
#174 - Venetian Inquisition & Books of Magic with Dr. Federico Barbierato and Joseph H. Peterson
What was the relationship between the Inquisition, the Clavicula Salomonis, booksellers, and magical texts in early modern Venice? How did m...
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The Glitch Bottle Podcast is a Western magic and grimoire-focused show that uncorks the uncommon with magic, mysticism and the generally misunderstood.

What was the relationship between the Inquisition, the Clavicula Salomonis, booksellers, and magical texts in early modern Venice? How did m...

How can you interrogate a spirit? Should A.I. be used in Solomonic conjure? How can we avoid ‘group-think’ and cults of personality? Frater...

What are the ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts from 4,000 years ago? How do they interweave with the Graeco-Egyptian Magical Papyri (or PGM) spe...

400 years ago, a brazenly braggadocious begging ‘bedlamite’ possibly penned a poem so incantatorily-poignant, so wonder-woundedly-written, s...

Carroll "Poke" Runyon founded the Ordo Templi Astartes in 1970, which is now America’s oldest continually operating ritual magick lodge. Pok...

How is Kabbalah dynamic and fluid? Why should we STOP treating Agrippa’s writings like a pick-and-choose-magical-buffet, and instead as a sy...

Who is Mithras, and what were the Mythraic Mysteries practiced thousands of years ago? How was the cult organized? What role did Orphic meta...

Why should we challenge the assumption that the Greek magical text, the Hygromanteia, is really the source of the Key of Solomon? Why is Fra...

What *actually* makes exorcisms effective? What are demons? What is the Catholic teaching on magic, grimoires and spirit summoning? Jimmy Ak...

What *actually* makes exorcisms effective? What are demons? What is the Catholic teaching on magic, grimoires and spirit summoning? Jimmy Ak...

Why is invoking directional winds vital in ceremonial magic? Who is the Shekinah, and why is calling this powerful feminine presence actuall...

What does the Twelver Shi‘i Hadith tradition say about jinn, astrology, angels and necromancy? Dr. Amina Inloes - scholar, researcher, educa...

What is reverse divination? How do minerals, oils, and pigments reflect the deep alchemical process encrypted in painting? Amelia Passer - m...

What is the Dark Man, known by many names throughout the centuries like The Devil, Old Scratch, The Dark Rider, The Old One, The Master, the...

What is the six-step ‘Solomonic Method’? How can understanding these ritual steps help us navigate almost any grimoire? We go step-by-step a...

How do you embody a fallen Valkyrie? Why is invoking poetry so similar to calling magical names and summoning spirits? Jack Grayle (magician...

How do you track down hidden esoteric manuscripts? What is the Antipalus Maleficiorum? Who were the powerful noble families who owned books...

Why did Solomon bind demons in brass vessels? What’s the connection between leather bags, necromancy and the winds? We explore the history o...

What is contemplative mysticism? How does this differ from modern occultism? Contemplative mystic, esoteric cartographer and author David Ch...

So, what does Hollywood and media in general get right about its portrayal of magic? Ana Victoria Esquivel is a Hollywood Make-up artist, wr...

What is ‘Solomonic exceptionalism’? How was grimoire magic set apart from witchcraft, fairy magic and prophecy in the time of Shakespeare? W...

What is ‘Solomonic exceptionalism’? How was grimoire magic set apart from witchcraft, fairy magic and prophecy in the time of Shakespeare? W...

In today’s world of #hashtags, shortcuts and life hacks, our attention is sliced finer than the vellum folios of a 900-year-old grimoire. It...

Why is the Mysteriorum Libri Quinque (the Five Books of Mysteries), written by John Dee in the 16th century, one of the most important core...

Before any magician summons a spirit listed in a grimoire it’s very important to understand ritual timing. Let’s explore how spirits of the...

Holy water is *the* most foundational element in the Solomonic magician’s repertoire: without it, you can’t consecrate any of the ritual imp...

How does an artist confront and transmute the elements of war, death and destruction they encounter in their daily life? How does an artist...

Are spirits conjured by cock, or rather, sealed by cockish potencies? Let's explore the hard truths of these vital roosterian resplendencies...

How did a silver mining town in Mexico play a vital role in the growth of Santa Muerte veneration? How do Catholics and Luciferians venerate...

After nearly 700 years, one of the most important Western magical compendiums in history has been fully translated into English for the firs...

You’ve heard of the License to Depart in ritual magic. What about the License to Remain? How do you conjure the Planetary Intelligences? Do...

How was the Traditional Latin Mass a focal point of a grimoire (attributed to a Pope) to summon the demon Astaroth? Why did another Pope fro...

Roman Catholic exorcists in the Middle Ages called on the authority of Lucifer, Beelzebub and Satan to remove lower demons from the body of...

What are Jinn in the Islamic tradition? What is a Jinnic doppelganger, those much-feared beings who were believed to be assigned to each hum...

What *actually* is scrying in magic and divination? What are the pitfalls and key tips to interact with spirits? What *is* a spirit? Harper...

What is the Steganographia, the most notorious work of German Benedictine abbot and polymath Johannes Trithemius? Written in the year 1500,...

What is the magic behind ink making? What does it mean to alchemically dissolve and transmute guns into a liquid solution used by magicians...

Why is magic a relationship instead of only repetitive formulas found in a book? Why should we engage with spirits in our actual, physical a...

What does it take to found a magical institute? Why is in-depth learning so important, especially in an age of short attention spans? In a f...

How is the veneration of Santa Muerte evolving? In Mexico City’s Tepito barrio, what wisdom does the first public altar dedicated to Santa M...

What are mystery cults and what do they do? What are the Egyptian Mysteries and how were they practiced? How do Western esoteric conceptions...

What is the Grimorium Verum, also known as The True Grimoire? Why is it considered one of the most notorious handbooks of black magic -- dea...

How did medieval lapidaries smuggle Arabic esoteric knowledge into Europe? What was the Arabic Hermetica corpus found in Europe 100 years be...

Why is a Witch Bottle a powerful magical counter-offensive against maleficent magic? What’s in a Witch Bottle, and how do you use it? Dan Ha...

Podcast supporters on Patreon voted to go deep into the Heptameron Conjurations for each day of the week. Who are the powerful “Overseers” i...

What is a familiar spirit? What’s the difference between familiar spirits and other spirits listed in the grimoires? What is positive spirit...

Why is a contemplative mystic more concerned about pure essentiality versus concern with spirits, gods, realms, times/energies, and ideas? H...

What are the initiations, conjurations, astrology, spirits, and ghost-magic traditions in Thailand? What are the regional variations of Thai...

How can you create your own esoteric system to engage with spirits, draw from the grimoires, write your own esoteric alphabets and ritualist...

Who is the paradoxical and multi-faceted Mesopotamian god Dumuzid? What are the rituals, incantations, libations and offerings we can use to...