Dr Angela Puca

Dr Angela Puca Religious Studies PhD specialised in magic, witchcraft, Paganism, esotericism and the occult.

27/05/2026

Coming up: ESSWE 11 – ALTERNATIVE EPISTEMOLOGIES – the 11th Biennial Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (University of Turku, Finland, June 16–19, 2027). For more information please click the following link: https://esswe.org/current-conference/

What is an Esbat, and is it really an ancient full moon ritual?In this video, I trace the surprising history of the word...
24/05/2026

What is an Esbat, and is it really an ancient full moon ritual?

In this video, I trace the surprising history of the word Esbat, from its Old French meaning of “frolic” or “amusement” to its modern role in Wicca and contemporary Pagan witchcraft. I explore how Margaret Murray, Gerald Gardner, and Doreen Valiente helped transform a borrowed word into one of the best-known terms in the modern witchcraft ritual calendar.

Was the Esbat an ancient Pagan tradition, or a modern invention? The answer is more interesting than either option. I separate historical evidence from modern myth while recognising the real religious value of living practice.

➡️ https://youtu.be/AZxxgT3JEB4

20/05/2026

ENSIE Conference this week!
🗓WHEN: 20–23 May 2026
🌐WHERE: Universidad de Málaga
To attend, please contact Liana Saif (ENSIE Secretary) at [email protected]. Please note that all attendees are required to become members of ENSIE. Membership is €10.
“ENSIE’s mission is to help scholars of Islamic esotericism and mysticism to benefit from the understandings and perspectives that have been achieved in the study of Western Esotericism, and to help scholars of Western Esotericism benefit from knowledge of Islamic esotericism. There are also benefits in areas where the distinction between “Islamic” and “Western” does not really make sense, for example in the medieval period, when Western esotericists drew heavily on Arab and Islamic sources, and in the modern period, when Western esotericists have again drawn on Islamic sources, and when Western esotericism has also been received in the Muslim world, especially in Turkey, but also elsewhere.”
To find out more about the conference, please click the link in our bio.
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What if everything you think you know about the Witches' Sabbath is wrong?The broomsticks, the Devil, the midnight or**e...
17/05/2026

What if everything you think you know about the Witches' Sabbath is wrong?
The broomsticks, the Devil, the midnight or**es on remote mountaintops: this image has haunted the Western imagination for nearly six hundred years. But where did it actually come from? Was it an inquisitorial fantasy imposed from above? A distortion of real folk traditions of spirit-flight and nocturnal procession? A recycled conspiracy theory older than Christianity itself? Or something stranger than any of those?

➡️ https://youtu.be/P-MgdbRcGig

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