The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 4hBranches blessed on Palm Sunday. Blessed palms stand with holy water and Agnus Deis among the sacramentals. Palm and olive branches. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/palm-and-olive-branches 🗃️ #history #histsci 030
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 7hI'm excited about this one. The Magical World of the Heroes, Cesare della Riviera's book of 1605, in English for the first time, comes out October 25, 2026. Hardcover, $79.99; ebook on Kindle at $19.99. thethinkingpress.org/project/magical-world-of-the-heroes 🗃️ 💙📚 #earlymodern 030
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 9h“Sell your coat and buy betony,” ran an Italian proverb; it was planted in churchyards and worn against evil spirits. Betony (Betonica officinalis). Old medicine, not a recommendation. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/betony 🗃️ #history #histsci 130
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 12hHerbert Silberer, Chance and the Goblin Tricks of the Unconscious (1921): “A Herr Bauer (Peasant) dreamed of aristocratic ancestors; a Herr Fürst (Prince) turned out to be a passionate Social Democrat.” thethinkingpress.org/translations/chance-and-the-goblin-tricks/excerpts 🗃️ 💙📚 #histsci 040
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 14hFrom the Symbolarium, on the Mushroom: freud took that picture for the dream itself. The Mushroom (Toadstool, fungus), in Symbols of the Psyche. thethinkingpress.org/symbolarium/psyche/mushroom 🗃️ #history #folklore 040
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 17hAnise was cultivated by the ancient Egyptians. Aniseed (Pimpinella anisum). History, not medical advice. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/aniseed 🗃️ #FolkloreThursday #history 030
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 19hI'm excited about this one. On the Manner of Discerning and Healing the Bewitched, Floriano Canale's book of 1614, in English for the first time, is out now. Details and the glossary of plants are on its page. thethinkingpress.org/project/discerning-and-healing-the-bewitched 🗃️ 💙📚 #earlymodern 041
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 20hTo all who are looking to purchase today's new hardcover release of our beautiful, newly translated exorcistic manual "On the Manner of Discerning and Healing the Bewitched" by Floriano Canale circa 1614, one can find it on our website for 15% when you make an account on Thethinkingpress.org! #italythethinkingpress.orgThe Thinking PressAn independent press for psychology, philosophy, and the history of medicine and magic: a sourced Materia Medica of old remedies, poisons and amulets, the Symbols of the Psyche, and works translated i... 000
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 22hThe leaves and pods of Senna alexandrina. Senna (Senna alexandrina). As history, not as advice. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/senna 🗃️ #FolkloreThursday #history 030
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026The leaves and pods of Senna alexandrina. Senna (Senna alexandrina). The old use, not a suggestion. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/senna 🗃️ #FolkloreThursday #history 020
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026A symbol I keep returning to. Freud took that picture for the dream itself. The Mushroom (Toadstool, fungus), in Symbols of the Psyche. thethinkingpress.org/symbolarium/psyche/mushroom 🗃️ #history #folklore 070
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Dodder growing on thyme, Cuscuta epithymum, a parasitic plant. Epithymum (Cuscuta epithymum). Old medicine, not a recommendation. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/epithymum 🗃️ #FolkloreThursday #history 010
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026If you have never read Justinus Kerner: Kleksographs (1890) is on the site in English. Kerner’s Hades pictures and Hell pictures. The first 4 parts are free to read; Club members read the rest. thethinkingpress.org/translations/kleksographs 🗃️ 💙📚 #c19th 011
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026The name: Greek aristolochia, “best for childbirth”: its curved flower was read as a sign of the womb, and it was given to hasten labor. Round birthwort (Aristolochia rotunda). History, not medical advice. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/round-birthwort 🗃️ #FolkloreThursday #history 020
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Sweet violet (Viola odorata), garden lettuce (Lactuca sativa), sow-thistle (Sonchus oleraceus). Violet, lettuce, sow-thistle (Viola odorata). History, not medical advice. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/violet-lettuce-sow-thistle 🗃️ #FolkloreThursday #history 020
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Out today: Floriano Canale, On the Manner of Discerning and Healing the Bewitched (1614), in English. Diagnosis before treatment, with a never-printed rite from a 1663 copy. Hardcover $64.99, ebook $19.99. thethinkingpress.org/project/discerning-and-healing-the-bewitched 🗃️ 💙📚 #earlymodern 050
