Ragnarok 'n' Roll

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The Death and Resurrection Show is a 2013 documentary about the band Killing Joke and a brilliant directorial debut by Shaun Pettigrew. It's not just a brutalist and fascinating rockumentary but one with a very definite sub-text: magick. All four of the band members have magical interests, and Killing Joke itself emerges from the film as a magical project, with all the tempestuous results any summoning can have if great care is not taken.

'Magic and scent were conceptually linked in antiquity. Ancient authors sometimes treated magic as a type of smell; at other times odors were treated as a medium through which magic worked. Some authors compare the effect of smells to magic; others described scent and magic as different things but impossible to distinguish. Magicians used incenses and perfumes liberally to set the scene for their rituals and please the gods, as demonstrated by the corpus of spell books that survive from Greco-Roman Egypt; meanwhile, ancient deities signaled their presence by their divine fragrance.' So writes Britta Ager in her academic paper for Penn State University, Magic Perfumes and Deadly Herbs: The Scent of Witches' Magic in Classical Literature.

Scent of a Witch, Melusine Draco

If you love scary stories and camping, this is the book for you. The scariest place to set up a tent in all fifty states is presented within these pages for you. Pull your chair up next to the fire and open up The Unquiet Night and you will soon realize you aren't so alone out there in the woods. Did you hear that?

The Unquiet Night: Camping with the supernatural, R. Chris Yates

A must-have for modern-day Druids, shamans, hedge witches, and anyone who loves trees, natural magic, and the mystical side of this world. What connects the World Tree, the Tree of Life, the axis mundi, and the interdimensional portals into other realms of existence? How do we work with our own Tree of Life in the complexity of the World Tree of Life? And how do magic staffs relate to all of this? This book not only explores the mythological and philosophical background of tree magic but also offers new, intriguing insights into this fascinating topic. In part one, we learn about the mystery behind the World Tree of Life, tree deities, magical tree animals, the importance of trees in natural cycles, and even our tree ancestry. The answer may lie in the electromagnetic field - the self-sustaining and self-rejuvenating divine quality we were all born with. In part two, the practical side of tree magic is addressed. We learn more about our Tree of Life, tree symbols, tree staffs, and shamanic journeying. The author, who herself practices tree magic, bases her findings on copious research but also draws from her own experiences. Part three is a practical guide to individual tree species and their magical lore.