What Magic Is This?

By: Douglas Batchelor
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  • What Magic is This? is a topic based podcast about Magic, the Occult, the Esoteric, the Paranormal, the Supernatural and the Weird. Each episode revolves around one single topic in the hope that we can flesh out the important aspects one needs to know about it. From history to practices to important figures and more, What Magic is This? is for anyone curious about Magic and the strange world in which we live. If you're looking for the best place to find out about any of these topics, you've found the right Podcast to get you on your way.
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  • Blue Grimoires with Aaman Lamba

    Blue Grimoires with Aaman Lamba
    Sep 30 2024

    For over 200 years, France was inundated with small cheaply produced books, bound with blue covers, filled with some of the most amazing things. These were the Bibliothèque bleue. Lots of these books would be about food, or fairy-tales, or astrology. Yet the most notorious of the Bibliothèque bleue, were the books on Magic, charms and spells. These are called Blue Grimoires today. Helping us get our fingers inky with why these small chapbooks were so important to magic, is author and magician Aaman Lamba.
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    2 hrs and 11 mins
  • The Book of Saint Cyprian with José Leitão

    The Book of Saint Cyprian with José Leitão
    Sep 16 2024

    After King Solomon, the legend of Cyprian of Antioch looms quite large in the Western Magical Tradition. A spirit conjurer and occasional summoner of the devil, Cyprian later converted to Christianity and became a Bishop before being martyred. This legend had quite some traction, as many grimoires evoked the name of Cyprian within their pages and in the title of the Grimoire itself particularly in Iberia. Taking the listeners through the Book of Saint Cyprian, is the scholar of Portuguese esotericism and author José Leitão!
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    2 hrs and 16 mins
  • A Rather Bookish Announcement!

    A Rather Bookish Announcement!
    Sep 9 2024

    Have a listen and be sure to check out my What Magic is This? Bookshop, please! Hopefully all of the show notes book recommendations will be in place and updated by October 2024, but if you have any requests for books that you'd like to purchase that I have recommended through my show notes and I haven't had a chance to change yet, please be sure to email me and I will send you an affiliate link for that title. Happy Shopping, and thank you for keeping Independant Bookshops thriving!
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    17 mins

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Quite literally changed my life

This show rejuvenated my concept of esoteric knowledge and was my springboard into practical magic

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Best occult podcast out there

Doug has such a crazy wealth of knowledge, every episode leaves your head spinning and 10+ new books to add to your reading list. He's a great speaker, clearly puts in a ton of time and love into this, and has helped me grow so much in my understanding of magic and occult in general. I seriously can't say enough good things about this podcast.

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My favorite podcast!

I love everything about this podcast. If you enjoy this podcast, I highly recommend his patreon material. It's a steal for 7 dollars a month. Douglass, the host, is full of passion and enthusiasm for the wide variety of subject matter covered in the podcast. If you are curious about magic, or know it well, this is your podcast

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If You Like Magic, The Occult This Is Your Podcast

The description of this podcast says it all: "A Podcast about Magic, the Occult, the Esoteric, the Paranormal, the Supernatural and the Weird". If you're interested in any of those topics, and want to listen to someone talk about a certain topic in depth, this podcast is what you need in your life. I got into this podcast last year right after I had finished my first few books speedrunning me through occult history and was looking for something that went a bit deeper. Whether or not you know only some info or not really any at all about anything from Sigils, Modern Witchcraft, Chaos Magic, Astral Projecting, New Thought, Aleister Crowley, Satanism, this podcast has a solid length, in depth episode about it. There's so many occulty, witchy, and wack topics that it can be expensive to try to read up on all of them, but if you're just wanting a good thorough intro to a topic just listen to an episode on here first and see if you're still wanting to read up more on it. And if you do want to read up more on it, luckily this podcast is amazing and has its website that goes over all the notes and sources from each episode, which makes for an amazing book recommendation list! Seriously try this podcast out!

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