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026White bryony, Bryonia dioica (syn. Bryony (Bryonia dioica). History, not medical advice. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/bryony 🗃️ #FolkloreThursday #history 010
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I've been translating G. H. Schubert's The Symbolism of Dreams (1814). The dream speaks a language of pictures older than words. The first 4 parts are free to read; Club members read the rest. thethinkingpress.org/translations/symbolism-of-dreams 🗃️ 💙📚 #c19th 020
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Oregano, Origanum vulgare; squinanth, Cymbopogon schoenanthus, a relative of lemongrass. Oregano and squinanth (Origanum vulgare). History, not medical advice. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/oregano-and-squinanth 🗃️ #FolkloreThursday #history 020
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Floriano Canale, On the Manner of Discerning and Healing the Bewitched (1614): “Into some he has entered by striking them upon the neck, or upon their other limbs.” thethinkingpress.org/project/discerning-and-healing-the-bewitched 🗃️ 💙📚 #earlymodern 040
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Vervain, Verbena officinalis. Verbena (Verbena officinalis). History, not medical advice. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/verbena 🗃️ #FolkloreThursday #history 010
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I've been translating Carl du Prel's Magic as Natural Science, in two parts, Magical Physics and Magical Psychology (1899). Across both parts, 7 of 27 are free to read; Club members read the rest. thethinkingpress.org/translations/magic-as-natural-science-1 🗃️ 💙📚 #c19th 031
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Oregano, Origanum vulgare; squinanth, Cymbopogon schoenanthus, a relative of lemongrass. Oregano and squinanth (Origanum vulgare). History, not medical advice. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/oregano-and-squinanth 🗃️ #WyrdWednesday #history 030
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Justinus Kerner, Kleksographs (1890): “I grew ever more afraid, For the thing grew ever longer, Far too long for a mouse, And the Devil crawled out.” From Hell Pictures. thethinkingpress.org/translations/kleksographs/excerpts 🗃️ 💙📚 #c19th 020
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026White bryony, Bryonia dioica (syn. Bryony (Bryonia dioica). History, not medical advice. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/bryony 🗃️ #WyrdWednesday #history 020
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Its not that half of mankind is evil, rather that mankind is half evil. 000
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I've been translating Herbert Silberer's Chance and the Goblin Tricks of the Unconscious (1921). Seventy-five chances that are not chance. The first 5 parts are free to read; Club members read the rest. thethinkingpress.org/translations/chance-and-the-goblin-tricks 🗃️ 💙📚 #histsci 030
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Pliny says that a traveler who carries mugwort will not tire on the road. Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris). History, not medical advice. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/mugwort 🗃️ #WyrdWednesday #history 060
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026G. H. Schubert, The Symbolism of Dreams (1814): “On the way the inner voice says to him: what are you doing here?” From 4. The Hidden Poet. thethinkingpress.org/translations/symbolism-of-dreams/excerpts 🗃️ 💙📚 #c19th 020
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026In this day and age, the majority of the people around us are caught up in the tasks that they see with their eyes. It's only a small minority of people, who learned the patterns of the inner world. Once you've come to know those patterns, objects and worldly goals aren't so enticing. #psychology 000
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Vervain, Verbena officinalis. Verbena (Verbena officinalis). History, not medical advice. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/verbena 🗃️ #WyrdWednesday #history 041
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I've been translating Karl Albert Scherner's The Life of the Dream (1861). The first book of Scherner’s Discoveries in the Realm of the Soul (Berlin, 1861). The first 3 parts are free to read; Club members read the rest. thethinkingpress.org/translations/life-of-the-dream 🗃️ 💙📚 #c19th 061
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The Antidotarium Nicolai gives a different confectio gallie muscate, of mastic, gum, and camphor with cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and musk. Gallia moschata. History, not medical advice. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/gallia-moschata 🗃️ #WyrdWednesday #history 061
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Carl du Prel, Magic as Natural Science, Part One: Magical Physics (1899): “But this discovery could also have been reached by another road.” From II. The Magical Deepening of Modern Natural Science. thethinkingpress.org/translations/magic-as-natural-science-1/excerpts 🗃️ 💙📚 #c19th 050
