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Join Dr Stephen Asma, author of "On Monsters", as he examines the human condition by looking at what scares us most
Apr 21st 2021 - Apr 21st 2021
In this lecture, historian of religions Per Faxneld discusses how contemporary feminists use Satan as an empowering figure, but also how gender equality has been a complicated and contested issue in many Satanic groups.
Apr 22nd 2021 - Apr 22nd 2021
Professor Marzluff will examine the interaction between Ravens, Wolves & People
Apr 25th 2021 - Apr 25th 2021
Join Dr Brett Kahr to learn what Freud—having lived through WWI, the Spanish Flu, and Nazi occupation—can teach us in this new pandemic
Apr 26th 2021 - Apr 26th 2021
Learn how to make and use powerful sigils, in this two-part workshop with chaos magician Dave Lee.
Apr 21st 2021 - Apr 28th 2021
Join Deanna Petherbridge to explore European witchcraft from the ancient world to present day through a rich survey of images
May 2nd 2021 - May 2nd 2021
Sunday 2nd & Saturday 8th May, ticket includes both sessions. This is a four-hour seminar, split over two days, to explore some of the techniques of nature writing. We will pay careful attention to language, and also to the power and importance of your initial observations. It is this preliminary work that often determines whether the words you choose will be original, fresh and suggestive.
May 2nd 2021 - May 2nd 2021
Join Professor Alyce Mahon to trace how the Marquis de Sade became an icon of free expression and explore his influence on Surrealist art
May 4th 2021 - May 4th 2021
Join practicing medium Tiffany Hopkins on a monthly exploration of the history of Spiritualism, its cultural impact, and notable figures.
May 5th 2021 - May 5th 2021
This evening Mr.Wynd will choose some of his favourite tales picked up on his travels across Papua New Guinea. Strange, Wondrous Tales.
May 9th 2021 - May 9th 2021
This zoom talk is a psychonautic scientific trip to the weirdest outposts of the psychedelic terrain, inhaling anything and everything relevant from psychology, psychiatry, parapsychology, anthropology, neuroscience, ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology, biochemistry, religious studies, cultural history, shamanism and the occult along the way
May 11th 2021 - May 11th 2021
Join psychic medium Patti Negri for an intimate online seance where each participant will have the chance to summon a specific spirit
Mar 13th 2021 - May 15th 2021
Philip Hoare on how to depict the impossible, a monster more bizarre than any medieval Apocalypse or engravings of krakens and rhinoceroses? Zoom lecture in collaboration with New York's Morbid Anatomy
May 16th 2021 - May 16th 2021
In this Zoom Lecture Prof. Ronald Hutton opens a door onto a world in which ritual nudity has been, since ancient times, a constant feature of Magic & Initiation
May 17th 2021 - May 17th 2021
Explore English occultist Austin Osman Spare's Tarot Deck with author Jonathan Allen on Zoom
May 19th 2021 - May 19th 2021
Often misrepresented, stereotyped and misunderstood, this talk will discuss the history of Haitian Vodou. Vodou is a religion that emerged from the cultural traditions of enslaved Africans, syncretised with forced Catholicism, on the Caribbean Island of Haiti
May 23rd 2021 - May 23rd 2021
Join writer and translator Philip Terry to learn about France's Ouvroir de littérature potentielle or Workshop of Potential Literature
May 25th 2021 - May 25th 2021
The science and social science of butterflies just gets better and better. Our love affair with these fickle sprites of the sunshine hours continually deepens. The more we learn about them, the more we discover and the more complex they become, and the more we are enthralled and entertained. This talk looks at all this, and more.
