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***PLEASE NOTE: This episode features discussion of the Rune Gild and Edred Thorsson. I do NOT recommend or endorse either of these sources anymore. My association with the Gild ended with my own decision to leave in 2018 when they made a racist monster (Stephen McNallen) a Master of the Gild. This is a note to put this all in context of the time period in my experiences.***

This episode features Christopher Alan Smith,author of Icelandic Magic: Aims, tools and techniques of Icelandic Sorcerers, and also known as The Mad Englishman Wednesday. He's here to talk about Icelandic magic and the tools of the trade. You also get a trip through lore of the dead, undead, Icelandic Zombies, and even the legendary Necro Pants aka Corpse Britches!

Fasten your seatbelts! This is one hell of a ride!

Christopher Alan Smith was born in Nottingham in 1954. He has travelled widely and lived in the Netherlands for five years, where his innate talent for languages enabled him to speak fluent Dutch within a few months and work as a logistics coordinator for a major transport company. His travels also include three visits to Iceland; on the second visit, he stayed in the country for 8 months and worked as a volunteer at the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft in Hólmavík.

Christopher's interest in magic began when he was a student at the University of Sheffield, at which time the main emphasis in the available literature was on the Western Tradition of Kabbalistic magic. However, his taste for travel, languages and a restless search for knowledge clearly indicated Woden as his example, leading him within a few years towards Rune Magic and ultimately to membership of the Rune Gild. His Fellowship Work for the Gild, "The Icelandic Tradition of Magic" was published in 2012 as part of the collection "Occult Traditions" (Numen Books). In 2014 he was awarded the title of Master in the Rune Gild for his Master-work "Icelandic Magic in the Early Modern Period", which forms the basis of this book.

As he wryly comments in the introduction, "As my sixtieth birthday was approaching, I realised that I should perhaps have started on this project about forty years ago, beginning by studying Icelandic and folklore at university instead of politics… but one has to start somewhere."

Today he lives in North Yorkshire and, when not practising and researching Icelandic magic, he works as a freelance translator.

Show Notes:

Buy the book in multiple formats here: http://avaloniabooks.co.uk/catalogue/norse-viking/icelandic-magic/

Music: Introduction music is '7' from the album 'Ghosts' by Nine Inch Nails under the Creative Commons License.

Voice Over Production and Voice by Lothar Tuppan.

Welcome to Weird Web Radio!

Audra Linder is a Paranormal Investigator in Lafayette, Indiana. Audra has been out hunting ghosts over years! Listen in as she shares her years of experience, both the good and bad. Audra goes over gear investigators need, and gives tips to the would be ghost hunters out there getting started. All of this and much more!

Audra's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/audra.linder

Audra's email: [email protected]

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Show Notes:

Music: The Intro music was '7' from the album 'Ghosts' by Nine Inch Nails under a Creative Commons License.

Voice Over: Intro production and voice over by Lothar Tuppan

Welcome to Web Weird Radio!

Paige Zaferiou (zah-FAIRY-oo) is a tarot and astrology reader, medium, and folk magic practitioner on a mission to infuse the world with magic. Her readings are upbeat, positive, and offer practical advice for dealing with the weirdness of being alive. When she's not slinging cards or reading charts, you can usually find her lost in a book, brewing up a cuppa tea, or updating her witchy blog at paigezaferiou.com."

When I asked Paige for this interview I was hoping to discover her unique approach to witchcraft and folk magic. I also wanted to know what she would do in a haunting. I discovered all of that and more!

I hope you enjoy this show as much as I did.

Open your mind. Stay weird.

Show Notes:

Music: The Intro music was '7' from the album 'Ghosts' by Nine Inch Nails under a Creative Commons License.

Voice Over: Intro production and voice over by Lothar Tuppan