Unbewitching is the archetypal stock-in-trade of conjure doctors, cunning-women, wise ones, healers, medicine people, witch-doctors, and spiritual workers the world over. It is the removal of the 'crossed' conditions that may arise from the magical violence of enemies against us. The dissolution of deliberate hauntings. The abjuration of demonic harassment. Not to mention the occasionally downright aggressive "best-defence" tactics against the sorcerous ruination of body, mind, and soul.

In this class, magician, diviner, and historian Dr Alexander Cummins will lead us through a host of early modern means of avoiding, countering, destroying, and even reversing and returning the maleficia of deliberately orchestrated hexes, curses, blights, and banes. We will do so by exploring the folk magical and grimoiric techniques of early modern British cunning-folk - those local wise-women, "white witches", village wizards, and conjuring parsons who served their communities by preventing, diagnosing, and curing the bedevilled, the haunted, and the pixie-led, as well as the cursed and 'over-looked'.

These unbewitching practices include the carrying of certain herbs, as well as a number of techniques of breaking the evil eye, warding a property against enemy witches, ousting a malevolent influence from a person, and otherwise healing as well as preventing or destroying harmful spell-craft. We will also consider best divination practices for identifying and dealing with hexes: from diagnostic protocols to sorcerous uses of one's divining tools to actually remedy the situations, symptoms, and causes they chart and delineate. Overall, this class threatens to be an eminently practical guide to working to protect oneself from magical attack, break curses sent at you, and even return the harm intended back to one's enemies.

About the Presenter:

Dr Alexander Cummins is a contemporary cunning man and historian. His magical specialities are the dead (folk necromancy), divination (geomancy) and the grimoires.  He received his doctorate on early modern magical approaches to the passions. Dr Cummins gives classes and workshops online and in person in the US and the UK, and co-hosts the podcast Radio Free Golgotha and co-convenes Speakeasy of the Dead.. His work and services can be found at www.alexandercummins.com

*This class is part of the General Admission & Friday 8/13/21 Day Pass registrations, if you are interested in attending all of the events during this festival, or all of the events offered on Friday 8/13/21, please select the appropriate registration type on our Events & Registration page.*

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