Necromancy - Exploring Medieval Necromancers by Exploring a Real Book of Black Magic

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[@ManhwaShortcut]

I know magic exist really but If I can ask pleas Mr slaych Can I learn Necromancy with a book have you pleas for free

[@khornethegrim8258]

"History doesn't give a damn about our preconceived notions." Well said.

[@frankmaybury5292]

I Love what you do also something kind of funny is that historically European practitioners of exorcism were also considered necromancers. The binding or expelling of spirits is necromancy in that world view. Not too many people take interest in this stuff from a scholarly perspective it is nice to see someone else who is interested in it from that perspective.

[@br1qbat]

Every video you've done has let just a little more of your personality and dry humor in. All while being chock-full of info as ever. Loving it

[@Ziggy-i3h]

The Necronomicon line was pretty damn funny.

[@yochanan770]

I often ponder if he writes the jokes into his script or if he just comes to that point in the script and throws it out there.

[@romanczepyha1241]

More than normal dry humor I noticed. Always welcome right?

[@MisstressMourtisha]

Agreed 👌

[@vapormissile]

Spoiler alert, he's probably the Trixter.

[@thebardicowl9252]

*Frantically taking notes for my next D&D session*

[@thedirtybiskit1081]

Look into ars magic roleplaying game

[@thepeopleslibrary8673]

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[@pedrogouveia4326]

@@thepeopleslibrary8673 what?

[@allthatisj8900]

Same

[@johnnycircus7463]

Necromancy: When your mom said, “Go out and make some friends”, that’s not what she meant!!

[@jackpayne4658]

After first hearing your suggestion that most grimoires presuppose a Catholic, Latinate audience - it seems blindingly obvious that their readership was clerical. As one of Darwin's contemporaries said about his evolutionary theory - 'How did I not see this before?'

[@kingpopaul]

Must have been a hobby between two funeral ceremony.

[@karsu]

Yup had to be. Being they are the learned and literate class as well in those times where most people weren’t.

[@logy650]

You really do give us the best heavy metal band names.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

\m/

[@yourbuddyunit]

Local necromancer translators Is probably my fav

[@joaobatistatoledoprado6367]

Historically and esoterically accurate and at the same time deliciously ironic and even sarcastic at times. In short: it couldn't be better! Very recommendable!

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Many thanks!

[@gregcampwriter]

Goonies, absinthe, rock bands, and Magic: The Gathering--nerds' night at the Sledge house must be a lot of fun.

[@llllllll1014]

I love the idea of 'practice based editing' in a nercomantic text. Like 'Skull spoke Latin instead of Greek, next time halving the olive oil in the crucible'.

[@samael9676]

I always enjoy your channel always enlightening and your dry humour very enjoyable.

[@Ninkanak]

Thanks Dr. Sledge for your knowledge, specially for taking the time to explain it in a slow pace. For me as a non-native English speaker is of great help. Greetings

[@gamer7916]

I didn’t known Michael Scot practiced necromancy. No wonder Toby was so miserable at Dunder Mifflin. Michael must’ve cursed that guy a dozen times.

[@Rose.H]

He definetly has a "worlds best Necromancer" mug

[@nicklanier4041]

Never have I been so charmed by someone talking about corpse foot needles 😍

[@DarrellBlackandBlue]

Host: You're the one watching a channel called "Esoterica"... Fine call me out, why don't you...I love this stuff!

[@PismoClam]

I just wanted to thank you for sharing your work with us in such an approachable and down-to-earth manner.

[@romanczepyha1241]

The good doctor is snapping jokes off left and right, more than normal. gotta love it

[@alexcody93]

Love the Magic the Gathering reference!

[@victoriaolson8985]

Love the MTG reference. Another very wonderful exposition, thank you.

[@Strauss-]

Could you do a video on occultism and the Eastern Orthodox churches?

[@bvanhoosen]

You're telling me the boss from The Office was a level 100 sorcerer?

[@gamer7916]

Of course. Ever wondered why Toby, Michael’s worst enemy, suffered so much misfortune?

[@evh1734]

No! God, no!

[@BaronCemetery]

As someone who went to grad school with similar academic interests to Sledge, I was constantly frustrated by overhearing the name and finding out they always meant some guy from a show I hadn't seen and not Fredrick II Hohenstaufen's advisor and astrologer.

[@TheBrownBoy100]

This channel quality, taste. detailed explanations, are BLOWING my mind. You're so consistent in every video I've seen.

[@steves_thoughts]

When you said "Roll for initiative!", I jolted to attention immediately. Then, had to pause the video, because I was laughing so hard.

