Necromancy

‘But Dead Men tell no Tales, they say! Except old tales that burn away the stifling tapestries of day. Old Tales of life, of love and hate, of time and space, and will, and fate.‘ Western magic has recently seen a revitalization of the Practice of Necromancy- Divination, Invocation, Evocation and Communication with Spirits of the Dead. Most likely, Necromancy has its origins in Ancestor veneration but came to be something more. Cultures around the world have their own forms of Necromantic Interaction, yet death and the more than human world in the west has never been more distant than right now. Let ‘er RIP.

Show Notes

• Folk Necromancy – Facebook Group run by Dr. Al Cummins and Jesse Hathaway Diaz. Wonderful reading list, but you must ask to join this group
• Communing With The Spirits: The Magical Practice Of Necromancy Simply And Lucidly Explained by Martin Coleman – I’m very fond of this book but take much of the timeframes with a grain of salt. Some things will take shorter than others, some longer. Still, I’m gonna call it- Highly Recommended
• Raising the Dead: A History of Early Modern British Necromancy – A self-contained one-off Class from Dr. Al Cummins
• A Night of Folk Necromancy – Wonderful video with Dr. Al Cummins, Jesse Hathaway Diaz and Mallorie Vaudoise
• Radio Free Golgotha – One of my Favourite Podcasts. Bring a notepad. Folk Necromancy galore
• Awakening the Dead for Love with Robert Ritner – Egypt, baby
• Magical Means of Dealing with Ghosts in Ancient Mesopotamia
• Greek and Roman Necromancy by Daniel Ogden – A favourite
• Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece by Sarah Iles Johnston – Great book
• Death and Changing Rituals: Function and Meaning in Ancient Funerary Practices
• History of attitudes toward death: a comparative study between Persian and western cultures
• Erichtho
• Lay That Ghost: Necromancy in Ancient Greece and Rome
• Lemuria: The Roman Day of the Dead
• In The Catacombs
• How Early Christians Changed how we view Death
• Universal Resurrection – Interesting stuff
• The Book, the Mirror, and the Living Dead: Necromancy and the Early Modern Period – This is an Awesome read
• Cultures of Death and Dying in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
• The Return of the Dead: Ghosts, Ancestors, and the Transparent Veil of the Pagan Mind by Claude Lecouteux
• How to perform necromancy with Irving Finkel
• Speaking to the Dead: Necromancy in Magic & Folklore
• ‘Thou Art Keeper of Man and Women’s Bones’ – Rituals of Necromancy in Early Modern England– Fantastic work from Dan Harms
• Edward Kelley and Paul Waring Raising the Dead– That Picture
• An Excellent Booke of The Arte of Magicke by Phil Legard and Dr. Al Cummins
• Geosophia: The Argo of Magic By Jake Stratton Kent – Mind-blowing Work
• The Testament of Cyprian the Mage by Jake Stratton-Kent – His Chapter The Role of the Dead in a Living Tradition is a must read
• Exu & The Quimbanda of Night and Fire by Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold
• Honoring Saint Cyprian – The Patron Saint of Necromancers
• The Language of The Corpse by Cody Dickerson
• Prayer for the Dead
• A Guide to Dead and Ancestral Worship
• SkullStore.ca – Bones for all!
• The Copper Hammer – Kephalomancy? You’ll need one of these
• Conjure Codex I – Great interview with Jake Stratton-Kent in this
• Goetic Divination by Jake Stratton-Kent – I get a tonne from this book
• Goetic Pharmakos by Jaimie Alexzander and Jake Stratton-Kent – See above
• So Many Dead People
• Bane Folk – Poison as Medicine – Sarah Anne Lawless
• Hoodoo Graveyard Sorcery by James Udung
• Hoodoo, Rootwork, Conjure, Obeah
• Working Conjure: A Guide to Hoodoo Folk Magic by Hoodoo Sen Moise – Good stuff here
• Deliverance! Hoodoo Spells of Uncrossing, Healing and Protection by Chiron Armand
• Spiritual Cleansing: A Handbook of Psychic Self-Protection by Draja Mickaharic