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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...
Playing cards have always been magical. While not as ubiquitous and long tenured as dice and other means of games and gambling, card games h...
If the western Magical tradition has one object which has bled into mainstream culture and seems like it is there to stay, it would be a pac...
If there is one thing that can put a fire into the heart of many a person over the last two thousand years, it is the enticement of buried t...
One must have their peculiar Holiday traditions. For me, being involved in the stranger side of life and culture, I always take note of a pa...
One of the longest enduring afterlife beliefs that we have is reincarnation. The thought goes that once we pass away, some part of us is reb...
One of the oddest and least talked about aspects of the Paranormal and the Supernatural is something called fictional incursions. Simply put...
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...
Simply put, Demonology is the study of Demons; what they do and how they interact with humans. While most cultures throughout time here in t...
We live in an infinitely complex cosmos, more alive and chaotic than any of us can ever imagine. Throughout human history, the great mystery...
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...
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...
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 ha...
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...
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...
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 appari...
Most Grimoires which are housed in the many museums and collections around the world are somewhat well copied documents that seems to have b...
For over 200 years, France was inundated with small cheaply produced books, bound with blue covers, filled with some of the most amazing thi...
After King Solomon, the legend of Cyprian of Antioch looms quite large in the Western Magical Tradition. A spirit conjurer and occasional su...
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 b...
Southeast Asia has always been a place with many magical and animistic cultures. Perhaps no other country in the modern age has such a sycre...
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 desc...
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...
Throughout the centuries, one figure has flittered through both folkloric and fortean encounters. To some, this figure has simply been calle...
Without a doubt, the second most recognizable and used Tarot deck in existence is the Thoth Tarot. While many are familiar with the originat...
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 ever...
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...
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 so...
If there is one single concept which has been associated with Magic for the last 2000 years, none would be more notorious than Demons & Infe...
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 mor...
No list of early 20th century Magicians would be complete without Dion Fortune being there. Although many these days might not know her name...
Just like today, our ancient ancestors would utilize magic through the use of amulets, talismans and other materials. Some of these we have...
Two figures who have changed the cultural and artistic landscape of the west, also happened to be great friends that inspired each other. On...
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...
On our previous episode with the always eloquent Andrew Watt, we went over the history as well as foundations for the interplay of Astrology...
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...
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 in...
If there is one thing that draws a considerable amount of controversy within contemporary magic, it is the blatant act of evoking Demons. It...
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...
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 Kel...
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 wil...
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 o...
For something which is only about 150 years old, the grip that Ouija or Spirit Talking Boards have on the cultural imagination is staggering...
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 int...
The term Paganism is used today (for the most part) to refer to contemporary religious and spiritual traditions which take their influences...
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...
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 min...
Much of the last four episodes in the Fistful o' Fairies series has been about the history and folklore of the Fairies. But what does a Magi...
When one looks back at older documents belonging to and written by ritual magicians, for the most part they seem to be about compelling Ange...
No doubt, UFOs and Aliens would be familiar to every listener of this Podcast. The mysterious and downright terrifying entities we call Alie...
Without a doubt, when one thinks of Fairies and the cultures as well as countries which have historically been associated with them, no plac...