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"What looks like blood on Satan's claw usually turns out to be blackberry juice, and most of the time he is just kidding: a trickster whose wiles are easily outwitted by the little man."

- Jeremy Harte, Cloven Country: The Devil in the English Landscape. (Regarding the not-so-grim folk Devil in stories.)

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Hail to the devil of the midnight sabbath,

Hail to the horned one who gave us Art,

Hail to the man in black,

Hail to the lord of the mound,

Hail to the great initiator

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Yesterday I came across the post of a cultured person where he said that the Sabbat does not exist, but a few lines below he tells us that his friends do not accept elite denominations (like wheel of the year).

If it doesn't exist, why do we still write about it??

It is one of the most sought-after things, if not desired by a person who enters a magical-witch path with both hands.

It is curious that academically a possible study has not continued on those who speak of the Sabbat as an unattainable goal or as a place reachable in an altered state. Will it be the scarcity of declared witches or sorcerers that makes us desist from the deepening?

I admit that compared to shamanisms there is a lack of a community structure that gives a sense of community and that makes it think of it as a phenomenon linked to a collective mass hysteria or linked to the phenomenon of the stakes. The fact is that as scholars or practitioners we are still here longing for a test or a narrated experience.

If you look for it, you can read the writings of practitioners like me who have spent time and years talking about it.

And have you ever been there?

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