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Phoebe Hildegard
Diviner & Rootworker

Class Recordings:

Tickets to Upcoming Classes Can be Found Here

Phoebe Hildegard Finch's occult herbalism lecture given at Viridis Genii Symposium 2024—Considering the beguiling Rose of Jericho in its medicinal, magical, & cosmetic aspects

The Resurrection Plant

Considering the beguiling Rose of Jericho in its medicinal, magical, & cosmetic aspects. Lecture presentation from the 2024 Viridis Genii Symposium.

Victorian Spiritualist Techniques for the Present Day. Seances, Ectoplasm, Mediums, Ouija, Ghosts, Spirits, and more! Exploring the work of Emma Hardinge Britten, the Fox Sisters, Mother Leafy Anderson, Espiritismo, Umbanda, and Mesa Blanca.

"That the Spirits of the Universe May Breathe Through Her Lips"

Victorian Spiritualist Techniques for the Present Day

"Luck Be A Lady Tonight - Magic to Conjure & Keep Luck"

This class delves into a variety of tools, workings, and tricks that have been handed down through the tradition of hoodoo. These include protective amulets, ritual cleansings, and more complex approaches such as banishing, compelling or even befriending haunting spirits.

Participants will learn traditional knowledge about a variety of adversarial spirits including:

The infamous Boo Hags, who slip out of their skins to torment the living
Haints, whose foreboding presence causes obstruction, bad luck and disease
The notorious Witches, which in the Hoodoo context refers to malefic magical workers who enslave and chain souls

"To Catch A Spirit..."

Hauntings, a Theory & Practice of Hoodoo:

Phoebe Hildegard & Brother Yona Glickman

Presented as part of The Salem Witchcraft & Folklore Festival.

Phoebe Hildegard Finch presents on nine herbal folk magic workings embedded in Hildegard’s Physica. Though her medieval catholicism kept Hildegard from openly conceiving of these works as spells, Ms. Finch will demonstrate how they function by principles still followed today in the folk magics of rootwork, conjure and cunning craft.

Viriditas in Action: Hildegard von Bingen's Practical Magic

Exploring the herbal folk magic workings embedded in Hildegard’s Physica & how they function according to principles still followed today in the folk magics of rootwork, conjure and cunning craft.

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