Homo Magi 

Kibbo Kift

30.08.2026

Hallo Salamander,

manche Dinge kann man nicht beschreiben, die muss man ansehen. Was ist das?[1]

 Oder das hier?[2]

Oder das?[3]

Alles das ist Kibbo Kift.

Hilft auch nicht viel weiter. Also liefere ich ein paar Hinweise. Es war ein Artikel namens „The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift“ in „Fortean Times“ 336 (Januar 2016), der mich auf das Thema brauchte.

Der „Guardian“ schreibt zum Kibbo Kift:

The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift – deliberately designed around the „magical“ letter K and using a kind of Anglo-Saxon esperanto – was formed in 1920. It was thus part of the great turmoil that happened after the war: with so many millions of adolescents slaughtered, youth was at a premium, and it was beginning to develop its own self-consciousness as a separate social grouping, as well as making its first attempts to build an ideology. „Civilisation was about to die,“ thought the youthful kinsman Leslie Paul, „and the future belonged only to us, the young, who were going to build a better one.“[4]

Es gibt einen guten Eintrag in der englischsprachigen Wikipedia zum Thema:

The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift was a camping, hiking and handicraft group with ambitions to bring world peace. It was the first of three movements in England associated with the charismatic artist and writer John Hargrave (1894–1982). The Kindred was founded in 1920. Some members continued into Hargrave's Green Shirt Movement for Social Credit, which was established in 1931–32, and which became in 1935 the Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This was wound up in 1951.

Hargrave claimed all three organisations to be part of one mission, telling his followers after the last title-change: „We are the Green Shirts – indeed we are the Kindred – calling ourselves the Social Credit Party of Great Britain officially, but knowing full well who and what we are. »Whelm on me ye Resurrected Men!« – I give you that outcry of the Kin in 1927.”

The mission was the belief that Kibbo Kift training would produce a core of healthy and creative individuals through whom the human race would evolve into a society without war, poverty and wasted lives. The Kibbo Kift held that individual character strengthened by mental discipline was the key to the future, not mass movements based on groups defined by class, race or nation states.[5]

Ich hatte davon noch nie gehört, obwohl ich seit 40+ Jahren zu diesen Themen lese und zuhöre und schaue. Es war wohl ein englischsprachiges Phänomen – und selbst die Einbindung von Menschen wie H. G. Wells in den Kift (jajaja, selbst nachlesen, glaubst du mir sowieso nicht) führte nicht dazu, dass das Projekt in meinen Lesekreisen auftauchte.

Mit was beendet man ein solches Schreiben an dich? Mit einem weiteren, unverständlichen Foto, das auch was Magisches hat … zumindest für mich:[6]

Das Ist Magie.

Man muss nicht alles verstehen, aber man kann viel bewundern.

 Dein Homo Magi

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