In Mexico, large wreaths made of whole garlic bulbs strung on wire are festooned with pictures of saints, packets of magical herbs, lodestones, rock salt, pine nuts as well as clumps of freshly cut aloe. These are hung up in the home for protection, luck, money, and so on. Anciently, it was used to attract good fortune in Egypt, and burned as incense in magical evocatory rites during the Renaissance.
It possesses high spiritual vibrations, and will bring love if carried or worn. Modern magical herbalists use wood aloes as a strengthening herb, by adding a small amount to other mixtures to intensify their powers. Burn as incense for this purpose, or carry in a sachet.
This is a popular voodoo practice. It was also once outlawed by Spanish colonial authority in Mexico because it was used by Aztecs in their rituals. Magical Uses: A crown of amaranth flowers worn on the head speeds healing. To make sure that you are never struck by a bullet, pull up a whole amaranth plant including roots preferably on a Friday during the Full Moon. Leave an offering to the plant and then fold it, roots and all, in a piece of white cloth.
Wear this against your breast and you'll be "bullet-proof. A wreath of amaranth worn confers invisibility. Grow red anemones in the garden to protect both it and the home.
Use the blossoms in all healing rituals. Use in all protection and exorcism incenses. Sprinkle the four corners of the house with angelica to ward off evil, or do this around the perimeter of the house.
Added to the bath, angelica removes curses, hexes, and any spells that may have been cast against you. The root was carried in the pocket as a gambling talisman among some American Indian tribes. Angelica is also used in healing incenses and mixtures, and smoking the leaves is said to cause visions. This will ensure that you have no nightmares. Use in protection and meditation incenses. Fresh anise leaves placed in a room will drive off evil, and they are sometimes placed around the magic circle to protect the magician from evil spirits.
It also averts the evil eye. Anise seed is also used in purification baths, especially with bay leaves. It is used to call forth spirits to aid in magical operations, and a sprig hung on the bedpost will restore lost youth. Wiccan altars are often piled high with apples on Samhain, for the apple is considered to be one of the foods of the dead. For this very reason Samhain is sometimes known as "Feast of Apples.
A branch of the apple which bore buds, flowers and fully-ripened fruit sometimes known as the Silver Bough , was a kind of magical charm which enabled its possessor to enter into the land of the Gods, the Underworld, in Celtic mythology. In the old English ballad, Thomays the Ryrnour Thomas the Rhymer , the Fairy Queen warns Thomas against eating any of the apples and pears which hung in her garden, for to eat the food of the dead ensures there will be no return to the world of the living.
In some Wiccan traditions, the apple is a symbol of the soul, and so they are buried on Samhain so that those who will be reborn in the spring will have food during the cold winter months. Magical Uses: The apple has long been used in spells of love. The blossoms are added to love sachets, brews and incenses, and they are infused in melted pink wax, then strained out, to make candles suitable to burn for attracting love. A simple apple love spell consists of cutting an apple in half and sharing it with your loved one.
This ensures that you will be happy together. A similar spell directs you to hold an apple in your hands until warm, and then give it to your intended. If he or she eats it your love will be returned. Apples are also used in love divinations, which were so popular among unmarried women in Europe for many centuries.
Simply cut an apple in two and count the number of seeds. If they are even, marriage will soon occur. If one of the seeds is cut it may be a stormy relationship. If two are cut, widowhood is foretold. However, if an uneven number of seeds are found the woman will remain unmarried in the near future.
One last apple love spell. Then give the apple to whom you will—but be warned, for this like much love magic borders on manipulation. The Herbs For healing, cut an apple into three pieces, rub each on the affected part of the body, and then bury them.
Do this during the waning of the Moon to banish illnesses. To ensure that you do not contract a fever, eat an apple. If you are a gardener, pour cider onto freshly-turned earth to give it life just before planting. Also pour libations on roots just before tree rituals. And if you grow apples, bury thirteen leaves of an apple tree after harvest to ensure a good crop of apples next year. The Norse, as well as many other peoples, ate apples to gain immortality through wisdom, and the wood of the apple tree can be made into charms for longevity.
Apple wood also makes excellent magical wands, especially suited to emotional magic, as well as love rites. Use apple cider in place of blood where it is called for in old recipes.
Apples can be fashioned into poppets or magical figures for use in spells, or images can be carved from the wood itself. Before eating any apple, rub it to remove any demons or evil spirits which might be hiding inside. You can't be too careful! Finally, unicorns live beneath apple trees as well as those of the ash , and so if you know of an apple orchard, quietly go there on a misty day. You may see a single horn upraised and a horselike animal quietly munching sweet, magical apples.
Purifies area of negativity and evil. See also Acacia. It is also used in exorcisms, and has been since the time of ancient Greece. Also use in protection sachets, but only if you want to smell odd. Destroys manifestations of spirits if thrown onto a fire or into the censer during magical rites. Sometimes used as an amulet to keep away colds and fevers, and for this purpose is usually worn around the neck. Unfortunately, though asafoetida is undoubtedly powerful, it also has a particularly horrid odor.
