Three Hands Press

Three Hands Press, a sister publishing house of Xoanon Publishing, was conceived in Summer 2003 as a joint venture between Andrew Chumbley, Daniel Schulke, and an anonymous third party. Its name refers in part to the threefold actuating force of author, publisher, and the animating spirit of a book. This triune power is the quintessence of the reifying textual force, and aptly glyphs our regard of the Magical Book as sentient manifestations of the Logos.

Dually-born of vision and epiphany, Three Hands arose in consideration of the body of essays, academic works, and other writings beyond the intent and scope of Xoanon, but common to its corpus of authors. Thus the need was recognised for a textual vessel serving the varied concerns of these separate works, with the additional benefit of Xoanon’s publishing ethos. Because of the high magical calibre of Xoanon’s textual corpus, as well as the loyalty and good faith of its long-time patrons, our endeavour has assumed wings and taken flight.

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Three Hands Press, Corinne Boyer, Forthcoming, The Devil's Ointment

The Devil’s Ointment (Forthcoming)

Three Hands Press, Corinne Boyer, Forthcoming, The Devil's Ointment

In the historical records of European Witchcraft, one of the most notorious allegations against the accused was the use of a magical salve to gain the power of nocturnal flight.

Three Hands Press, Corinne Boyer, Forthcoming, The Devil's Ointment

Three Hands Press, Daniel A. Schulke, Johnny Decker Miller, Saints of Magic, Forthcoming

Saints of Magic (Forthcoming)

Three Hands Press, Daniel A. Schulke, Johnny Decker Miller, Saints of Magic, Forthcoming

Throughout history, certain individuals held renown for their power over the spirits, the forces of Nature, and their supernatural powers, through the practice of the arts of magic.

Three Hands Press, Daniel A. Schulke, Johnny Decker Miller, Saints of Magic, Forthcoming

A.D. Mercer, Three Hands Press, Liber Coronzom, Forthcoming

Liber Coronzom: An Enochian Grimoire (Forthcoming)

A.D. Mercer, Three Hands Press, Liber Coronzom, Forthcoming

Liber Coronzom offers the occult student a practical approach to working with the angelic entities and powers that populate the world of Enochian magic, the early modern occult system based on the mysterious spirit-conjurations of Elizabethan astrologer Doctor John Dee.

A.D. Mercer, Three Hands Press, Liber Coronzom, Forthcoming

Three Hands Press, William Kiesel, Magic Circles Grimoire Tradition, Grimoire

Magic Circles in the Grimoire Tradition

Three Hands Press, William Kiesel, Magic Circles Grimoire Tradition, Grimoire

Magic Circles have been depicted in popular expressions of magic and witchcraft as well as detailed with full rubrics in traditional manuals of magic such as the Clavicula Solomonis or Liber Juratus.

Three Hands Press, William Kiesel, Magic Circles Grimoire Tradition, Grimoire

Three Hands Press, Robert Fitzgerald, Sharp Practice, Tantra

Sharp Practice

Three Hands Press, Robert Fitzgerald, Sharp Practice, Tantra

Ritual daggers have long been vital accoutrements in the exercise of magic, sorcery and shamanic practice. As a means of subduing demonic forces, their essence is derived from their power to penetrate and transfix.

Three Hands Press, Robert Fitzgerald, Sharp Practice, Tantra

Three Hands Press, Robert Fitzgerald, Arcanum Bestiarum

Arcanum Bestiarum

Three Hands Press, Robert Fitzgerald, Arcanum Bestiarum

Written in the great tradition of the medieval bestiaries, Robert Fitzgerald's long-awaited new work Arcanum Bestiarum re-imagines the animal menagerie in the context of bestial mystery and atavistic power.

Three Hands Press, Robert Fitzgerald, Arcanum Bestiarum

Three Hands Press, Robert Fitzgerald, Gathering of Masks, Thelema

A Gathering of Masks

Three Hands Press, Robert Fitzgerald, Gathering of Masks, Thelema

Aleister Crowley's obscure Liber 231 remains one of his most enigmatic received magical texts, and one whose genesis directly concerns the workings of astral magic and trance-mediumship.

