Conjuration: Issue 3
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Conjuration: Issue 3

5 objects: Contributions from museum staff, supporters and associates writing about their favourite things from the collection. How to Make a Counter-Curse, with Cecil Williamson.

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Conjuration: Issue 2
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Conjuration: Issue 2

5 objects: Contributions from museum staff, supporters and associates writing about their favourite things from the collection. An examination of the late Ralph Harvey's Book of Shadows, salvaged from The Boscastle Floods of 2004, which forms part of the new display centred on contemporary witchcraft.

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Conjuration: Issue 1
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Conjuration: Issue 1

Inspired by MWM’s vast collection of DIY ‘zines collected over the years, Conjuration intends to present a cornucopia of images and text, drawn specifically from the MWM collection and archives and will also look at what makes it’s position in the landscape so magical as it draws upon the Genius Loci of this unique and beautiful location.

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Coire Ansic: Issue 6
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Coire Ansic: Issue 6

This Issue of Coire returned to a more traditional feel, with many articles discussing or heavily leaning into more gnostic, traditional, or hermetic content including workings on ‘the harewoman’, hedge witchery and folk witchcraft.

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Coire Ansic: Issue 5
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Coire Ansic: Issue 5

This issue saw an upturn in submissions from different contributing authors as well as more contemporary book reviews for books recently released. It contained more works from outside the uk and covered a winder variety of pathways and folklore from different locations.

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Coire Ansic: Issue 4
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Coire Ansic: Issue 4

This Issue of Coire was the first to see the introduction of art submissions alongside articles and poetry. This issue carried a somewhat ‘festive’ them due to its time of publication but was not themed as such, with articles still covering a wide range of topics.

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Coire Ansic: Issue 1
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Coire Ansic: Issue 1

This issue of Coire is ‘bare bones’ with a focus on both traditional British craft work and gnostic ideas. The initial run of issue one was mainly shared around moots and meetings in the uk and welcomed debate and discussion in this setting.

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Black Mirror: Issue 2 - Elsewhere
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Black Mirror: Issue 2 - Elsewhere

In this volume we explore the philosophy and practice of elsewhere. Throughout the twentieth century both occult practitioners and artists explored the effects of the patriarchal monotheistic heritage that divorced the mind from the body, privileging the intellect as spiritual and negating and subjugating the corporeal.

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Black Mirror: Issue 1 - Embodiment
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Black Mirror: Issue 1 - Embodiment

In this volume we explore the philosophy and practice of embodiment. Throughout the twentieth century both occult practitioners and artists explored the effects of the patriarchal monotheistic heritage that divorced the mind from the body, privileging the intellect as spiritual and negating and subjugating the corporeal.

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Black Dog: Issue 3 - Of Salt & Silt
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Black Dog: Issue 3 - Of Salt & Silt

We came from this place before we even knew ourselves. Ages passed, and we returned, not as inhabitants but as outsiders. The call of the sea rings eternal, a siren song that grips us with curiosity and fear in equal measure. Unable to resist, we cling to the shallows or pass over the abyss in our fragile vessels, ever vulnerable to its whims.

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Black Dog: Issue 2 - Danse Macabre
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Black Dog: Issue 2 - Danse Macabre

Under twinkling starlight lies the harvester’s hoard. Across field and fen, mere and broad; the land has become twisted and bare. These newly barren fields are haunted by a chill night breeze that gently pulls at the last leaves of Autumn. The fields and furrows slip into quiet stillness as we contemplate and prepare for the coming cold.

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Airmids Journal: Issue 6
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Airmids Journal: Issue 6

We step across this threshold laid with rushes, with Cealtair dhraíochta draped around our shoulders, a crane skin bag readied for opening at the fullest tide and a fist full of herbs to support and guide us across our own personal and collective transitions.

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