Categories: Posts In English

• Results of magic – What to expect.

  A matter that, oddly enough, is rarely mentioned in any magical literature is how the results come about after having cast a magical spell or performed magical work. People in our culture that has no experience in magic often belive in concepts presented to them in farietales and movies. Things manifesting outside the realms of events that can be “explained”. This is rarely true at all. The results of all magical work can be explained to be “just a bunch [...]

• The Trolldom tradition: Svartkonst Books – The Grimories of Sweden.

  The magical books of the Scandinavian folk magic tradition of Trolldom are called “Svartkonst bok” – “Book of the Black Art”. A literar but slightly misleading translation, since they rarely have much or anything at all to do with things commonly categorized as “Black Magic”. Let´s see what the encyclopedia “Nordisk Familjebok” (second ed. published 1904-1926) says on the subject of Svartkonst books (or at least “try to see” through the veils of my translational limitations) ; Nordisk Familjebok/Uggleupplagan Svartkonstbok [...]