I'm not sure exactly when they went up, but if there were any presentations you missed at this year's Salem #Witchcraft and #Folklore Festival (including 'A Many-Headed Raven: A Presentation on #Faustian #Grimoires and Folk #Necromancy', with Dr Alexander Cummins and myself), the archived recordings are now available for purchase! https://www.salemwitchfest.com/copy-of-2022-class-archives

One last plug for this Friday's talk where, along with Dr. Alexander Cummins, we'll be exploring the folk-necromantic background and practical demonological operationalization (not to mention pseudepigraphic pseudo-history) of the Faustian #grimoires!
#necromancy #folklore #Faust

https://www.salemwitchfest.com/event-details/a-many-headed-raven-a-presentation-on-faustian-grimoires-folk-necromancy-with-dr-alexander-cummins-brian-johnson

I need to start borrowing different types of #Grimoires, because at a certain point it just gets repetitive.

Even a recently released Grimoire translated from Arabic was surprisingly derivative of Greek Christian Magic.

Maybe it's time I get back to works on the #PGM & #HellenisticAge Magic.

Putting the finishing touches on my part of the presentation Dr Alexander Cummins and I will be giving on August 4th at 7 p.m. EST for the Salem Witchcraft and Folklore Festival, where we'll be talking about the #history, #folklore, and #magic of the legendary Doctor #Faustus and the genre of #grimoires bearing his name.
https://www.salemwitchfest.com/event-details/a-many-headed-raven-a-presentation-on-faustian-grimoires-folk-necromancy-with-dr-alexander-cummins-brian-johnson

So, anyone else into #Grimoires like the #Picatrix without being a misogynist sociopath about it?

#AstrologicalMagic #Talismans #ClassicalMagic

What's neat to me about #grimoires and #spellbooks are understanding the thoughts and reasoning behind #spells, and what knowledge informed those decisions and #magical thinking.

Here's a spell you can inscribe on a plate and throw into a fire to extinguish it! Keep a backup fire extinguisher on hand just in case 😜 this is from "Long Lost Friend", possibly the first American #grimoire

Anyway this is why I recommend translated and annotated editions, no need to redo the work unless the only available translation is really bad or biased :spellbook2:
#ReadOnlyFriday #occult #chaosMagick

What's neat to me about #grimoires and #spellbooks are understanding the thoughts and reasoning behind #spells, and what knowledge informed those decisions and #magical thinking.

Here's a spell you can inscribe on a plate and throw into a fire to extinguish it! Keep a backup fire extinguisher on hand just in case 😜 this is from "Long Lost Friend", possibly the first American #grimoire

Anyway this is why I recommend translated and annotated editions, no need to redo the work unless the only available translation is really bad or biased :spellbook2:

Anyway always get your #grimoires in their translated and annotated Editions

So, who else out there is into #Grimoires like the #Picatrix and #ThreeBooksofOccultPhilosopy & other types of Classical #Magick?

#grimoires #Aristotle

@northfolk @folklore @folklorethursday Michael Scot indeed had a long legendary afterlife as a sorcerer — here's a 15th-century manuscript (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana MS plut. 89 sup. 38) where he's ascribed authorship of a magical demon- and ghost-summoning ritual!

It reads "Experimentum Michaelis Scoti nigromantici.
Si volueris per demones habere scientiam..." (An Experiment of Michael Scot, Necromancer.
If you should wish to have knowledge by demons...) etc.

#FolkloreThursday #grimoires

One thing I learned the hard way is that explicitly #occult texts are only a subset of how magic is understood and perceived in a culture. If you want to understand how a culture lived with and experienced the supernatural you've got to look at their poetry, stories, songs, paintings, theatre et al. If all you know is the #grimoires you're not even getting half the story and what you do have is devoid of context.

More on the word Grimoire from Dr Angela Puca
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS8JrvjS1/
#pagan #paganism #witch #witchcraft #esoteric #esotericism #grimoires

Inspired by #grimoires on YouTube, I've set up my own Jewish take on the genre, a Rosh Hodesh journal! Super excited about it. #planneraddict #odysseynotebooks #journal #stationeryporn

I'm new, so here's an #introduction

My name is Em, and I'm a #witch, or probably more accurately a #sorceress living in the middle of nowhere North Carolina. I like #grimoires #cats #astrology #fiberart and #poetry.

I talk to dead people, stars and trees. I yell at the Sun every day. I will probably post lots about #nature and all its minor horrors.

I'm still a little lost here, but I'm looking for other #horrorAuthors, #horror, #reviewers, #historians, #history especially early 20th century history. My other interests include #occult #grimoires #demonolgy #angelology if you can wrap your mind around all that. I also LOVE #horrorMovies with the exception of slashers-no slashers, no gore, please.