After Keanu Reeves’ horrific Constantine movie, I think pretty much everyone cringed at the idea of a TV version. They needn’t have worried. Both myself, with my academic occult knowledge, and my husband, a huge comic book aficionado, came away from the pilot episode unconditionally pleased. The general premise isContinue Reading
Every few years, a TV series decides to tackle the topic of Wicca, particularly around Halloween. This year, the offender is CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Often, the point of such episodes is to defend Wicca (albeit usually with watered down versions of actual beliefs), but the bizarre mix of misinformation,Continue Reading
The TV show Supernatural is significantly focused on the fighting of demons and, more and more often, angels. As such, they use a wide variety of symbols that at least look like they are legit magical symbols. Some of them are, many of them aren’t, and others history-influenced, but notContinue Reading
People have a habit of presuming very old things are very unchanging things. Thus, however they see something today must be how it has always been. We do it to holidays all the time, but that’s a post for another day. Devil Horns Hand Sign On one side of theContinue Reading
I am fairly well versed in occult symbols since I wrote my masters thesis on the subject. I don’t expect other people to know them…and neither do script writers. If you see symbols being used in a TV show like Supernatural, they are pretty much always a random collection ofContinue Reading