Three Hands Press, Robert Fitzgerald, Gathering of Masks, Thelema

Three Hands Press, Richard Gavin, The Moribund Portal, Necromancy

The Moribund Portal

Three Hands Press, Richard Gavin, The Moribund Portal, Necromancy

Beyond its vulgar function as a means of execution, the Gallows has long served as a source of occult power. From the severed appendage of the thief that becomes the Hand of Glory, to the fallen seed that spawns the mandrake root, the Hanging Place is awash in the sinistral ambiance of ancient sorcery.

Three Hands Press, Richard Gavin, The Moribund Portal, Necromancy

Three Hands Press, Richard Gavin, Sylvan Dread, Fiction

Sylvan Dread

Three Hands Press, Richard Gavin, Sylvan Dread, Fiction

Those who dwell unseen within the hedge, the grotesques emergent in the weave of tangled roots, the writhing form amid the shadows of the Willow boughs—all are keepers of a rustic and terrible wisdom predating the emergence of mankind. Lurching between disembodiment and wholly manifest flesh, the baleful forces of wasteland and rural barren have long been etched upon the human soul.

Three Hands Press, Richard Gavin, Sylvan Dread, Fiction

Three Hands Press, Rebecca Beyer, Fever Tree, Law of Contagion

Fever Tree

Three Hands Press, Rebecca Beyer, Fever Tree, Law of Contagion

Appalachia is a distinct bio-region of America with a wealth of unique plant and animal life. This biodiversity is mirrored by an equally rich human tapestry, woven over thousands of years, giving rise to distinct cultural traditions.

Three Hands Press, Rebecca Beyer, Fever Tree, Law of Contagion

Three Hands Press, Radomir Ristic, Witchcraft and Sorcery of the Balkans

Witchcraft and Sorcery of the Balkans

Three Hands Press, Radomir Ristic, Witchcraft and Sorcery of the Balkans

With its geographic diversity of rocky edifices, deep river valleys and dense forests, Europe's Balkan mountain region has been characterized as a natural fortress. This natural multiformity is mirrored by an ancient admixture of magical beliefs and practices present in the region for thousands of years.

Three Hands Press, Radomir Ristic, Witchcraft and Sorcery of the Balkans

Peter Hamilton-Giles, Three Hands Press, The Afflicted Mirror

The Afflicted Mirror

Peter Hamilton-Giles, Three Hands Press, The Afflicted Mirror

A shared feature of genuine magical practice and religious experience is the impression of ‘Otherness’, an entic arena of alienation and unfamiliarity. Contrasted with the more comfortable and known spheres of the Self, this ‘state apart’ provides not only inspiration and wonder, it is the dwelling-place of the gods and the prime source of gnosis, direct experience with the divine.

Peter Hamilton-Giles, Three Hands Press, The Afflicted Mirror

Three Hands Press, Western Esotericism in Context, Daniel A. Schulke, Erik Davis, Daimon and Pharmakon, Forthcoming

Daimon and Pharmakon (Forthcoming)

Three Hands Press, Western Esotericism in Context, Daniel A. Schulke, Erik Davis, Daimon and Pharmakon, Forthcoming

Daimon and Pharmakon contains thirteen cutting-edge essays on the contribution of psychoactive substances to occult and esoteric spiritual traditions.

Three Hands Press, Western Esotericism in Context, Daniel A. Schulke, Erik Davis, Daimon and Pharmakon, Forthcoming

Three Hands Press, Lexicon Lamiarum, Daniel A. Schulke, Adrienne Rozzi, Michael Howard, A.D. Mercer, Júlia Carreras-Tort, Andrew D. Chumbley, Corinne Boyer, Robert Fitzgerald, Forthcoming

Lexicon Lamiarum (Forthcoming)

Three Hands Press, Lexicon Lamiarum, Daniel A. Schulke, Adrienne Rozzi, Michael Howard, A.D. Mercer, Júlia Carreras-Tort, Andrew D. Chumbley, Corinne Boyer, Robert Fitzgerald, Forthcoming

The Lexicon of Witchcraft is an illustrated compendium of witchcraft terminology, encompassing rituals, symbols, spirits, objects, and other specialized concepts of witchcraft.

