A couple of years ago, a friend who did a witchy podcast and I were talking about me being on her show to discuss how fiber arts have played a role in religious and occult traditions over the centuries. Folk magic has always fascinated me, and I was excited to Read more…
Aleister Crowley was a dick. I’ve known that for a long time, mind you. I read his “autohagiography” (a hagiography being the biography of a saint) when I was a teenager. He had some interesting magickal ideas, a lot of which is well worth studying if you have an interest Read more…
The Reform of Time by Maureen Perkins presents an interesting idea: that 18th and 19th century England drove the death of everyday magic by changing the way they saw time. Over that century, Perkins writes, the British came to think of time as a ceaseless march of progress. They started Read more…