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Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold graduated in psychology, anthropology of religion, and cinema studies from the University of Oslo and NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. He is the owner of Sacred Alchemy Store and the retreat center The Monastery of St. Uriel, Archangel. He has been living in Brazil since 2003, where he has dedicated much of his time to studying, both as a practitioner and as an ethnographer, the varieties of Brazilian spirituality and sorcery.