09.05.2022

“The Horned God of Wytches” by Zan Fraser

Magick Matters

"Horns and antlers have long been associated with power, divinity and mystically enlightened states. Zan Fraser traces the evidence of reverence for horned animals from the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras in Europe into the pagan period, Middle Ages and Renaissance. From cave paintings to Cernunnos and Herne, to Oberon, Puck, and Robin Goodfellow, Fraser explores the pervasive cultural images of horned ones and the theory that the demonized Horned God became the medieval Christian Devil. The Horned God of Wytches is the companion to Fraser's The Goddess of Wytches."...>>

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09.05.2022

“A Briefe Historie of Wytches: As Told Through Examples of Burning Times Drama” by Zan Fraser

Magick Matters

"By the end of the Middle Ages, the popular image of the witch had undergone a reversal. Whereas once she had been admittedly wild and unruly, she had become unremittingly ghoulish, vampiric, cannibalistic and malevolent. This change in perception, wise-woman to evil hag, played an important part in determining the fates of women in Europe. Since the image of the witch is tied so intimately to women, the denigration of this powerful archetype adversely affected the role of females in Middle Ages society. How did this evolution, the transformation, occur? Classically trained actor Zan Fraser shows how the image of witches changed in Elizabethan Era witch plays. Because drama causes the past to live...>>

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09.05.2022

“Apparitions: Tulpas, Ghosts, Fairies, and even Stranger Things” by Malcolm Smith

Magick Matters

"One in ten people claim to have encountered a ghost, yet science refuses to acknowledge their existence. However, it turns out that ghosts are by no means the only, or most mysterious of apparitions. Now, an author with a background in science has sought to uncover the parameters of this bewildering field. In this, he has adopted three principals: 1. to first seek a mundane explanation 2. not accept anything until it has been confirmed by further data, and 3. not to discard any item, but to file it away in case something similar appears later. In this manner, he documents the little known phenomenon of apparitions which can be shown to result from...>>

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09.05.2022

“The Dark Messiah: Magick, Gnosis and Religion” by Brian J. Allan

Magick Matters

"Did religion legitimize magick or magick legitimize religion? Logic would suggest the latter because shamanic and animistic traditions have long predated organized religion. In this book the author delves deep into the genre and posits the idea that that religion and magick are one and the same. Examples of mystical and magickal occurrences in the Catholic cannon include visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, miraculous healing, levitation, weeping statues, prophesy, bilocation and of course the rather disquieting phenomenon of stigmata. None of these manifestations are by any definition normal or conventional and must therefore be regarded as ‘paranormal’. Is there any difference between the magickal displays attributed to saints and other conventionally ‘holy people’ and those...>>

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09.05.2022

“The Wild Woman’s Book of Shadows: A Magical Guide of Rituals + Practices for Living an Enchanted Life” by Melissa Kim Corter

Magick Matters

"The magic of nature, the moon, and the seasons had a profound effect on Melissa Kim Corter growing up. Mystical experiences unfolded in the simplest of moments. Rocks and trees were animated with life; the moon listened to her stories while the Earth held her as she stumbled through life as an empath (feeling everything so deeply). As she began to morph and adapt to the adolescent changes of life, magical views were stripped away until only a fragment of her imagination. She was lost and floundered until she awakened the wild, wise woman within. This book contains women who “know” truth through feeling and sensation without the need for evidence or approval. This collective...>>

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