Feblog 2026

Chaos International Issue 27 ?

To celebrate the 21^st anniversary of the last issue of the legendary Chaos International Magazine we consider a project to relaunch it, possibly as an Annual Book.

Such a book may contain selected gems of magical art and seminal writings from the original 26 issues, PLUS many new original and controversial contributions from those at the cutting and bleeding edges of occulture, magical theory and experience.

Copyrights in the original 26 issues belong to contributors. If you have something you wish to offer for republication and/or particularly if you have new items of Art, Ritual, Magical Theory, Illustration (B/W), Cartoon, Socio-Political commentary, etc., etc., etc.,  for Issue 27, get in touch and we will take a look at it.

Dr Angela Pucca Interview 

As it says on her website: -

‘Dr Angela Pucais an academic and a university lecturer who has taught at several universities worldwide and has been based at Leeds Trinity University since 2016.
She holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in philosophy. In 2021, The University of Leeds awarded her a PhD in Religious Studies on Italian Witchcraft and Shamanism, published by Brill.
Her research focuses on magic, witchcraft, Paganism, esotericism, shamanism, and related currents.’

I have to say that she comes across as an extraordinary character; colourful, erudite, and charming, and she not only gave me the opportunity to expound at length on my ideas with some well researched questions, but she also illustrated my answers with some remarkable CGI graphics that would have taken months to create by hand.

Herewith the interview: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g23ju15ruGk

Sulis Statuary

Herewith some newly fashioned Temple Kit: -

It always seems a good idea to get on the right side of your local Deity. Sulis or Sulis-Minerva, the Goddess of the hot springs at Bath appears as the leading and best historically attested Deity of Southwest Britain -  the Celtic and Romano-British ‘Mother of Somerset’ who dispenses healing and bounty and who receives spells and requests for restitution or revenge.

The figurine of the Goddess resumes the gilt bronze head found in the temple of the hot springs where the local  deity Sulis became syncretized with the Greco-Roman Olympian Goddess Athena/Minerva, hence the spear. She stands before two water vessels, one black one white, for the reception of negative and positive spells, inscribed if desired on lead strips. Milliput two part epoxy resin over steel wire and glass jars.

The meaning of the ‘Gorgon Head’ also found at the Bath temple remains a matter of debate. It may have represented a serpent haired Gorgon, or the head of Oceanus, or a Romano-British image of pre-Roman Sulis. Here with a modest dose of theometric license I have blended it with the Bocca della Verità,the Mouth of Truth, so that it can accept written sacrifices, pledges, or affirmations. Acrylics on heavy plywood disc.