By Moonlight and Spirit Flight

By Michael Howard


By Moonlight and Spirit Flight

As has been established by historians such as Dr. Carlo Ginzburg and Éva Pócs, the elements of the medieval Witches’ Sabbat contain relics of the ancient spirit cults and localized 'pagan' folk beliefs of Europe. Nocturnal spirit-flight, by which the participants of the Sabbat travelled to their revel, also contained such historical rudiments, notably the night-roving denizens of the Wild Hunt and the exteriorized or shape-shifted 'spirit-double'. By Moonlight and Spirit-Flight, originally published as a monograph in 2013, examines such elements as the ancestral horde, the flight of the Furious Host, and the entheogenic Witches' 'Flying Ointment', each of which played a unique role in the 'flight' of the medieval witches. The mythos of the Sabbatic conclave, containing infernal and diabolical elements, is taken beyond its Christian pathology to connect it with actual practices in folk-magic.

This new edition of By Moonlight and Spirit Flight is 70 pages, featuring interior design by Joseph Uccello and original cover by Benjamin A. Vierling. It is available in three editions:

Softcover, limited to 1,700 copies in total — $14.95

Limited Hardcover, consisting of 500 hand-numbered hardcover copies in copper-gilt brown cloth with dust jacket — $38.00

Deluxe Hardcover, consisting of 22 hand-numbered copies in full umber goat with marbled endpapers and slipcase (limit 1 per customer) — $450.00

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limited to 1,700 copies

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500 hand-numbered hardcover copies in copper-gilt brown cloth with dust jacket

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22 hand-numbered copies in full umber goat with marbled endpapers and slipcase (limit 1 per customer)

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