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March 2025

March 27, 2025
The preeminent day connected with Judas... is Maundy Thursday... To the medieval mind, Maundy Thursday...
March 12, 2025
Within the milieu of modern occult arts, the folklore and historicity of witchcraft has developed...

February 2025

February 17, 2025
A little over a year ago, medieval historian and podcaster, Eleanor Janega wrote a blog...

January 2025

January 22, 2025
Whenever we think of historic accounts of witchcraft, there are a number of cases that...

December 2024

December 09, 2024
I swear that I will always conceal and never reveal these secrets... (Society of Esoteric...

July 2024

July 28, 2024
"Our idea was inclusion... Naturally when we want to include everyone and not exclude anyone...

June 2024

June 20, 2024
Things I’ve been contemplating lately synchronised for me today when my Facebook feed presented a...

April 2024

April 24, 2024
"...And after the said Jane allighted and pulld the bridle of her head, and she...

March 2024

March 23, 2024
Within modern witchcraft, two positions have made themselves apparent in recent years that is somewhat...

February 2024

February 04, 2024
The figure of the devil, the Black Man of the Sabbat, the adversarial force that...

January 2024

January 25, 2024
A Defence of Witchcraft Belief: A Sixteenth-century Response to Reginald Scot’s Discoverie of Witchcraft, Edited...

December 2023

December 20, 2023
veritas filia temporis The Midwinter, especially around the solstitial event of the sun’s apparent stasis...
December 08, 2023
There has been much made in recent decades about the pagan origins of Christmas customs....

November 2023

November 30, 2023
A long time ago, in my early teens, I had a secret and insatiable thirst...

October 2023

October 05, 2023
If you have been a student of witchcraft and Wicca for any length of time,...

September 2023

September 30, 2023
Exploring local folklore and landscape can reveal many things, not least of which is an...
September 22, 2023
Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and...

August 2023

August 30, 2023
First published in 2013, By Moonlight and Spirit Flight: The Praxis of the Otherworldly Journey to the Witches'...

July 2023

July 11, 2023
Recently, I made a blog post that gained some traction on social media, got seen...
July 07, 2023
Pope Innocent VIII issued a papal bull in 1484, entitled ‘Summis desiderantes affectibus’ (desiring with...
July 04, 2023
Has modern witchcraft forgotten the Witch? Modern witchcraft is many things — ask a dozen...

December 2022

December 05, 2022
Tubal Cain, tutelary deity of the craft coterie bearing his name [Clan of Tubal Cain],...

October 2022

October 21, 2022
Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the World Soul, by...

September 2022

September 10, 2022
  The death of the Queen of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth realms on Thursday...

August 2022

August 14, 2022
"The language of symbolism and allegory is important to almost all understandings of magic, accessing a...

May 2022

May 27, 2022
And from that fatal moment, till this time The fairy king has never deign'd to...

April 2022

April 21, 2022
The universe that is created by means of the sefirot and letters is constituted according to...

March 2022

March 21, 2022
Throughout conversations, one of the most frequent things to emerge is a regrettable reason that...

February 2022

February 10, 2022
As cognitive beings, narrative coheres humankind, the mechanism of story bonding us in an associative...

December 2021

December 20, 2021
To the Great Goddess, mother and Maker of all things, we call for a light...
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