May 30th 2021 - May 30th 2021
This illustrated Lecture will look closely at the extraordinary range of Masks and traditions current in contemporary mexico
Jun 2nd 2021 - Jun 2nd 2021
This talk will explore the ways in which plants have informed artists, mystics and scientists throughout history and around the world
Jun 6th 2021 - Jun 6th 2021
Join art historian Dr David Boyd Haycock to explore the fascinating history of the Surrealist movement in Britain
Jun 8th 2021 - Jun 8th 2021
Leonora Carrington's Son - Gaby Weisz - talks about his recent memoir of his mother with Viktor Wynd - Zoom Lecture in collaboration with Morbid Anatomy
Jun 13th 2021 - Jun 13th 2021
Join artist and educator John Cussans to learn about Beau Dick, an influential Canadian artist and member of the Hamatsa secret society
Jun 15th 2021 - Jun 15th 2021
Join Manon Hedenborg White for a Zoom Lecture on Babalon and her meaning in modern occultism as a goddess of ego-death, eroticism, and transgressive femininity.
Jun 17th 2021 - Jun 17th 2021
Make hay (metaphorically speaking!) with The Apothecary’s Daughteras on Zoom as she discusses the meaning and rituals behind the summer solstice, whilst bringing to light a selection of her favourite seasonal plants, and those with particular connection to the magic of midsummer.
Jun 20th 2021 - Jun 20th 2021
Professor Ronald Hutton examines Dragons in Myths & Legends
Jun 24th 2021 - Jun 24th 2021
Live on Zoom from Mexico City Teresa Arcq will discuss her LACMA exhibition In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and The United States
Jun 27th 2021 - Jun 27th 2021
Step into the fascinating world of bird watching as award-winning author and naturalist Mark Cocker lays out its history and practice
Jun 28th 2021 - Jun 28th 2021
Explore the Origins & Rituals of Absinthe with a Virtual Tasting & Talk with Devil's Botany
Jun 29th 2021 - Jun 29th 2021
Join Alex Langstone, author of "From Granite to Sea", to explore the breathtaking real locations of Cornish myth and legend
Jul 4th 2021 - Jul 4th 2021
This frightening lecture shows how Hitler and Himmler infected the Nazi Party with the dangerous belief that, through occult skills, the 'master race' could gain dominion over the world.
Jul 6th 2021 - Jul 6th 2021
Join Viktor Wynd in Cornwall via Zoom) for a Guided tour of his Cornish UnNatural History Museum - nestled within The National Maritime Museum Falmouth
Jul 8th 2021 - Jul 8th 2021
Susan Owens on her book - The Ghost - a Cultural History - Zoom Lecture in collaboration with Morbid anatomy
Jul 11th 2021 - Jul 11th 2021
Walter Potter's Curious World of Taxidermy with Mexico based curator, author and co-founder of Morbid Anatomy , Joanna Ebenstein
Jul 12th 2021 - Jul 12th 2021
Gary Lachman will look at how occult thought and ideas influenced some of the most important and influential writers and poets of the past two centuries
Jul 18th 2021 - Jul 18th 2021
Join acclaimed performer Robert Lloyd Parry as he brings to life the beloved ghost stories of M.R. James
Jul 22nd 2021 - Jul 22nd 2021
Charles Waterton used his skill to fabricate imaginary creatures, forming three-dimensional religious and political cartoons that lampooned issues and people that attracted his ire.
Sep 6th 2021 - Sep 6th 2021
Join Professor Dawn Ades to explore the paradoxical role of Surrealist women artists in a movement that both elevated and silenced them
Sep 12th 2021 - Sep 12th 2021
Once the official creed of mighty Persian Empires, Zoroastrianism probably had an influence on the religious ideas of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Sep 14th 2021 - Sep 14th 2021
Carl Hoffman will talk about his book – Savage Harvest - The mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in New Guinea in 1961 Zoom lecture in collaboration with New York's Morbid Anatomy
Sep 19th 2021 - Sep 19th 2021
Examining the older, darker, more scary and more serious world of traditional British and Irish peoples who lived alongside fairies, elves, gnomes, brownies and pixies and had to deal with them
Sep 21st 2021 - Sep 21st 2021
In this zoom lecture Timothy R. Landry examines the connections between local Vodún priests and spiritual seekers who travel to Bénin—some for the snapshot, others for full-fledged initiation into the religion.
