Dreams may as frequently bring us phantasms of fearful night as the visionary light of clarity, and often may leave us grasping at their confusing subtleties of ideas, impressions, and recollections. Aside from their practical employment in many works of divination, sorcery, and witchcraft, dreams have always been considered somewhat magical in their own right. This is certainly the case with dreaming as considered and performed in the pre-modern folk magics of traditional English cunning-craft.

Leading us in exploration and celebration of these folk magical conceptions of dream, contemporary cunning-man and historian of magic Dr Alexander Cummins offers interested parties a place at the set  table of this class as we consider both the occult philosophy and the folklore of dreaming, taking into account study of the various dream-books and dictionaries in popular use throughout the pre-modern British Isles; from older codices of Anglo-Saxon dream-lore to imported and thoroughly popular…