Kaostar! Modern Cunning Chaos Craft
by Francis Breakspear 
Mighty oaks from little acorns do grow… this book of practical ‘Results Magick’ sprang from a brief conversation about cunning folk, the European village sorcerers of old, and how they might do their work today.
The cunning man or woman of history would have traveled around their local area performing the craft with probably a bag full of herbs, some pins, a flint and tinder to make fire, some ready-made charms, a knife and a weighty book or two (about anything) with which to impress the illiterate. By comparison the modern chaos magician cunner would be likely to have a groovy backpack to carry various problem-solving tools in, like a cellphone, a cigarette lighter, a Swiss Army knife, a packet of some painkilling drug, a bag of a quite different herbs for ingestion in various ways, a disk of some computer software, various dark-looking sorcerous books and probably some weird and discordant spooky sounds on their mp3 player to impress the musically illiterate…
But the underlying magic is not be so different across the centuries; being based around the usual and enduring human motivations of sex and love, power and pride, prejudice, envy, revenge, curses and health. Much of the content and methods given in this book are not so much immoral as completely amoral; the practitioner being left to their own devices and choices as to how they use it, rather than any overwrought and baleful prescription to only use it for “good” (whatever that is) taking no account of circumstance. Among many other things you will learn in this book how to change traffic lights to Green, how to use a cellphone and a compact disc to send a spell, a fabulous new source-method of making magic squares, and a great deal about cursing and healing methods. This is some real results magic, shorn of a lot of the ethical dogma…. and for adults.
This book is timely, in that there has existed for some time a need for balance in the expression of what magic is about, balance with the overarching fluffiness and ‘do-anything-as-long-as-it-is-white-light’ of modern paganism.
‘Harm None’ Wiccans will hate this- indeed, one who saw the initial manuscript called it ‘simply monstrous’, and left.
What reviewers think:
…”outrageously funny and scurrilous little book of Chaos Cunning Craft….This tasty morsel of off-white magic will outrage fluffy bunny new-age spiritual types and delight Chaoists everywhere. It contains a wealth of handy tips and I particularly liked the Nightmare Catcher idea, I shall probably build one later today. Peter J Carroll.”
“…an entertaining read, and more, it will prove a useful reminder to those who feel the current’s reached its peak. Kaostar! will inspire strange thoughts, and this is a good thing.” Spiralnature.com review
“…a very funny, clever and creative work of down & dirty chaos magick at its best, full of innovative techniques and novel suggestions for raising power and achieving results… Sudoku as magical squares? Binge and purge for physiological gnosis? Servitors to change traffic lights? Whatever winds your watch…”
Silver Star Journal Issue 8 review
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