Myth, Magic, and Religion

The sacred and the profane.

 
Featured
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Clubbing Solomon’s Seal: The Occult Roots of the Ægishjálmur
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The Flying Rowan, Some Ethnobotanical Notes on a Magical Tree
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Sacred White Stones: Echoes of an Ancient Scandinavian Fertility Cult
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Galdrastafabók: "A Book of Staves" by Jesse Bransford (Review)
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GINNUNGAGAP, The Boundless Enclosure: An Animated Scandinavian Art Creation Myth
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Dance, Trance, and Devil Pacts: The Fiddler and Norwegian Folk Mysticism
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Spirits, Premonitions, and Psychic Emanations in the Viking World (Norse Metaphysics pt. 3)
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Norse Yuletide Sacrifices Had (Almost) Nothing To Do With The Winter Solstice
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No Better Than The Gods: Divine Incompetence in Norse Mythology and the Shortcomings of Humanity
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How many dead warriors can you fit in Valhalla? Notes on Viking and Hindu numerology
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Wild men and bearded women of the medieval North
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Fimbulwinter 536 AD: Ragnarok, demographic collapse, and the end of Proto-Norse language
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The "Valknútr" Does Not Exist
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Sex, drugs, and drop-spindles: What is Seiðr? (Norse metaphysics pt. 2)
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In Defense of Magic (Norse metaphysics pt.1)
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The Norse saga of Gautama Buddha
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