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Magic and Occult Sciences collective 🧙🏿‍♂️🧝🏻‍♀️🧚🏽‍♀️
Based in Exeter.
🧿 Follow our magical journey and meet the students.

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You can now attend one of my talks online with the Viktor Wynd/Last Tuesday society and tickets are live! Learn all about 'Ritual transference and plant spirits in Islamic occultism'. #plantspirits #islamicoccultism

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Really delighted that fellow Hoopoe fan and Magic Prof. Emily Selove is returning for more Oracle Dream Retreat in 2027!

Emily Selove (PhD 2012, UCLA) is an associate professor in Medieval Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Exeter. She is also the convener of the University of Exeter's Centre for Magic and Esotericism, a uniquely interdisciplinary collaboration of colleagues across the University of Exeter to study the history of magic and the occult sciences—an area in which Exeter has exceptional, internationally recognized expertise.

Professor Selove designed and, in 2023, launched a new MA in Magic and Occult Sciences that showcases the unique, interdisciplinary expertise of University of Exeter Colleagues in the study of the history of magic. This MA was featured in the BBC, the Guardian, the New York Times, and multiple other news organisations.

Professor Selove was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Manchester from 2012-2014, working on the ERC-funded Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms project. Her early research focused on the figure of the uninvited guest (or "party-crasher") in medieval Arabic literature, and especially on the 11th-century work ikyat Ab l-Qsim, the subject of her monograph, ikyat Ab l-Qsim: A Literary Banquet (Edinburgh University Press, 2016). She also co-edited and translated this text with Professor Geert Jan van Gelder: The Portrait of Ab l-Qsim al-Baghdd al-Tamm (Gibb Memorial Trust, 2021). Her translation of another 11th-century book of party-crashing is titled Selections from the Art of Party-Crashing in Medieval Iraq. She also co-authored a textbook to introduce beginning students to the city of medieval Baghdad, Baghdad at the Centre of a World: 8th-13th Century, and has created a collection of cartoons titled Popeye and Curly: 120 Days in Medieval Baghdad . Her most recent book was a short monograph for the Cambridge Elements series titled The Donkey King: Asinine Symbology in Ancient and Medieval Magic

#magic #occult #esoteric #exeter oracledreamretreat

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REGISTER BY TMRW (OCT 8) TO ATTEND BRIDGING THE INVISIBLE, ONLINE 🌈🪄🌻
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❤️ Link is on the “Latest” page of my website + bio. It’s FREE but you must register ❤️
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Y’all! I’m behind on my posts and didn’t realize that tomorrow is the cut-off to register for a rad online conference that I’ll be presenting at on Thursday October 15
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The full conference title is “Creative Practices and Bridging the Invisible”. It’s organized by @heatherdfreeman and co-sponsored by 👩🏻‍🏫 Dept of Art + Art History & The Center for the Study of Ideas and Practices at UNC Charlotte 👩🏻‍🏫 and the 📚Center for Advanced Studies - Erlangen, 🔮The University of Exeter’s Centre for Magic and Esotericism, 🧙Societas Magica, and ⚗️ @rensep_official. It goes with a rad art exhibit that @amyhale93 one of my fave people, curated 💜
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👉 My panel with Melisa Figueroa Sanchez @melisa_figueroa8 “Edelweiss and Mother Ann” is from 10-10:50am EST on Thursday October 15 in zoom room B 👈
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This is slightly hilarious cause y’all know I’m a night 🦇, but it will be very cool! I’ll be speaking about my research and work related to the Shaker Era of Manifestations, of course including Ann Lee and Mother’s Work
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Be sure to register if you’d like to attend 🌸🌸🌸
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#bridgingtheinvisible #mariamolteni #shakergiftdrawings #annlee

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📢 Are you a student? Are you interested in the story of King Arthur, and the different threads that hold it together? If so, you are in luck because the @appledorebookfestival has just announced a new discounted rate for students 🎉

