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May 2025

May 24, 2025

Shattered Illusions: Stories of Pre-Internet Days

As a gentleman of a middling age, being barely in the arse-end of Generation X,...

March 2025

March 12, 2025

Traditional Witchcraft and Betrayal…

Within the milieu of modern occult arts, the folklore and historicity of witchcraft has developed...

December 2024

December 09, 2024

To Always Hele, Ever Conceal, and Never Reveal…

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

January 2024

January 25, 2024

A Defence of Witchcraft Belief – Book Review

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

December 2023

December 08, 2023

Midwinter Traditions – From Wild Hunt to Festive Spirit

There has been much made in recent decades about the pagan origins of Christmas customs....

November 2023

November 30, 2023

Book Review: Making Magic in Elizabethan England

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

December 2022

December 05, 2022

The Coal Black Smith…

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

April 2022

April 21, 2022

Cosmogony of the Compass – Yetzirah Mysticism

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

March 2022

March 21, 2022

Magic & Responsibility

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

February 2022

February 10, 2022

Navigating the Witch Compass

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

July 2021

July 29, 2021

The House is Still on Fire – Witchcraft Against Climate Crisis

In previous posts, I have written with some concern about the climate crisis that’s...

July 05, 2021

Antisemitism and Witchcraft in the Middle Ages

Many of the oldest, most iconic depictions of the witch feature the pronounced characteristics that...

February 2021

February 21, 2021

Punk Witchcraft !

In terms of witchery, I firmly believe that the origins and persistent ethos of the...

January 2021

January 30, 2021

Discussing the Late Witch Ralph Harvey with Richard Gordon

"...there was a whole lot of secrecy involved due to the fact that, at the...

December 2020

December 05, 2020

The Black Fast – The Witch Trial of Mabel Brigge and Fasting as Magic

The Black Fast In the Year of Our Lord, 1537, the potato arrived in Europe,...

September 2020

September 05, 2020

Castles in Traditional British Witchcraft Lore

…the distribution of the castes in the city exactly follows the march of the annual...

May 2020

May 22, 2020

Losing Your Head At Midsummer – An Ancient Rite Revisited

The following is an extract from Pax Deorum - A Modern Witchcraft Primer, 2018, by...

January 2020

January 30, 2020

The Witch’s Stang: The Hope of Man from Every Angle

The Witch's Stang is often thought to have been introduced into modern practice by the...

January 15, 2020

The Witch’s Compass: Finding Direction With The Seven Winds

Within Traditional Witchcraft, the concept of the Compass sometimes erroneously replaces that of the Circle....

December 2019

December 11, 2019

Tradition and Customs of the Season

Christingle sounds a bit like Kris Kringle... And that's about all there is, really. Ostensibly,...

December 01, 2019

The Old Devil Saint Nick

The Santa Claus we now know, incorporating the older British Father Christmas and Lord of...

November 2019

November 12, 2019

Drinking the Wine of the Immortals

Let me tell you a story... a story of a being somewhere between angel and...

November 05, 2019

Keep a Crooked Sixpence

Like many cultures and countries, Britain and America share a rich history of fairy and...

October 2019

October 03, 2019

What We Knew In The Night: Book Review

Earlier this year, Raven Grimassi passed across the veil. I have followed Grimassi’s writings with...

September 2019

September 15, 2019

Wyrd Goes Ever As She Shall

At any given moment in our lives, we might give pause to contemplate the course...

July 2019

July 26, 2019

Witchcraft Against Climate Change

I propose a witchcraft to openly and purposefully work to arrest the rapid decline of the...

July 26, 2019

Witchcraft Is Political And It’s Time To Use It!

Following a previous blog entry, among the comments I received was one accusing me of...

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