[@LadyCoyKoi]

I just love how sophisticated and promoting of intellectualism this channel is. We don't have this in Florida, especially not in South Florida. So wonderful to find a place that encourages philosophical and theological thinking. I am frustrated how mediocre and incompetent academia has turned out in the last 20 years where I live. Anyways keep promoting and encouraging intellectualism and academic studies. We need this!!! We need to stop being afraid of knowledge, especially powerful knowledge that can make living more fascinating and interesting.

[@armanijones]

I'm behind like five episodes. Time for a Saturday morning binge 🤓

[@christopherwarren4719]

That introduction was epic! Keep up the great work Doctor Sledge!

[@Phorquieu]

You are hitting your stride. Excellent video and discussion. Your wit and wisdom is surely proof against all evil and medieval spirits. Keep doing what you are doing... It's a fallen world, you know. The world could use a good exorcism.

[@kashmirr25]

thank you so much for doing these videos! ive been having so much fun binge watching them. im glad there is a scholarly channel that is into all the "weird" stuff i like but i have not had the chance to really look into.

[@dawnbeard9274]

I very much appreciate you sharing your extensive knowledge on the serious side of historical magick and occult studies while having great taste in your sense of humor.

[@evans808274mc9la]

Great topic. Loving this thread

[@robertbradley8309]

Excellent!! Great intro on medieval sorcerers!!

[@izzzthewizzz]

Another amazing post, it must be some kind of ancient magic you have, thanks for so many awesome videos. Lots of love from Portugal

[@chelseacollins3782]

I’m so impressed in your withholding of including a “that’s what she said”.

[@benwillis2064]

I love your wisdom and teaching. Keep up the good work 👏

[@tishainess9339]

I played d&d. I was a necromancer. I had the best dm ever- Chuck Evans. I've been trying to find him for like 10 years no luck. 😢 Chuck if you are watching this and happen to see this comment, hit me back. You never know... 🤓👍

[@iniglowee]

great video! nicely woven goonies reference as well!

[@leenamin3099]

Christian monks translated and recorded essentially all the western and middle eastern works that survive, its natural that in this flow of knowledge some were seduced by dark magic out of curiosity which is no different than modernity where you can download a pdf of a grimoire and some people do.

[@gunkwretch3697]

LMAO... Goonies.... hehehe.... I know part of this text has been translated and will be coming out soon, but I want it all ! No doubt many other texts need to be translated at all, we all need to work together to STORM THE VATICAN LIBRARY!

[@TheWesterlyWarlock]

I was truly hoping to see #randomcorpsefoot trending by now. I am now a sad Warlock.

[@Mysticeve]

I just love you! ❤️🙏🏽❤️thanks for being so awesome! And sharing all these videos!

[@abignothing]

serving up sassy realness in this vid, im here for it sis

[@fgcbrooklyn]

I am in awe at your erudition. If I may, two small corrections in the pronunciation of two Italian words I heard in your videos, both referring to the position of the stress on the correct syllable: , not (stress on the third from last -- if you are familiar with ancient Greek, it's a Proparoxytone word). The same goes for (you mentioned Paul of in another video. WIth my best wishes for your excellent scholarly work.

[@patrickpendergast898]

Another great video from Dr. Sledge! Now I have another book to find

[@marcelacarrillogonzalez6085]

Fascinating. I was in Medici palace at Florence , their collector obsession was mindblowing, beside art, they had collections of ethnic objetcs from all around their known world. They even had a room about jewish history (maccabees with hanukia fresco). Thank you. Adored this episode. כל הכבוד Doctore 😊❤ תודה רבה

[@brianpendell6085]

I have to wonder if there's any overlap with medical doctors of the time -- as I recall, they had a lot of trouble with the authorities because they also needed corpses to experiment on to learn the foundations of anatomy today.

[@yourbuddyunit]

3:12 man i want this on a tshirt! Its such a profound message that the religions across the world needs to hear, and probably more than once. The demonization of the other is such a prevalent crutch to justify atrocities from the dawn of religion to the present day. Its horrifying.

[@ZealotKarrde]

Outstanding video. Great sources, academic interpretation, and lovely humor!

[@MshaaOfficial]

one of my fav videos, the way how stuff is explained and dissected is overwhelmingly interesting .

[@sobrevivirparacontarla2237]

"Only effective via the power of Christ (and friends)" LOL, I laughed so hard!!!! :D

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

Fascinating! I'm really enjoying this playlist - thanks for sharing it with us!

[@hermesthothtrismegistus]

Great video, so thankful to have found your channel and your fantastic work. I have been in a similar study of topics for the past decade now. Such a shame I didn't find you sooner

[@xandacab4285]

wow so in addition to providing amazing free scholarly content, u’ve now given me my new band name? amazing as always, dr. sledge!!

