In nineteenth-century (and perhaps earlier) West Sussex, England, the Devil was accompanied by Dame Dark. Dame Dark appears to be related to Mother Midnight, a figure who appears in the Elizabethan comedy Wily Beguiled (or, Wylie Beguylie, 1566/7), as a pseudonym of the mad poet Christopher Smart, and as a character in Defoe’s Moll Flanders. In Wily, Mother Midnight appears in connection with Robin Goodfellow, and in Moll, according to Robert A. Erickson, she represents “omniscient power which gives life and takes it away,” “powers assigned to the Greek Fates,” a “Witch,” one who “possess[es] uncanny powers of prophecy,” one of “Satan’s ministers,” and “the old woman of the night.”
In turn, I’m reminded of an Algerian jinn called “Mother of the Night.” She takes devastates the flocks and herds of those who disrespect her but grants prosperity to those who remember her and who wear amulets sacred to her. One of this figure’s most significant hypostases is as the Welsh being called Malen (or, Malt y nos; also, Bela, Mam y Drwg, Matilda of the Night, the Old Hag, Y Wrach). Some have deemed this being an avatar of the Celtic goddess Ceridwen, while others have deemed her to be an avatar of the goddess Andraste. Over the centuries, as a result of Christianization, she apparently, as Andras, came to be called Malen and/or the “Devil’s Grandmother." The expression “chwareu yr Andras” means to “play the [female] Devil.” Malen may also have gathered into herself some of the archetypal force of the Roman goddesses Bellona and Minerva. It is possible that Malen may reflect the sinister and/or “masculine” aspect of a sort of “Double Woman” Moon Goddess whose beneficent and/or “feminine” face may be that of the goddess Arianrhod. As Malen, she is, like Llyr’s daughter Bronwen, considered a gwrvorwyn, an amazon, a “man-maid, or virago."
You can view The Pagan Heart of the West on Amazon. The author is Dr Randy P. Conner and it is published by Mandrake of Oxford.
Links and previous related posts
https://mandrake.uk.net/
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2019/01/book-excerpt-pagan-heart-of-west.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2016/05/review-isis-goddess-of-egypt-and-india.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2017/01/review-village-witch-life-as-village.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2017/05/mogg-morgan-apophis-mother-of-all-curses.html
called his talk Demonic Experience and Rituals in Modern Western Magick. It was my favourite lecture of the day, which is why I’m going to blog most about it. 
but have never grasped why anyone would want to invoke the Great Old Ones. Nevertheless, chaos magicians at one time were really into that kind of thing. Justin talked about a group called the Haunters of the Dark who did just that. 
as well as earlier cases. It is fascinating to see how accounts of demonic possessions persist throughout history and how modern stories can be similar to those we find in documents from the 16th and 17th centuries.
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is extremely knowledgeable about the history and legends of the city and talks about it in a really entertaining manner. I’m not going to give away too many of the secrets he reveals on the walk as that would spoil the fun if you decide to go on one yourself. 
Visitors could explore the nine circles of Hell through work by artists including George Osodi, Antony Micallef, Polly Morgan, Jonathan Yeo, Conor Harrington, Christian Lemmerz, Vhils, Paul Insect, Mark Jenkins, Boogie, David Choe, Doug Foster, Zak Ové, Todd James and Ian Francis.
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