Demonology
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Details on the recovery of the meaning of this symbol can be found in: Physical Evidence for Ritual Acts, Sorcery and Witchcraft in Christian Britain This is the symbol used to ward off demons in the darker places of the home and church, which I mentioned recently. Recent experiments suggest it is at least somewhat…
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When I pay homage to the ancestors, I add the names of practitioners of magic whom I have known but are no longer among the living. Most of them got that way because they did some inadvisable magic— in my estimation, at least. One of the debts we owe to the dead is not to make their mistakes.…
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Image of magic and Gothic decay from the third part of Raphael’s The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century.Most of the more interesting material here, such as the conjuration of Oberon/Oberion, seems to have been ‘borrowed’ from the manuscripts of Frederick Hockley.
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Djinn = demon. In the Jewish folkloric tradition, King Solomon (Shlomo ha-Melekh) imprisoned demons in a vessel of brass. In the Muslim tradition, King Suleiman imprisoned djinn in a vessel of brass. They’re the same exact thing, seen through the filter of each religion’s cosmology. The main differences between the Big Three on malefic entities…
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