Blackthorn - Whitethorn
Drawing particularly on the knowledge derived from the practices of East Anglian Traditional Witchcraft and the author’s own experiences, this book initially deals with concepts of perceived duality within Old Craft magical practice.
A Ring Around the Moon
An initiate of both Traditional and Modern Witchcraft, the author gives here the actual rites and rituals of a working Coven, from an insider’s point of view. These rites were developed by the Coven themselves over a period of nearly a quarter of a century and give a fascinating insight into the actual workings of an initiate-only Coven.
Palo Mayombe: The Garden of Blood and Bones
Palo Mayombe: The Garden of Blood and Bones is an initiate’s account of this much maligned cult whose central nigromantic mystery is the prenda, the cauldron containing the human skull or bones, reanimated by living spirit.
Ifá: A Forest of Mystery
Ifá: A Forest of Mystery by Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold is a major study on the cosmology, metaphysics, philosophy and divination system of Ifá, written by a tradition holder and member of the council of elders, known as the Ogboni society, of Abeokuta, Nigeria.
Exu and the Quimbanda of Night and Fire
Exu and the Quimbanda of Night and Fire is the companion to Pomba Gira. Together they give the most complete account of this sorcerous cult. Exu is the fusion of Umbanda, Angolan sorcery, European demonology and Kardec’s Spiritsm, erupting in a uniquely Brazilian cult of practical magical action. Spells, workings, hierarchies and origins are all given in detail.
Obeah
In Obeah: A Sorcerous Ossuary, Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold teases open this Caribbean mystery and reveals a crooked path into the hidden world of Papa Bones and Sasabonsam with a short monograph concerning the history of this incoherent cult and the ways in which power is bestowed upon and wielded by the Obeahman.
Seven Crossroads of Night
In Seven Crossroads of Night, Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold sets forth the foundation for Quimbanda in theory and practice, presenting a blueprint for the themes that generate the variety of ways Quimbanda can be approached.
Pomba Gira & the Quimbanda of Mbùmba Nzila
Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold’s Pomba Gira & the Quimbanda of Mbùmba Nzila is a significant study on the cult of Pomba Gira, the most comprehensive work in the English language on the Devil’s mistress, whose Brazilian cult has bewitched so many.
Saint Cyprian’s Deck of Cards
Using as inspiration José Leitão’s work on the Iberian tradition of Saint Cyprian, artist Natalia Lee Forty has created a unique cartomancy deck meant to enter into conversation with the longstanding Lenormand and Sibilla tradition.
Flowering Dusk, Things Remembered Accurately and Inaccurately
Holythorn Press is delighted to announce that we will be publishing Flowering Dusk by Ella Young in 2024. We are also honoured that Dr. Christina Oakley-Harrington has agreed to contribute an Introduction.
Desert Meditations
Desert Meditations: Gnostic Cartography (A Handbook of Agni Yoga) outlines the eclectic transmissions and revelations born from a lifetime of esoteric exploration within both Eastern and Western initiatic atmospheres.
Dreams & Letters
In this collection of two of Sédir’s works, Austin Avison introduces Paul Sédir, situating him in the exciting period of societal and cultural changes during the pre-war years in Europe, and provides a translation of Dreams: Theories—Practice—Interpretation and Magic Letters.
The Goddess Seals: Sacred Magickal Symbols for Modern Magickal Practitioners
After long and successful experience using the Magickal Seals from such grimoires as the Greater Key of Solomon, The Black Pullet, and the Lemegeton to enrich and empower her magickal workings, she grew frustrated that no such seals existed for the Goddesses with whom she and her students and colleagues worked.
Ars Goetia
The Lemegeton - The Little Key of Solomon - is the name of a family of seventeenth and eighteenth-century manuscripts inspired by Johannes Weyer's Pseudomonarchia on the one hand, and Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft on the other, drawing upon Agrippa and Peter of Abano along the way.
On Christ and Antichrist
Hippolytus of Rome (c. 170s - 230s) was an enigma even to his contemporaries. His work was read and admired by the Church Fathers, yet they weren't sure who he was. Perhaps it didn't matter; the work spoke for itself. His reputation rested on his Refutation Omnium Haeresium, a far-ranging treatise on the religious controversies of his time.
The Witch Cult in Western Europe
In The Witch Cult in Western Europe, Anthropologist Margaret Alice Murray (1863 – 1963) presents her pioneering and seminal witch-cult theory – an enigmatic history of European witchcraft and the rituals, beliefs and practices of an ancient, secretive pre-Christian religion that persisted covertly amidst fierce Christian persecution.
Semesilam: The Eternal Sun
A compilatory volume, gathering the artwork that José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal produced between 2012-2017. This ‘definitive anthology’ includes the long out-of-print Handbook of Sacred Anatomy (Aeon Sophia Press, 2014) and A Second Nature (ASP, 2017), along with further, unpublished works from the same period and an extended photographic record of Sabogal’s work focusing on human skulls and bones.
Daimon and Pharmakon (Forthcoming)
Daimon and Pharmakon contains thirteen cutting-edge essays on the contribution of psychoactive substances to occult and esoteric spiritual traditions.
Lexicon Lamiarum (Forthcoming)
The Lexicon of Witchcraft is an illustrated compendium of witchcraft terminology, encompassing rituals, symbols, spirits, objects, and other specialized concepts of witchcraft.