Free Online Talk · "Who Goes There in the Dark Night Air? Phantom Processions from the Wild Hunt to the Witches’ Sabbath with Jason Lahman
7pm ET (NYC time)
Monday, July 14, 2025
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Ticketholders: A Zoom invite is sent out two hours before the event to the email used at checkout. Please check your spam folder and if not received, email hello@morbidanayomy.org.
This lecture will provide a sneak peak at Jason Lahman's two-part course "The Power of the Witch", beginning in August 3.
Across premodern Europe, the night was haunted by uncanny processions—phantom cavalcades like the Wild Hunt, the Fairy Rades, and the Witches’ Sabbath. These nocturnal assemblies, glimpsed in skies, forests, and dreams, featured ancestral spirits, exiled gods, restless souls, night-flying women, and dreamers—figures seen as omens, agents of chaos, or bearers of hidden wisdom.
The recurring motif of the "Army of the Night" reflects deep-rooted pagan memories, liminal rites, and collective trances, often repressed or condemned as heresy. In this illustrated talk, historian and artist Jason Lahman will, through evocative images and texts, uncover how these processions encoded forbidden rituals, ecstatic states, and alternative visions of the soul’s journey surviving beneath layers of Christian fear and cultural change.
Whether as terrifying hunts, ecstatic revels, or diabolical sabbaths, these night processions formed a moving theater of the unconscious, dissolving boundaries between living and dead, real and visionary, individual and communal. Once feared and forbidden, they now illuminate how early Europeans imagined the soul, the mysteries of night, and the unseen world in motion.
Join us for a night of myth, madness, and spectral memory as we follow the wind-tossed hoofbeats of those who ride when the world sleeps.
Jason Lahman is an artist and cultural historian of science, technology and the occult.
7pm ET (NYC time)
Monday, July 14, 2025
Free! RSVP with email at checkout
PLEASE NOTE: Video playback of free events is only available to Patreon members. Become a Member HERE.
Ticketholders: A Zoom invite is sent out two hours before the event to the email used at checkout. Please check your spam folder and if not received, email hello@morbidanayomy.org.
This lecture will provide a sneak peak at Jason Lahman's two-part course "The Power of the Witch", beginning in August 3.
Across premodern Europe, the night was haunted by uncanny processions—phantom cavalcades like the Wild Hunt, the Fairy Rades, and the Witches’ Sabbath. These nocturnal assemblies, glimpsed in skies, forests, and dreams, featured ancestral spirits, exiled gods, restless souls, night-flying women, and dreamers—figures seen as omens, agents of chaos, or bearers of hidden wisdom.
The recurring motif of the "Army of the Night" reflects deep-rooted pagan memories, liminal rites, and collective trances, often repressed or condemned as heresy. In this illustrated talk, historian and artist Jason Lahman will, through evocative images and texts, uncover how these processions encoded forbidden rituals, ecstatic states, and alternative visions of the soul’s journey surviving beneath layers of Christian fear and cultural change.
Whether as terrifying hunts, ecstatic revels, or diabolical sabbaths, these night processions formed a moving theater of the unconscious, dissolving boundaries between living and dead, real and visionary, individual and communal. Once feared and forbidden, they now illuminate how early Europeans imagined the soul, the mysteries of night, and the unseen world in motion.
Join us for a night of myth, madness, and spectral memory as we follow the wind-tossed hoofbeats of those who ride when the world sleeps.
Jason Lahman is an artist and cultural historian of science, technology and the occult.
7pm ET (NYC time)
Monday, July 14, 2025
Free! RSVP with email at checkout
PLEASE NOTE: Video playback of free events is only available to Patreon members. Become a Member HERE.
Ticketholders: A Zoom invite is sent out two hours before the event to the email used at checkout. Please check your spam folder and if not received, email hello@morbidanayomy.org.
This lecture will provide a sneak peak at Jason Lahman's two-part course "The Power of the Witch", beginning in August 3.
Across premodern Europe, the night was haunted by uncanny processions—phantom cavalcades like the Wild Hunt, the Fairy Rades, and the Witches’ Sabbath. These nocturnal assemblies, glimpsed in skies, forests, and dreams, featured ancestral spirits, exiled gods, restless souls, night-flying women, and dreamers—figures seen as omens, agents of chaos, or bearers of hidden wisdom.
The recurring motif of the "Army of the Night" reflects deep-rooted pagan memories, liminal rites, and collective trances, often repressed or condemned as heresy. In this illustrated talk, historian and artist Jason Lahman will, through evocative images and texts, uncover how these processions encoded forbidden rituals, ecstatic states, and alternative visions of the soul’s journey surviving beneath layers of Christian fear and cultural change.
Whether as terrifying hunts, ecstatic revels, or diabolical sabbaths, these night processions formed a moving theater of the unconscious, dissolving boundaries between living and dead, real and visionary, individual and communal. Once feared and forbidden, they now illuminate how early Europeans imagined the soul, the mysteries of night, and the unseen world in motion.
Join us for a night of myth, madness, and spectral memory as we follow the wind-tossed hoofbeats of those who ride when the world sleeps.
Jason Lahman is an artist and cultural historian of science, technology and the occult.