
The Veldismagn is an Icelandic magical stave used to grant the wearer protection, luck, health, and the safe return from travels. Also known as the "Stave for Returning," the name Veldismagn means 'to increase strength' ('veldi': power; 'magna': to strengthen). It was drawn in blood…
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The Icelandic magical stave known as Vegvísir first appears in the Huld Manuscript, a collection of occult symbols from 1860. The manuscript provides an image of the symbol with its name, and declares that "if this sign is carried, one will never lose one's way…
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The Icelandic magical stave known as Vegvísir first appears in the Huld Manuscript, a collection of occult symbols from 1860. The manuscript provides an image of the symbol with its name, and declares that "if this sign is carried, one will never lose one's way…
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The name Ástarstafur comes from Icelandic ástir, which means love or affection, and stafur, meaning stave. Most 17th-century Icelandic grimoires contain magical staves in this category, such as the "stave to win a girl" (Icelandic: stafur til að fá stulku) shown here. The original manuscript…
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The name Ástarstafur comes from Icelandic ástir, which means love or affection, and stafur, meaning stave. Most 17th-century Icelandic grimoires contain magical staves in this category, such as the "stave to win a girl" (Icelandic: stafur til að fá stulku) shown here. The original manuscript…
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Charles Godfrey Leland was an American folklorist whose research into the esoteric traditions of Europe and America contributed greatly to the resurgence of interest in paganism and magic during the 20th century. This book contains his most famous work, Aradia: The Gospel of the Witches…
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“In the French Middle Ages, from the end of the 12th century until 1209, when the Crusade was unleashed, Catharism was able to organize itself in the form of a Church and, through the great lords won to its cause, to exert a social and…
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In his books on the runes, Sigurd Agrell argues that the conventional runic order, the Futhark, represents a displacement cipher, in which the last rune has been placed in the first alphabetical position, in order to hide the esoteric numerical value of each rune. He…
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R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz Adam the Red Man, the most controversial work by renowned hermeticist and Egyptologist R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, was first published in 1926. The book was intended mainly for his closest disciples, and de Lubicz later withdrew it from sale…
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In this masterly evocation of a bygone age, the reader will learn of the Druidic priesthood; its theology, rituals and places of worship, as well as its magic and system of auspices. It has long keen the custom of historians to designate the megalithic monuments,…
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