E. Hartmann, Die Trollvorstellungen in den Sagen und Ma:rchen der skandivanischen Vo:lker (Stuttgart, 1936), p. 162. The Lithuanian berstukai, fairylike beings ..., would rub humans with a herb salve so that they would change and be able to fly; see E. Veckenstedt, Die Mythen, Sagen und Legenden der Zamaiten II (Heidelberg, 1883), p. 14."

p. 163, n. 2:6

"The ‘rain girl’ is one ... of cult nakedness in the Balkans; see N. Kuret, Frauenbu:nde und maskierte Frauen, Schweizer Archiv fu:r Volkskunde (1927), p. 346 ... naked girls ... who prayed for rain with the help of henbane."

p. 166, n. 2:21

"The well-known naked goddess seen riding on a galloping boar may be Diana Arduinna. Strabo reports orgiastic cults associated with these goddesses on an island near the mouth of the Loire".

p. 169, n. 2:29

Diana in Albania : "see M. Lambertz and K-H. Schro:der, Die Mythologie der Albaner, in Hassig, H. W. (ed.) Go:tter und Mythen im Alten Europa (Stuttgart, 1973), p. 508. Za^na is a fairy, who lives in the Albanian mountains, bathes naked in the springs, dances and flies about on the backs of sea gulls." {cf. Leukothea the seagull-goddess}

p. 14

"there are quite a number of ... women who ... believe and say that they, together with a large number of women, go riding and travelling with a ... goddess, who is called Dyana [Diana], or with Herodiade, on the backs of some forest animals, during the quiet of the night, passing over many regions or countries."

p. 169, n. 2:30 text from the legal documents of Reginus, abbot of Pru:m, included in the Decretum of an 11^th-century bishop of Worms; P. 170, n. 2:33 quoted in :- J. Grimm : Deutsche Mythologie. Berlin, 1876. vol. 3, p. 412

p. 170, n. 2:32

Diana was later aequated with "the daughter of Herod, Salome Herodiana, who was condemned to dance forever;

see W. Liungman, Traditionswanderungen Euphrat-Rhein II (Helsinki, 1938), p. 588."

p. 173, n. 2:36

"The guide of those travelling by night was often called Befana or Berta in Italy; ...

see F. Herrmann, Beitra:ge zur italienischen Volkskunde (Heidelberg, 1938), p. 63."

p. 173, n. 2:36

Roaming with the Lady Habonde ... ."

Roman de la Rose

p. 173, n. 2:36

" ‘A woman ... was commonly believed to have been with the fairies for seven years ...; and she was always able to see the good people and to talk with them, for she had the second sight. And it is said that they used to travel wit the fairies at night’;

see W. Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries (Rennes, 1909), p. 42."