The study of things outside of the physical world and common experience. The term is frequently used to represent all things occult and paranormal. The origin of the term is from Aristotle who wrote works describing the physical world, and then some works covering other things. This was known as “The things after the Physics, “ which in Latin is ta meta ta phusika. Later, the term came to mean things that transcend physics.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Alice Markham-Cantor, author of the new Once & Future Witch Hunt.
My 9x-great-grandmother, Martha Carrier, was hanged in the Salem witch trials. She wasn't a witch. She wasn't an herbalist or a...