The Devil’s Dozen: Thirteen Craft Rites of the Old One – Gemma Gary (Troy)

Description

The standard hardback edition of Gemma Gary’s compact grimoire, published by Troy Books — a modern gramarye offering thirteen craft rites in devotion to the Old One, the Devil of folklore as understood within Traditional Witchcraft. Distinct from the churchly Satan, Gary’s Old One is the bearer of forbidden gifts, the opener of the Way Betwixt, and the ancient spirit of the land, presiding not over evil in any doctrinal sense but over the freedoms, indulgence and ecstasy the Church once condemned as such. Drawing on well-documented folk themes rather than claims of unbroken descent, the rites move through dedication, initiation, consecration, protection and devotion — among them The Man in Black, Under the Horns, Raising the Stang, The Wisht Hounds and Skin Turning & the Wild Hunt — written in Gary’s characteristic archaic, incantatory style. A small, densely worked volume, intended to sit as comfortably in the hand at the working as on the shelf.

Bound in grey cloth boards, with a branching, flame-crowned tree device blocked in copper foil to the upper board.