Surrey Cunning
Charming, Enchantment and Folk Magic in the Surrey Hills...
Ian Chambers
Re-enchanting the world through magic and myth...
Ian Chambers is a long-time practitioner of traditional forms of witchcraft and folk sorcery through the fields of magic, mysticism, philosophy and history. Ian has studied both solitary and with a few craft groups, taking a broad purview of the subject as a practitioner scholar. A selection of Ian's writings has appeared in various magazines, including The Cauldron, White Dragon, and The Hedgewytch, as well as more recent essays in The Enquiring Eye, and Coire Ansic. Ian's first book, The Witch Compass: Working with the Winds in Traditional Witchcraft was published by Llewellyn in 2022.
Ian's current title, Haqel D'ma: Accursed Lore and Magic from the Field of Blood, is now available at Ninth Circle Press.
Current works may be found at his Patheos blog at By The Pale Moonlight.
Haqel D'ma: Accursed Lore and Magic from the Field of Blood
New Book available now...
I am delighted to announce that my new book, Haqel D'ma, is now available from Ninth Circle Press. As a slight departure from The Witch Compass, this book is offered in limited print run, hardback edition. Additionally, a limited Special Edition is available in beautiful wintan leather, with slipcase and signed by the author in alder buckthorn ink.
Both editions feature two illustrations by the ritualistic and Talismanic artist Kayla Mavrakis.
A book of Betrayal and Witchery...
Haqel D’ma, the Potter’s Field or Field of Blood, is the burial ground of nameless souls, the forgotten, and those outside of society. Associated in legend with the place of Judas’ demise, paid for with the coins of betrayal, and the location of a desert father, hermit, Saint and ‘wild man’, it is the ‘field of blood’. From the first centuries of Christianity, Judas was the apostle who betrayed Jesus and became crucial to the story of the Christ’s death and resurrection. This book spans the early Christian cult, the Gnostic Cainites who kept the Gospel of Judas, through to the medieval period when the Betrayer accumulated sins around him. Through folklore and custom, Judas has become synonymous with witchcraft and diabolism, charming and - most appropriately - cursing. In particular, curses laid upon books against theft!
This book explores the myth of Judas as a Cainite figure within medieval witch-lore, folklore, and custom, charming and cursing, revealing greater depth around a much-maligned character. It is a work concerned wholly with the arcana of Betrayal and its implication within the hallowed current of the Wytchan art and as an expression of the via negativa.
We need your consent to load the translations
We use a third-party service to translate the website content that may collect data about your activity. Please review the details in the privacy policy and accept the service to view the translations.