This month we welcome back both Brian Johnson and Alexander Cummins who come to us today as a wonderful necromantic team to elucidate their most recent contribution, ‘The Black Raven - A Study in the Folk Necromancy of Early Modern Germany’, a translation of a fantastically practical grimoiric manual of Faustian ghost laying and treasure hunting.

In this episode we discuss the origins and influences of this manuscript, its modularity and the nature of the larger ecology of spirit which surrounds it and its related texts. We explore the nature of the Stammgeist as a local haunting spirit, the manner in which people would interact with buried treasures, earth-spirits, paper circles, and the practical necessities of working this form of folk necromancy.

You can find The Black Raven on the Hadean website at: https://hadean.press/products/the-black-raven?srsltid=AfmBOopNilGqkMv1BZUiJKBGOZzWwCzfjZhWY3862Wyx1oIpumWMOA0Q

You can find more from Alexander Cummins here:

www.alexandercummins.com/talks patreon.com/dralexandercummins

IG @grimoiresontape

And more form Brian Johnson here:

bjohnsonfreelance.com

@bjohnsonfreelance.bsky.social

Texts cited in our conversation include:

Magia Naturalis et Innaturalis - https://archive.org/details/doktorjohannesfa00sche/mode/2up

Das Kloster - https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RAJBAAAAcAAJ/mode/2up

And the many fantastic translations produced by Enodia Press can be found here:

https://enodiapress.com/#catalogue