Clivedurdle

Got witchcraft a history By Maxwell - Stuart in British Museum bookshop. Fascinating (Bede you will love it - inquisition gentle on witches!)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...ternetinfidels

In it it says Thessalia is a woman from a region of Greece which was notorious in ancient times for the extraordinary command over nature supposedly held by some of its women, and that this was one of the main types of witches.

Is this related to the New Testament books, is it alluded to?

Could these epistles be not to a geographic region but to a specific group?

(Possibly separate subject, but this book has loads of discussion of daimones, and the problem early xians had defining themselves separately to your miracle working pagans and their gods. Odd comments made me wonder if Acts is much later than thought.)

"Magic had to be accommodated"