This presentation is part of the programming scheduled for Templefest and co-presented with Dr Alexander Cummins, together as Radio Free Golgotha.
Necromancy can have a bad rap sometimes. In older times, it has been framed as the preserve of creepy magicians skulking about graveyards disrespecting the restful slumber of the dead…
Yet outside of accusations of ghost-bothering and other such harmful stereotypes about “black magic”, many if not all world traditions hold important regard in their folk magics for honouring the beloved dead, communicating with benevolent ancestors of both blood and chosen family, venerating lineage-founders and other such “Mighty Dead”, and finding empowering and life-affirming ways of working with wise tutelary souls.
In this two-headed presentation, Dr Alexander Cummins and Jesse Hathaway Diaz, co-hosts of the Radio Free Golgotha podcast and avid proponents of folk necromancy, will consider a range of wonderful ways we can explore and celebrate helpful interactions and engagements between the living and the dead from a variety of folk magical perspectives, cosmo-visions, and practices.