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Valuable Occult and Neo-Paganism Library Archive & Resource: Valdosta State University's NAMOSRL


Recently, I came across Valdosta State University’s Odum Library. In particular, I have been perusing the digital side of the university’s New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library (NAMOSRL). The search portal is highly accessible with a wide-ranging and diverse collection.

This is a substantive University collection containing a unique catalog of works related to contemporary witchcraft traditions: 

Traditional witchcraft, neopaganism, Wicca, folk traditions, and numerous other movements within the Craft. The collection holds independent journals, zines, mailing lists, books, correspondences, ephemera and more.

In the catalog, one can find Michael Howard’s legendary Cauldron magazine, Fritz Muntean’s Pomegranate journal, countless books, and entire collections boxes. What is not digitized can likely be scanned for private use with a quick email to the university. Some titles and collections that caught my eye are as follows:

- Pomegranate: A New Journal of Neopagan Thought. Issue 18. Feb. 2002.

- Revival!: Graphic Magazine of the Craft, Special issue no.4 (Libra 1976).

- Nine Apples: A Neopagan Anthology. 1979. Open Source Alexandrian and Witches' Order of the GoldenDawn Collections Dawn Collections

- Linda Kerr Faerie Faith Papers

- Book of Shadows collections box containing much 1960’s materials

Here is a link to the portal and catalog:

https://www.archivesspace.valdosta.edu/

Simply search "NAMOSRL," and you should find the entire physical and digital collection catalog.

The image you see above is sourced from Nine Apples: A Neopagan Anthology. 1979. The artist’s signature is hard to make out, but archivist Guy Frost informs me that:

"The image is by Prairie Jackson (also known as Mari Jackson), both pseudonyms for Mary Beth Brenneman Jackson (1952-2010). A very popular feminist artist from Texas."