Plants and Daimons
Last night, I sat down and ended up having another chat with a Something. Lacking a better word, we'll call it my Daimon. Or the Daimon that has, at the very least, agreed to harass me until I die and...
View ArticleIO9 & The Troxler Effect
"The brain, when faced with a lot of stimulation, only some of which is considered relevant, will tune out the non-relevant parts, filling in what it can from the general area. It's a little like how...
View ArticleBut Spirits Can't Hurt You!
A few years ago, VVF and I decided it was time to bind a motherfucker. Someone else had asked us for help with it, and we were pretty much okay with that. The person had been messing with a family...
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You Didn't Sacrifice Your First Born Child.
Ever since Once Upon a Time began hitting the air-waves, there has been a nigh-limitless amount of witches, pagans, and magicians who apparently have nothing better to use to convey their messages.As a...
View ArticleAnointing, the Blessed Dead, and Other Such Things in Christianity.
Earlier today, From the Bodies of the Gods: Psychoactive Plants and the Cults of the Deadby Earl Lee arrived.I wish to be careful with my initial description of the book, because it largely confirms...
View ArticleNecromancy Sources: 2.0
[Written during: Day of Venus: Hour of Venus]Now With Less Wankery.A while back, I felt sufficiently compelled to draw together a list of sources on the magical practice of necromancy. Subsequently,...
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Oberon Images from Folger VB26(1)
Since writing Well Met By Daylight, where I said that I had problems finding the manuscript collection for Folger VB26(1) (they date it at around 1577-1583 CE), it has subsequently come online. As...
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Sator Squares and Pompeii
Earlier, I got to thinking about Sator squares... Largely because of a stray comment I made to RO.So, I went digging around wondering just how old they are. Which is when the Square on the left, found...
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The Blessed Dead Arrive, Again.
“... “Hail, Helios! Hail, Gabriel! Hail, Raphael! Hail, Michael! Hail, whole universe! Give me the authority and the power of SABAŌTH, the strength of IAŌand the success of ABLANATHANABAand the might...
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“Suzy, what do you know about Witches..?”*
“Although through the notions of the marvellous and of occult forces in nature, the idea of natural magic endured, there were no legal distinctions between mageia, goeteia,and theurgia– ambiguous...
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Of Potions, Ointments, Toads & Mushrooms.
“It has been supposed that the words saka haumavarka, which in Iranian texts designate a family from whom the Achaemenides descended, meant 'the people who change into werewolves by intoxicating...
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HieraBotane: Vervain (Verbena Officinalis)
“But among the Romans there is no plant that enjoys a more extended renown than hierabotane (holy plant), known to some persons as “peristereon,” (Pigeon Plant) and among us more generally as...
View ArticleDear Neokoroi
You lot do good work.But your section on Hekate sucks.'Who has become a Goddess of magic'? Do I need to cite that shit, like, endlessly? How many PGM spells, references in Epic Poems and crap does one...
View ArticleSenegalese Laamb Wrestling & Tarantism
Rather than just complaining... Last week's episode of Vice featured Senegalese Laamb wrestling, a cool mix of sorcery and machismo:I've watched the segment like... four times. This is an extended...
View ArticleBetween the Cracks
“Pharmacy (n.)late 14c., “a medicine,” from Old French farmacie“a purgative” (13c.), from Medieval Latin pharmacia, from Greek pharmakeia“use of drugs, medicines, potions, or spells; poisoning,...
View ArticleBwahahahaha.
“The Mandrake and Fern, like King Solomon's Baharas, are said to shine at night, and to leap about like a Will-o'- the-wisp: indeed, in Thuringia, the Fern is known as Irrkraut, or Misleading Herb, and...
View ArticleHekate's Supper [EDITED]
Given that I recently complained about the information on Hekate's Supper at a certain website, it is probably fitting that I provide some of the information I feel was missing from it. This entry may...
View ArticleSocial Animals
I don't interact much with large groups. I prefer not to.A certain subset of humans have been taught that the most important thing for everyone is to harmonize, to basically reduce all our differences...
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Huh. [EDITED]
(Hecate, armed with torches, and killing a giant; Christie's, London, Catalogue des pierres graves antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833), 51, Cornelian) Via some Helenismos...
View ArticleBlogs, Booze, and Plants.
Earlier today, I was pleased to see Herr DoktorPhildiscuss some solutions for the squabbling that has going on in the bloggosphere and elsewhere on the 'net. I especially liked the solution for...
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