“The ability of spiders to spin webs has caused them to be associated with magic in many folklore legends throughout Europe. Some commentators have likened the process to casting spells, and terms like "the thread of magic” and “a web of magic” indicate such beliets.

Spinning and weaving have long been associated with the Fates. Professor Eva Pocs (Between the Living and the Dead, Central European University Press, 1999) states there are thirty-six documented cases, spanning three centuries of Witch trials, in which a “fate goddess” appears in Hungarian Witchcraft. Poc also states that all the goddesses mentioned in Witchcraft trials are associated with spinning. She notes that Hungarian Witch trials mention Witches spinning, weaving, or carrying spindles.“

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The Witch’s Familiar

by Raven Grimasi

satsuti:

Heka was prior to the gods and so a magician at one with hekawas capable of exercising control over the gods. Jacq goes so far as to define the meaning of hekaas “to control the powers.” In the Pyramid Texts the king, in his role of master magician, was purported to have had extraordinary authority in the spirit world. In the so-called Cannibal Hymn, the magician-king is depicted as a terrifying ogre:

”The sky is overcast, the stars rain down, constellations shake,
the very bones of the earth-god tremble… 
when they see him appear as a living god
who lives on his fathers and feeds on his mothers.”

”He is the one who eats men and lives on gods.
He is the one who eats their magic and devours their glory.
The biggest of them are for his breakfast,
the middle-sized are for his dinner,
and the smallest of them are for his supper.”

The imagery of eating was often used in the context of magic as to express the notion of the complete integration of magical powers withing a person. The master magician was capable of placing himself, as it were, at the hub of the universe of the gods (the neters), assimilating their power into himself. For such a position, the energies of the gods were at his command.

-Temple of The Cosmos, Jeremy Naydler