Guest Appearance on The Campfire’s Edge Podcast

For the most part, many Magic and Occult podcasts are in a similar vein. Usually it’s just folks who like magic, talking about magic. While these are all well and good, every once in a while you get a Podcast that is so unique in its ambitions and purview that you have to give it […]

The History of Fairies feat. Francis Young

It always felt somewhat incomplete; the Fistful of Fairies series here on What Magic is This? Podcast was in need of a revisitation. While the series went in many major and important directions, an overarching History of the supernatural entities which we call fairies just wasn’t there. And so, for the 7th anniversary of the […]

Guest Appearance on Radical Elphame

Now this is more like it! Chad from the fantastic Podcast Radical Elphame was apparently quite smitten by the series of episodes here on What Magic is This? regarding Fairies and has produced a show of his own which dives deep on these interesting entities. Having listened to a number of episodes of Radical Elphame, […]

The Discoverie of Witchcraft

There are very few books within the Western Magical Tradition which have had an impact and legacy beyond the tradition itself. In 1584 a book appeared written by a country gentleman that was unlike anything at the time and unlike anything since. Reginald Scot’s The Discoverie of Witchcraft was a massive work which saw Reginald […]

The History of Cartomancy

Playing cards have always been magical. While not as ubiquitous and long tenured as dice and other means of games and gambling, card games have been a part of western culture for over 600 years. Inevitably, as soon as something gets used for games, it immediately gets used for divination and fortune-telling as well. This […]