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How To Play A Wizard At Parties
We were all washing up after the Christmas Eve meal. (Have the ham on Christmas Eve, cook the turkey on Christmas Day and serve it with the leftover ham. Works every time.) Enough booze had flowed and enough Annie Lennox had been played that the atmosphere was convivial and the discussion loose. This year the [...]
Be Sad Rather Than Scared This Weekend
It’s one of the benefits of magical practice, isn’t it? Among the first ‘rewards’ to come from popping the universe’s hood and having a tinker is the unshakeable understanding that life continues beyond the expiration date stamped onto the side of your meat suit. This is a wonderful life advantage. A helpful one, too. You [...]
How Cooking With Mister Opus Banishes Ghosts
Because I clearly have the mental age of a small child, for me it is terribly exciting to discover that people you know are on vacation at the same time as you -even if they are on different continents. (When I read this post I just had to email and say “wheeee! Horay for the [...]
How Iona Works: Seven Stories From A Holy Island
Here is how a small guidebook I bought on the ferry to the Isle of Mull opens: A traveller was asked by an old Highland gardener where she had been. When she told him he said “Ay! Iona is a very thin place”. What did he mean, she asked? “There’s no’ much between Iona and [...]
Summoning A Ghost The Old Fashioned Way
Seeing as the previous post was about exorcism, this one will swing in the complete opposite direction and talk about summoning. This is another great quotational find from Grimoires -which I assume you have all purchased/wishlisted. Because the book charts the history of Grimoires more or less chronologically, this one is toward the beginning of [...]
So I Have A Ghost Army
The benefit of being ManFlu’s latest victim? I get to watch hours of BBC iPlayer on my laptop in bed. Here’s a fun fact I learnt from a program called The Story of England (overview here): On the other side of the lane to my office there are ten thousand bodies buried in a mass [...]
Safe Summoning Spells: A Guide To Contacting The Dead
Summoning and evocation are two of the cornerstones of any magical path. So it pays to get them right. Unfortunately, summoning isn’t like riding a bicycle. You can lose your knack if this isn’t something you do regularly. (Or, at least, this has been my personal experience.) But it’s no biggie. Safe summoning practice is [...]
Things I Like
Now, I’m not going to say the idea for this post is ‘stolen’. I’m going to use the more copyright-friendly idea of ‘inspired by’. But really, it is stolen. Stolen from the wondrous Domestic Witch who was kind enough to mention my little ol’ blog in a post that is essentially exactly the same as [...]
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