I must say that I am becoming more and more impressed with Aaron Leitch's occult scholarship.

I just finished reading THIS ARTICLE tracing the influences of Grimoire magick in European and American Folk Magic, particularly in the Aftrican Diaspora Religions (Hoodoo, Voodoo, Santeria, etc.). Really a great read for those interested in the Grimoire tradition. He makes some very compelling suggestions as to how practicing Magicians can use modern folk magic to piece together and better understand the sometimes incomplete European Grimoires.

To give you a flavor of the article, here is a comparison of the Goetic seal for Marbas and the Voodoo sigil for Loa Ibo...doesn't take a stretch of the imagination to see the similarities.

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This post has been edited by Faustopheles: Feb 17 2007, 12:23 AM