The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/category/reviews)
Soy un fanático nato de la fantasía. Si llevan esa misma fantasía, cosas que deberían ser imposibles, a la vida real, caigo enamorado. Tengo esta fascinación por las criaturas imposibles. Algunos los llaman críptidos, otros monstruos, otros simplemente figuras y personajes del folclore y la mitología. Yo los llamo cultura. Por eso decidí darle una oportunidad a echarle el guante a Cryptids, Creatures & Critters: A Manual of Monsters & Mythos from Around the World, por Rachel Quinney.
“Witches can often enjoy the film versions of ourselves,” says Meg Elison in today’s review of the new movie TAROT, “who worship fake deities, cast nonsense spells, and practice bonkers made-up magic. Even those Witches will have a hard time enjoying Tarot, a new horror film by Spencer Cohen and Anna Halberg. Simply put, this movie is tarot-ble.”
Ed Simon reviews Tabitha Stanmore’s new book, “Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic.” “Stanmore enumerates the sorts of practical rituals that cunning folk offered in the plying of their trade. A thief might be discovered, for example, by making suspects eat chunks of cheese in which various charms had been carved, whereupon the guilty party would choke on their morsel. (This must be hard cheese, Stanmore emphasizes.)”
“Armed only with some dude’s book of nonsense and her own determination and national pride, Eglantine Price could fly. She could conjure. She could make change.” Meg Elison is back with another Classic of Pagan Cinema: Disney’s 1971 musical “Bedknobs and Broomsticks,” a story with surprising resonance for her Wiccan tradition.
Soy fan de Lindsey Stirling desde hace mucho, mucho tiempo. Y me enamoré más que nunca del primer sencillo de su próximo álbum, Eye Of The Untold Her. Un video que me hizo pensar en las fracturas internas que tengo y cómo las he ido curando.
Alan U. Dalul reviews Craig Spencer’s “Witchcraft Unchained: Exploring the History & Traditions of British Craft,” from Crossed Crow Books.
