Saint cyprian

Serpentshod.com has posted an interesting look at magical practices involving St. Cyprian, the "unofficial patron saint of necromancers, sorcerers, witchcraft, and the occult." We are in the midst of a period when practitioners often celebrate a novena in his honor. Here's an excerpt if you're not hip to this cat: "The story of the Antioch...

Cyprian of Antioch (of Pisídia) is a historic polemic figure whose biography lost itself in the distance of the centuries that produce the mix between legend and reality. Paradoxal, during his life he was a powerful sorcerer and, later, a saint christian martyr. He is famous like a Saint but much more famous like a black magician. The mistery about this sorcerer saint begins with uncertainty with regard to his biography: where he was born, when he born, his family name etc.. Only the arduous…

From Harry Potter to the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, the idea of a hidden school where magic is learned has reemerged in popular culture, just as it had in the 19th century wi…

Saint Cyprian of Antioch or San Cypriano is one of the most interesting tutelary spirits accessible to the sorcerer. Legend, myth, and modern work,

Saint Cyprian and Saint Justina figure in Mara, Book One of the The Roses of the Moon. Cyprian was a sorcerer who became a saint.

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St. Cyprian

In which is continued our series analysing the Cyprianic material in the late Dr Thomas K. Johnson's Svartkonstböcker: A Compendium of the Swedish Black Art Book Tradition . .