[@yourbuddyunit]

I love how we're all like "for my 5e campaign!" When we know damn well that it is pure and beautiful curiosity of learning about the things billions of human beings would have been brutally and violently prosecuted for just searching out. No judgment here, and I'm overflowing with happiness from finding this channel. Thank you for your work! But I will probably have to swap to po*n if someone sees me watching this, as it would be easier to explain! XD

[@etinarcadiaego5708]

Have you ever read Robert Nye's 1991 novel "The Life and Death of my Lord Gilles de Rais"? It's impeccably researched, and of course you get the Italian sorcerer Francesco Prelati as De Rais' primary "influencer." It's a great read.

[@ngonfinda9606]

Love the corpse foot thing

[@DefaultSeaTurtle]

Your videos are always stunningly entertaining and informative. I greatly appreciate all your hard work and humor! Shocked and confused why NecronomiCon isn't a thing.

[@hutchhubbard7152]

Oh, it's very definitely a thing: necronomicon-providence.com/welcome/

[@LadyCoyKoi]

I would love to go such a convention. Unfortunate, where I live we have more cantankerous, fornication technicians than actual intellectual mages. The people here prefer conjuring low quality fornication trophies than actually thinking outside of their private parts and provoke powerful spirits that can assist us on being great mortals. The anti-intellectualism is dominate in South Florida at the moment.

[@LadyCoyKoi]

​@@hutchhubbard7152 As always, I always have to spend extra to meet others like myself.

[@ennuiii]

lovely video as always Dr.

[@oberon8479]

im like in love with you, youre delivery, knowledge, occasional sass. big brain turn on!

[@pentegarn1]

Its Catholic nature reminds me of the "Liber Juratus Honorii" or Sworn Book of Honorius. But I'm sure people in the 1400s were still mystified by tales of the Templars a hundred years prior, who were arrested on charges of being involved with some kind of heresy. The allegorical tale at the beginning of Honorius even has a striking similarity to the Templar's demise.

[@AlexusMagnum]

You're so cool Dr! Thank you.

[@depraved420]

New subscriber here. Your whole channel is amazing, most of this stuff I have been looking for, for years. Definitely gonna binge everything. 👍

[@JCamiloR69]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I feel attracted to Nigromancy Necromancy. Talking to spirits is my thing. Can you help me get a real Nigromancy Necromancy book?

[@nightsazrael]

I always enjoy your content, but it was nice that you covered something practical for a change! lol Also I am enjoying Diotima

[@amanitamuscaria7500]

yep I'm the one watching a video about necromancy. No judgements. I love the pin in the dead foot way to put folks off their dinner. Brilliant. Must try it.

[@davidwright8432]

Many thanks, as usual! Almost persuades me to return to Rome. They never mentioned this kind of stuff in kiddie Catechism class! They'd have had far more attention from bored boys who really, really didn't get the fuss about 'virginity' - Holy or (in particular) personal. What was that Demon's name, again? Is he on Facebook?

[@mikeflannery7219]

Happy Thanksgiving!🦃. Also, I bet you are a D&D legend

[@andresalcibarlopez5511]

It’s super interesting to learn about the actual status of necromancers in medieval Europe. Love the sense of humor tho 😂

[@maia3830]

Your channel is gold!!

[@DorothyPotterSnyder]

Thanks for the shoutout to necromancer translators!

[@DHTC888]

Dang Doc that intro was INTENSE

[@milascave2]

"The Clerical Necromantic Underground." Playing soon at cemetery near you.

[@YuriAbietti]

Speaking about weird coincidences... I was trying to read and translate the spirit catalogue found in the Fasciculus Rerum Geomanticarum of the Biblioteca Laurenziana in Firenze since it's freely available for online consultation or download in PDF format (because I'm studying the goetic and solomonic tradition and I'm trying to "connect" the different catalogues of Spirits in the various grimoires)... And your next video it's on that same book. That's pretty weird.

[@owenleal]

1) why are you studying it? 2) how would a person go about beginning to research this topic? I ask because it sounds interesting.

[@YuriAbietti]

@@owenleal I'm studying it because I'm a practicing ceremonial/chaos magician and I practiced goetic magick before. But I'm also curious and very interested in the history and the academic interpretation of the various grimoires of this tradition. About beginning to research goetic magick, there are a lot of interesting books about it, both on the more practical side and with a more critical and historical perspective. I would recommend the Illustrated Goetia by Lon Mylo DuQuette and any books by the late Jake Stratton-Kent, dr. Stephen Skinner or Joseph H. Peterson (among others) :)

[@reviewsfromasocialjusticel8558]

I think you may have forgotten to add the cards with links to the videos on the Munich Necromancer’s Manual and Scholastic Magic? But regardless, thanks for yet another very enlightening video...and list of books to read 👍🏽

[@tordenstorm]

Love this, I actually have a copy and translation of this book, was happy to run across this discussion of it.

[@wanderingtallguy6849]

Perfect for my rp medieval setting.

