The Witch’s Sabbat: Folklore and Facts
By Cassiel Marlowe · Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 8, 2026 What Is the Witch’s Sabbat? The Witch’s Sabbat is the imagined nocturnal gathering at which European witches were said to feast, dance, copulate with demons, and renounce Christ. The image is largely a construction of late medieval and early modern demonology, layered […]
Cartomancy: Fortune-Telling with Playing Cards
By Cassiel Marlowe · Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 8, 2026 What Is Cartomancy? Cartomancy is the practice of divination using a deck of ordinary playing cards, in which the four suits, the courts, and the numerical pips are read as a layered symbolic vocabulary. The art predates the rise of the Tarot […]
The Hermetica: Wisdom Texts of the Greco-Egyptian World
By Cassiel Marlowe · Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 8, 2026 What Is the Hermetica? The Hermetica is a body of Greco-Egyptian wisdom texts from the first to third centuries CE, attributed to the legendary teacher Hermes Trismegistus and divided by scholars into a philosophical strand (the Corpus Hermeticum, the Latin Asclepius, and […]
Emerald Tablet: The Foundation of Hermeticism
By Cassiel Marlowe · Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 8, 2026 What Is the Emerald Tablet? The Emerald Tablet, called the Tabula Smaragdina in Latin, is a short Hermetic text of roughly fourteen lines attributed to the legendary Hermes Trismegistus. First attested in Arabic sources of the eighth or ninth century, it became, […]
Mount Everest: The Third Pole’s Mystical Aspects
By Theodora “Theo” Marsh · Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 8, 2026 Mount Everest rises along the border of Nepal and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, 8,848.86 metres above sea level by the joint resurvey of 2020, and the wind across its summit ridge is, on most days, a steady high-altitude jet […]
The Hermetic Tradition: Rediscovering Ancient Wisdom
By Linnea Voss · Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 8, 2026 A Florentine monk named Leonardo da Pistoia stepped off a road in Macedonia in 1460 carrying a Greek manuscript he believed was older than Moses. He brought it to Cosimo de’ Medici, who set the rest of Plato aside and ordered the […]
The Sudden Vanishing of Bees: CCD
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 8, 2026 In the autumn of 2006, a Pennsylvania commercial beekeeper named David Hackenberg trucked roughly 400 colonies of Apis mellifera from the Susquehanna Valley to a wintering yard in central Florida. When he came back to inspect them in early November, the boxes […]
Bitcoin’s Encrypted Creator: The Quest to Uncover Satoshi Nakamoto
By Riley Tanaka · Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 8, 2026 Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonym used by the unknown author or group who released the Bitcoin whitepaper on October 31, 2008, mined the genesis block on January 3, 2009, and disappeared from public communication on April 23, 2011. […]
The Wow! Signal: A Space Mystery
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 8, 2026 On the night of August 15, 1977, a radio telescope in rural Ohio recorded 72 seconds of narrowband signal at 1420.4056 MHz, the resonant frequency of neutral hydrogen. Days later, astronomer Jerry R. Ehman circled the printout’s intensity sequence “6EQUJ5” in red […]
The Enfield Poltergeist: Unsettling Sounds and Sights
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 8, 2026 Between August 1977 and September 1978, a council house in Enfield, North London, became the most heavily documented poltergeist case on record. Two investigators logged roughly 180 visits, 25 all-night vigils, and over 140 hours of tape. The file remains open. The […]