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
#witchcraft #folklore #faustian #grimoires #Necromancy
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
#grimoires #Necromancy #folklore #faust
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.
#grimoires #pgm #hellenisticage
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
#history #folklore #magic #faustus #grimoires
So, anyone else into #Grimoires like the #Picatrix without being a misogynist sociopath about it?
#grimoires #picatrix #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 π 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
#grimoires #spellbooks #spells #magical #grimoire #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 π 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:
#grimoires #spellbooks #spells #magical #grimoire
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 #picatrix #threebooksofoccultphilosopy #magick
@northfolk @folklore @folklorethursday Michael Scot indeed had a long legendary afterlife as a sorcerer β 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.
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
#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
#grimoires #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.
#nature #poetry #fiberart #astrology #cats #grimoires #sorceress #witch #introduction
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.
#horrorAuthors #horror #reviewers #historians #history #occult #grimoires #demonolgy #angelology #horrormovies