Three Hands Press, Lexicon Lamiarum, Daniel A. Schulke, Adrienne Rozzi, Michael Howard, A.D. Mercer, Júlia Carreras-Tort, Andrew D. Chumbley, Corinne Boyer, Robert Fitzgerald, Forthcoming

Three Hands Press, Daniel A. Schulke, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Forthcoming

Sabbatic Witchcraft (Forthcoming)

Three Hands Press, Daniel A. Schulke, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Forthcoming

The figure of the witch in medieval Europe was strongly defined by her relation to the Sabbat: the phantasmagoric nocturnal rite where the living trafficked with the dead.

Three Hands Press, Daniel A. Schulke, Sabbatic Witchcraft, Forthcoming

Three Hands Press, Daniel A. Schulke, Onomasticon, Forthcoming

Onomasticon of Occult Herbs (Forthcoming)

Three Hands Press, Daniel A. Schulke, Onomasticon, Forthcoming

Onomasticon of Occult Herbs is a cross-cultural lexicon of sacred plant names, as they emerged from the religions and magical traditions of the world.

Three Hands Press, Daniel A. Schulke, Onomasticon, Forthcoming

Three Hands Press, Martin Duffy, The Spirit of the Downs, Forthcoming

The Spirit of the Downs (Forthcoming)

Three Hands Press, Martin Duffy, The Spirit of the Downs, Forthcoming

The chalk downs of Sussex possess a fascinating cultural tapestry of folk belief, spell-craft, charms, and lore.

Three Hands Press, Martin Duffy, The Spirit of the Downs, Forthcoming

Three Hands Press, Michael Howard, By Moonlight and Spirit Flight, Three Hands Press Occult Monographs

By Moonlight and Spirit Flight

Three Hands Press, Michael Howard, By Moonlight and Spirit Flight, Three Hands Press Occult Monographs

As has been established by historians such as Dr. Carlo Ginzburg and Éva Pócs, the topological elements of the medieval Witches’ Sabbat –the ecstatic nocturnalia of the lamiae — carry relics of the ancient spirit-cults and localized folk-beliefs of Europe.

Three Hands Press, Michael Howard, By Moonlight and Spirit Flight, Three Hands Press Occult Monographs

Three Hands Press, Michael Howard, Children of Cain

Children of Cain

Three Hands Press, Michael Howard, Children of Cain

The mid-twentieth century witnessed the birth of popular occultism in the West, including an interest in witchcraft. At the forefront of popular witchcraft was Wicca, a recension of ceremonial magic and nature worship advanced by Gerald Gardner and Alex Sanders, now widely regarded as a religion.

Three Hands Press, Michael Howard, Children of Cain

Three Hands Press, Michael Howard, East Anglian Witches and Wizards, Witchcraft in the British Isles

East Anglian Witches and Wizards

Three Hands Press, Michael Howard, East Anglian Witches and Wizards, Witchcraft in the British Isles

In 1643 several men and women appeared in court at Chelmsford, Essex, charged with practicing the curious combination of ‘conjuration, magic and lechery’. The chief witness was a servant woman, Martha Hurrell, who claimed that she and a group of other people met regularly in various country houses to practice magic

Three Hands Press, Michael Howard, East Anglian Witches and Wizards, Witchcraft in the British Isles

Three Hands Press, Michael Howard, Witchcraft in the British Isles, Scottish Witches and Warlocks

Scottish Witches and Warlocks

Three Hands Press, Michael Howard, Witchcraft in the British Isles, Scottish Witches and Warlocks

n the village of at Cullen in Forfarshire, an arrest warrant was served in January 1657 for one Margaret Philp, accused of practicing witchcraft. Her servant, Isobel Imblaugh, testified she had seen her mistress have dealings with a spirit taking the form of a talking hare.

Three Hands Press, Michael Howard, Witchcraft in the British Isles, Scottish Witches and Warlocks

Three Hands Press, Michael Howard, Witchcraft in the British Isles, West Country Witches

West Country Witches

Three Hands Press, Michael Howard, Witchcraft in the British Isles, West Country Witches

In 1930 a correspondent writing to the Western Morning Post newspaper confidently asserted 'We live in an age when those old twilight beliefs are disappearing'. The beliefs in question were various aspects of popular superstition and the supernatural once widely accepted by people in the West Country.

