Café Obscura

Welcome to episode two of the Café Obscura Podcast, where we'll be taking on some supernatural 'games'!  You know the kind of games we mean - we're talking about the kind of 'game' where your friends lock you in a bathroom with a candle, make you say something about killing babies, and OMG DON'T MAKE ME GO BACK IN THERE, JESSICA!!! *Ahem* Sorry, where was I? Ah yes, those games. Tonight, we're talking about three games in particular that we feel have a good chance of someone, or some-being, knocking back. Along the way, we'll be discussing some of the parallels between these games and older forms of magic, as well as doling out some of our customary bad advice. So grab yourself a cup of the good stuff and settle in for some truly bad ideas. Because after all, what else are you going to do when Julian Halloween lands on Friday the Thirteen in this year's giant game of Jumanji? May the odds be ever in your favor, gamers! Sources Shufflemancy Manteia Dream of the Dead  Mother Midnight The Midnight Man Midnight Man Experience About the term 'Mother Midnight' Buy 'Dangerous Games to Play in the Dark' Ring Out Your Dead (Paper on Iron Amulets in Late Iron Age) Doorways to the Dead

Welcome to the Shitshow! In this episode, we tell three different stories of necromancy, talk about the use of poop, and laugh at a long-dead guy. Works Referenced in this Episode: Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages - Stephen A. Mitchell Geosophia: The Argo of Magic I & II - Jake Stratton-Kent Hekate Liminal Rites: A historical study of the rituals, spells and magic of the Torch-bearing Triple Goddess of the Crossroads - David Rankine and Sorita D'Este Óðinn, Charms, and Necromancy: Hávamál 157 in its Nordic and European Contexts - Stephen A. Mitchell https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/6853.stephen-a-mitchell-%C3%B3%C3%B0inn-charms-and-necromancy-h%C3%A1vam%C3%A1l-157-in-its-nordic-and-european-contexts Doors to the dead. The power of doorways and thresholds in Viking Age Scandinavia - Marianne Hem Eriksen https://mariannehemeriksen.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/eriksen-marianne-hem-2013.pdf