Haqel D'ma
Accursed Lore and Magic from the Field of Blood
Ian Chambers
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Haqel D’ma, the Potter’s Field or Field of Blood, is the burial ground of nameless souls, the forgotten, and those outside of society. Associated in legend with the place of Judas’ demise, paid for with the coins of betrayal, and the location of a desert father, hermit, Saint and ‘wild man’, it is the ‘field of blood’. From the first centuries of Christianity, Judas was the apostle who betrayed Jesus and became crucial to the story of the Christ’s death and resurrection. This book spans the early Christian cult, the Gnostic Cainites who kept the Gospel of Judas, through to the medieval period when the Betrayer accumulated sins around him. Through folklore and custom, Judas has become synonymous with witchcraft and diabolism, charming and - most appropriately - cursing. In particular, curses laid upon books against theft!
This book explores the myth of Judas as a Cainite figure within medieval witch-lore, folklore, and custom, charming and cursing, revealing greater depth around a much-maligned character. It is a work concerned wholly with the arcana of Betrayal and its implication within the hallowed current of the Wytchan art and as an expression of the via negativa.
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Contents
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Introduction
God on His Side
The Thirteenth Apostle in History, Myth and Gnosis
Onolatry - Seth-Typhon and the God of the Christians
The Gospel of Judas
Sacrifice the man who clothes me…
Who were the Cainites?
The Gospel of the Traitor
The Medieval Judas
Judas the Betrayer
Thirty Pieces of Silver
Folk Customs and Devilry
The Judas Curse, Charms and Incantation
A Canny Art…
Witchcraft and the Meaning of Betrayal
Schelling - Oedipal Ordeals of Fate and Freedom
The Role of the Betrayer
Conclusion
Appendix
Charms, Incantations & Curses
Bibliography
Available in three formats
Standard Edition - 250 numbered copies, clothbound in dust jacket
Special Edition - 50 numbered and signed, with slipcase.
Deluxe Edition - limited to 10 hand-bound copies (TBC)
Standard Hardback £50 : limited to 250 copies. 160 pages. Royal format. Stitched case binding, with gold foil blocking to cover and spine, deep red endpapers, and red and black head and tail bands. With a laminated Dust Jacket. Text printed on 90gsm paper, stitched. Laminated bookmark specifically designed for the book (Only available with direct orders)
These will be numbered but unsigned.
Special Edition £140 : Limited to 50 copies. 160 pages Royal format - bound in Wintan* leather. Gold foil blocking to cover & spine, deep red endpapers, with red and black head and tail bands., Printed on 90gsm paper, stitched. With Black a slipcase. Each copy will contain a signed and numbered bookplate uniquely designed for the book.
(We also have a limited number of additional dust jackets that will come with this edition until we have run out - so on a 'first come, first served' basis)
*Wintan leather is 85% recycled leather
Deluxe Edition £TBC : Limited to 10 copies. Handbound