The Witches Of Avignon

By Ana Claudia Antunes

How the witches entered the world of imagery, through the realms of imagination or through images that in fact were already there in the eye of the civilization? How about the Amazons? Were they legends, really? Or did they exist, and perhaps they still do? May you find the answers to some of the most mysterious puzzles of ancient times in this book based upon facts.
This is the first book from the trilogy Memoirs of An Amazon:
The Witches of Avignon (The Past) 
The Pierrot's Love (The Present)
Out Of The Blue (The Future)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ana Claudia Antunes
• Release date: Nov 10, 2014
• ISBN: 9781633396791

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The Witches of Avignon: Enigmas and tricks used since Ancient Times through the medieval Europe to the present day to quell the true supernatural power is the first book from the trilogy

Memoirs of An Amazon:

The Witches of Avignon (The Past)

The Pierrot's Love (The Present)

Out Of The Blue (The Future)

This book is part of the spiritual trilogy

Memoirs of An Amazon by Ana Claudia Antunes:

The Witches of Avignon (The Past)

First book of the trilogy talks about the Amazons from Ancient Times to our modern days, the Witches during the medieval Era and an introduction to the subject Reincarnation.

The Pierrot's Love (The Present)

The second book of the trilogy is about two ghosts from the nineteenth century who haunt a teenage girl until her mother takes the matter to her hands and write their story. The problem is they have two versions of the same story. Then who is telling the truth?

Out Of The Blue or Out of Thin Air (The Future)

Thus this book begins the circuit of the trilogy.

Happy reading!

The insatiable thirst for all that is beyond, and that reveals life is the most vivid proof of our immortality.

Charles Baudelaire

Books written and translated by Ana Claudia Antunes

Think like a Genius: The Seven Steps to Find Brilliant Solutions to Common Problems (co-authored with Raimon Saisom)

How to Break into TV Writing (with Gary Jones)

Shoot Your Novel (with C. S. Lakin)

ContemporarySuspense / Mystery

The Royal Diary

The Pierrot´s Love

Geometries of Design

Fights of a Sassy Girl

Fantasy / Sci-Fi

Out Of Thin Air

Methodology books and self-help

Woman: Intransitive Verb

The Dao Workbook Illustrated

How to make a book (series of how-to)

Happiness from A to Z: Tips to Live by and Break through the Barriers that Separate You from Your Dream Job

More than a fable, or a love story, or a tale of adventures and misadventures, more than an action movie, The Witches of Avignon is a lesson in History with a capital H, climbing through chasms of time and braving the bowels of being. And, more than that, are first-person accounts by such weight that it slips into the essence of a life lived between battles, shared in unforgettable and somewhat surreal, extremely realistic scenes, revealing and unraveling mysteries never before explored, among chronicles from past lives at crucial moments in the history of mankind. In a simple and at the same time precise look in the face of disruptions of its own human existence, this book addresses real documents about life in a clear and distinct vision, although they wade into a concept in folklore and mythology, revealing fundamental issues at the historical recognition of women's role in society.

The Witches of Avignon reveals actual facts about the indigenous women of the Amazon and its myths and folklores, disputes over land against the invading Spaniards and Dutch men, men and women in the middle Ages and their secular beliefs, including scientific and medical knowledge. Some of them were considered pure witchcraft by ecclesiastical, and the witches and other members of society were considered heretics and just played and burned alive at the stake, or deprived of all his property, and excluded from the medieval society. Such as women who stood out were banned and that happened not only at other times but still until the present day they have been suffocated and suffering imprisonment, rape and stoning. In this book you will know the other side of the story that was told to us, tearing the masks of villainy, in an entertaining and at the same time, very chilling tale showing how what we know as folklore is just scattered and half-truth designed to obscure the truth itself. I assure you that after reading this book your worldview will change or it will change the misconceptions of life as we have seen and experienced so far.

Author's Note: This is a work of fiction, based on facts; any similarity, can NOT be a coincidence because it is based mostly on data from past lives, so it would be impossible to set aside an entire historical plot that this content proclaims and this work requires. Actually, I started this book based on a dream I had and that helped me understand the process by which I was passing, as painful as the loss of a loved one.

This possibility of reviewing the facts of my past life brought some relief and a forceful explanation for what happened in my life at that moment. Since this regression (which I consider to be spontaneous; after all there was no outside intervention, much less a self-hypnosis) I now consider more reason and consistency of my dreams and even started to build so many stories to tell of either by regression or rather by chance this was given to be to get to a point.

I am very grateful if anyone who reads this book can benefit from the reading or it can at least give a few moments of reflection on life: Past, Present and Future.

