The winter 2015 issue of the academic journal Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft has just come out. It includes Ethan Doyle White’s 30-page article “‘An’ it Harm None, Do What Ye Will’: An Historical Analysis of the Wiccan Rede,” four pages of which focus on the role of Aleister Crowley in Gerald Gardner’s work. Other articles include Benedek Láng’s “Ciphers in Magic: Techniques of Revelation and Concealment” and László Sándor Chardonnens’ “Necromancing Theurgic Magic: A Reappraisal of the Liber iuratus Extracts and the Consecration Ritual for the Sigillum Dei in an Early Modern English Grimoire.” The issue also includes a forum titled “Nail Soup, or the Power of Collaboration: Reactions to Stephan Palmie’, The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013)” in addition to its usual assortment of book reviews.
For more information on Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, see the University of Pennsylvania Press, or visit the homepage of Societas Magica.
