Magic by Return of Post: How Mail Order Delivered the Occult

(publicdomainreview.org)

16 points | by Vigier 1 day ago

2 comments

  • rfarley04 1 hour ago
    Ha, I was just researching early email newsletter history and came across High Weirdness By Mail - A Directory of The Fringe: Mad Prophets, Crackpots, Kooks & True Visionaries. It's literally just subscription addresses and paragraph summaries like

    > "A neo-pagan publication aimed mainly at neophytes, shamans, medicine men. And > women...Drawing on numerous traditions, it provides almost a survey course in > such diverse topics as astrology, runecasting, elemental (magic) the I Ching, > and Chinese medicine, 75¢ each, $8/year."

    https://archive.org/details/highweirdnessbym0000stan

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