Book Description
A collection of poetry dealing with witches and their magic, including "The Witch's Song," "Hallowe'en Fright," "The Hag," "Frogday," and more.
Author : Robert Fisher
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Children's poetry
ISBN : 9780571163199
A collection of poetry dealing with witches and their magic, including "The Witch's Song," "Hallowe'en Fright," "The Hag," "Frogday," and more.
Author : Gavin Frost
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,68 MB
Release : 1993-07
Category : Occultism
ISBN : 9780963065759
Author : Jeanne Favret-Saada
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release : 1980-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521297875
This 1980 book examines witchcraft beliefs and experiences in the Bocage, a rural area of western France. It also introduced a powerful theoretical attitude towards the progress of the ethnographer's enquiries, suggesting that a full knowledge of witchcraft involves being 'caught up' in it oneself. In the Bocage, being bewitched is to be 'caught' in a sequence of misfortunes. According to those who are bewitched, the culprit is someone in the neighbourhood: the witch, who can cast a spell with a word, a touch or a look, and whose 'power' comes from a book of spells inherited from an ancestor. Only a professional magician, an 'unwitcher', has any chance of breaking the succession of misfortunes which befall those who have been bewitched. He undertakes a battle of magic with the suspected witch, a battle which is eventually fatal.
Author : Alix E. Harrow
Publisher : Redhook
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 15,21 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316422037
"A gorgeous and thrilling paean to the ferocious power of women. The characters live, bleed, and roar. "―Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel • Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR Books • Barnes and Noble • BookPage In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in this powerful novel of magic, family, and the suffragette movement. In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters―James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna―join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote―and perhaps not even to live―the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive. There's no such thing as witches. But there will be. An homage to the indomitable power and persistence of women, The Once and Future Witches reimagines stories of revolution, motherhood, and women's suffrage—the lost ways are calling. Praise for The Once and Future Witches: "A glorious escape into a world where witchcraft has dwindled to a memory of women's magic, and three wild, sundered sisters hold the key to bring it back...A tale that will sweep you away."―Yangsze Choo, New York Times bestselling author "This book is an amazing bit of spellcraft and resistance so needed in our times, and a reminder that secret words and ways can never be truly and properly lost, as long as there are tongues to speak them and ears to listen."―P. Djèlí Clark, author The Black God's Drum For more from Alix E. Harrow, check out The Ten Thousand Doors of January.
Author : Claude Lecouteux
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1620553759
A comprehensive handbook of more than 1,000 magical words, phrases, symbols, and secret alphabets • Explains the origins, derivatives, and practical usage of each word, phrase, and spell as well as how they can be combined for custom spells • Based on the magical traditions of Europe, Greece, and Egypt and recently discovered one-of-a-kind grimoires from Scandinavia, France, and Germany • Includes an in-depth exploration of secret magical alphabets, including those based on Hebrew letters, Kabbalistic symbols, astrological signs, and runes From Abracadabra to the now famous spells of the Harry Potter series, magic words are no longer confined to the practices of pagans, alchemists, witches, and occultists. They have become part of the popular imagination of the Western world. Passed down from ancient Babylon, Egypt, and Greece, these words and the rituals surrounding them have survived through the millennia because they work. And as scholar Claude Lecouteux reveals, often the more impenetrable they seem, the more effective they are. Analyzing more than 7,000 spells from the magical traditions of Europe as well as the magical papyri of the Greeks and recently discovered one-of-a-kind grimoires from Scandinavia, France, and Germany, Lecouteux has compiled a comprehensive dictionary of ancient magic words, phrases, and spells along with an in-depth exploration--the first in English--of secret magical alphabets, including those based on Hebrew letters, Kabbalistic symbols, astrological signs, and runes. Drawing upon thousands of medieval accounts and famous manuscripts such as the Heptameron of Peter Abano, the author examines the origins of each word or spell, offering detailed instructions on their successful use, whether for protection, love, wealth, or healing. He charts their evolution and derivations through the centuries, showing, for example, how spells that were once intended to put out fires evolved to protect people from witchcraft. He reveals the inherent versatility of magic words and how each sorcerer or witch had a set of stock phrases they would combine to build a custom spell for the magical need at hand. Presenting a wealth of material on magical words, signs, and charms, both common and obscure, Lecouteux also explores the magical words and spells of ancient Scandinavia, the Hispano-Arabic magic of Spain before the Reconquista, the traditions passed down from ancient Egypt, and those that have stayed in use until the present day.
Author : Jilliann L'Meuriat
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 2015-01-24
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781507641514
The world was created with words. We were created with words. Our entire universe survives around words. When we speak, we create new realities. Even when we are thinking, we are designing the world and circumstances around us on a daily basis. This book is a quick guide to helping us discover a new language, a new way to look at words and make them magickal and create a world that works for each and everyone who dares to adventure into the unknown and dream big! Freedom is just a word away!
Author : Jenni Fagan
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 28,64 MB
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1788851048
This new book, The Witch in the Word Machine, is a collection that underpins Jenni Fagan's entire approach to words. Her spell poems are portraits of people, lovers and cities: Paris, New York, Edinburgh, Detroit, LA, and San Francisco. The excerpts of her Truth poem are a political response to great uncertainty in the world right now. This collection is an exploration of words as spells, incantations, curse and solace.
Author : Ellen Cannon Reed
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 28,16 MB
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781578631742
Ellen Cannon Reed. Takes us beyond many of the currently popularized ideas and images related to the nature of Wiccan beliefs and practices. It guides us past the surface into a deeper understanding of the lifestyle, mind set, and religious dedication to spiritual growth that lie at the heart of this life-transforming practice. Reed tells us about life in a coven, training, rituals, initiations, finding a teacher, and spell-casting. Introduction. Reading list. Index. 2000. 144 pp.
Author : Magick + Magick + Moonlight
Publisher :
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 27,8 MB
Release : 2019-10-14
Category :
ISBN : 9781696307307
Witchionary is a 6x9 soft matter cover journal with a bullet format interior (120 cream dot grid pages). A beginner witch's definition guide to rituals + words + symbols contain definition pages of the most commonly used witchy terms, occult holidays, and ritual overviews in the front of the journal. It doesn't matter where you are on your witch journey, sometimes there are just too many rituals, witchy words, and symbols to remember. The blank dot grid pages can serve as space for a mini beginner Book of Shadows.This is a perfect gift for new witches, baby witches, seasoned witches, green witches, kitchen witches, plant witches, sea witches, eclectic witches, herbal witches, and any other kind of witch there is to identify as.Journal is perfect for newbies in a spiritual awakening, lucid dreams, telepathic memories, and recording astral plane traveling for Visionaries, Psychics, Telekinesis, Tarot Card Readers6x9 Soft Matte Cover120 dot grid pages (excluding the resource pages)(Paperback)
Author : Raymond Buckland
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 17,92 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0875420508
"This complete self-study course in modern Wicca is a treasured classic - an essential and trusted guide that belongs in every witch's library."---Back cover