ANCESTRAL PATHWAYS CONFERENCE PROGRAM 2025
The Works of the Dark
Speakers and Presentations
Keynote Speakers:
David Rankine -
Non-Servum – Working With The Hierarchies of Hell.
Georgi Mishev -
Dead Water, Wolf's Throats and Loathing Herbs - Baneful Magic from the Balkan
Giulia Turolla -
Are the dead thirsty? Blood and Necromancy in Ancient Greece.
Laura Tempest Zakroff - (TBC)
Speakers:
Morgan Daimler -
Kelpies Need to Eat Too: The Value of Dangerous Faeries.
Benjamin Stimpson -
The Medieval Midnight: Things that went bump in the night.
Daniela Simina -
When it gets dark in Faery: Apotropaik Elements in Home Decor.
Tiffany Lazic -
Riding the Night Barge: Symbolic Meaning and Modern Relevance of the Amduat.
Sara Mastros -
Katabasis: Underworld Descent.
Scott Richardson-Read -
"Warding Fire and Ill Wishing Eyes: Scottish Folk Magic, the Aos-Sìthe, and the Liminal Realm"
Ron Padron -
Necromancy and Spiritual Activism.
Rachel Patterson -
Sulis and her Curses.
Mora Sininho Rosa -
Portuguese Pragas as a Tool for Justice: Divine and Folk Waneful Witchcraft.
Varla Ventura -
Wolf's Bane: Aconite, Lycanthropic Streams and other means of becoming a Werewolf.
Wendy Mata -
Demystifying Mexican Witchcraft and Its Obscurantism.
Rev. Aaron Davies and La Sirena Selene -
Dark Magick, Divine Light and our Future.
Halo Quin - Dark Flesh and Bright Bone: The Goddess Hell, Divine Dead..
Stefanos Chelydoreus -
Pierced, bound and spit upon: Curse and baleful magic in Greek folk traditions.
Vrykolakas: The Greek Vampire in Folklore and Magic.
Fio Gede Parma -
On the Luminous Darkness of God Herself, on the Dreaming of Grandmother Weaver.
Ness Bosch -
Ataegina: Dead and Rebirth in Iberia.
Coby Michael -
Dark Herbalism: Baneful, malefic and noxious plants.
Ashley Oppon -
The Dark Goddess: The Ultimate Feminist.
Katelyn Dawn -
Walking the Deer Trails: A Journey with the Dark Spirits of the Appalachia.
Thea Prothero -
Hel the Dark Goddess.
Lisa McSherry -
Dark Moon Transformation.
Daniel Ogden -
Introduction to Necromancy (Recording)