Blue Grimoires with Aaman Lamba

For over 200 years, France was inundated with small cheaply produced books, bound with blue covers, filled with some of the most amazing things. These were the Bibliothèque bleue. Lots of these books would be about food, or fairy-tales, or astrology. Yet the most notorious of the Bibliothèque bleue, were the books on Magic, charms […]

The Book of Saint Cyprian with José Leitão

After King Solomon, the legend of Cyprian of Antioch looms quite large in the Western Magical Tradition. A spirit conjurer and occasional summoner of the devil, Cyprian later converted to Christianity and became a Bishop before being martyred. This legend had quite some traction, as many grimoires evoked the name of Cyprian within their pages […]

A Rather Bookish Announcement!

Have a listen and be sure to check out my What Magic is This? Bookshop, please! Hopefully all of the show note book recommendations will be in place and updated by October 2024, but if you have any requests for books that you’d like to purchase that I have recommended through my show notes and […]

Guest Appearance on The Light from ALbemuth

A couple of weeks ago, a fellow podcaster who I met last year on one of my Patreon video chats, asked if I’d be willing to jump on his show and talk about Tarot cards. Always down to talk about the cardboard oracle, I said yes and we quickly set up a time to chat. […]

Thai Magic with Peter Jenx

Southeast Asia has always been a place with many magical and animistic cultures. Perhaps no other country in the modern age has such a sycretic and extraordinary Magical environment than the land of smiles- Thailand. From spirits and ghosts to tattoos and amulets to monks and ajarns, Thailand is a place which still lives and […]