For the most part Hecate is seen today as the Goddess of Witches and Sorcery-but this wasn't always so. Hecate was at one time both protectress of women and children and Goddess of Death. She was, in her trinity aspect, goddess of fertility and prosperity, Goddess of the Moon, and Queen of Ghosts, shades and the night. It is interesting that she was seen both as the goddess of fertility and life as well as death. "Hekate can poison as well as intoxicate,"...