SHANI OATES
Matriarch of the Clan of Tubal Cain
Occultist, Mystic, Luciferian Pilgrim of the Forbidden Arts, Traditional Craft Practitioner, researcher, lecturer, historian, and writer of the Craft, Magic, Ancestral Tradition, particularly the Robert Cochrane Tradition, and the cultural Folk-lore and Folk-magicks of the Uk and its Northern Heritage. Spae-wife and Matriarch of The People of Goda, The Clan of Tubal Cain. Student of Anthropology, Tantra, Philosophy, and the arcane ‘Other.’
Author of several books that write informatively on the myths, gods, and archetypes that imbue and inform the Cults and Crafts of Witchcraft and Folk-Traditions, shifting through the arcane to modern times.
She is known for publications such as Tubelo’s Green Fire, The Arcane Veil, Star-Crossed Serpent Volumes I-IV (Mandrake of Oxford), The People of Goda, The Robert Cochrane Tradition: CTC: Tubal’s Mill (revised edition - 2018) & TM: Legend, Paean to Hekate (Create Space and through Hell Fire Club Books) and Crafting the Arte of Tradition, The Devil’s Supper, The Hanged God, Wolfs-Head, The Search for Óðinn released on Anathema Publishing Ltd.
Numerous articles in other Craft Anthologies, periodicals, and magazines over the last two decades include: Pillars (Vol.1, Issue.3) The Ebon Kteis [Anathema Publishing], Heritage - A CTC Anthology [Create Space], Genuine Witchcraft is explained: Secret Tradition of the Royal Windsor Coven and the Regency [Capall Bann], Serpent Songs [Scarlet Imprint], The Wanton Green [Mandrake], The Silver Wheel [Lear Books], Ancestors of the Craft [Copper Cauldron Publishing], Hecate: Her Sacred Fires [Avalonia] and the 2011 #2 of the Abraxas Occult Journal that features: ‘Pashupati – A Cainite Trimurti’ [Fulgur].
Other articles may be found in various popular pagan, folklore, and occult publications spanning almost two decades. These include: Pendragon, Verdelet, Bridget’s Fire, The White Dragon, Pentacle, The Goddess Alive, The Hedge Wytch, The Wytch’s Standard, Pagan Dawn, and The Cauldron.
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Crafting the Arte of Tradition
by Shani Oates
Illustrations by Lupe Vasconcelos
Typeset, Layout, & Design by G. McCaughry
Tradition is about Folk Magick and community customs – it thrives as a Faith, both lived and applied in Craft, and realised in Arte. Crafting the Arte of Tradition bares its soul while explaining its engagement of the ‘Other’ found in Wind-walkers, Wights, Covenants and Kings, Ancestors and Fools, Old Gods, Law and Lore, custom and culture, Fate and Magick, Divination and prophecy, tools of Craft and of Trade, and finally, Mysteries and Mysticism.
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Tubelo’s Forge: A Gramarye of Robert Cochrane’s Early Years
by Shani Oates
Illustrations by Johnny Decker Miller
“The real Mystery is only uncovered by the individual, and cannot be told, but only pointed to.”
~Robert Cochrane
Robert Cochrane – a name synonymous with Traditional Craft – is perhaps one of its most controversial figures of the 20th century. Scores of articles, books, blogs and webpages claim much in his name, each a pastiche of the other, and though they are a testament to his popularity, they offer little substance regarding his work, and even less in terms of factual information. Addressing this plethora of misinformation and lack, this book, Tubelo’s Forge, composed by Shani Oates — the Maid and Matriarch of the Clan of Tubal Cain — brings much needed light and clarity to the work initiated by this most profound yet perplexing pellar and mystic of the Craft.
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The Search for Óðinn: From Pontic Steppe to Sutton Hoo
[Volume III of the Óðinn Trilogy within the Northern Otherworld Series]
by Shani Oates
Typeset, Layout, & Design by Joseph Uccello
Illustrations by BFR
Óðinn has been scandalised and deified in equal measure by medieval churchmen, demonising pre-Christian beliefs, and more recently by the romantic idealists and nationalists of the 20th Century, who glamorised them, to the extent that the genuine historical persona of this popular figure is saturated in complex, confusing mythology. Poetic kennings and riddles tease out our deductive processes, pushing beyond rational, logistic exploration to evoke our apprehension of the Other.
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The Devil's Supper
by Shani Oates
Illustrations by Lupe Vasconcelos
Typeset, Layout, & Design by G. McCaughry
Always, the Devil is presented as a beacon of decadence and indulgence, whether fair or foul. And, whether droll or tragic, he does – in spite of his bad press – appear always to have our best interests at heart. Perhaps this is why many of us have a soft spot for this notorious rebel who reflects, as he does, the all too human element within. As supreme chimera, he is without peer; his amorphous ambiguity allows him to cross continents, cultures, and time effortlessly; he afflicts art and society in ever more creative and challenging ways… To know his work, we must seek what lies beneath the final mask.
▶ You can still find a copy of The Devil's Supper, Standard Hardcover edition, available at Courtyard Books, though it may be priced higher than it was initially.
▶ You can still find a copy of The Devil's Supper, Collector's edition, available at By The Way Books (USA), though it may be priced higher than it was initially.
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The Hanged God: Óðinn Grímnir
[Volume I of the Óðinn Trilogy within the Northern Otherworld Series]
by Shani Oates
Typeset, Layout, & Design by G. McCaughry
Illustrations by BFR
“The Hanged God: Óðinn Grímnir, by Shani Oates, which I recently had the pleasure of reading. Within its pages Shani shares hidden strands of long-lost ritual and tradition of the Northern peoples; invaluable material that she has unearthed, thoroughly examined and carefully woven back together. As the manuscript stands, it is […] the book I have spent decades looking for, ever hoping to find, but never did.
By comparison, the greater majority of books on the market today, concerning the Northern tradition, simply re-order old information that has been passed around for years. Such books have indeed done their part to inspire newcomers to learn something of the tradition.
However, many long-time heathens, like me, are constantly searching for, and in dire need of, a book that has rare in-depth information and real flesh on its bones. It is in this way that I consider The Hanged God: Óðinn Grímnir to be an absolute gem; an important work containing vital information and study that should not risk being lost.
[Definitely a book] for those who seek to uncover and delve deeper into the mysteries of the Northern tradition.”
— Private correspondence/commentary on The Hanged God by Carol Keith.
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Wolfs-Head: Óðinn, the Ecstatic God of Tethers & Skin-Turning
[Volume II of the Óðinn Trilogy within the Northern Otherworld Series]
by Shani Oates
Typeset, Layout, & Design by G. McCaughry
Illustrations by BFR
“As a transpersonal state, ‘berserkergangr’ has attracted a host of theories that attempt to explain or rationalise it as a drug induced frenzy, or insanity. Too few studies are open to the possibility of an enhanced state of spiritual intoxication, of ‘god possession.’ Being an ecstatic madness, that dedication to an extreme warrior code is more akin to the mysterious disciplines of the east that demand, privation, ordeal and self-sacrifice. It is the path of the zealot, the hero and the priest combined.” (…)
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