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[haptalaon]

I'm working on a "holy book" for my magical tradition, which is really more like a reading list of stuff I like. I've always felt the absence of a holy book in my Paganism in the past. It's nice to build around a Bible - you can read from it, you can write sermons around it, you can carry it with you, you have a liturgy and 2000 years of the very best artists in Western civilisation making you art and poems and songs.

So the goal is to create something similar for myself, a reading list so at the end of the day I can sit down with my "Bible" and read a few reflective paragraphs to send me on my way to sleep. Or which I can rummage through for poems and quotes and images to build ritual around.

My tradition has a connection to Folk Horror as an inspiration, so I'm delighted to find this really good collection of essays on the greats from the genre - and I'm basically working my way down the list while sitting on the sofa, desperately wishing I could knit or paint or write or do anything but sit bloody still and be present in my body and touch nothing. But even a week's movie marathon is less fun than it would be if I could write about what I was watching at the same time :/

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[raynedanser]

I've worked on something similar. Many years ago, a dear friend got me a handmade black leather book with handmade/handbound paper inside. I've gradually added to it through the years - blessings, rituals, tool ideas, thoughts and bobbles, runes, etc. It's very soothing to me to just hold it.

[earthspirits]

Thanks for a very interesting link - I've always enjoyed these sort of intriguing and more intellectual horror films (Night of the Demon is one of my classic favorites). Folk Horror is the perfect genre name too.