Wyrdwood: Essays Toward an Understanding of the Folkwitch / Eldred Hieronymus Wormwood. London: Alkahest Press, 2018
Scope and Contents
"A collection of ramblings spread out across a period of a few years worth of topical rants and opinions. ... This volume represents some two dozen or more attempts to wrangle words into some cohesive shape in regards to various facets of the whispered folk knowledge and practice of the folkwitch. There are no spells here, merely, considerations of the structure of that thing we call reality, of the nature of magic, spirits, dreams and those forces we use to look through the Veil. ... Most of the pieces here have appeared in the pages of the Skeptical Occultist journal [here] edited into an order that gives them shape with the intention of guiding those on the path to an understanding of the world in which we work our magic. ... a book of the wyrd."--Introduction.
Dates
- Publication: 2018
Creator
- Wormwood, E. H. (Eldred Hieronymus) (Author, Person)
- Alkahest Press (London, England) (Publisher, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Extent
1 items (7 unnumbered pages, 124 pages, 2 unnumbered pages) : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
General
"There is no truth"--Title page
Contents
Tenets of the Folkwitch (p.6-7)
Introduction (p.8-9)
1. Folkwitch (p.10-26 inclusive)
The Spectrum of Reality (p.11-14)
The Narrative of Accepted Magic (p.15-18)
Folk-lore as the True History of Witches (p.19-20)
The Nature of the Hexengram (p.21-22)
What a Wizard Must Know (p.23-26)
2. The Path (p.28-41 inclusive)
Crossing Paths (p.29-30)
The Role of Discovery on the Path (p.31-32)
Gender, Sex & Magic (p.33-35)
The Question of Lineage (p.36-38)
The Coven of Three (p.39-41)
3. Of Land & Veil (p.42-56 inclusive)
The Forest as Teacher (p.43-44)
Edge Zone at the Cross Roads (p.45-46)
The Witch as Nature's Steward (p.47-49)
The Veil as a Social Construct (p.50-53)
The Water of the Land & Sky (p.54-56)
4. Of Spirits (p.58-74)
The Fox Spirit of Anglia (p.59-60)
Considerate Spirit Offerings (p.61-63)
The Forms of Spirits Defined (p.64-68)
Of Pacts & Spirits (p.69-71)
Becoming an Other (p.72-74)
5. The Craft (p.76-102 inclusive)
The Subtle Art of Blasting (p.77-79)
The Tradition of Magical Objects (p.80-81)
The Versatile Hagstone (p.82-84)
Knots to Bind the Wind (p.85-87)
The Exacting Art of Wand Making (p.88-89)
The Divinatory Eye of Magical Praxis (p.90-92)
Of Bones & Bone Working (p.93-96)
Witch, Craft, & Legalities (p.97-99)
To Rob a Grave (p.100-102)
6. Beyond the Veil (p.104-121 inclusive)
Dreams, Divination & Discovery (p.105-107)
To Ride the Edge of the Veil (p.108-110)
The Landscapes of Dreaming (p.111-112)
Mugwort Wanderings on Forgotten Paths (p.113-115)
To Seek the Vision Serpent (p.116-118)
Days of Chalk & Bone (p.119-121)
The Folkwitch Bibliography (p.122-125)
Repository Details
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