So head to the link in bio and grab your ticket/s to hear @amyjeffs_author speak with me about her latest book - Arthur: A New Life 👑🗡🧙‍♂️

📅 Tuesday 22 September

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Exploring the world of Balinese sorcery and sacred iconography, where rerajahan drawings, talismans, and amulets are created with intention, mantra, and spiritual force. These powerful objects are believed to protect against disease, frighten enemies, and guard the wearer from harmful spirits. Many amulets use yantra style diagrams, ancient symbols, divine names, and mythic figures to channel protective energy. Talismans such as Pis Bolong magic coins are carved or inscribed with rerajahan that represent heroes, gods, and protective spirits, giving strength, charm, or spiritual defense depending on the symbol chosen.

Some drawings call upon figures like Buta Asmara, a fierce guardian presence, or Guru Yoni, whose essence discourages all evil influences. Practitioners speak of energies like the pangalahan and the panirnan, subtle pathways of power used to direct intention in rituals of protection, healing, or warding. These symbols appear on cloth, metal, palm leaves, and even on the skin during ceremonies, each design acting as a bridge between the seen world and the hidden realm.

Balinese magical art reflects a deep blend of Hindu cosmology, ancestral knowledge, and living spiritual practice, showing how communities continue to rely on sacred images and talismanic tools for safety, balance, and guidance.

#BalineseMagic #Rerajahan #Talisman #Amulets #tobabatakpeople

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Prof. Emily Selove from the Magic Panel on YouTube last night discussing the MA in Magic and Occult Sciences at the @uniofexeter

You can now watch the full session on my website too: themysteries.org/panels

Follow Emily here @popeyeandcurly
@magic.uoe @exetermagic

#exeteruni #exeter #humanities #education #learning

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✨️ A date for your autumnn 2026 diaries ✨️

Join us in Exeter on 24 October for a day of witchy talks focused on tales from the local area 🧙‍♀️

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Today is our last session for Past Magics - a postgrad module that forms part of our MAs in both History and Magic and Occult Sciences @uniofexeter. During the session we will be exploring the idea of "Landscapes of Magic", discussing how past societies conceptualised the world around them, categorising the landscape into spaces of order and disorder. In particular we will be looking at Aisling Bryne's work on Britain, Ireland, and the Isle of Man as "archipelagic otherworlds", and A. J. H. Larsen's work on mountains and forests in early modern conceptions of "The Witches' Sabbath".

Why were certain landscapes associated with magic or the supernatural? How did people in the past blend geography, politics, and environment to build connections between a seemingly supernatural otherworld and known and real locations? How did ideas of both liminality and boundedness make certain places sites of desire and wish-fulfillment, while rendering others sites of fear and anxiety?

I'm also particularly excited to see what examples and case-studies our students have chosen to share with us ✨️

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The Wild Hunt Rides Again.... 🏹

Join us online tomorrow for the next in our visiting speaker series at the Centre for Magic and Esotericism, with Dr Anna Milon as she talks us through "The Hunt Rides Again: Our Perennial Fascination with Herne the Hunter and the Wild Hunt"

Details and zoom link below 👇 https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/magic/2026/01/09/visiting-speaker-event-the-hunt-rides-again/

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A friendly reminder that the deadline for submissions to "Creative Practices and Bridging the Invisible" is March 2nd. https://lnkd.in/e-Y6HU2a Screenshot of http://magic.charlotte.edu/news with an abstract banner image by @erikwaterkotte and text that says "call for individual papers, presentations, and creative contributions: creative practices and Bridging the Invisible."

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🎶✨ KARAOKE NIGHT with the Magic & Occult Society ✨🎶

Come out and sing your favourite songs with the Magic and Occult Society — or just watch us sing and enjoy the good times with all of us. 💫
There is no pressure to sing; the only thing to do is have fun!

📍 The Ship Inn
🗓 6th February 2026
🕘 9pm onwards

🔮🎤 Grab your friends, warm up those vocal cords, and join us for a night of music, magic, and chaos.
🎟️ Tickets in bio!

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