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March 12, 2025

Traditional Witchcraft and Betrayal…

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

February 2025

February 17, 2025

Witchcraft in Reality: A Rebuttal

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

January 2025

January 22, 2025

The Devil and the Sun King: The Affair of the Poisons

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

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...

October 2023

October 05, 2023

We need to talk about the Witchcraft Act 1735…

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

December 2022

December 05, 2022

The Coal Black Smith…

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

October 2022

October 21, 2022

Green Man, Earth Angel, by Tom Cheetham – Book Review

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

August 2022

August 14, 2022

The Witch Compass – Working with the Winds in Traditional Witchcraft

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

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...

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 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...

December 2020

December 20, 2020

Punk Witchcraft: A Manifesto?

Witchcraft has been a subversive facet of culture since time immemorial. Incorporating inversion, reversion and...

December 01, 2020

AvalonCon Debut in Glastonbury 2021 – Lineup & Tickets Launched

What better way to kick off 2021 than with a brand new occult and paranormal...

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