What ancient cultures practiced magic and beleaved that storms and waves could carry magic?

Question

By magic I mean anything mystical, magic, witchcraft, voodoo, all that type of stuff.

Answer 1

The ancient Romans, Greeks, Celts, for starters. You look at the Norse and remember that storms were one of their most feared monsters. If you look at any culture (including our own) you will find that there are mystical aspects attached to storms - particularly lightning storms.

Answer 2

The most detailed descriptions of Cthulhu in "The Call of Cthulhu" are based on statues of the creature. One, constructed by an artist after a series of baleful dreams, is said to have "yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature.... A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings."[7] Another, recovered by police from a raid on a murderous cult, "represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind." [8]

When the creature finally appears in the story, it's said that the "Thing cannot be described", but it is called "the green, sticky spawn of the stars", with "flabby claws" and an "awful squid-head with writhing feelers". The phrase "a mountain walked or stumbled" gives a sense of the creature's scale.[9]

Cthulhu is depicted as having a worldwide cult centered in Arabia, with followers in regions as far-flung as Greenland, Louisiana, and New Zealand.[10] There are leaders of the cult "in the mountains of China" who are said to be immortal. Cthulhu is described by some of these cultists as the "great priest" of "the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky."[11]

The cult is noted for chanting its "horrid phrase or ritual: Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn", which translates as "In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."[12] This is often shortened to "Cthulhu fhtagn", which appears to mean "Cthulhu waits" or "Cthulhu dreams".[13]

Answer 3

Ancient Cultures and Ancient Peoples all believed these Forces of Nature had Power beyond their Kin.

Answer 4

You don't have to look into history. The traditions are still alive in the arctic and the Islands of the South Pacific.

Answer 5

I'm not quite sure what you mean, but Wiccans believe that nature is magic.

Answer 6

All of them!!