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Serpent Songs

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Serpent Songs is an anthology of the voices of traditional craft: the words and works of those who remain untamed, cunning folk, exorcists, pellars, sorgin, witches and mystics. A collection of fifteen essays, introduced and curated by Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold.

8vo (240 × 170 mm)
224 pp
Black and white illustrations and photographs

Issued in 4 editions –
fine / standard hardback / paperback / digital

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Serpent Songs is an anthology of the voices of traditional craft: the words and works of those who remain untamed, cunning folk, exorcists, pellars, sorgin, witches and mystics. A collection of fifteen essays, introduced and curated by Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold.

8vo (240 × 170 mm)
224 pp
Black and white illustrations and photographs

Issued in 4 editions –
fine / standard hardback / paperback / digital

Serpent Songs is an anthology of the voices of traditional craft: the words and works of those who remain untamed, cunning folk, exorcists, pellars, sorgin, witches and mystics. A collection of fifteen essays, introduced and curated by Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold.

8vo (240 × 170 mm)
224 pp
Black and white illustrations and photographs

Issued in 4 editions –
fine / standard hardback / paperback / digital


Fine edition

– sold out

Limited to 64 copies

Handbound in full green leather, the cover bears a serpent and vesica blocked in black and gold, custom marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, ribboned and presented in a slipcase.

Standard hardback edition

– sold out

Limited to 750 copies

Bound bound in olive cloth, black and gold serpent device stamped on front, custom printed endpapers.

Paperback

– £22

Unlimited

Printed on 90 gsm paper.


Contents

Prelude: The Other Blood
Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold

The Witch’s Cross
Gemma Gary

The Spirit of True Blood
Shani Oates

Lezekoak
Arkaitz Urbeltz

A Gathering of Light and Shadows
Stuart Inman & Jane Sparkes

The Fall and Rise of an English Cunning One
Tony MacLeod

Stregoneria: A Roman Furnace
Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold

But the House of my Father will Stand
Xabier Bakaikoa Urbeltz

Bucca & the Cornish Cult of Pellar
Steve Patterson

Exorcists, Conjurors & Cunning Men in Post-Reformation England
Richard Parkinson

The Liturgy of Taboo
Francis Ashwood

Trolldom
Johannes Gårdbäck

Bogomilian and Byzantine Influences on Traditional Craft
Radomir Ristic

But to Assist the Soul’s Interior Revolution: The art of Andrew Chumbley and aspects of Sabbatic Craft
Anne Morris

Passersby: Potential, Crossroads & Wayfaring on the Serpent Road
Jesse Hathaway Diaz

The Mysteries of Beast, Blood & Bone
Sarah Anne Lawless

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Serpent Songs is an anthology of the voices of traditional craft: the words and works of those who remain untamed, cunning folk, exorcists, pellars, sorgin, witches and mystics. A collection of fifteen essays, Serpent Songs is introduced and curated by Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold through whose contacts we encounter the worlds of lone individuals and tradition holders, from both family and clan, and are allowed a rare glimpse into the workings of the more secretive practitioners of the Craft. 

Traditional craft is intimately bound to the spirit of the land. Thus Serpent Songs contains the accounts of Cornish and Basque witchcraft, the relatively unknown Swedish Trolldom, the persecuted Bogomils, and the oft misrepresented Italian Streghoneria. Members of 1734 and Clan Tubal Cain are among those who choose to share their experiences and perspectives. Light is shed on such important figures as Robert Cochrane, Evan John-Jones and Andrew Chumbley amongst others, but more than illustrious ancestors, traditional craft is revealed as a living throng.

These are the voices of those who work the art and this book details their practices, struggles and wayward journeys. Serpent Songs takes a crooked path through the landscape, from historical studies to practical acts, from lonely stone stiles set between deep hedges to the warm entrails of animals and forays into the caves and woods. It is a wide ranging work that deals with the issues of witch blood, taboo, the other, the liminal state, fire, dream, art and need as vectors of the Craft. What emerges is not a narrow definition of what it means to engage in traditional craft, but a set of shared characteristics and approaches which become evident despite the cultural gulfs in place and time. These are the voices who for the most part operate in silence but now wish to be heard.


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