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Review: The Hajj At The British Museum
In 1324, Mansa Musa, king of the Malian empire, left on his pilgrimage to Mecca. He took with him a retinue of 60,000 followers, used Andalucian architects to build a palace in Timbuktu along the way and peaceably incorporated a quarter of Africa into his realm. When he was done, he had the second biggest [...]
Review: Crossed Keys by Michael Cecchetelli
So this is a gripping book, let’s start with that. If you’re just here to skim down and see if it goes on your wishlist then yes… it does. Somewhere toward the top. The two texts that make up the bulk of Crossed Keys, the Black Dragon and the Enchiridion of Pope Leo III, are [...]
Review: Treasures of Heaven Exhibition at The British Museum
So how was your Saturday? My mother the psychonaut and I saw a piece of the True Cross, had some brunch, then pub-crawled down the Thames drinking Pimm’s and rosé. The head is a bit sore this morning, to be honest. In fact, I don’t think I’d get through the door of the exhibition today. [...]
Review: Thor. It’s Just A Movie, Okay?
A really fun, enjoyable movie. You should see it. When I was at film school we studied the first ever serialisation of the Ramayana on Indian television in the 1980s. At the time the country was a long way from becoming the next global economic powerhouse like it is today. It was still extremely undeveloped. Which [...]
Review: Why I Am Not Watching Any More Camelot
The magical community -and newly minted witches in particular- can be a dreary bunch when it comes to fantasy films or television. “That’s not how magic happens! That spell wouldn’t work! There’s no such thing as thaaaaaat!” As previously mentioned, my father is a doctor. I remember when ER first appeared on Australian screens he [...]
Review: Filthy Cities – Medieval London
Well, my particular forest is quite disgusting. To be honest, that’s one of the things I adore about it. Only a couple of places in the world have a continuous, multi-thousand-year history of dog-eat-dog hustle that can hold a candle to London’s particular mercantile chaos. London. The original, the template for that particular foul-smelling, winner-take-all [...]
Review: Low Magick By Lon Milo DuQuette
How many people alive today fit the classic definition of a wizard? Like in the fairytale sense? Lon Milo DuQuette would probably fit the bill if he wasn’t so damn funny. (in my mind wizards are grumpy like Gandalf.) My Life With The Spirits was and is a regular re-read title of mine for fifteen [...]
The Octavo: A Definitive Review
This review was a long time coming because, to be honest, I wasn’t sure where to begin. Is The Octavo that rarest of things… Something new? Also because -more than a mere review- it’s best considered a really a long love letter to Peter J Carroll. I could have written the letter anytime in the [...]
Review: Grimoires
Owen Davies’s Grimoires took me a while to get through. But it’s a good thing this is a blog rather than a daily newspaper so I don’t just have to review the latest releases. Usually “took me a while to get through” isn’t a compliment. In this case it very much is. The delay had [...]
Review: Strange Smell In The Car
This wasn’t a book I expected to read cover to cover. Not because it’s large, but because a goodly chunk of it is a list of herbs and essential oils and how they are used. In my mind, it was a book to flip through and then return to as needed. But I did read [...]
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