{"id":268,"date":"2004-09-22T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-22T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2004-09-22T19:42:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-22T19:42:00","slug":"268","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Andrew Chumbley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Chumbley, who died this month on what would have been his 37th birthday, pursued an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvestmoon.net\/library\/chumbley\/chumbley.html\">individualistic form of Traditional Witchcraft<\/a>, not to mention other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-cauldron.fsnet.co.uk\/toad.htm\">byways of magic<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroads.wild.net.au\/zkartmagick.htm\">Comparisons<\/a> between his life and that of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.banger.com\/banger\/spare\/\">Austin Osman Spare<\/a> are inevitable, especially when you consider Chumbley&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caduceusbooks.com\/occultartgallery\/cultus\/Andrew-Chumbley\/andrewchumbleyas.html\">artwork<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Chumbley Andrew Chumbley, who died this month on what would have been his 37th birthday, pursued an individualistic form of Traditional Witchcraft, not to mention other byways of magic. Comparisons between his life and that of Austin Osman Spare are inevitable, especially when you consider Chumbley&#8217;s artwork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-268","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":570,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=570","url_meta":{"origin":268,"position":0},"title":"\"The Dark Side\"Andrew Sullivan links\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 1, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"\"The Dark Side\"Andrew Sullivan links to this video clip from Trading Spouses: the fundamentalist Christian mom's meltdown. Moral: beware of people who pronounce Tarot to rhyme with \"carrot.\" According to the network's episode synopses (here and here), she did take the tainted, demonic money in the end.Tag: Fundamentalism","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":217,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=217","url_meta":{"origin":268,"position":1},"title":"Now here is a 'Pagan\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"July 4, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Now here is a 'Pagan survival' Is Alexander the Great's body actually in Venice? In the current issue of History Today, historian Andrew Chugg makes the case that the mummified body of \"St. Mark\" treasured in Venice might actually be that of the world-conqueror Alexander (356-323 BCE). (Article available online,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7237,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7237","url_meta":{"origin":268,"position":2},"title":"Call for Papers: The Occult Imagination in Britain","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"May 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Christine Ferguson and Andrew Radford, both of the University of Glasgow, seek contributors for an edited collection, The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947. 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Esoteric photographer Rik Garret tof Chicago says yes, and he\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":606,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=606","url_meta":{"origin":268,"position":4},"title":"\"Free countries do not ban\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 31, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Free countries do not ban blasphemy\"Political blogger Andrew Sullivan has good things to say on the Danish cartoon controversy.Militant Muslims (and the Saudi government) want Muslims to stop buying Danish products. The Religious Policeman (a Saudi Arab himself) sarcastically notes that the \"Muslim Offense Level\" has been raised.It's time to\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12300,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12300","url_meta":{"origin":268,"position":5},"title":"Free Download on Historians of Witchcraft","author":"Chas S. 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