Here is the thoroughly comprehensive, absolutely definitive guide to spells, the basic handbook for anyone looking to practice some hands-on magic. Delightfully well-written and practical, filled with atmospheric illustrations and diagrams throughout, it encompasses all the principles and philosophy of spell casting, and gives recipes for charms to solve common contemporary problems. This offers what witchcraft and Wicca books don't: an in-depth understanding of what's behind the spells and why they work. It's amazing how much magic is in here: Geomancy; Elemental Scrying; Tree Divination; Charms and Chants to Help and Heal; Letters, Glyphs, and Runes; Mystic Dance and Drumming; Kitchen Witchery; and lots more. From healing, protection, and attraction spells to spells for discernment, repulsion and concealing, not a topic goes uncovered.
This weighty volume by Deerman and Rasmussen (founders, Coven Oldenwilde), Wiccan and Pagan religious rights activists, is something between a handbook on the proper use and administration of spells and a collection of ancient spells revived and transformed for the modern setting. It includes magical alphabets, musical ciphers, planetary and other sigils, dances, and gestures useful to the practitioner. Questions of efficacy aside, it is lightly and entertainingly written and would make an inexpensive introduction to the subject. For most collections.
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