Book cover for Clearing the Waters, showing cards, beans, grass and a cup
I've just posted this BOOK REVIEW to the website:
CLEARING THE WATERS: A MONOGRAPH ON SAINT CYPRIAN DIVINATION FROM THE 17TH TO 19TH CENTURY
Published by @hadeanpress.bsky.social
"Of priceless value and interest to the academic magician"
Full review at www.thefolklorepodcast.com/clearing-the...
Raising money for a local shelter. If you have $10 to spare, the kitties would be very grateful:
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Fury and Flame to restore equity and justice in the United States Sing me a song of fury and flame Help me strip power from all those to blame: The jack-booted soldiers who choke out Black life; The foul, frenzied redhats who sow hate and strife The passive, prim neighbors who never speak out; The incels, the dudebros who only chase clout The rich and the privileged who gatekeep the world The assholes who scorn every Pride flag unfurled The gun-toting killers that no one will stop Each white-power lawman and each dirty cop Corrupt politicians β too many to name Child-diddling preachers too righteous to shame Topple their towers and empires of greed; Tear down their systems till all souls are freed The bathroom policers, the book-banning lot: Cast all into foulness and leave them to rot Perform this spell with a single dried bay leaf, a vessel of water, and a source of flame. Create a sigil representing all the corrupt and destructive people and forces named in the song. Draw this sigil upon the bay leaf. Have the small vessel of water nearby. Light the bay leaf. Blow out the fire so you donβt burn your hand, but allow the leaf to smolder as you hold it, nurturing its embers with your breath as you read the poem. When you reach the end, quench whatever is left of the leaf in the water, then crumble it into your compost pile or a similar heap of trash.
An incantation I wrote for precisely this moment #WitchSky
Itβs from my Little Book of Wicked Spells (via @hadeanpress.bsky.social )
FURY AND FLAME
A black, faux leather hardback book, with the title "the black raven" and a raven, ring, and moon armorial device stamped in black matte.
Interior endpapers of a book, featuring a photographic reproduction of a raven.
Just received my hardback copies of me and @drcummins.bsky.social's _The Black Raven_, and the folks at @hadeanpress.bsky.social are really taking the endpapers game to a new level.
The iconic image of Leila Waddell, frontal shot with dark eyes and hair.
We are incredibly thrilled to announce that pre-orders are open for the hardcover edition of Laylah: The Life of Leila Waddell, the first full-length biography of her to be published. Absolutely over the moon that we were trusted with this text. IΓ‘ Laylah!
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The Magical Art by Aaman Lamba
Another satisfied reader gets the very limited hardcover edition of The Magical Art, Vol 1 from @hadeanpress.bsky.social hadean.press/products/the...
New podcast interview!
Want to see me absolutely geek out about magick, spellcraft & the roots of Western occultism?
@neokoros.bsky.social of @hadeanpress.bsky.social hosts this exhilarating conversation about my LITTLE BOOK OF WICKED SPELLS #WitchSky
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In exciting news, The Routledge History of the Devil is up and available to preview (and ask your libraries to consider preordering). It will be out in May. I am sorry to report that, though it comes in at nearly 600 pages, we couldn't *quite* stretch it to 666: www.routledge.com/.../Raiswe.....
The witch trials. If you're going to write about the witch trials you really have to know your history of religion, theology, politics, law, society, science, and cultures in the early modern period. You can't cherry pick if you're going to understand what happened and why.
And you can always buy my books through Hadean Press and other fine booksellers everywhere. hadean.press/products/nec... 3/3
We highly recommend Brian's services. He does incredible work.
Got so many awesome upcoming guests for the Hadean Press Podcast! Maria Miles and I talk about her work with the Lunar Mansions.
Then we have the prolific M. Belanger, and her Little Book of Wicked Spells. Looking forward to talking about the mechanics of the Curse!
More coming soon!
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An excellent book for those interested in grimoires and translated manuscripts.
"The Geography of Pliny the Elder compiles and maps the geographic data in Pliny's Natural History. The database, available for download from the ISAW website, includes some 6,500 unique entries, and this application maps all those entries that are locatable." pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/ne...
We set up an account here and then forgot to use it! We'll start with our first title of 2025, 'The Black Raven: A Study in the Folk Necromancy of Early Modern Germany' by Alexander Cummins and Brian Johnson. Hardcover pre-order only at the moment. Read more: hadean.press/products/the...