About

Welcome to With Cunning & Command, a blog about magic, occultism, grimoires, spirit work, folk lore, and esoteric scholarship. We are magicians, karcists, necromancers, and diviners working with diverse Old and New World traditions, grimoires, and spirit courts joined by common goals, loves, and approaches to the hidden. This blog is a space for us to host book reviews, snippets of ritual procedures, reflections on sorcerous practices, and a miscellany of other related writings. Our work is invested in ever furthering the transformation of the magician as a magical being herself, while concurrently deepening levels of spirit communion and mastery using the twin-forked prongs of knowledge and strength, insight and power—with sagacious cunning and authoritative command.

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This blog is currently run by two authors, Sfinga and B. Key:

Sfinga is a traditional witch and diviner from the Balkans, with her chief pacts springing from among the various dragons, stellar divinities, and night-dwelling chthonic beings of those lands. Fascinated with folk magic, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, old Slavic folklore and mythology, and various ways of working both devils and saints, she strives towards ever refining new cunning with old wisdom. Her grimoire of choice is the Libellus Veneri Nigro Sacer, a little-known text she has documented her work with on this blog. She is also an initiate of Quimbanda de Angola in the Cabula Mavile Kitula kia Njila, and several other traditions of witchcraft and sorcery.

B. Key is a witch and sorcerer focused primarily on those traditions that hunt, find, and hide treasure of all kinds. Guided by saints and invigorated by devils, he works in the crossroads of old world grimoires and the folk magical practices of the new world. He is also initiated in Quimbanda de Angola, in the same Cabula.

Previously, Salt was also a contributor to both the blog and its affiliated podcast, The Frightful Howls You May Hear. You may find his posts archived in the body of the blog as well.