Magonia

Magonia was, in a treatise written in 815 by Bishop Agobard of Lyons, the birthplace of a people of "aerial spirits" who traveled on "cloud ships" and used meteorological magic to create storms which they used to steal the harvest of the fields. The name was revived in the 60s by Jacques Vallée to define the "other dimension" from which all the mysterious creatures of folklore and mythology, ancient and modern, would come. These enigmatic entities are discussed in the articles listed in this section.

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Articles by Marco Maculotti:

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• The phenomenon of sleep paralysis: folkloric interpretations and recent hypotheses.
• The kidnappings of the Fairies: the "changeling" and the "renewal of the lineage".
• The kidnappings of the Fairies and the mystery of the "Missing 411".
• "The return of the Star Peoples". The X-Files of the Indian Reserves.
• Access to the Other World in the shamanic tradition, folklore and "abduction".
• Who is hiding behind the mask? Visits from Elsewhere and the paraphysical hypothesis.
• “Passport to Magonia”: from folklore to alien myth.
• Towards “TimeWave Zero”: Psychedelia and Eschatology in Terence McKenna.
• Marian & "Dame Bianche" appearances.
• "Underground" civilizations in myth, occultism and "alternative reality".
• Underworld civilization in science fiction fiction.
• From Stonehenge to Rapa Nui: Donald Wandrei and the return of the Titans.
• Cuevas de los Tayos: the Gold of the Gods in the Amazonian subsoil.
• Jacques Bergier and "Magic Realism": a new paradigm for the atomic age.
• Fairies, witches and goddesses: "subtle nourishment" and "bone renewal".
• Fragments of a forgotten shamanism: the Piedmontese Masche.
• Ophidic folklore: the "Rainbow Serpent", the Nagas and the fairy Melusina.
• Fools, shamans, goblins: liminality, otherness and ritual inversion.
• “Follettiana”: 14 classic tales from all over the world about fairy beings.
• The "Little People" in Southeast Native American folklore.
• Psychosis in the shamanic vision of the Algonquians: The Windigo.
•  The Pishtaco: the origins and relevance of the "white vampire" of the Andes.

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Articles by other authors / Alternate Reality:

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• “I remember Lemuria!”: The Shaver Mystery, a myth for the atomic age (F. Cerofolini).
• Charles Fort and the restlessness of the extraordinary (F. Cerofolini).
• The "Son of the Moon": the two faces of Jack Parsons (F. Cerofolini).
• In the Realms of the Unreal with Henry Darger and the Vivian Girls (F. Cerofolini).
• Roerich, Gurdjieff, Blavatsky: the secrets of the Gobi desert (V., Pisciunieri).
• The Altaic exploration of Nicholas Roerich in search of Belovodye, "the Land of the Living Gods" (V., Pisciunieri)..
• HP Lovecraft, the "lost worlds" and Theosophy (M. Gurzo).
• "When the stars will be right": HP Lovecraft between prophecy and Apocalypse (M. Gurzo).
• Colin Wilson & Jacques Bergier: that is, the conspiracy of history (A. Scarabelli).
• Mircea Eliade: "Pauwels, Bergier and the Planet of wizards" (A. Scarabelli).
• Science and fantasy: “Etidorhpa”, John Uri Lloyd's Hollow Earth (A. Scarabelli).
• Shamans in the Amazon and "alien abduction": the strange case of Bernardo Peixoto (J. Mack, excerpt).
• Some reflections on John Keel's "superspectrum" theory (G. Pellegrino).
• Some reflections on "abductions" (G. Pellegrino).
• Vampirism in the light of Jacques Vallée's theories (G. Pellegrino).
• It is not terrestrial (and it does not claim to be) (M. Martini).
• The emanations of the "Dark Satellite" (R. Giorgetti).

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Articles by other authors / Folklore:

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• “… And the steers rose again”: a disturbing ritual between witchcraft and pagan rituals (M. Centini).
• From the Kelpie to the "Horned Serpent": lake monsters in Scottish and Amerindian folklore (F. Cerofolini).
• “Fossil Legend”: fossils and early North American geomythology (F. Cerofolini).
• The witches of Alicudi: notes of Aeolian folklore (M. Palmesano).
• At the origins of Laùro, the Salento nightmare sprite (G. Apples).
• “Chameleonic analogies”: from the mandrake to the salamander, from the basilisk to the elf (G. Apples).
• Tomte and Vättar, Swedish farm folklore entities (G. Vigilante).
• The Krampus, double demonic of San Nicolò (Matthew Maculotti).
• Jack Fiddler, Wendigo's last hunter (GM Mollar).
• Yenaldooshi, the shape-shifting "Skinwalker" of Navajo folklore (GM Mollar).
• The "Ghost Riders", the "Chasse-Galerie" and the myth of the Wild Hunt (GM Mollar).
• The Wild Man's Tomb (GM Mollar).
• The Marvelous in the Middle Ages: the "mirabilia" and the apparitions of the "exercitus mortuorum" (G. Failli).
• Hellequin's Masnada: from Wotan to King Arthur, from Herla to Harlequin (G. Failli).
• Apology of witches. Johann Wier's “De Lamiis” (M. Valentini).