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Its name: From the Sanskrit muṣka, “testicle,” for the shape of the pod cut from the belly of the male musk deer of the Himalaya and Tibet, by way of Persian and Greek. Musk. History, not medical advice. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/musk 🗃️ #WyrdWednesday #history 062
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I've been translating Castore Durante's New Herbal (1585). Durante’s herbal, printed in Rome in 1585: each plant with its woodcut. The first 3 parts are free to read; Club members read the rest. thethinkingpress.org/translations/durante-herbario 🗃️ 💙📚 #earlymodern 021
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Mesue’s anacardine electuary was good for those who wished to be learned, for it sharpened the intellect and made a good memory. Marking-nut electuary (Semecarpus anacardium). History, not medical advice. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/marking-nut-electuary 🗃️ #WyrdWednesday #history 061
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Herbert Silberer, Chance and the Goblin Tricks of the Unconscious (1921): “The lady bows to the stranger, gives him her hand and says a few civil words.” From II. Chance Influenced: (a) The Order Is Worked In. thethinkingpress.org/translations/chance-and-the-goblin-tricks/excerpts 🗃️ 💙📚 #histsci 030
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The antidote attributed by legend to Mithridates VI of Pontus, the forerunner of theriac. Mithridate. History, not medical advice. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/mithridate 🗃️ #WyrdWednesday #history 092
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The next book from the press: The Magical World of the Heroes, Cesare della Riviera's book of 1605, in its first English translation. It comes in hardcover at $79.99, and as an ebook on Kindle at $19.99. thethinkingpress.org/project/magical-world-of-the-heroes 🗃️ 💙📚 #earlymodern 040
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Andromachus: Nero’s physician refined the antidote of Mithridates and added the flesh of vipers, making the theriac (from thēr, a wild beast) of later medicine. Theriac. History, not medical advice. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/theriac 🗃️ #WyrdWednesday #history 0143
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The dried bodies of female kermes scale insects, which yield a red dye used since antiquity. Kermes. History, not medical advice. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/kermes 🗃️ #WyrdWednesday #history 1142
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Dioscorides: Commends the Corycian saffron of Cilicia as the best, and warns of its adulteration. Saffron (Crocus sativus). History, not medical advice. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/saffron 🗃️ #WyrdWednesday #history 092
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The next book from the press: On the Manner of Discerning and Healing the Bewitched, Floriano Canale's book of 1614, in its first English translation. Details and the glossary of plants are on its page. thethinkingpress.org/project/discerning-and-healing-the-bewitched 🗃️ 💙📚 #earlymodern 1113
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Here's the print works which are in the pipeline, with On the Manner of Discerning and Healing the Bewitched coming to retailers on Thursday, and Riviera hitting the market on the 25th!!! Big month for us here at thethinkingpress.org #history #psychology #demonology #witchcraft #occultism 000
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The dried bodies of female kermes scale insects, which yield a red dye used since antiquity. Kermes. History, not medical advice. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/kermes 🗃️ #history #histsci 010
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Here is our Floriano Canale volume (On the Manner of Healing and Discerning the Bewitched) Hardcover + ebook on sale starting Thursday morning, currently being read In night mode on our beautiful reading & listening archive on thethinkingpress.org sign up for free and read tonight... #witchcraft 020
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Homer: Named for Paeon, physician of the gods, who in the Iliad heals the wounds of Hades and of Ares. Peony (Paeonia officinalis). History, not medical advice. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/peony 🗃️ #history #histsci 070
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Our interactive Reading & listening platform is beautiful and intuitive, and all our archives works are featured in it! Make your account before the window closes on our founding year charter memberships end on Jan 1st. #booktok 010
The Thinking Press @thethinkingpress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Dioscorides: Commends the Corycian saffron of Cilicia as the best, and warns of its adulteration. Saffron (Crocus sativus). History, not medical advice. thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/saffron 🗃️ #history #histsci 040