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Josephine and Jason: Episode 2

Episode two of: Josephine and Jason went out in this mornings mail. If you were on the list, it’s sitting there waiting for you. In todays episode, the ancients are unveiled. There’s three ways to get access to the weekly serial: Buy book one: A Friend in Need & send me a copy of your receipt […]

Samantha and Chaz – Deleted scene G15

‘Alright,’ I whispered, ‘We’re going now.’ We quietly coasted down along a white sandy track and as we entered a small clearing, I could see six cars. All with steaming windows and all requiring a, ‘If it’s a rockin, don’t bother knockin,’ sticker on them. I said, Deb you dog, who’d ya come here with […]

Magic in Ancient Greece

by Mark Cartwright For the Greeks magic (mageia or goeteia) was a wide-ranging topic which involved spells and evil prayers (epoidai), curse tablets (katadesmoi), enhancing drugs and deadly poisons (pharmaka), amulets (periapta) and powerful love potions (philtra). The modern separation of magic, superstition, religion, science, and astrology was not so clear in the ancient world. This mysterious, all-encompassing art of […]