Die Kröte or The Toad
Authored by: Eldred Wormwood
Published by: Alkahest Press
Hentges’ “Die Kröte” is a fascinating look at the historic folk beliefs surrounding the toad in central Europe. A bounty of primary literary and mythological sources not often quoted in English writers originally published as a serialized article over five issues of the German occult publication “Zentralblat für Okultismus” from 1917 to 1918. Here translated to English for the first time.
“The role of the toad in the course of the history of magic is complex, interwoven into the fabric of world cultures. From the shores of the Mediterranean to the cold forests of the north the toad is found again and again in European documents of witches, alchemists, wizards, and their practices. This is a tale of a misbegotten creature, whose presumed unattractiveness casts it as an outsider, companion of the devil and his ilk. The toad dances with the witch at the Sabbat, wearing finery, and provides its milk for the witch’s ointments to obtain forbidden secrets.”
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Original price: £13
Copies printed: Limited to 100 copies. (sold out)
Physical description
Page Count: 50 pages, chapbook style.
Illustrative content: Black & white, illustrated.
Binding
Binding: Paperbound in a green embossed cardstock.
