Dead Excited: A Folk Necromancy Panel (Dr. Al Cummins, Dr. Ben Joffe, and Jesse Hathaway Diaz)

As part of the Salem Witch Fest (then titled the Salem Summer Symposium), your humble hosts of Radio Free Golgotha decided to enlist Folk Necromancy co-moderator (our FB discussion group) Dr. Ben Joffe in a panel discussion around the subject(s) and direction of “folk necromancy”. This panel was reposted with the kind permission of the Salem Witch Fest organizers and we hope you enjoy the discussions!

The original panel description:

What is folk necromancy? Are you a folk necromancer? What does it mean to engage in folk necromantic practices? JOIN the moderators of your favourite / only social media forum dedicated to folk necromancy – the charming scholar and translator Ben Joffe, the charmingly befuddled Al Cummins, and the ever-handsome World’s Best Goat Jesse Hathaway Diaz…!

ENGAGE as they discuss the practices, philosophies, histories, and methodologies of necromancy, nigromancy, spirit conjuration, ghost-lore, charm-craft, and demonology…!

MARVEL as they enthuse about working with the Dead in world traditions - extant, extinct, historical, literary, and revived…!

RECOIL IN HORROR at some of the best and worst of the submitted posts we have had to look at running a Facebook group about folk necromancy…

This is a 120 minute, foundational level panel discussion.