“Nobody shushed the room. The lower house lights did not dim. There was no call to order. Energy simply shifted between us and within us, and the hush was total.” Meg Elison writes of her magical experience inside the Skyspace installation at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
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The Wicked Counsel of Wormtongue
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Karl E.H. Seigfried examines the role of duplicitous counselors in Norse mythology, looking at sources from Volsunga saga to Sörla þáttr to puzzle out what lessons these figures can tell us about our situation today.
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Review: The gentle insights of the Neopets tarot deck
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Sometimes we need to let go of the seriousness that we’ve been sold as adults, recover hope, recover creativity, recover innocence. Going back to my childhood refuge of Neopia proved most helpful, not to mention guidance-providing.
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Mojo, Music, and Magic in Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners”
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Noelle Bowles examines Ryan Coogler’s hit film “Sinners,” speaking with Tony Kail, cultural anthropologist and scholar of Hoodoo, about how this story of vampires and the blues in the Jim Crow south faithfully incorporates Hoodoo and rootworking.
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Classics of Pagan Cinema: Rosemary’s Baby
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“Looking at where the word ‘coven’ comes from, we start with ‘convenire,’ a verb meaning to come together,” writes Meg Elison in this searing reappraisal of the 1968 classic. “When a woman comes together with the devil, we get ‘Rosemary’s Baby.'”
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Classics of Pagan Cinema: The Cauldron of Cerridwen and “The Sword in the Stone”
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The legend is always changing from one thing to another, being gobbled up and sweated out, being birthed into new life with new names, being boiled up in the cauldron of Ceridwen to become what it must be next.