21.11.2021

“Basilisks and Beowulf: Monsters in the Anglo-Saxon World” by Tim Flight

Magick Matters

"An eye-opening, engrossing look at the central role of monsters in the Anglo-Saxon worldview. This book seeks to answer a simple question: why were the Anglo-Saxons obsessed with monsters, many of which did not exist? Drawing on literature and art, theology and a wealth of first-hand evidence, Basilisks and Beowulf reveals a people huddled at the edge of the known map, using the fantastic and the grotesque as a way of understanding the world around them and their place within it. For the Anglo-Saxons, monsters helped to distinguish the sacred and the profane; they carried God’s message to mankind, exposing His divine hand in creation itself. At the same time, monsters were agents of disorder,...>>

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21.11.2021

“Traditional Western Herbal Medicine: As Above So Below” by Elisabeth Brooke

Magick Matters

"This book is intended to be a users' manual, not a reference book, and so has charts, diagrams, tables and cross-references to enable the interested practitioner to incorporate the Western Herbal Tradition into their practice. It synthesises and elaborates on all the extant information on the Western Healing Tradition as recorded by William Lilly and Nicholas Culpeper and from the author's own herbal practice. It shows how using planetary energies and the wheel of the year deepens our understanding of the action of medicinal plants on the body and establishes the practitioner within their environment, allowing them to use planetary energies to determine the peak times to harvest and use herbal remedies and to...>>

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20.11.2021

“Ill Thoughts, Ill Words, Ill Deeds: A Toxick Magick Primer: Volume 1” by Joshua Wetzel

Magick Matters

This work is, above all, a guide. A “how to”, created for the magical practitioner, to facilitate them being in control. Not only of themselves, but also their immediate socioeconomic environment. The author covers the techniques and tools necessary for accomplishing this. Carefully laying out the means by which each individual can assert their mastery. As the world we know is driven to the point of annihilation, by a collection of amoral psychopaths, the only way to defeat them is to beat them at their own game. Ill thoughts, Ill words, Ill deeds - A Toxick Magick Primer: Volume 1 is the first step in acquiring the necessary skills to accomplish this goal....>>

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20.11.2021

“Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self” by Becca Piastrelli

Magick Matters

"A beautifully illustrated guide for connecting with the earth, your ancestors, and your communities as you come home to your whole self Despite our best efforts, our modern world leaves so many of us feeling isolated, unworthy, and alone. We’re unrooted from the land, untethered from our lineages, disconnected from our communities, and separated from our deepest sense of self. In Root and Ritual, Becca Piastrelli offers a pathway back to connection and wholeness through rituals, recipes, and ancestral wisdom. “Though we live in a radically different-looking world, the needs of our bodies and spirits are the same as the ancestors we came from.” Divided into four parts―Land, Lineage, Community, and Self―this book takes you on a...>>

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19.11.2021

“Body Gothic: Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film” by Xavier Aldana Reyes

Magick Matters

"Ever since horror became wildly popular in the 1970s, journalists have warned against the dangers of increasingly explicit forms of violent entertainment. Xavier Aldana Reyes takes a different stance in Body Gothic, celebrating the transgressive qualities of this genre. Reyes considers relevant popular literary and filmic movements of the past three decades and reads them as updates in a long gothic tradition that goes back to the eighteenth century. Body Gothic contains case studies of key texts in splatterpunk, body horror, the new avant-pulp, the slaughterhouse novel, torture porn, and surgical horror."...>>

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