Geoffrey Hodson and his strange fairy and angelic stories is a precursor to ufo contact accounts. It began when he was five or six years old. After the Great War he recorded fairies and nature spirits. He also claimed to have received teachings from a high angel. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffre...

This arrived a few days ago: ‘Mysterium Magnum’, the now very rare Jacob Boehme edition published in 1924 by Watkins, the venerable occult bookseller. Watkins still exists.

It’s so rewarding to study the old, international ufo zines of the past, to discover the breadth and scope of the ufo phenomenon as it was recorded. This zine was published in Japan in 1975 and it lists quite a few of puzzling Japanese cases:

Surveying for correlations - the unified field theory.

Belle Sheephead: a girl finds her pet lamb killed by a fox, and she drinks it’s blood. By the next full moon she is transformed into a Were-sheep! from: Folklore of the Lake District bardofcumberland.com/folklore/ #bookologythursday #lakedistrict 📷 Black Sheep film

17 september 1909, sterfdag van de Haagse feministe en sociaal-hervormster Marianne Klerck-van Hogendorp (Den Haag, 1834-Laussanne, 1909). Zij was voorzitter van de Vereeniging Vrienden der Armen en zette zich in voor hulp aan prostituees.

Here’s some Patrick Arrasmith art to make your Tuesday a little better.

French space history is very distinct, drawing its lineage from ballooning rather than aircraft. Cyrano used glass bottles filled with dew to ascend to the Moon in the 17th century. In the 1870s, Flaubert thought we would get there by balloon. 🧪

The old SF tech scene is dead. What it’s morphing into is far more sinister. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

I’m mostly just here to post photos of my occult book collection.

Ars Goetia Translated by Paul Summers Young, presents a historically contextualized version of the first book of the Lemegeton. It compiles various manuscript sources, highlighting its roots in early modern esoteric and religious movements. 2024, Black Letter Press 358 page #Occultbooks #Witchcraft

Discoverie of Witchcraft By Reginald Scot Revised, edited and introduced by Paul Summers Young Black Letter Press 588 pages

#shelfie #occultbooks #occult

Corinne Boyer. Under the Dragon Root: A Folk Grimoire of Occult Plant Lore & Practicum. London: Troy Books, 2024. Paperback edition. 360 pages. arcaneofferings.com/products/und... #plantlore #herbalism #occult #witchcraft #witchcraftbooks #Witchsky #Booksky #Occultsky #occultbooks #folklore

#EsotericBookChallenge #EsotericBooks #OccultBooks #witchcraftbooks Star.Ships by Gordon White

Yesterday's 'featured book' 🏹

The interesting thing in leafing through these old ufo zines (from left to right, Scandinavian, Polish, British) is finding this wide variety of very strange, very puzzling and downright weird ufo contact cases.

Our medieval curator Alison Ray introduces Rawlinson Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. D. 252...a 15th Century necromancer's journal. This manuscript contains spells written in Latin and Middle English, and would have served as a reference for a professional sorcerer. #MedievalMonday

That time when Elizabethan magus and extraterrestrial contactee John Dee saw a ufo and was approached by an abductee:

Collecting occult and weird books is a chore. Not due to finding them or having pleasant contacts with their sellers, but due to the postal delivery services. Some of them can be a royal nightmare.

I recently acquired a nice selection of Hell Fire Club Books editions. It is still active - but talk has not been good by customers in terms of delivering the books after payment. Sad to say, since it has published some rare and unusual materials in rather beautiful editions.

Spotted Mythology Land on the shelves of Waterstones and Heffers in Cambridge this morning 😍

Sept. 15, 1925: Radio waves are to blame for making men and women of the 1920s defy gender roles, says "reputable psychologist" Mary Strachan. An "etheric disturbance" in the air acts upon "the electric forces of the human body." 1/2

In a Flemish folktale a group of boys stumbled upon a pig while they walked home. The pig changed into a flame when they chased the animal. It was believed to be a ghost. In other tales, ghost pigs are said to rattle with chains and bang on pots and pans. 🎨Bill Mayer #PhantomsFriday

Good day, dear Bibliophiles🍂 art by Stephanie Marie

Stop reading the news and normalize lounging inside “Visiona 2” by Verner Panton at the Cologne Furniture Fair in 1970.

