The Earliest Origins of Witchcraft: A Journey from Sumerian Sorcery Hidden Paths of Modern Magic Paperback – Large Print, January 2, 2026

The Earliest Origins of Witchcraft A Journey from Sumerian Sorcery to the Hidden Paths of Modern MagicBy Giulio Magazzeni (Lucius Sirius)Long before the witches of medieval Europe, before the grimoires of the Renaissance and the temples of Egypt, there was a more ancient fire — a primordial craft born in the fertile cradle of Sumer and Mesopotamia.This powerful and evocative volume uncovers the forgotten rites, sacred altars, and names of power from the world’s first civilizations. Within these pages, the reader is taken through clay tablets and blood-soaked offerings, moon cults and serpent gods, exorcist spells and dream-traveling witches who communed with the dead beneath the black earth of Ereshkigal.Author Giulio Magazzeni, also known in the Craft as Lucius Sirius, merges decades of ritual experience, archaeological research, and deep mystical vision to reconstruct the roots of witchcraft as it was practiced in the lands of Enki, Inanna, and the Seven Gates of the Underworld.This is not a work of fantasy or speculation — it is a sacred journey into the true foundations of magical practice.Speak the name.Kindle the flame.And remember what was never meant to be forgotten.Witchcraft is as old as the first shadow that danced on the walls of a cave when fire was born. It is not merely practice, a set of rituals, or a collection of spells. Witchcraft is a language — one of the oldest languages of humankind — spoken not with words alone, but with symbols, firelight, breath, and intention. Long before religion was codified into stone and rule, there were whispers to the wind, offerings to the spirits of earth and water, and sacred dances that bridged the world of living and the unseen. This book, The Earliest Origins of Witchcraft, is my attempt to walk back into that firelight and listen to those whispers.The story of witchcraft does not begin with broomsticks or cauldrons. It does not begin with medieval witch hunts or the grimoires of Renaissance magicians. It begins in the deep past — in the bones of our ancestors, in the ashes of ancient hearths, in the ochre-stained walls of caves like Lascaux and Chauvet, where bison and horses were painted with hands that believed in magic. To paint a creature was to touch its spirit, to bring it close, to call it into the hunt. To carve a figure of clay was to shape a prayer. Every line drawn, every song sung, was a spell. The world was alive — every tree, every river, every animal, every gust of wind — and the first witches, though they never called themselves by that name, knew how to speak with this living world. Read more