[@merseyviking]

I've watched many of your videos, and I've only just noticed the watch runs backwards in the title sequence.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Yeah....all the clocks around here do that...

[@hermesthothtrismegistus]

...its probably a trap

[@sojobomiyamoto6777]

Great episode!!!! Thanks for sharing

[@jennypendel301]

What is Michael Scot and the Clerical Necromantic Underground Paper Company is the Q to some Answer on Jeopardy in the Before and After category

[@warforge_jp]

what great content!

[@adamwoodhouse7865]

"Roll for initiative " 😃

[@stevebisset1522]

Justin Sledge, comma, necromancer. Hell yea

[@blueskygoldensun6114]

Dr Sledge please do a video on Theophrastus von Hohenheim

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

para to the celsus

[@BlindingDarkness1111]

Very well done 💯

[@RolandMaximus]

Best channel

[@thomasanderson9621]

Good Stuff Bro

[@AllenProxmire]

hilarious. really good stuff man

[@christopherwilliams8396]

If I click on this 'The Digital Manuscript link all I get is Service Unavailable.

[@christopherwilliams8396]

If I remove the three dots at the end of the link it sort of works.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

I just tried the main website and it looks down at the moment for some reason :(

[@christopherwilliams8396]

The link I just posted is working.

[@ramkitty]

@@TheEsotericaChannel a compliment dark gnosis breaks the internet.

[@kevanhubbard9673]

Fascinating I think that my only readings on this matter is Arthur Edward Waite's Book of Black Magic and Pacts and Abra Melin the Mage possibly modified by Samuel Macgregor Mathers.It seemed to me ,at the time,to be rather convoluted superstitious nonsense although the Abra Melin system clearly has the aim,seen sort of through the lense of Jungian psychology,of isolating and developing the higher self.sadly my Latin is very basic and I am reminded of what Israel Regardie said what he wanted if he was reincarnated 'good parents and a classical education'.

[@milascave2]

The only contemporary religion I know of that has self identified as necromancers is Paol Maymebyy, a very secretive Afro-Cuba practice. Recently, a practitioner has been making youtube channels. He still doesn't spill much, but it is the only material I know of in English about Palo Maybey (in Cuba called "Renia de Paulo" that is not written by people who don't practice it and are usually hostile to it. And he said:"we are necromancers. We worship the dead."

[@owenleal]

What about Aghori Hindus?

[@jclay452]

I’m not judging you :) I watched a video of a Priest speaking about exorcism. From what I understood, he said speaking with the dead was a form of necromancy and this could be one reason why some people have become possessed. I have watched ghost hunting shows and had some strange activity in my home afterwards. It could have just been an overactive imagination, but I don’t want to test God. However, my daughter was born able to see weird things. I don’t know what to call them. Why can she see them? Does this mean that people who can see them are damned? I’m hoping not. My daughter has touched an object in the past and received psychic images in her mind of the person who owned it. (Confirmed because it was my ex-boyfriends mother’s tiny book. She had never seen her before). I know there’s a medium that does ghost hunting. She has always been able to see them too. She prays a lot on her KZbin shows. She uses the power of Christ to make them leave her alone. I don’t want to view her videos if this is spiritually wrong for me to do this. So, I don’t think you are weird. I’m not judging you. I appreciate the extra information on these topics.

[@darrylviljoen6227]

Necromancy is the summoning of the dead, not just speaking with them. That priest may have misspoke or not completely understood what he was talking about. I highly doubt they do detailed class on necromancy in seminary school. Your daughter is in the clear, some people are just more sensitive to that sort of stuff. I don't envy her and wish her all the best. Edit: also alot of those ghost hunting shows and KZbinrs are just for the drama, few if any are real.

[@dominickgrande5971]

who can forget the episode of The Office, where Michael and Dwight try to bring the headless Ed Truck back to life with a nec. spell.

[@inanedreamz673]

Here because of SMT, looking forward to the whole demon playlist

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

smt?

[@inanedreamz673]

@@TheEsotericaChannel Shin Megami Tensei, a video game franchise that’s like if the monsters in Pokémon were from a melting pot of worldwide mythological lore.

[@ramkitty]

The garlape sigil? Google let me down and I don't have a Tobin spirit guide. Know anything more on this? I have seen something similar in an Avastan or vedic lecture

[@djanevski]

Love your dnd and mtg references

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Gotta peak your speak :)

[@drjohndee4322]

ROFL.... Roll for initiative ! Made me bust up laughing 🤣

[@angelorosini4326]

Thank you!

[@codexintegrum]

Another excellent video

[@jacobsipes]

Dr. Sledge: "Role for Initiative." Me: *frantically knocking over stuff trying to find my lucky D20*

[@alicookofficial]

I want Paimon’s agent aswell. As always, very interesting.

[@TormodiR]

Oooo cover the tempestarii??? Pretty please???