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From the occultebooks archive: 1
So how old is Witchcraft really? The role of Margaret Murray in stirring the muddy waters of Witchcraft history
This essay, again adapted-edited here from Master's degree studies (hence the writing style) will attempt to outline the debatable place and role of Margaret Murray in our understanding of the continuing…
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Black Dogs and Black Cats - Some preliminary thoughts on my new project
I invariably find it fascinating the sheer weight of cultural baggage associated with areas deemed fringe or edgy in research. Often I find it is to the point where analysis is crippled to a level akin to the possibility of a web debate on Palestine/Israel doing anything but descending into…
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Thylacines, the landscape and shared guilt.
"let us therefore advise our friends to gather the specimens in time, or it may come to pass when the last Thylacine dies that scientific men across Bass straight will contest as fiercely for its body as they did for the last Tasmanian Aboriginal man not long ago".
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Bungay Book launch part three
Shock! The Black Dog of Bungay Book launch part three
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Is it Hailing or Not (Are We Satanists?)
Is it Hailing or Not (Are We Satanists?)
This slight annoyance of being regularly asked by ‘fluffy pagans’ if we are Satanists probably goes with the territory of being chaos magicians - at the very least we are supposed to eat a baby a week, it seems.
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