Cypriana: Old World - Paperback

Cypriana: Old World - Cyprianic Magic Across Cultures

This scholarly collection examines Saint Cyprian of Antioch and Saint Justina of Antioch, two figures whose influence spans from Iberian necromancy manuals to Brazilian macumba, Scandinavian Black Books to Mexican curanderismo. Saint Cyprian serves as patron of occultists and infernal sorcerer-saint, while Saint Justina represents celestial patroness of exorcism and protector of the innocent.

Cypriana: Old World presents diverse essays on specifically-situated Cyprianic traditions and practices across time, place, and culture. The collection honors extant Cyprianic traditions outside the English-speaking world, moving beyond internet discourse to document genuine oral traditions, medicines, and poisons rooted in historical practice.

What This Collection Includes

This volume brings together historicity of Cyprianic history, folklore, and magic while charting new expressions of veneration and patronage within various spiritual traditions and sorcerous practices. Featured contributors include Matthew Barclay, Alexander Cummins, Johannes Bjorn Gardback, Jesse Hathaway Diaz, Jose Leitao, Jake Stratton-Kent, and Jennifer Zahrt, with art by St. Aldarnay.

The text provides new English translations of mythic accounts of the sorcerer-saint and his chaste saviouress, workable for practitioners in prayers, incantations, charms, and historiola. The collection models how to turn information into practical material, showing methods, mindsets and materia for developing relationships with these saints.

Historical Roots and Contemporary Practice

This work combines historical roots with experiential branches of spiritual veneration and sorcerous utility. It presents genuine emic perspectives on various forms of religious and sorcerous work with Cyprian and Justina, balancing historically and mythically situated traditional practices with spirit-led experimentation and innovation.

The collection makes no territorial claims to establish a 'One True Cypriana' or discredit particular traditions. Instead, it offers multiple opinions, sources, practices, methodologies, rites, and histories enriched by their multiplicity and polyvalency.

Cypriana: Old World is the first volume in the Folk Necromancy in Transmission series, conceived by Alexander Cummins and Jesse Hathaway Diaz, published by Revelore Press.