Summer Solstice, 2021
Limited to 500 copies in total, softcover, 7″ × 10″, full color images throughout, 60 pages.
List Price $24.00
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
New articles by Julian Vayne, Radomir Ristic, Rebecca Beyer, Robert Fitzgerald and Daniel A. Schulke. Original artwork by Rachel Rosenkoetter, Marzena Ablewska, Joseph Uccello and Johnny Decker Miller.
WYRD is a journal of the archaic esoteric, published biannually by Three Hands Press. As a peer-reviewed occult journal, it expresses both scholarly and heuristic viewpoints and serves as a vital interface with, and resource for, contemporary esoteric readers. Its concerns include magical philosophy, occult art, contemporary spiritual traditions, folk magic, witchcrraft, myth, folklore, paganism, and entheogens. Five volumes have been released to date.
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Plant Lore, Sorcery and Folk Tradition
by Corinne Boyer with art by Peter Köhler
The book is is 192 pages in length, published in softcover with color cover, limited to 2,500 copies,
now in stock.
List Price: $29.95
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Three Hands Press is pleased to announce the publication of Corinne Boyer's The Witch's Cabinet. Illustrated with the haunting images of artist Peter Köhler, it may be considered a spiritual successor to her popular 2017 work Plants of the Devil.
The historical record of plant folklore includes a persistent group of plants associated with witches, aversion and baneful magic. Reflecting a hidden dimension of the vegetal world, these spells, rituals, and taboos serve as mantles of ominous attribute, warning of these herbs' sinister qualities, but also suggestive of their hidden powers.
Certain trees were widely considered cursed and thought to harbor afflicted power, often also viewed as the habitations of witches. Particular roots and flowers were used for causing disease, conjuring demons, or bringing nightmares; other plants fell under the governance of Satan, or were used by ill-doers to gain the powers of witchcraft itself. A particularly pernicious reservoir of corrupt power was the graveyard, with a unique retinue of plants all its own.
Not all such herbal lore was malevolent; countless teachings reveal how certain plants — sometimes the very same ones considered cursed — can protect a person from witches, evil spirits or other users of malefic magic. Other plants of dark character, like the Hawthorn, were in perpetual communion with the souls of the dead, and possessed the power to reveal hidden treasure.
As a meditation upon the shrouded dimensions of plant folklore, The Witch's Cabinet devotes thirteen essays to mysteries of these often-disquieting plants, many of which contain keys of spiritual transformation, healing, and occult power. In addition to the enigmatic original drawings of artist Peter Köhler, the book also contains an introduction by Daniel A. Schulke, author of Thirteen Pathways of Occult Herbalism.
The contents of the book by chapter appear below:
Introduction
1. Plants and Witches: A Folkloric Apothecary
2. Blood, Shadow and the Rose
3. Funerary Trees, Folklore and Practices in Grief and Mourning
4. Seeds in the Historical Folk Magic of Europe
5. The Flora of Snakes and Dragons
6. The Magic, Medicine and Lore of the Elder
7. Plants and the Second Sight
8. The Use of Dew in Folk Healing and Magic
9. Plants Used Against Nightmares and Haunted Sleep
10. Legends and Lore of Our Lady’s Lily
11. Plants Used in Cursing Magic
12. The Uses of Straw in Magical Procedures
13. Graveyard Plant Magic
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Charms Against Fever in Appalachian Folk Magic
by Rebecca Beyer
Law of Contagion Monograph Series 5 -
Paperback
List Price: $15.00
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Appalachia is a distinct bio-region of America with a wealth of unique plant and animal life. This biodiversity is mirrored by an equally rich human tapestry, woven over thousands of years, giving rise to distinct cultural traditions. Among these are powerful rites of magical healing, incorporating Indigenous American beliefs and practices with those of the more recently-arrived African and European peoples. An important group of these occult therapies are charms and receipts to combat fever, an affliction that was often viewed as a sentient, malignant entity. Focusing on the cultural roots of these fascinating cures, Rebecca Beyer examines the age-old war between mountain doctor and fever, revealing many traditional Appalachian cures, some of which are still in use today.
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H.P. Lovecraft, Starry Wisdom
and the Contagion of Fear
by Johnny Decker Miller
paperback
Law of Contagion Monograph Series 3
List Price:$15.00
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
The writings of the celebrated American author of weird fiction H. P. Lovecraft are known for their groundbreaking innovation, particularly their treatment of ‘the other’ or otherness, incepting a palpable state of alienation in the reader. A recurring feature of his stories is an unseen or obscure entity emanating psychic malfeasance, precipitating fear, paranoia and ultimately a collapse of mental order. This emanative quality, though originating in the medium of fiction, is nonetheless transmissible from mind to mind and beyond. Dark Magic explores the contagious qualities of Lovecraft’s tales, with their embedded sense of dread and their dismantling of human reason, and how they have propagated in the near century after his death, influencing literature, art, pop culture and the occult revival. In perhaps the most immediate example, the infectious qualities of Lovecraft’s ideas are seen to parallel virology, mass infection, and the fraying state of the human psyche during times of pandemic.
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