- The Material Culture of 1970s Paranormal Researchers: “Into the Unknown,” Reader’s Digest, Part 2 (and part 1) – I remember these sorts of imagery from perusing my grandmother’s bookshelves as a child: serious men with horn-rimmed specs and strange, clunky electronics searching for evidence of ESP, ghosts, and the like. Oh yes, I knew of zener cards long before Venkman played with them in Ghostbusters. Good times, good times…
- Edward Kelley Day in Most, Czech Republic – if you read Czech there’s a bit about the upcoming “Magister Edward Kelley Day” festivities in Most this weekend, including “fair, theater, concerts, magic show, falconers, jugglers, swordsmen and competitions” (lurve Google Translate). Includes an image of an actor portraying Kelley rappelling down the Castle Hnevin’s wall; a quick whip around Google.cz found photos from 2014’s celebration (scroll down).
- Witchcraft and Magic in Ireland – “The first rigorous academic overview of witchcraft in Ireland”, this appears to be a chunky academic tome addresses the legal, ecclesiastic, and cultural importance of Irish magic between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- Establishing the Canon: George Ripley and his Alchemical Sources – new paper by science historian Jennifer Rampling on the theories of the influential fifteenth century alchemist.
biweekly links 6-15-2016
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