Sep 26th 2021 - Sep 26th 2021
This Zoom lecture will explore witchcraft and witch-hunting in New England in the seventeenth century, in communities shaped by a profound belief in the devil and his minions
Oct 3rd 2021 - Oct 3rd 2021
Join Professor Jonathan P. Eburne to explore how crime informed the surrealist movement in Europe
Oct 4th 2021 - Oct 4th 2021
4-week online course Tuesdays, October 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th 6:30-9:30pm Taught via Zoom by Karen Bachmann In this four-week class, students will learn about the history of--and create their own piece of-- Victorian Hairwork.
Oct 5th 2021 - Oct 8th 2021
Why do we need ghosts? How many kinds of ghost are there? What are they? And where are they? Join film-writer Roger Clarke to find out
Oct 11th 2021 - Oct 11th 2021
The Artist & Occultist's biographer tells all in this Zoom lecture in collaboration with New York's Morbid Anatomy
Oct 17th 2021 - Oct 17th 2021
Just in time for Halloween, Professor Malcolm Gaskill shines a light on a decade rife with self-professed witchfinders in England and abroad
Oct 26th 2021 - Oct 26th 2021
Explore the history of Halloween—from its murky pagan past and supernatural associations—with Professor Ronald Hutton on Zoom
Nov 1st 2021 - Nov 1st 2021
Lecture on one of the most interesting, dynamic, and theoretically sophisticated women Surrealists & Occultists by Dr.Amy Hale
Nov 7th 2021 - Nov 7th 2021
Mike Jay on Mescaline & Art - Zoom Lecture in Collaboration with New York's Morbid Anatomy
Apr 18th 2021 - Apr 18th 2021
Join Legendary Film Director, Artist & Author John Waters in Conversation, by zoom, with Viktor Wynd
Apr 17th 2021 - Apr 17th 2021
Join professional magician, Oliver Garwood, on zoom for a beginner’s course in the conjuring arts. This Course Will Run over Four Wednesday evenings - the 14th, 21st, and 28th of April and 5th of May from 7:30-9pm. Ticket price is for the full course
Apr 14th 2021 - Apr 14th 2021
Prof Ronald Hutton poses and answers the question of how and when the modern Western world came to have its most common image of what a goddess should be, as a divinity representing the natural world and the night sky in combination, often appearing in three forms, as maiden, mother and crone.
Apr 14th 2021 - Apr 14th 2021
Come to the forest, sit by the fireside and listen to intoxicating song, as Sam Lee tells the story of the nightingale.
Apr 12th 2021 - Apr 12th 2021
Zoom Lecture - Licentious Worlds is a history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through five hundred years of empire-building around the world. In a graphic and sometimes unsettling account by Julie Peakman
Apr 11th 2021 - Apr 11th 2021
Learn the basics of the Elder Futhark so you can makes spells for anything you wish, create your own set of rune-cards and learn divination
Apr 3rd 2021 - Apr 10th 2021
4 week online course Wednesdays 7, 14, 21, and 28 April from 7:30- 9:30 pm PLEASE NOTE: All classes will also be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time Taught interactively via Zoom to a small class by Morbid Anatomy Founder & distinguished author Joanna Ebenstein
Apr 28th 2021 - Apr 9th 2021
Join Dr Pat Morris for a fascinating tour through the history of taxidermy, from its earliest examples to modern incarnations
Apr 8th 2021 - Apr 8th 2021
This evening Mr.Wynd will choose some of his favourite tales, Princesses will suffer strange enchantments, evil stepmothers will plot and scheme, shapes will change, magic, madness and evil beasts galore.
Apr 4th 2021 - Apr 4th 2021
Explore the Origins & Rituals of Absinthe with a Virtual Tasting & Talk
Apr 2nd 2021 - Apr 2nd 2021
Join Dr David Bramwell on Zoom to uncover what drives some to con, deceive and pull pranks and explore the changing role of the trickster over time
Apr 1st 2021 - Apr 1st 2021
Join Viktor Wynd on Zoom for an illustrated lecture on his new book, hear about fairies, mermaids, ghosts, shrunken heads and his dead friends.
