Spiritus Arcanum will be presenting Katarina Pejovic’s talk on Balkan Folk Magic, Sunday December 14th at 7pm Eastern a part of The Serpentine Path Class Series. It’s being Live-streamed and Recorded.
About this class: The Balkans are home to some of the most diverse traditions and folk mythologies concerning the presence, power, and potency of spiritual beings and creatures known broadly as “dragons”. With a vast plurality of terms and names all translating to “dragon” or “serpent” in English, yet each with their own traditions of approach, taboos, mannerisms, and ways of being worked in sorcery, the various serpent-bodied beings of the peninsula form a tapestry of folk ways that define much of the land’s understandings of witchcraft, spirit-human intermarriage, and serpent lineages. In this class, we will explore a series of serpentine spirits, from amorous stellar lovers to violent familiars won directly from the devil himself, and their related magics, histories, and folk tales.
About the Presenter: @dragoncunning Katarina Pejović (she/her) is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto. Her SSHRC-funded research examines the legends and grimoires of the sorcerer saint Cyprian of Antioch. In addition to her work on St. Cyprian, she writes on various topics including grimoire history, folk Christianity, Western occultism, and traditions of divination, witchcraft, and magic in Eastern Europe. She has presented at numerous international academic and occult conferences, including at the International Association for Comparative Mythology, Viridis Genii Symposium, and the Magickal Women Conference, and has published with peer-reviewed academic journals and occult publishing houses alike. Her lifelong passion for the unique folklore, sorcery, and spirits of the Balkans forms the roots of her personal praxis; watered by ancestral veneration, enflamed by Quimbanda and dragon-fire, and nourished with an endless curiosity of mystery.
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