Teufelskunst

Six Blends for the Season

“Boughs of the wormwood take…“

Available now: 6 blends for the dark time of the year, composed with the finest resins and herbs! Whether you plan to end the summer on Samhain with a protective and strengthening herbal blend, celebrate the joyful Day of the Dead with a wonderful frangrant copal mix, need to banish the plagues of the season, evoke the spirits of the wild and winter’s magic, talk to the Dead in dream or simply venerate them – here are the incense blends for every purpose. Try each as 20 ml samples or go all in with the 40 ml bags.

Set prices: 24 € for 6 x 20 ml black sample bag, 42 € for 6 x 40 ml large bag of each + shipping

Offer lasts until October 31st. Place order until October 18th to have incense shipped in time for Samhain!

Blessed Summer’s End and Happy Halloween!

October 13, 2026

Posted In: Incense

Tags: necromancy, dia de los muertos, dia de muertos, incense of the dead, winter solstice, rauhnächte, rauchnächte, incense, raunächte, samhain, necroneiromancy, necromantic incense

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Autumn Black Flower Seed Boxes

Summer is gone, harvest is done!

All the fresh seeds are now available in the shop and can be purchased single, in bundles or as part of new seed boxes. This autumn there will also come a new small edition of Black Flower Seed Boxes. Pre-order is open now!

September 18, 2026

Posted In: News & Site Updates, Herbs & Seeds, Boxes, Garden

Tags: garden, witch garden, poison path, black flowers, gothic garden, seeds, witch herbs, seed boxes

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August Fire II : Combustion

While spending 3 days weeding the pavements in my mom’s abundant wild herb garden in Dresden, where the aromatics simply burst from every vacuole, the heat of August took it’s sacrifice elsewhere. To say I was devastated at the sight of my raised bed back in Düsseldorf is an understatement.

It took 2 hours, cutting everything back to the base and getting accustomed to the sight of this dead bed.

The above pictures show the flower bed in spring – with sweetgras, snow heath, fritillaria and lenten rose in bloom and wet from the rain – and now. The rain had been missing a little too long.

Two nights and a cigarr later I pursued my long forged plan – the production of ashes from herbs harvested long times ago. The dead bed is now my ritual table on which I cremate the bodeis of my allies.

It is tabula rasa.

The blackening thus commences.

August 26, 2026

Posted In: Ritual, Garden

Tags: august, august fire, combustion, ashes, cremation, plant allies, ritual, alchemy, garden

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Beltane & Seed Boxes 2026

Time flies and Ostara feels like an eternity away, even though we came back from our spring vacation in Dresden just 2 weeks ago… and now it’s already straight towards Walpurgisnacht and the May full moon, which happens to fall right on the 1st!

Meanwhile, and while waiting for last seed and tumble stone orders to arrive, I’ve been digging further into the wonders of stones (mainly their colors and appearance, but also their alleged esoteric qualities)… now the Beltane boxes come with gorgeous and rare lavender jade pendants, hopefully blessing its wearer with inner and outer peace. In addition I am awaiting the arrival of four rare green (!) moonstones, vibrant yellow-green lizzardite and purple stichtit inside of serpentine to be included in the next treasuries…

I am also planning to organize the sowing instructions according to the best time of sowing. And while I do so, and while you may be waiting for the arrival of your box, you can already begin cleansing and setting up sowing pots as well as planning your sowing calendar.

At the time of posting this, there are precisely one Beltane box and one Seed box left in the shop.

I am working on more, but these will likely take another month or two before nearing completion – but therefore will inlcude fresh hellebore seeds from new varities that have developed in our garden. 😉

April 23, 2026

Posted In: Boxes, Herbs & Seeds, Feast Days

Tags: seed boxes, boxes, witch garden, beltane, garden year, seeds, witch herbs, sowing

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Towards Ostara…

Preview of new spring treasure boxes taking shape: as Ostara approaches, I am spending every free hour on completing these works. The spring blessing boxes have received their pyrogravure (done with a laser printer), simultaneously the new set of seed boxes have been pyrgraphed (by hand). The Spring boxes are colored in a yellow green inspired by the catkins of birch and hornbeam and come with miniature phytograms, a beautiful prehnit tumblestone pendant and some more extras. The seed boxes also received their colors today. More details and photos of the ready boxes will follow the coming days…

Both are available for pre-order – only 1 left of the spring boxes and 3 of the seed boxes!

March 29, 2026

Posted In: Boxes, Herbs & Seeds, Feast Days

Tags: pyrography, spring, the blessing seal of spring, ostara, seed boxes, boxes

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Moss Month

Moos-Monat
Das Licht der Februarsonne reinigt
Die goldenen Kätzchen der Hasel gleichen dem Goldregen, mit dem Frau Holle ihre treue Dienerin segnete
Frau Holle hat sich verjüngt und sendet ihre ersten Frühlingsboten

February 20, 2026

Posted In: Nature

Tags: nature, photography, imbolc, february, moss, snowdrops, winter

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Imbolc Box Set

Out of the dark and turmoils of January emerges the first light of 2026 – my offering for Imbolc:

Box, lasered with the image of the reborn goddess carrying the sun, surrounded by the first flowers of the season, while Lupercalia are lurking in the distance…

Soon it is time to sow the new seeds.

The box includes:
-handmade sweetgrass doll
– white cloth blessed under the February full moon
– Ametrine, rutilated quartz (venus hair quartz), moss and tree agate
– Imbolc incense
– 3 beeswax candles
– birch bark, for drawing spells upon
– witch hazel phytograph (nature print) with Imbolc seal drawn on the backside

2 of 4 available

January 31, 2026

Posted In: Herbs & Seeds, Feast Days, Boxes, Ritual

Tags: box set, ritual tools, boxes, feast days, wheel of the year, holle, imbolc, candlemass, #lent, incense

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Winter I, Essay

“As someone who has studied these things for all of my life, I really loved and appreciated this writing. I was still able to learn some new things and see some new angles that she explored that I hadn’t yet myself. The writing arrives at the same conclusions that I myself have in many things but often arrives there through different references than what I had used. She also adds a lot of regional German and older secular references that were new to me.

The only possible criticism that I could dare to offer is that her extensive attention to detail and references could come across as thick to some. Then I re-read my last piece and realized I do the same thing but somehow worse.

~Hangedman’s Seed”

Part 1 of my winter essays is now up for download!

“Winter I” is a summary of the natural and supernatural phenomena that occur during the cold and dark half of the year.

Content:

❄️Hunters in the Black of Night and White of Day: birds of prey, overwintering birds, subterreanean life, hair ice
❄️Celtic calendar, Samhain, Winter Solstice, Mutternacht
❄️Time of Taboos and Dark Folklore: household taboos, Perchta/Frau Holle, Spillaholle, Irish Phuca, Raunächte
❄️Elusive White Deer of the Otherworld: Arthur, Pwyll Pen Annwfn, St. Eustache, St. Hubert
❄️Of Hunting and Haunting: black huntsmen, wild hunt, cursed hunters, Herne
❄️Ancient God of the Wild: Cernnunos
❄️Hunting Goddesses and Hunters: Artemis, Actaeon, Orion
❄️The Wrath of Winter: Wendigo

I am already working on part 2…

November 19, 2025

Posted In: Essays

Tags: percht, artemis, perchta, actaeon, rauhnächte, saint hubertz, essays, saint eustache, wendigo, pwyll, winter folklore, herne, winter tales, mutternacht, winter, cernnunos, frau holle, orion, wild hunt, winter hexagon

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