Mar 28th 2021 - Mar 28th 2021
Join psychic medium Patti Negri to learn how to use the Ouija board to communicate with the spirit world
Mar 28th 2021 - Mar 28th 2021
Professional tarot reader Laetitia Barbier teaches how to ignite creativity in times of crisis and vanquish fear using the tarot's imagery Saturdays 6, 13, 20 and 27 March from 3 pm to 5 pm
Mar 6th 2021 - Mar 27th 2021
Join Dr Alexander Cummins to explore the history and magic of melothesia: the practice of understanding occult influences on the human body
Mar 27th 2021 - Mar 27th 2021
Join Ronald Hutton for an evening devoted to the main form of male divinity found in modern Paganism: the horned god of nature and of fertility
Mar 25th 2021 - Mar 25th 2021
Let Viktor Wynd share a nightcap with you, tuck you into bed and tell you Fairy Tales to send you into a deep sleep of strange dreams. Be warned these are not the Ladybird or Disney versions and may not be suitable for the tenderist ears.
Mar 21st 2021 - Mar 21st 2021
Join The Apothecary's Daughter and learn about herbal preparations for self-care and nourishment as we head into Spring
Mar 20th 2021 - Mar 20th 2021
In a new, fully illustrated zoom lecture Marina Warner will uncover the long associations of balm with the pleasures and solace of the East, which her parents were seeking when they moved to Cairo after the war.
Mar 15th 2021 - Mar 16th 2021
A special Zoom evening with Director of the Museum of Witchcraft & Magic, Simon Costin in collaboration with New York's Morbid Anatomy
Mar 14th 2021 - Mar 14th 2021
Join Professor Peter Godfrey-Smith on a fascinating journey to the depths of the ocean to learn how nature became aware of itself
Mar 7th 2021 - Mar 7th 2021
Celebrate International Absinthe Day with a Virtual Lecture on the Origins & Rituals of Absinthe
Mar 5th 2021 - Mar 5th 2021
Join author and screenwriter Lisa Morton to explore how our fascination with talking to the dead grew and evolved
Mar 1st 2021 - Mar 1st 2021
Join Viktor Wynd for a nightcap, let him tuck you into bed and tell you fairy tales Tickets by Donation - 50% of Donations will go straight to CRISIS to Help The Homeless This Christmas
Jan 23rd 2021 - Mar 1st 2021
In Collaboration with New York's Morbid Anatomy the pre-eminent Nature Writer of our Time Mark Cocker will talk about Crows on Zoom
Feb 21st 2021 - Feb 21st 2021
Join Per Faxneld on Zoom, author of “Satanic Feminism Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth Century Culture” to learn about how feminists around the year 1900 used satanic symbolism as a strategic tool
Feb 18th 2021 - Feb 18th 2021
This Valentine's Day, join The Apothecary's Daughter to learn about herbal potions for the lovestruck and the lovesick alike
Feb 14th 2021 - Feb 14th 2021
In Collaboration with New York's Morbid Anatomy join Julie Peakman this Valentine's Day to find out all about The History of Perverse Sex
Feb 14th 2021 - Feb 14th 2021
On Valentine's Day let Viktor Wynd come into your bedroom and tell you some of his favourite, most exotic and possibly even erotic tales from the legendary Arabian Nights, there will be treasure, there will be Genii, bewitchings, transformations, all in a world of wonder. 50% to CRISIS
Feb 14th 2021 - Feb 14th 2021
Prof.Hutton Will examine our Magnificent Pre-Christian Heritage and examine how much of this it is possible to recover - Zoom Lecture
Feb 9th 2021 - Feb 9th 2021
Dr.Graham guaranteed both ecstasy and fertility to the users of his infamous 18th Century Celestial Bed, Zoom lecture with Lydia Syson
Feb 7th 2021 - Feb 7th 2021
Join Professor Ronald Hutton on Zoom to find out why the notorious medieval and early modern European witch-hunts took place - in collaboration with Morbid Anatomy New York
Jan 26th 2021 - Jan 26th 2021
