We are excited to announce the 2025 VGS Lineup!

Corinne Boyer

Lecture & Workshop Host

LECTURE:The Flora of the Witches’ Ointment- A History of Origins

WORKSHOP: Magical Salves and Oils- Historical Recipes and Practical Uses

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J.M. Hamade

Lecture & Workshop Host

LECTURE: Al-Ayn Al-Kohl : The Jinn, Blackened Botanicals, and the Evil Eye

WORKSHOP: Distillation of the Pupil from the Eye: Practical Esoteric Explorations of the Evil Eye Talisman

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James Dotson

Lecture & Workshop Host

LECTURE: Occult Aromatherapy

WORKSHOP: THE DEVIL (XV) : COMPOSING A TAROT FRAGRANCE

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Jeremy Bechelli

Lecture & Workshop Host

LECTURE:Fields of Maleficium: The Impact of Witchcraft on Land and Crops in Historical Agrarian Societies

WORKSHOP: From Hex to Harvest: A Maledictive and Magical Journey through Cursed Crops and Bewitched Fields

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Jesse Hathaway Diaz

LECTURE & WORKSHOP HOST

LECTURE: On the Very Viscous: In Defense of the Material and Immaterial Magical Oil​

WORKSHOP:By Slick, By Grease, By Fat and Sap: The Devil’s in the Details

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Katarina Pejović

Lecture & Workshop Host

LECTURE: Where The Night-Children Dwell: Vampires in South-Eastern European Herbal Magic

WORKSHOP: Two Eyes Watch Me in The Silver Dream: A Rite of Oneiric Protection Against Vampires and Night Hags

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Kim Schwenk

Lecture & Workshop Host

LECTURE: The Earth is my Shoes, and Heaven is my Hat: Plant Magic of the Pennsylvania Dutch

WORKSHOP: Zauber und Hexenhaus : Household Charms

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Melissa Madara

Lecture & Workshop Host

Adversarial Animism : Compelling Magic in Botanical Charms

WORKSHOP: Techniques of the Honorable Harvest

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Sian Sibley

Lecture & Workshop Host

LECTURE: A Mechanical Flower Does Not Smell as Sweet

WORKSHOP: Chasing Charubel – Unveiling the Green

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