Dr. Alexander Cummins

My article ‘Crafts of the Cunning: Cunning-Folk Practices in New England’ can be found in the Complete Book of North American Folk Magic: A Landscape of Magic, Mystery, and Tradition ed. by Cory Thomas Hutcheson (Llewellyn, 2023), getting into some traditional cunnings of divination, charming, and unbewitching.

My article ‘Lodged Among the Graves: Towards a Practical Syllabus of Early Modern Necromancy’ can be found in Conjure Codex V aka The Black Issue

Nazarth: Pillars of Gladness, or, A Geomancer’s Angelical Psalter of Calls containing vessels 19 with which to water the Earth (Hadean Press, 2022) is a collection of nineteen calls composed in the Angelical language (sometimes called Enochian) designed to open, clear, and close rituals of divination as well as stir the virtues and spirits of the sixteen figures of European Renaissance geomancy for securing blessings and remediating difficulties.

The Art of Cyprian, found in MS Sloane 3850, contains instructions for the construction and use of a magic mirror attributed Saint Cyprian of Antioch. Along with the preparation of the mirror itself – which includes making and consecrating a particular ink for drafting certain figures of Solomon – come instructions detailing a conjuration of the ‘four worthy princes of the earth’, including a special appeal to the King of the East as their primus inter pares, and a dismissal of these same ‘four kings of the four parts of the world’.

Phil Legard & Alexander Cummins, An Excellent Booke of the Arte of Magicke (Scarlet Imprint, 2020).
A study of a sixteenth-century grimoire and its attendant scrying record - featuring inter alia the tutelary shades of infamous dead magicians, the Four Regents of Oriens, Paimon, Amaymon, and Egyn, and the fallen Enochic angel Azazel - offering unique perspectives on early modern spirit conjuration, scrying, necromancy, and ritual magic.

‘The Azured Vault: Astrological Magic in Seventeenth-century England‘, The Celestial Art: Essays on Astrological Magic, ed. by Austin Coppock & Daniel A. Schulke (Three Hands Press, 2018). My chapter in this excellent anthology deals with tools of materia and techniques of immateria in astrological magic.

A chapbook in Hadean Press’ Guides to the Underworld series co-authored by Vanessa Irena and myself dedicated to the Archangel Raphael - the Medicine of God - containing information on the history, prayers, conjurations, oils, baths, charms and rites drawing on this saintly tutelary angel.

My new book, A Book of the Magi: Lore, Prayers, & Spellcraft of the Three Holy Kings (Revelore Press, 2018), explores the history and the magic associated with the Three Wise Men: Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar. It combines historical accounts of their cultic veneration with ritual analysis of the grimoiric record of spells, charms, talismans, and incantations attributed their patronage. 

My article 'Dirt Sorcery: Rich Soils – Dirts of Jupiter' can be found in Hadean Press' Conjure Codex III aka The Blue Edition.

'Transatlantic Cunning: English Occult Practices in the British American Colonies' - a chapter on what magics English colonists brought to the Americas: prejudices, prognostications, cunning-craft, geomancy, and nigromancy.