


Wed 03 Jan
|Online and Delayed Viewing
The Magical Art of Unbewitching
Dr Alexander Cummins examines the history and traditions of unbewitching
Time & Location
03 Jan 2024, 19:00 – 20:30
Online and Delayed Viewing
About The Event
Unbewitching is the archetypal stock-in-trade of conjure doctors, cunning-women, wise ones, healers, medicine people, witch-doctors, and spiritual workers the world over. It is the removal of the 'crossed' conditions that may arise from the magical violence perpetrated by enemies against us. The dissolution of deliberate hauntings. The abjuration of demonic harassment. Not to mention various occasionally downright aggressive "best-defence" tactics against the sorcerous ruination of body, mind, and soul. In this class, magician, diviner, and historian Dr Alexander Cummins will lead us through a host of early modern means of avoiding, countering, destroying, and even reversing and returning the maleficia of deliberately orchestrated hexes, curses, blights, and banes. We will do so with a heavy emphasis upon the folk magical and grimoiric techniques of early modern British cunning-folk - those local wise-women, "white witches", village wizards, and conjuring parsons who served their communities by preventing, diagnosing, and curing the bedevilled,…
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