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#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Astronomers Watch Fast Moving Object September 14, 1964 — San Miguel, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1/10:55 p.m. Astronomers Luis Ferro and Renato Matteassi at the San Miguel Observatory, Buenos Aires, Argentina,

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - The Langenhoe Incident September 14, 1965 — Langenhoe, Essex, UK 1/1:00 a.m. Engineer Paul Green is riding a motorcycle south of Langenhoe, Essex, UK, near Langenhoe Hall Lane when he hears a high-pitched humming to the east and ...

Time to thumb through my copies of Northern UFO News, the zine British ufologist Jenny Randles put out. She coined the term ‘Oz Factor’. In search of new weird wonders:)

My “new” lamp is hanging in the library!

Oostelijk van Tallinn staat bij het dorpje Loo op een terpje de kleine Sint Nicolaaskapel. Kerkje en begraafplaats op deze plaats worden al vóór 1200 genoemd. Het is de vroegste kerk van Estland die al in bronnen vermeld staat. De huidige kerk dateert van rond 1400.

No ghost sightings or any paranormal activity at the Jack the Ripper murder spot? I find that hard to believe.

St. Elmo's fire is a weather phenomenon that appears as ‘spirit fires’ dancing across the riggings of ships during storms. It was named after St. Erasmus of Formia, the patron saint of sailors and is considered a good omen. #PhantomsFriday

Instead of wasting time on following the current American dumbo disclosure circuit, I am digging into ufo grassroots publications for reports of very extraordinary ufo experiences by very ordinary people. The weirdness is buried below. Here’s an example:

Gods of the North: Nordicist Mythology in the World Building of REH www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBD3...

So apparently some editors of Wikipedia do not think Jenny Randles's career as an author and UFO researcher is 'notable enough' to deserve a biographical entry on Wikipedia.

Couldn’t sleep last night, so at 2am I decided to have a go at bookbinding. As you do. I had a knackered old paperback kicking around, and some fabric and paper and glue and board. It’s not perfect, but for an impromptu first attempt I think it’s pretty good.

Instead of wasting time with the American farcical disclosure circus, I am digging through old ufo publications to learn about some very extraordinary experiences by everyday ordinary people. Believe me, the ufo phenomenon is much stranger than this American distraction show wants you to believe.

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Cloud "like a house on fire" September 9, 1767 — Coupar Angus, Perth, Scotland 1/A cloud “like a house on fire” that soon takes on a pyramidal form is seen traveling along the course of the River Isla near Coupar Angus, Perth, Scotland.

Another day in dystopia.

In 1995 Eugenia Macer-Story mentioned my work in progress in her 'Magick Mirror'. Published in 1998 as a two part book of 472 pages, the second part was titled 'Secrets of Occult Technology'. She got my writing from UFO author George Andrews whom I met. Miss them. anomalyarchives.org/collections/...

Memory of Princess Mumbi: Damien Hauser’s Kenyan retro-sci-fi was an excellent blast of filmmaking. It had that fresh feel of someone who knows the rules but doesn’t care. Three Friends make a film which plays between fable and reality, AI and memory.

Weer een goed stuk op @frontaalnaakt.nl www.frontaalnaakt.nl/archives/hef...

#OTD in 1859, Harriet E. Wilson publishes her novel, Our Nig. "Harriet E. Wilson was the first African American to publish a novel in North America." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet... "Our Nig" at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/584 #books #literature #africanamerican

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Prison Guard and 13 Inmates See Silvery Object Zig-Zag And Shoot Off / Jet? September 6, 1952 — Somers, CT 1/10:10 a.m. Walter Borys and George McCracken, two guards at the Osborn Prison Farm [now Osborn Correctional Institute] in Somers, Connecticut,

What arrived today: Herbert A. Giles, ‘Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio’, second revised edition, 1908.

Aliens? Let’s talk about Angels. For instance in this publication by Geoffrey Hodson, published in 1928 (from my library). With a striking cover drawing and frontispiece by Phoebe Stabler. Who or what are they?

On of my most precious holdings in regards to my magazine section of my library of the UFO phenomenon: the Cosmon Research Foundation magazine. Published between 1961 and 1964, original copies are now extremely rare as they were never sold. Founded by UFO contactee Gloria Lee, who died too soon.

Op deze dag in 1944 werden Anne Frank en haar gezin op transport gesteld naar concentratiekamp Auschwitz-Birkenau (later ging ze naar Bergen-Belsen). Het was het laatst transport vanuit doorgangskamp Westerbork naar Auschwitz #opdatwijnietvergeten