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57. Love and Other Dangerous Magics w/ Mme. Vendredi & The Ancestral Now w/ Ramon Castellanos
Lux Occult
Modern Magicians Love Demon Bowls
A lot of our modern vampire stories come from the ancient Mesopotamia region or the Fercile Crescent of the Near East. So it makes sense that the ancient people needed some sort of protection. The idea of using something like the written word and names to pin this thing in there, because we haven't talked about this yet, but the sort of tech that goes into it involves writing these names onto this thing. There's so much to unpack that the ancients used to practice. And not necessarily magicians. I mean, we have examples of bowls that historians and archaeologists can hypothesize weren't actually created by the home owner,. But they would have gone to a local magician or
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