Scholomance
Devil's School for Weather Magicians: Solomonari, Garabonciás, Tempestarii
An interesting YT video. Chicken soup for the witch that enjoys long form content. Also of interest to anyone that likes diving into the Greco-Roman origins of Western Magic.
The snippets below may remind you of the trials administered at our own "Black School." 😈
At the Transylvanian Scholomance for Solomonari, made famous by Bram Stoker's Dracula, and the Hungarian Black School for Garaboncziás run by the Devil, one may learn the language of animals, all imaginable charms and spells, how to forge weather, ride on dragons among the clouds, heal diseases, and command the dead. But enrollment may be a little difficult, according to Romanian folklore.
Throughout the school, there are countless heavy grindstones barely hanging from a thread, and those who wish to become Solomonari must pass under them as a first test. Afraid, many do not dare to pass and return to their homes.
But not all of them return. One of them, some say, may have died or may have been kept as a token.
Cloud walkers were solitaries and sages known to the ancient Greco-Roman world as kapnobatai, which means "those who walk in smoke or on clouds". They were perhaps the precursors of the Pagan Greek nephodioktai and the tempestarii or tempestatum ductores mentioned in laws and decrees across Medieval Europe. The ancient Thracian cloud walkers were described according to Posidonius as ascetic casts among the theocratic tribes of the Mysians and Dacians of Thrace, the ancestors of the Romanian people who lived on the territory of present-day Transylvania and beyond.
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Hmm maybe we should have added an obstacle course at our events