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Modern Occultism: An Interview with Mitch Horowitz

Posted on January 22, 2023January 22, 2023 by TheCustodian

“It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the…

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Sigils and Spirits: An Interview with Darragh Mason

Posted on January 3, 2021January 3, 2021 by TheCustodian

“Throughout my childhood and adolescence I was an avid reader of folklore and mythology…it’s very apparent that this interest had a huge and long lasting impact on my life and the path it’s taken.”  -Darragh Mason International travel these days seems like a thing of the past, a dream known only by faint remembrances or…

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Occult Egypt in the Victorian Popular Imagination: An Interview with Dr Eleanor Dobson

Posted on October 31, 2020February 8, 2023 by TheCustodian

“Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century occultism was…heavily influenced by popular fiction, which often benefited from the generic fluidity that flourished at the chiasma of literary and Egyptological culture.” -Dr Eleanor Dobson For ages Egypt was regarded as a land of occult wisdom. In his Timaeus, Plato suggested that the Egyptians–the only people with knowledge of…

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The Mermaid Isles Project

Posted on September 12, 2017October 8, 2020 by TheCustodian

“A thousand fathoms down our home; Daughters we of the pathless deep, sprung from the ever dancing foam.”  –from The Mermaids by Edith M. David (1873). Mermaids, it would seem, have been shoaling around the sunless depths of the human psyche since the time of the ancient Mesopotamians. From the very beginning, marine humanoids were associated…

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Doctor Torralva, The Arch-Magician of Castile

Posted on April 5, 2017October 8, 2020 by TheCustodian

“Remember the true story of the licentiate Torralva, whom the devils carried through the air, riding on a cane…”  -from The life and exploits of the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha, vol. II, by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Charles Jarvis (1749). According to tradition, the first person on the Iberian Peninsula to make…

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The Enchanted House of Justinus Kerner

Posted on December 12, 2016October 8, 2020 by TheCustodian

“There were visions in the air, and dreams sitting on the staircases…”  -from Memoirs (1893) by Charles Godfrey Leland  “Kerner’s house is, perhaps, the most remarkable and peculiar in all Swabia…if we wish to receive or impart a right idea of Kerner, we must see him and describe him in his own house.” -from Justinus…

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Fantast in Focus: Daniel Harms

Posted on November 13, 2016October 8, 2020 by TheCustodian

FANTAST IN FOCUS: DANIEL HARMS “They are either not mortal, or their date of life is indeterminately long; they are of a nature superior to man, and speak with contempt of human follies. By night they revel beneath the light of the moon and stars…” -from The Fairy Mythology: Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various…

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Fantast in Focus: Gordon White

Posted on October 21, 2016October 8, 2020 by TheCustodian

FANTAST IN FOCUS: GORDON WHITE “One of the roles of the Trickster is to introduce uncertainty and novelty into your existence.” -Gordon White Also known as “the dark prince of modern Chaos magic”, Gordon White is a writer and podcaster. His website Rune Soup is a juggernaut in the occult blogosphere, a collection of prodigious musings that…

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The Adventures of Charles Godfrey Leland

Posted on October 14, 2016July 17, 2020 by TheCustodian

“You will remember that Albertus Magnus…adds emphatically, that the process will instruct and avail only to the few— that a man must be born a magician!” -from The Haunters and the Haunted by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1859). In 1870, Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton hosted a quirky American man of letters named Charles Godfrey Leland at his manor house in Knebworth, Hertfordshire. The two thinkers were…

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Islamic Magic in Malta

Posted on October 7, 2016October 8, 2020 by TheCustodian

ODD TRUTHS: ISLAMIC MAGIC IN MALTA Maltese folk magic has been studied in detail by scholars such as Francis Ciappara and Carmel Cassar. However, in 2014, a research team at the University of Exeter led by Professor Dionisius Agius, Dr Catherine Rider, and Dr Alex Mallett, recovered seventeenth-century court documents about an Egyptian slave who was accused of giving…

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