Canidia, Rome’s First Witch

Canidia is one of the most well-attested witches in Latin literature. She appears in no fewer than six of Horace''s poems, three of which she has a prominent role in. Throughout Horace''s Epodes and Satires she perpetrates acts of grave desecration, kidnapping, murder, magical torture and poisoning. She invades the gardens of Horace''s literary patron Maecenas, rips apart a lamb with her teeth, st...