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The hag stone tells the more human side of this history perhaps. Of fear, suspicion, disease and its healing, of countering dark magic, of minding the gap between the living and the dead, natural and supernatural. Its very form is a negotiation between the visible and the invisible, a combination of stone and air, presence and absence, at home in this transient place where land and sea meet, a place of limbo and secret, slow transformations .....

Evil is simply misplaced force. It can be misplaced in time: like the violence that is acceptable in war, is unacceptable in peace. It can be misplaced in space: like a burning coal on a rug rather than the fireplace. Or it can be misplaced in proportion: like an excess of love can make us overly sentimental, or a lack of love can make us cruel and destructive. It is in things such as these that evil lies, not in a personal Devil who acts as a...

Possibly the most basic activity in our experience, breathing is also an important magical metaphor ... A breath of spring air is a welcome change from the current situation.

The act of propitiating or appeasing the gods is as old as humankind. And, it is just as much an integral part of pagan worship today as it was when our Mesolithic ancestors first began leaving their mark on the landscape - both to honour the gods in times of plenty and to appease them in times of trouble. For the tribes that were beginning to track their footsteps across the open plains of the vast continents, they left behind evidence of the...

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Common throughout all antiquity, the practice of incubatio, or dream incubation, consisted of "sleeping in a temple or sacred place for oracular purposes."[1] Pilgrims would often travel considerable distances to reach such a temple or sanctuary in search of some divinely inspired dream vision. Within the sanctuary itself, they'd be placed in the care of officiating priests. These oneiromancers-versed in dream divination-would prepare the visi...

Reclaiming one of the oldest and most sacred times of the year

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Magic and scent were conceptually linked in antiquity. Ancient authors sometimes treated magic as a type of smell, at other times odors were treated as a medium through which magic worked. Some authors compare the effect of smells to magic, others described scent and magic as different things but impossible to distinguish. Magicians used incenses and perfumes liberally to set the scene for their rituals and please the gods, as demonstrated by ...

Since antiquity, varieties of quartz have been the most commonly used minerals in the making of jewellery and hard-stone carvings, while in the metaphysical world even the smallest piece is imbued with powerful properties that enable the bearer to cross the boundaries between the worlds. Archaeologists are now finding more and more evidence that quartz played an important part in the ritual and burial customs of our Ancestors.In truth, as Dr M...

Reclaiming one of the oldest pagan fire festivals

In its simplest form, the modern function of the ancient Egyptian god, Thoth, can be seen as being the patron of writers and magical practitioners. Thoth is attested from the earliest historical periods onwards: he already played a prominent role in the oldest religious texts of Egypt, the Pyramid Texts, and continues to appear almost everywhere in Egypt up to the end of Egyptian religion some 4000 years later. Throughout this long period the ...

Talking to crows' is said of those who have some presentiment or foresight in Sicilian folk-lore. It is believed that to those who can understand them, these black birds, garrulous creatures they are, communicate the latest news on the doings of human beings, since they have a clear view - a bird's eye view - of the whole. They have also been around for a lot longer than human beings and, perhaps not surprisingly, long ago developed the reputa...

An Introduction to the Simple Arte of Domestic Folk Medicine

Sex magic has been an intrinsic part of witchcraft throughout its history. Melusine Draco provides a brief introduction to sex magic with magical exercises at the end of each chapter.

A simple, Pagan approach to well-being and awareness in the city.

The first in a new series under the Pagan Portals banner, which explores the rituals associated with sacred landscapes, and how to recognise the types of magical energy which may be encountered in these environments.

How will we feel if we discover that the Great Mother of contemporary Paganism bears no similarity to the primal Great Goddess of the Old European world?

Theatre des Vampires without the cast, " said Jack glumly, referring to the fictitious location in the Boulevard du Temple of Vampire Chronicles fame. "Where's the spine-tingling depravity of our home from home?" he added, raising his voice theatrically trying to instil a sense of horror into the proceedings. "For the benefit of the uninitiated, " said Chrissie, "the Boulevard du Temple, as its name suggests, refers to the nearby Knights Templ...

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