“But The Man Who Comes Back Through The Door In The Wall Will Never Be Quite The Same As The Man Who

Laziness, 1560, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Medium: engraving,paper

Entrance Atrium to the Villa San Marco in Castellammare di Stabia, in the background you can see the Sacellum (sacred enclosure).

Photo by Silvia Vacca

If you’re curious about Europe’s witch hunts and what Europeans believed about witches in general, Dr. Justin Sledge has an amazing set of videos on this topic: Witchcraft - The Witch Flight to the Sabbat - From Inquisitional Myth to Psychedelic Flying Ointment

Witchcraft - Malleus Maleficarum - The Hammer of Witches - History and Analysis of the Inquisition 

Demonology and Demonologists - Scholastics and Inquisitors - Foundations of the Witch Trials Witches Witch-Hunting and Magic in Early-Modern Europe (FIA Lecture) The Witch Trials and the Rise of Modernity and Capitalism - Sylvia Federici - Caliban and the Witch These are all great videos, and I recommend them because they go into depth that’s hard to find elsewhere. If the history of magic and witchcraft interests you, these will not disappoint!

Shoreditch doorway with No 19 Covid Eau de Virus artwork

Nom nom smoked salmon, Chilli & Advocado and Poached egg on toast. #breakfastheaven

International Congregation of Lord RayEL. Child molestation is fine ! #lordrayel #lordrayelexposed #religiouscult #raymondlear #angelusdomini #childabuse

150th anniversary of the National Woman Suffrage Association

Today, May 15, 2019, marks 150 years since Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in New York. Here in Wisconsin, we had German-American Mathilde Franziska Anneke who along with her husband Fritz Anneke was exiled from Germany after the revolution of 1848.

Mathilde was a writer, poet, activist, educator, and suffragist. Her efforts in the equal suffrage movement included writing and lecturing locally and nationally. She also consulted and corresponded with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Madame Anneke was posthumously honored by the National Leauge of Women Voters in 1930. 

The Fritz Anneke and Mathilde Franziska Anneke Papers, 1791-1884 (Wis Mss LW) are available at the Wisconsin Historical Society. The finding aid mentions that because of “the unsettled life of the Annekes” made preservation of their manuscripts and correspondence difficult.

We are thankful for the primary sources that are available and the efforts of researchers who have gathered and published information on this inspiring woman. The image and text above is from Women’s Wisconsin: From Native Matriarchies to the New Millennium published in 2005 by Wisconsin Historica Press (HQ1438.W5 W64 2005).