A curiosity: When I wrote this book there was not yet a television series called Xena, Warrior Princess, for those who will wonder if I relied on the Australian TV series. To my surprise (and joy) to finally feel once again that what we think is fictional can be just as, if not more, real than what we really imagine, I watched an episode where Xena goes to a therapist and make a regression in her past life as a rider through hypnosis. Imagine that I had dreamed about that two years before this series went off the air and I looked exactly the same character portrayed in the show, with the only detail that by having to struggle so hard to survive I was more athletic and much thinner than the actress Lucy Lawless.

So if you ask me if I really believe I have been an Amazon, I can simply reply: Please read this book and get yourself to your own conclusion.

INTRODUCTION

I do not remember for sure where it all began. Just know that I still remember and I have flashes of memories of a past somewhat remote. So far it has recovered by taking the beginnings of time, where all was nothing, and nothing, the whole. These memories transcend the Discovery of the Americas, it stretches well before the middle Ages, bordering the Crusades and the Inquisition, and there slips through Ancient Greece, and even before the world was created. My memories go where they need to write my whole life, and still be just the time it would have to report all the facts leading up to my arrival in this world, and also everything that had happened since then.

Therefore, I limit myself to some of my memories, specific of my life here on this planet, leaving my deepest and remote memories for another time, and concentrating on the experiences through which I passed, as a human being here on earth at the moment a little light came down to the planet, and decided to give life to everything around, something that was essential to the evolution of the Times. As from that spark of light is that everything stemmed the cosmos emerging from chaos, the light appearing from the darkness, nature shining on the horizon.

Every manifestation of life arose through the verb, so powerful is the force of the word. The divine breath gave life to the universe that was expanding and creating new forms of life, forming suns, stars, galaxies and, with them, the black holes. The Milky Way and the planets were created. And in our galaxy the planets Venus and Mars have emerged. And then her younger sister, Earth.

And there came light. And, through it, forms were created through all other beings. A fantastic explosion of color and light appeared in the middle of the infinite universe, like a volcano with her flaming sparks, breaking the Earth's sky. Thus, a glorious day of sunshine and endless sky of a translucent beauty appeared over the horizon bright lights, the twinkling stars.

... and when the soul has not performed his mission on earth, it will be uprooted and transplanted again on the earth.

Jean de Pauly

CHAPTER I: The Memoirs of an Amazon

I remember like it was yesterday. We rode, all naked, and always together, happy and joyful. We were always together, and if one got sick we would all be patient, dropped all to come rescue her, and gave our lives for each one of us.

We were distinct and special. Horses lulled us with extra care, as the lap of a protective mother. They followed us wherever we sighted them, and our communication was by telepathy more than any other visual or verbal means. Although the voice was considered an instrument of a particular importance to these extraordinary beings, they kept it as a secret, or they would get the penalty of being too loud with their affairs. And we, the Amazons, had a unique vocal tone, which pleased all animals and, uniquely, were the horses who else loved us.

We were called Amazon, in Greek, means Amazon. We were Warrior women, manly character that faced men as equals, that in any dictionary we may find. But that we're a legend you can draw to your own conclusions at the end of my reports. We were considered wild and animalistic, but the truth is that no one knew that behind the steel armor, there was a heart of gold, and we were always ready to help the weak and needy.

I was always a feminist leader. Despite that, today, the definition of being a feminist has fallen in the mouths of women who sought self-promotion, while making known of a natural way, playing feminism word in their vocabulary, and lowering this term to a level somewhat pejorative. At that time, being a feminist was, above all, being feminine, and very feminine, with the strength of intuition, coupled with physical force, i.e. having the male and female within ourselves very well balanced inside.

Fierce and warlike, I could not live without having to fight battles or wars to win. It was all or nothing. And I had to win, always. Or, it was better to die fighting for a just cause, than to be languishing, sick and aged, without even having lived a decent life, or vibrated at least once. Because, intuitively, I knew that death was not the end of everything. And there was more worth dying bravely and valiantly defending my honor, and having my merits, to languish, poor and dying in a useless and worthless death.

I was long accustomed to the struggles, the hard work, and the setbacks of life there. Finally, I never gave up so easily. And to complete the scene I always stood up again for another battle. I was naturally born a leader, and all that made ​​me become more valuable, energetic and fearless my work, I recognized it as a relentless mission.

I was tough in battle, but pure of heart. Saw no evil in anything, unless there was any kind of injustice or power that subjugates the weaker. Here then my anger was recognized as a devastating and uncontrollable mandatory and I was implacably punitive; I turned into a beast, and there was nobody who could stop me, when was dominated by the sense of protecting one who had been wronged. And one that contradicted the truth and justice was pursued until it corrected the mistake, or recognized that with sincerity. And I turned myself inside. I would get a superhuman strength, coming from who knows where, growing inside the chest and exploding like a volcano that seemed asleep, but that was erupting from one moment to another.

CHAPTER II: THE MYTH

The Amazons were considered legends and that has been a long, long time. It's time to uncover the truth of this myth that I am testimony of,