The Magick of A Dark Song: The Abramelin Ritual in Fiction and Reality

A Dark Song (2017) is a cult movie that presents maybe the most realistic depiction ever of ceremonial magick.

Its heroine undertakes "the Abramelin ritual", an occult process for summoning her Guardian Angel, so that it might grant her stated wish to meet again with her murdered child.

Yet the ritual depicted in the film is not entirely fictional. It takes its name from an actual magical working, once attempted by the notorious Aleister Crowley, and undertaken by real-life occultists to the ...