Hellebore

There’s a Robert Graves one!

Yes, it is! Only one I’ve seen.

Legend of the Witches and Secret Rites

I don’t know about the whole series, but this episode is part of the extras in this:

Murray wrote a sympathetic preface for Gardner's Witchcraft Today in
1954. Three years later, with her reference to witches as
"members of nudist colonies" she's obliquely criticising Gardner.

This is a fragment from the 1957 documentary programme Out of Step, where host Daniel Farson also interviews Gerald Gardner and Louis Wilkinson, Crowley's friend and executor.

The only known footage of Margaret Murray (1863 - 1963), the archaeologist and folklorist who penned The Witch-Cult in Western Europe (1921).

Illustration from The Willows, a short story by Blackwood, where something only faintly visible moves among the trees

“Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.”
—Algernon Blackwood

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Thank you so much! Maybe don’t read the gallery section at night then😅

A photo of Hellebore magazine issue 14, the mirror issue, featuring an image of a woman facing away from two mirrors showing reflections of her face from different angles.

Got my first @helleborezine.bsky.social issue in the mail today! I had to get the mirror issue because mirrors are my biggest irrational fear and yet they fascinate me at the same time. Can't wait to dig into this!

N EIL PHILIP is a poet and folklorist. Among his books are The Watkins Book of English Folktales, The Cinderella Story, The New Oxford Book of Children's Verse, and The Tale of Sir Gawain. His Horse Hooves and Chicken Feet: Mexican Folktales won the Aesop Award of the American Folklore Society. Neil lives in the Cotswolds, and a stream sacred to the Hwicce goddess Cuda rises in his garden to flow down her valley. He loves cats, books, and wine. You've devoted your life to studying myths and folk tales. What drew you to it? Why would you say this is important? I think telling stories is the root of our humanity. We are all doing it all the time, whether we realise it or not. Folk tales in particular hold up a mirror to ourselves. It's why they have survived. As the hero or heroine, by going through deadly perils and achieving impossible things, discovers their true self, so do we.

Very sad to read of the passing of folklorist and poet Neil Philip. He was fascinating to talk to, and always kind and supportive.

When I interviewed him for issue 12, he quoted William Blake: “This world of Imagination is the world of Eternity”.

Thank you so much for this spotlight! I am seriously impressed by @martyjopson ‘s pronunciation of my name, and very happy that you enjoyed the books.

This bundle is only available until the end of the month, so act fast if you want one!

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'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.

A type of psychedelic mushroom that
makes people hallucinate tiny beings... 🤔

Who’s read “The Seeds of Time” by @helengrantsays.bsky.social in TALES OF OCCULT BRITAIN?

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Arthur Machen

Thank you to John Galantini at The Friends of Arthur Machen, who calls Tales of Occult Britain “an excellent collection of contemporary weird tales” in their latest newsletter.

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Just treated myself to the Occult Britain bundle, and threw in a back issue. I suspect I may putting myself on a regular drip catching up on all past publications.

Swain's Sane by Nina Antonia HIGHGATE CEMETERY LONDON, ENGLAND

This is apropos of Snuggly Books’ reissue of The Greenwood Faun, by the wonderful @ninaantonia13.bsky.social. Nina’s story in Tales of Occult Britain is Swain’s Lane, a Decadent tale inspired by the Highgate Vampire.

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Arthur Machen

Thank you to John Galantini at The Friends of Arthur Machen, who calls Tales of Occult Britain “an excellent collection of contemporary weird tales” in their latest newsletter.

Thank you for sharing! 🖤

A picture of a copy of the Hellbore Guide to Occult Britain. The cover has grey and pale brown leaf like decoration, with stylised devils, stone circles, witches hat, faces and an eye.

The back of the Hellbore guide. With the following text: WITCHCRAFT THE OLD GODS MAGIC, RITUALS, AND THE OCCULT IT ANCIENT MEGALITHS PORTALS TO THE OTHERWORLD DEMONS AND THE DEVIL CURSES AND PORTENTS FILM, TV, AND LITERARY LOCATIONS EXPLORING CASTLES, MUSEUMS and manor houses, megaliths, moors, mountains and lakes, this lavishly illustrated travel guide covers the rich history of magic and the occult in Britain and Northern Ireland and its inextricable bond with the landscape. Delve into a world of witchcraft, ancient rituals, and occult ceremonies. From the ancient stone circles of the Cornish moors to the wealthy manor houses of Hampshire, from the windswept headlands of Northumbria to the golden streets of Oxford, from the turbulent Scottish borderlands to the rugged Causeway Coast, this guide ventures into hundreds of locations with magical links, exploring the works of authors and creators inspired by their strange, numinous beauty; the lives of the occultists, witches, and cunning folk who inhabited them; and the legends that persist. ISBN978-1-3999-0696-8

Our @helleborezine.bsky.social guide to Occult Britain has arrived. A bit like a spooky National Trust of the UK’s #folklore, ancient sites and filming locations, but I’d avoid any scones you might find.

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Friend gifted me this bundle over the holidays. Finished my first issue earlier today, and in addition to the interesting subject matter and research, the design and layout of these zines is just gorgeous.

The numinous beauty of Creswell Crags, reflected in the water

The opposing cliffs of Creswell Craggs, Notts, are honeycombed with caves that were occupied from the late Middle Paleolithic. In the 17th- 18th centuries, witch marks were carved in their darkest recesses, thought to be the dwelling place of demons.

Read more in #OccultBritain

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Thank you so much! Glad you’re enjoying it.

Cover of issue 1 of Hellebore magazine. A ghostly image of a spirit or supernatural being with a sickke in one hand, a sheaf of grains in the other

Article from Hellebore magazine- “The bodies in the bog” by John Reppion

Was introduced to the marvelous @helleborezine.bsky.social over Xmas. Picked up issue one which delightfully has a piece on bog bodies. If you’ve read my graphic novel BOUDICCA to the last page, you know why that’s my swampy jam.

Illustration by Alan Lee, from Lee & Froud Faeries

The Fairy Host!