Tag: occulture
Spellbound: Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft at the Ashmolean Museum
Spellbound is thought-provoking, engaging, and succeeds in its aims as a concise and well-presented overview of magic, ritual and witchcraft.
Artist Spotlight: Tommie Kelly and the Forty Servants
Tommie Kelly is an incredible illustrator, accomplished magician, successful writer, and creator of the Forty Servants.
Surrealism: Six occultnik painters and writers
These six surrealist artists opened doors to other realms through the use of a paintbrush, pen or typewriter.
Ethics in witchcraft: Where do you fall?
Ethics: it can be a tinderbox subject in any situation, but within the spheres of witchcraft and Paganism, there always seems to be drama.
Greatest Hits: Best of occulture in 2018
Of the 15 articles on occulture we published in 2018, these are the 8 most popular on Spiral Nature Magazine.
Introduction to Surrealism: An occultnik art movement
Surrealism is a 20th century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind. The term "avant-garde" tends...
Building community: Approaching WITCHfest North 2018
WITCHfest North was created by a small group of volunteers putting together a celebration of witches, Wiccans, Pagans, and women in the arts.
Mixtape: Eldritch August
For our very first mixtape, I put together 12 "Eldritch August" songs, since August is H.P. Lovecraft’s birth month.
Always ascending: The magick of jazz
If you had to pick one genre as being innately spiritual and magical, jazz is the most otherworldly form of music humans have created.
Occulture: The Unseen Forces That Drive Culture Forward
Occulture: The Unseen Forces that Drive Culture Forward is a collection of essays and lectures that set out to explore the places where the magical bleeds into the cultural, influences it, and leaves it both changed and charged.
A witch’s guide to Salem: Navigating the sacred and the profane
Consumerism is not going to disappear, so perhaps we can be discerning, provide education, and look at Salem as a locus of witch activity
Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man, by Shira Chess and...
Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man offers a comprehensive look at the Slender Man phenomenon from its origins to later developments.