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Hidden Light Podcast builds on the same premise as the "On the Blackchair" - a podcast about witchcraft and the occult. Bringing to you a group of authors that will dwell in the mysteries of witchcraft and the occult arts, and magic. We will publish the episodes here and on iTunes.
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Obscure Podcasts is a group of different podcasts focused on occult and esoteric subjects. "On The Blackchair" is focused on the occult in general; from witchcraft to ceremonial magic and other esoteric areas. "Esoterically" is a podcast focused on traditional pagan and Wiccan subjects. "Roots" is a podcast focused on the singularity of the occult personality in search for their distinct individual path.
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This compelling account of eccentricity and Witchcraft in the 1950s and 60s revolves around two principal characters: 'Rex Nemorensis' (Charles Cardell), son of an internationally famous Victorian stage magician, and Ray Howard, owner of the Head of Atho - a representation of the Horned God of the Witches reputedly over 2000-years-old. From the lux…
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Cassandra Latham Jones, Village Wisewoman
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Village Witch describes life as a Village Wisewoman in the wilds of West Cornwall. The first part of the book documents the tortuous and sometimes harrowing journey to achieve this unusual occupation. It is a tale that ultimately moves through surviving and into thriving. Cassandra’s past experiences directly inform her present practice and are int…
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The Gnome Manuscript - Part One: Origin, Habit and Culture.
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In 2000, the mysterious Dutch ‘Richel-Eldermans collection’ was donated to The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle where, in 2003, a Dutch speaking student assisted in deciphering some of the written materials in the collection. It was during this process that the student discovered a fascinating manuscript concerned with Dutch gnome-folklo…
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Tubelo’s Green Fire: Mythos, Ethos, Female, Male and Priestly Mysteries of The Clan of Tubal Cain with Shani Oates
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This book explores historical and contemporary ideas of witchcraft through the perspective of the Clan of Tubal Cain – a closed Initiatory group aligned to the Shadow Mysteries within the Luciferian stream. As students of arte we mediate the ancestral stream, teaching through practice with the sacred tenets of Truth, Love and Beauty. The Word is th…
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The Star Crossed Serpent - The Legend of Tubal Cain with Shani Oates
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Dual-authorship of the Clan of Tubal Cain's Legacy defining 50 years of its organic evolution. Originating from within an unpublished ms written by Evan John Jones, the former Magister of the Clan since Robert Cochrane's death in 1966, it serves Testament to the Will of Fate and Tenacity of Spirit here expressed, from its inception under Robert Coc…
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Cecil Williamson’s Book of Witchcraft - A Grimoire of The Museum of Witchcraft with Steve Patterson
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“Cecil Hugh Williamson (1909-1999) is, I believe, one of the great unsung heroes of the twilight world of folklore and witchcraft. He is probably best known for founding the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle, North Cornwall, which he ran up until midnight on All Hallows Eve 1996; three years before his passing over in to the spirit world.…
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The Devil’s Plantation - East Anglian Lore, Witchcraft and Folk-Magic with Nigel G. Pearson
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Taking its name from the lost ‘black book’ of a famed Cambridgeshire witch, as well as plots of land sacrificed unto the spirits and the Old One himself, Nigel Pearson’s ‘The Devil’s Plantation’ guides the reader through the traditional witchcraft, old magic and folklore of East Anglia. This is an ancient landscape, and a melding pot for the belief…
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The British Book of Spells and Charms A Compilation of Traditional Folk Magic with Graham King
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‘The British Book of Spells & Charms’ which explores the wealth of traditional spells and charms of Britain’s folk-magical tradition, including those for good fortune, love, the healing of people and animals, curses and their removal, and acts of magic contained within traditional folk songs. In writing this book, Graham King has been ideally place…
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A Witch's Mirror - the Art of Making Magic with Levannah Morgan
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This is a book about practical witchcraft and magic-making, not a book of formal rituals of witchcraft. Levannah has been working as a witch for over thirty years and for most of that time has lived in Devon, in the south west of England with a wealth of magical traditions which are still observed in some of the more rural areas, it has shaped her …
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Traditional Witchcraft A Cornish Book of Ways with Gemma Gary
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With November 2018 came ten years since the first publication of Gemma Gary’s first book Traditional Witchcraft – A Cornish Book of Ways. This tenth anniversary revised edition begins with a new preface, giving an insight into the backstory of events which informed and inspired this popular title. Although nestled in the Cornish landscape and its l…
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The Witches' Ointment: The Secret History of Psychedelic Magic with Thomas Hatsis
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An exploration of the historical origins of the “witches’ ointment” and medieval hallucinogenic drug practices based on the earliest sources • Details how early modern theologians demonized psychedelic folk magic into “witches’ ointments” • Shares dozens of psychoactive formulas and recipes gleaned from rare manuscripts from university collections …
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The Devil’s Dozen Thirteen Craft Rites of The Old One with Gemma Gary
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The operations of magic and witchcraft deal with the hidden worlds of spirit and the powers innate within the natural world; within plant, stone and magical loci. The ‘Old One’, who in folk tradition is often named ‘The Devil’ embodies both the ‘rend in the veil’ and the spanning bridge between the worlds of the material and spiritual, the revealed…
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The Cunning Man's Handbook: The Practice of English Folk Magic 1550-1900 with Jim Baker
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"The desire to understand magic in any specific cultural context is an intellectual puzzle not only for scholars but believers." - Jim Baker The Cunning Man's Handbook is a monumental work of phenomenal scope and scholarship, a comprehensive and challenging exploration of the practices and beliefs of Cunning Folk in Britain and America between 1550…
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Ameth - The Life & Times Of Doreen Valiente with Jonathan Tapsell
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Ameth is the first definitive biography of Doreen Valiente (1922-1999), an English Witch who became known as 'the Mother of Modern Witchcraft'. Based on the author's work collating her artefacts, interviewing people who knew her, reading and researching numerous personal magical documents and correspondence bequeathed by Doreen, this book gives unp…
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FROM GRANITE TO SEA – THE FOLKLORE OF BODMIN MOOR AND EAST CORNWALL
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"From Granite to Sea" is the first ever comprehensive focus on the folklore of eastern Cornwall. Alex Langstone’s ground-breaking study will guide the reader through a myriad of old tales of witches, conjurors and charmers, supernatural encounters, amazing folk traditions and curious customs from the high moors, rugged clifftops, secret coves and l…
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LIFTING THE VEIL - A WITCHES' GUIDE TO TRANCE-PROPHESY, DRAWING DOWN THE MOON, AND ECSTATIC RITUAL
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Written to fill an existing gap in the current available knowledge on trance, prophesy, deity-possession, and mediumship within the neo-Pagan and Wiccan communities, Lifting the Veil was developed from Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone’s personal work and public workshops on trance-prophesy and ecstatic ritual over the last 20 years. The book covers the …
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THE SILENT LISTENER - THE LIFE AND WORKS OF J.H.W. ELDERMANS WITH WILMAR TAAL
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The Richel-Eldermans collection is one of the most enigmatic sexual magic collections in the world, and can be found in the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, Boscastle, United Kingdom. The collection consists mainly of works by J.H.W. Eldermans, a former civil servant who lived in The Hague, The Netherlands. His skills are of an undeniable high quali…
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On the Blackchair - Conversations on the Occult: When the Spirit is Conjured into the Crystal
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"Gateways Through Stone and Circle" is a compendium of personal experiences and research from a traditional ceremonial magician working through a classical book of magic. This volume is a complete and in-depth study in the "Art of Drawing Spirits into Crystals" as found in Francis Barrett's, The Magus, and accredited to Trithemius of Spanheim. Deta…
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