Three Hands Press, Michael Howard, Witchcraft in the British Isles, West Country Witches

Three Hands Press, Michael Howard, Welsh Witches and Wizards, Witchcraft in the British Isles

Welsh Witches and Wizards

Three Hands Press, Michael Howard, Welsh Witches and Wizards, Witchcraft in the British Isles

The widespread belief in witches and wizards in Wales reflects a land steeped in legend and myth since ancient times. The witch’s power to harm people, livestock, and crops was greatly feared; for this reason country people consulted with so-called ‘cunning men’ and ‘wise women’ who had the power to negate their spells with counter-magic.

Three Hands Press, Michael Howard, Welsh Witches and Wizards, Witchcraft in the British Isles

Three Hands Press, Martin Duffy, Anathema Maranatha, Johnny Decker Miller

Anathema Maranatha

Three Hands Press, Martin Duffy, Anathema Maranatha, Johnny Decker Miller

Far from being a religion defined by rituals of peace, and love and salvation, Christianity has a dark side which historically embraced the imprecatory arts—rituals of cursing and malediction.

Three Hands Press, Martin Duffy, Anathema Maranatha, Johnny Decker Miller

Three Hands Press, Law of Contagion, Martin Duffy, Rites Necromantic

Rites Necromantic

Three Hands Press, Law of Contagion, Martin Duffy, Rites Necromantic

Necromancy, the magical art of calling the dead, emerges from many ancient traditions of sorcery. A vile and repugnant magic to the civilised, the dead have been invoked to gain magical power, and to wrest divinatory knowledge from their shadowy realm.

Three Hands Press, Law of Contagion, Martin Duffy, Rites Necromantic

Martin Duffy, Three Hands Press, Effigy, Raven Ebner

Effigy

Martin Duffy, Three Hands Press, Effigy, Raven Ebner

From ancient times to the present, humanity has wielded a plenitude of formulae for the making and manipulation of magical images. In esoteric traditions where image magic is particularly deep rooted, the most prevalent motif is the poppet, that doll through whose agency the witch gains influence over the enfigured victim.

Martin Duffy, Three Hands Press, Effigy, Raven Ebner

Three Hands Press, Martin Duffy, The Devil's Raiments, Three Hands Press Occult Monographs

The Devil’s Raiments

Three Hands Press, Martin Duffy, The Devil's Raiments, Three Hands Press Occult Monographs

In occult literature, the Vestments of the Art Magical are poorly understood, principally because few save the body of initiates behold them. The robe, mask, hood, mantle, garter, and veil, constituting the exterior arrayments of the witch, trace their pedigree to a number of magical sources, each constituting a mystery of form and function.

Three Hands Press, Martin Duffy, The Devil's Raiments, Three Hands Press Occult Monographs

Three Hands Press, Ouroboros Press, Joseph Uccello, Occlith, Codex Homunculi

Occlith Labyrinthus Archidoxae Volume 1: Codex Homunculi

Three Hands Press, Ouroboros Press, Joseph Uccello, Occlith, Codex Homunculi

Taking the artificially-created anthropoid as its theme, Codex Homunculi gathers together some of the most obscure and ancient texts hermeticism on what is arguably one of the most taboo and heretical operations of the Alchemical Art.

Three Hands Press, Ouroboros Press, Joseph Uccello, Occlith, Codex Homunculi

Three Hands Press, Joseph Uccello, Omniform, Occlith

Occlith Labyrinthus Archidoxae Volume 0: Omniform

Three Hands Press, Joseph Uccello, Omniform, Occlith

Containing essential texts of the Paracelsian School of Alchemy, the whole serves as an animated sourcebook of essential Hermetic philosophy and Natural Magic, vivified through the letterpress-inspired type design and Uccello’s ink and brush drawings.

Three Hands Press, Joseph Uccello, Omniform, Occlith

Three Hands Press, Johnny Decker Miller, Dark Magic, Law of Contagion, H.P. Lovecraft

Dark Magic

Three Hands Press, Johnny Decker Miller, Dark Magic, Law of Contagion, H.P. Lovecraft

The writings of the celebrated American author of weird fiction H. P. Lovecraft are known for their groundbreaking innovation, particularly their treatment of ‘the other’ or otherness, incepting a palpable state of alienation in the reader.

Three Hands Press, Johnny Decker Miller, Dark Magic, Law of Contagion, H.P. Lovecraft

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