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Today on Rooon Soup, we are speaking to author, grimoire specialist and gentleman scholar Jake Stratton Kent. Jake is responsible for some of the more important works of this current magical revival including

geosophia and the Testament of Cyprian the Mage. Mr Stratton Kent thank you very

much for your time. Yeah it's pleasure as ever.

Very good, very good.

Now we chat reasonably often, so I know some snippets of the traditional first question already,

but there are people out there who don't so Jake were you a weird kid.

I still am yeah yeah very weird kid in lots of ways. But yeah specifically yeah got into mythology and all that quite early and didn't really fit in, got bullied for a while

until I had a quiet chat with my grandfather and then I became a bit of a terror instead.

So yeah, yeah, I didn't mind being a weird kid once that hurdle was crossed.

Right, so did your interest in things like swords and so on come from your grandfather?

Um, he was quite a gentle guy in a way, you know, in most ways really, but, uh, yeah, it's, it's, you know, it's it it's it it's it it's

it's done from me becoming a terror certainly I have I've got

Mars in the first house and so on and so once I discovered that quality in myself there was no stopping it.

Understood. Now when you say you were reading mythology, is it the classic story? I mean we've had quite a few

Brits on the show so far and many of them seem to have

grown up near surprisingly well-stocked public libraries that have even things like

Crowley in them but certainly large mythology

sections. Were you like from a family that had these kind of books or were you the

beneficiary of an amazing public library?

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