Incarnations of the Witch Goddess acknowledged by Ùna Maria Blyth

Thoroughly well-researched and written with the flair of an impassioned queer, feminist occultist, “Muses No More: Portraits of Occult Women” tells the centuries-spanning stories of women who threw off their aprons in favour of the search for greater esoteric knowledge.
Ùna Maria Blyth takes us on a wandering ghost train through the lives, work, politics and beliefs of both familiar and lesser known female occultists from the distant past to the 21st century.
From the freedom fighting New Orleans Voudon Queen Marie Laveau to the witch-next-door personality of Sybil Leek, these biographical portraits bring light to women often sidelined in occult spaces and memory in favour of the (white, male) heavyweights such as Arthur E. Waite, Aleister Crowley and Gerald Gardner.
In approximately ten pages per chapter, Blyth manages a depth of understanding and research that is insightful and illuminating, providing a quick pace without sacrificing context.
Filled with fascinating historical trivia, there are deeper narratives at play in this compendium too - the struggle for women’s liberation, pleas for modernisation of religious movements, the reign of the patriarchy in many magical traditions, and the fight for civil rights.
The book concludes with tried and tested personal practices and rituals, inspired by. and respectfully designed in honour of these wondrous women, so that we might channel their power and knowledge and pursue the mysteries of the vast unknown.
Ùna Maria Blyth is an occult writer, researcher and practitioner of peatbog folk magic. She lives on a small croft in the Shetland Islands, a sub-arctic archipelago between Scotland and Norway.
She has written for a range of publications including “Folklore for Resistance”, “Scavenged Rituals”, “Sabat Magazine”, “Doggerland” and “Reframing Immersive Theatre” (published by Palgrave Macmillan). She is a skilled cartomancer too, and leads tarot courses as well as lecturing on the folk magic of the Shetland Isles, with its fascinating melting pot of both Celtic and Nordic influences.
A former member of ritual theatre and film company FoolishPeople, Ùna is particularly interested in queer, feminist explorations of magical history, as well as the fine line between magic and madness. Along with her partner. Sammy Paloma, she runs the online ritual supply store Church of Squirt.
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