Magick Matters

“Cross-Stitch from the Dark Ages: 25 Medieval Projects to Plague Your Walls” by Lindsay Swearingen

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "A Pestilence of Dark Designs If you want your dark side to shine year-round, this collection of medieval cross-stitch patterns is sure to give your space the gothic touch it’s dying for. Bestselling author Linday Swearingen delivers 25 new patterns that will transport you to the age of the Black Plague, medieval mischief, and more. Capture the fear of plague times by creating a mischievous rat, paying homage to the doctors and their iconic black cloaks and masks, or stitching an image of death itself. Create fabled creatures like griffins and unicorns, or lean into your spooky side with oddities like an esoteric Hand of Mysteries dripping in blood, a snail-cat hybrid, a ...>>

“The Goth Atlas: A Guide to the World’s 500 Most Spooky and Macabre Places” by Malorie Mackey

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "A brilliant visual guide to the most haunting, fascinating, and exquisitely macabre places around the world. Find your travel inspiration from the dark worlds of ancient mythology, Victorian mourning traditions, gothic literature, and classic horror movies. Here, for the first time, is a glorious atlas curated to appeal to anyone mesmerized by humankind’s ancient fascination with death, mystery, and the supernatural. Organized by continent, this photo-rich travelogue offers guidance on 500 mysterious, uncanny, and gloriously goth destinations, both infamous and unexpected. Locations include: Ancient cities and castles, such as Caerphilly Castle in Wales and Himeji Castle in Japan, both famously populated by spirits Abandoned and haunted edifices, including Philadelphia’s fortress-like Eastern State Penitentiary, ...>>

“Pocket Book of Witches: Myth, Magic & Meaning” by Joel Levy

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Celebrating the symbolism, lore, and practical magic of the occult, the Pocket Book of Witches explores the craft throughout history and around the world. Witches lurk beneath the surface of every culture and age, viewed with fascination and fear in equal measure, revered as keepers of natural wisdom or persecuted as disciples of the Devil. Today, the practice of witchcraft is more popular than ever, whether in the guise of paganism, herbalism, Wicca, or the occult. The Pocket Book of Witches is a compact guide to the complex and compelling world of witchcraft. Packed with the finest historical artwork, fascinating folklore, and essential traditions, the book travels between cultures and continents to explore ...>>

“Yoruba Mythology: Stories of the Orisa from West Africa and the Diaspora” by Ayodeji Ogunnaik, Oludamini Ogunnaike and Data Oruwari

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "The first major work of Yoruba mythology, retelling hundreds of traditional tales of the Orisa, Yoruba Heroes, and Ijapa from West Africa, Cuba, and Brazil. Yoruba mythology is sacred to the religion and culture of the Yoruba people. A primarily oral tradition, its stories revolve around Olodumare, the Supreme Being, and a vast number of divinities or orisa, who govern all aspects of human life and nature. Yoruba Mythology is, to date, the most comprehensive published collection of more than 300 myths of this ancient, profound, and beautiful storytelling tradition. Authors Ayodeji Ogunnaike and Oludamini Ogunnaike are uniquely qualified to impart these stories, having spent decades learning, collecting, and studying them. Many are ...>>

“The Toltec Legacy: Wisdom to Live by in the New Dawn” by Michelle Rodriguez and Sergio Magaña

"Discover the ancient wisdom of the Toltecs and their understanding of our inner duality—that feminine and masculine flow of consciousness—and let it show us another way of co-creating in this world. As prophesied by the Toltecs, the world is entering the Sixth Sun, a time of radical transformation. Hollywood icon Michelle Rodriguez and wisdom keeper Sergio Magaña unite in Toltec Legacy to bridge ancient secrets of Mesoamerica with modern self-mastery. Reclaim your legacy. Evolve for a new era. Discover how Toltec symbols, from the pyramids to the Tree of Life to the rising serpent, are mirrored in other wisdom traditions around the globe. Explore the story of how Toltec teachings were forced underground by Mexico’s ...>>