Magick Matters

“The Dead of Winter: The Demons, Witches and Ghosts of Christmas” by Sarah Clegg

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "As winter comes and the hours of darkness overtake the light, we seek out warmth, good food, and good company. But beneath the jollity and bright enchantment of the festive season, there lurks a darker mood — one that has found expression over the centuries in a host of strange and unsettling traditions and lore. Here, Sarah Clegg takes us on a journey through midwinter to explore the lesser-known Christmas traditions, from English mummers plays and Austrian Krampus runs, to modern pagan rituals at Stonehenge and the night in Finland when a young girl is crowned with candles as St. Lucy — a martyred Christian girl who also appears as a witch leading a...>>

“The Carols of Cthulhu: Horrifying Holiday Hymns from the Lore of H.P. Lovecraft” by Mike Slater

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Summon a dark Noel or haunted Hanukkah with twisted takes on classic songs for everyone on your naughty list. Whether you’re home for the holly-daze or wandering a hellish landscape of never-ending agony, you need a good tune to pass the time. The dire duo behind the best-selling The Necronomnomnom accordingly present a gruesome grimoire of 25 creepy carols and sinister songs. From "Do You Fear What I Fear?" to "It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Mythos" and "Shoggoth the Formless Horror" to "Silent Knife", "Sunken Hells", and "The Twelve Days of Darkness", these puntastic parodies pay hellacious homage to the Lovecraftian cosmos. Shriek them bleakly into the vast abyss or brandish them...>>

“Ethereal Crystal Healing: Create Your Life with the Frequencies of Stones” by Marie Delanote

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Achieve your healing and manifestation goals by working with stones in their etheric forms • Shares practical and powerful energy work and attunement techniques for working with the energies of crystals whether they are physically present or not as well as how to create ethereal gem elixirs for specific healing and manifestation goals • Explores the healing and creative powers of 33 ethereal crystals, including Kirlian photography of their auras • Explains how to use ethereal crystal healing practices to heal the body, heal animals, improve relationships, and manifest abundance and success Similar to remote energy healing, working with the ethereal energy of a crystal allows you to engage with highly potent crystal frequencies anywhere, without the...>>

“The Spectators” by Betsy Robinson

"This is what you get when you mix apathy, shamanism, Buddhism, esoteric Yogic traditions, quantum physics, the power of DNA ancestry, and cluelessness with a small band of older women negotiating chaos in New York City in the era just preceding Trump. Part love letter to NYC's Upper West Side, part an ode to friendship between a writer and her creations (reluctant psychic protagonist Lily Hogue and her loner friends, with guest appearances of real and fictional historical events and people, from Bernie Madoff to Paul Simon to terrorists), The Spectators' cast of characters battles the problems of foreknowing disasters we cannot control and being part of an uncontrollable human herd."...>>

“Della Medicina: The Tradition of Italian-American Folk Healing” by Lisa Fazio

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "A guide to folk herbal healing and reconnecting with ancestral traditions • Details the healing techniques and folk wisdom the author learned from her Italian grandparents and from healers in Southern Italy, including plant preparation methods, medicines, rituals, recipes, kitchen magic, and protective magic • Provides a materia medica of plants important in this tradition, sharing each plant’s history, mythology, and both practical and magical uses • Reveals how working with traditional plant medicines can help us connect to and revitalize our own ancestral traditions for deep inner healing Building upon the in-depth folk wisdom she learned from her immigrant grandparents as well as from local healers in Southern Italy, second-generation Italian-American and experienced herbalist Lisa Fazio...>>