What Magic Is This?
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What Magic Is This?
What Magic is This? is a topic based podcast about Magic, the Occult, the Esoteric, the Paranormal, the Supernatural and the Weird. Each episode revolves around one single topic in the hope that we can flesh out the important aspects one needs to know about it. From history to practices to important...
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Solomonic Magic: Addendum
The interest in the history of magic, witchcraft and the occult has seen a discernible rise in the last 25 years. In many cases, our picture of its st...
Demonology
Simply put, Demonology is the study of Demons; what they do and how they interact with humans. While most cultures throughout time here in the west ha...
Angels
We live in an infinitely complex cosmos, more alive and chaotic than any of us can ever imagine. Throughout human history, the great mystery of our ex...
Putting the Hamster Back on the Wheel
Excellent news, weirdos- The Great What Magic is This? Podcast Hiatus of 2025 is coming to an end! The show will be returning shortly with a newish pr...
Doing Hermeticism & Magical Timing with Sam Block
One of the most asked questions that I get, is about something which has already been covered on the podcast previously but perhaps needs a bit more c...
Dad Jokes
Happy 2025 Humble Listeners! We made it! I thought that this would be an appropriate time to make a small announcement. Please be sure to have a liste...
Runes with Siri Vincent Plouff
Not unlike the Celts, if you head to your local New Age Occult store you will notice that there is an overabundance of Runes. From necklace pendants,...
The Influences & Influence of Robert Anton Wilson with Richard Metzger
It has been quite some time since What Magic is This? has had the chance to talk about one of the most important figures of High Strangeness in the la...
Ghosts?
As far as we can look back into our past, humanity has both interacted with and been haunted by the spirits of the dead. The tales of apparitions and...
Magician's Workbooks with Alexander Cummins
Most Grimoires which are housed in the many museums and collections around the world are somewhat well copied documents that seems to have been done b...
Blue Grimoires with Aaman Lamba
For over 200 years, France was inundated with small cheaply produced books, bound with blue covers, filled with some of the most amazing things. These...
The Book of Saint Cyprian with José Leitão
After King Solomon, the legend of Cyprian of Antioch looms quite large in the Western Magical Tradition. A spirit conjurer and occasional summoner of...
A Rather Bookish Announcement!
Have a listen and be sure to check out my What Magic is This? Bookshop, please! Hopefully all of the show notes book recommendations will be in place...
Thai Magic with Peter Jenx
Southeast Asia has always been a place with many magical and animistic cultures. Perhaps no other country in the modern age has such a sycretic and ex...
Unverified Personal Gnosis with Aidan Wachter
It's time to kick around an idea that gets brought up and used quite a bit these days. Unverified personal Gnosis are the terms used to describe a bel...
Wicca with Christina Oakley-Harrington
For the last 50 years, many people around the world but particularly in the west, identify themselves as a witch and if asked what religion they ascri...
The Dark Man with Darragh Mason
Throughout the centuries, one figure has flittered through both folkloric and fortean encounters. To some, this figure has simply been called the Devi...
The Thoth Tarot with Lon Milo Duquette
Without a doubt, the second most recognizable and used Tarot deck in existence is the Thoth Tarot. While many are familiar with the originator of this...
The Weird 90s - From A(rt Bell) to Z(apruder Film) with Brian Giordano
Grab a Snapple™ and make sure your tips are frosted, we're going back to the distant, far off time of the decade right before Y2K ended everything. Th...
Thinking Magically with Ramsey Dukes
We truly live in a golden age for Magic, the Occult and all the high strangeness that comes with it. There are many of the greatest thinkers to ever t...
Sacred Architecture with Peter Mark Adams
Most likely each and every one of us has walked into a building or a structure which had the capacity to touch something inside of you in some ineffab...
Demons & Infernal Spirits
If there is one single concept which has been associated with Magic for the last 2000 years, none would be more notorious than Demons & Infernal Spiri...
Taoist Magic with Jason Read
For the most part, What Magic is This? Podcast has stuck to the cozy realm of "Western" Magic and Occultism. Yet the listeners beg for a more expansiv...
Dion Fortune with Professor WHAM
No list of early 20th century Magicians would be complete without Dion Fortune being there. Although many these days might not know her name, her book...
Ancient Magical Artefacts with Kirsten Dzwiza
Just like today, our ancient ancestors would utilize magic through the use of amulets, talismans and other materials. Some of these we have to this da...
William Burroughs & Brion Gysin with Vic Hyland
Two figures who have changed the cultural and artistic landscape of the west, also happened to be great friends that inspired each other. One of them...
UFOs?
The most enduring mystery of the last 100 years has been the phenomenon of what appear to be ships or craft in the sky which completely defy gravity....
Astrological Magic with Andrew Watt Continued
On our previous episode with the always eloquent Andrew Watt, we went over the history as well as foundations for the interplay of Astrology and Magic...
An Introduction to Solomonic Magic with Alexander Eth continued!
It has been a whole year and the time is right to dive right back in on perhaps one of the most popular topics covered on the Podcast so far- Solomoni...
Jack Parsons
Considered by many Magicians and Occultists to be as close as we have to a Rockstar, John Whiteside Parsons lived perhaps one of the most interesting...
Nigromancy with Julio Cesar Ody
If there is one thing that draws a considerable amount of controversy within contemporary magic, it is the blatant act of evoking Demons. It has been...
Stellar Witchcraft with Sasha Ravitch
New and unfamiliar ages bring us bold and pioneering Magicians. For the most part over the last 100 years when we look up into the night sky, we see c...
Enochian Magic with Scott Stenwick & Cliff Wigtil
One of the most renown forms of Magic we have today was received by the Arch Mage of England John Dee and his scrying counterpart Edward Kelley. No do...
Occultism with Mitch Horowitz
The concept of what can be called Occult is fairly easy to pin down, but what can we say about "Occultism?" Ask seven Occultists and you will get seve...
Stones, Gems & Crystals with Nicholas Pearson
Despite being written off by quite a few folks within the Occult and Magic as New Age nonsense, Stones, Gems and Crystals have been a part of Magic fo...
Ouija
For something which is only about 150 years old, the grip that Ouija or Spirit Talking Boards have on the cultural imagination is staggering. For some...
Astrological Magic with Andrew Watt
Astrology and Magic. Two things that go together like salt and pepper. When we look back through the ages, they always seem to have been intertwined,...
Introduction to Paganism with Angela Puca
The term Paganism is used today (for the most part) to refer to contemporary religious and spiritual traditions which take their influences from histo...
The Celts... and Magic with Amy Hale
If one was to walk into their local New Age, Witchcraft and Magic shop and have a look around, one would notice that much of the merchandise in said s...
The Origins of British Fairies with Francis Young
When most of us close our eyes and think of Fairies, more often than not the winged fairies of 19th century Britain is what will come to mind. Over th...