As I Pre-Emptively Out Myself
I appear to have accidentally - well, without thinking the issue through - outed myself as a member of my tradition elsewhere.As such there is no reason to continue avoiding to discuss which tradition...
View ArticleHail to the Oracle, Hail to Hermes Kthonios!
“The word hag is now used commonly to mean an ugly old woman, but in medieval times it meant a witch. It derives from the same etymological root as the ‘hedge’. This derivation implies that here was a...
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Regarding the Dead
“It is, however, difficult to account for the whole fairy-creed by any single theory, for like the spirits with which it was concerned, it was always shifting, nebulous, and many-coloured. It seems to...
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Shape-shifting, Black Dogs, Barrows, and Necromancy [NSFW]
I'm still having trouble actually finishing a longer post on the Restless Dead. So, while I continue working toward something coherent, I've decided to post some of my favorite confessions featured in...
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In a few hours...
I'm pretty sure it'll be good times. Here's hopin' I don't make an ass out of myself!Jack.
View ArticleWherefore they do often meet children, women, and poor and mean men.
And in Philostratus we read, when Apollonius and his companions were travelling in a bright Moon-shining night, that the Phantasme of a Hagge met them, and some times changed it self into this shape,...
View ArticleThe Obligatory Cunning Magic Post
The subject of Cunning Magic, whether it's been a realized aspect for readers of this blog or not, has come up in several of my entries over the last year. As such, I've been feeling the desire to put...
View ArticleDosages and Soporific Spells
Let us be clear:When it comes to flying ointments, potions, etc., and tropane producing plants:- The alkaloid content of the plant is variable.It depends on when you plant it, when you uproot it, and a...
View ArticleWitchery
Let us set aside the notion of “men's mysteries and women's mysteries” for the moment, as they often beguile the unwary. Instead, let us look elsewhere for our notions of witchery and its...
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Images in the Palace of Twilight
Rossetti's Mnemosyne. 1875 - 1876.“Μνημοσύνην καλέω, Ζηνὸς σύλλεκτρον, ἄνασσαν, ἣ Μούσας τέκνωσ’ ἱεράς, ὁσίας, λιγυφώνους,ἐκτὸς ἐοῦσα κακῆς λήθης βλαψίφρονος αἰεί,πάντα νόον συνέχουσα βροτῶν ψυχαῖσι...
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To Speak With Any Person That Is Dead
Earlier today I was challenged on a certain matter – or at least felt challenged – and after initially responding, I broke open the Grimoire of Arthur Gauntletto double-check just how muchnecromancy is...
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Witchcraft: Balancing History Against Practice
One of the most annoying and recurrent fights that erupt between witches involves dealing with academic outlooks on the subject of witchcraft, and how much historically accurate information we should...
View ArticleBah.
I've bumped the entry on Pacts with the Devil back into draft format. It'll either be re-worked into something I can tolerate, or be ignored until such a time as it matters.In the meantime, back to...
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1400 – 1780 CE: Adventures in the Otherworld, Part One.
“Still, it can hardly be denied that Ginzburg was onto something. The specific scheme he reconstructed, the journey to the realm of the dead, may have relied on suspect and arbitrary connections across...
View ArticlePGM VII. 505-28
Meeting with your own Daimon:“Hail, Tyche, and you, the daimon of this place, and you, the present hour, and you, the present day – and every day as well. Hail, Universe, that is, earth and heaven....
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Death & Supper
Sannion has recently returned to unleashing (barbed) mockeryand raising the question of whether one should be concerned about giving Hekate's Deipnon to the poor; there is a trend of bypassing the...
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1874: Black Rosicrucians, Officiating Ladies, & Magic Mirrors*
“When he talks of initiations, ‘officiating girls’ and ‘strange oaths,’ we may infer that he held meetings of some kind, but I have failed to obtain particulars.”- Arthur Edward Waite, On Paschal...
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Noobsauce Unlimited
“Χαῖρε Διόνυσος θυρεπανοίκτης.”(“[...] which means 'Joyous greetings, Dionysos, Opener of the Door!'” - Sannion.)Cleanup by the wonderful VVF.
View ArticleAstrological Magic & Chaotes
Recently, Gordon over at Rune Soup interviewed Jake Stratton-Kent. During the interview, you can hear Jake discuss Pete Carroll's dismissal of astrological magic and how silly he thought this was.What...
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The Furious Host
Herakleitos, Fragments 76-77 (535-475 BCE)… they roam together – the night-walkers, the magicians, the Bakchai, the Lenai, the participants in mysteries full of unholy rites. Their processions and...
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