Just the slightest suggestion of the fragrance has caused vomiting. Use with care. ASH Fraxinus excelsior or F. Magical Uses: Carve a piece of ash wood into a solar cross equal-armed and carry as a protection against drowning while at sea. It is also used in sea rituals, for it represents the power which resides in water. Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs The leaves of the ash, when placed beneath the pillow, induce prophetic dreams.
It is, as with most trees, considered to be protective. A staff of ash hung over the doorposts wards off malign influences and at one time a garter made of the green bark was worn as a protectant against the powers of sorcerers and conjurers.
The leaves are also scattered to the four directions to protect a house or area, and are used in protective sachets and spells. Healing wands are sometimes fashioned of ash wood, and a few ash leaves placed in a bowl of water next to the bed, left overnight, will prevent illnesses.
The water should be discarded each morning and the rite repeated each night. If any person or animal has been bitten by a snake, make a circlet of ash twigs and tie it around the victim's neck whether it be human or otherwise and it will cure them.
Of course, it would not hurt to get the snakebite kit and call a doctor as well. This spell probably works because snakes have an innate fear of the ash tree; they will not crawl over its wood. If you burn ash wood at Yule, you will receive prosperity, and poppets may be carved from the roots of the ash. The ash attracts lightning, so don't stand beneath one during an electrical storm. If you wish your newborn to be a good singer, bury its first nail parings under an ash tree. And to gain the love of the opposite sex, carry the leaves.
Place an aspen leaf under your tongue if you wish to become eloquent. In some parts of America this tree was called Aspen and used magically as listed here. In other parts of America it was called Poplar and used differently. See also Poplar. Magical Uses: Use in love sachets, or carry the bloom to win love.
Also grow in the garden with a wish for love. Also used in purification rites. When worn or carried as an amulet, it protects against the attacks of all venomous beasts. Employed by male American Indians to gain the love of the opposite sex. Magical Uses: Eat the fruit of the avocado to become infused with lust, as the ancient Aztecs did. Grow a plant from the pit of an avocado in your home to bring love into it. Magical wands made of avocado wood are potent all-purpose instruments.
Carry the pit to promote beauty. Or, take a flower and put it in your pocket, it will lose or retain its freshness in accordance with bad or good success in amatory pursuits. Soak the herb in wine for several hours, strain and share with a friend. Or, carry the herb with you to find love. It is also used in magical healing, and Pliny said that its powers were so great that if it was attached to a sword that had made a wound the blood would be immediately staunched.
Though swordwounds are rare today, the lemon balm is still used in healing incenses and sachets. It can also be used in spells to ensure success, and if you keep bees, rub this herb on the hives; it will attract new bees and keep the old ones there. Also steep them in red wine for a simple love drink.
Burn as a material basis for spirits, and also carry for protective and healing purposes. Many plants carry this name. Be sure you know what you are buying or picking! Bits of the wood are thrown to the worshipper by the priest.
According to the way they fall, the omen is interpreted as good or bad. Magical Uses: Carve your wish on a piece of bamboo and bury in the ground in a secluded place.
Or, carve a symbol of protection, like a five-pointed star pentagram , on a length of bamboo and plant it in the ground to protect your home. Grown near the house, bamboo gives it and its residents good fortune.
Also, bamboo is placed over the door because, since its wood never changes color, it is lucky. Bamboo is used to break hexes, either by carrying it in a sachet, growing a plant near the house, or crushing the wood to a powder called bamba wood and burning.
The Chinese use the bamboo as a charm against evil spirits. To call up good spirits, make a flute out of bamboo. Carve the name of the spirit if any and play an improvised melody. Until the kapu code of taboos in Hawaii was broken in , certain kinds of bananas were among foods forbidden to women on pain of death. The banana plant 46 Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs is also used in contemporary voodoo rites, in which it represents the gods, since both they and the banana's flowers are hermaphroditic.
Magical Uses: The banana is used to increase fertility, and also to cure impotency. Perhaps because of these magical powers, if a bride is married under a banana tree she cannot help being lucky. The leaves, flowers and fruits of the banana are used in money and prosperity spells, due to the tree's fruitfulness. Curiously enough, an old belief tells us that a banana should never be cut, only broken. It is also connected with the worship of Maui in Hawaiian and Polynesian religions. Magical Uses: To simply sit beneath or look at a banyan tree brings good luck, and to be married under one ensures the couple's happiness.
If you have a toothache, it can be cured with barley. Wind a barley straw around a stone, visualizing your pain into the stone. Now throw it into a river or any running water, and see your pain being washed away. Barley may be scattered on the ground to keep evil and negativity away.
It is added to love incenses and Cunninghams Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs sachets, and the fresh leaves are rubbed against the skin as a kind of natural love perfume. In Eastern Europe it was once thought that a young man would love any woman from whose hand he accepted a sprig of basil. Basil is also used in love divinations. Place two fresh basil leaves upon a live coal. If they lie where you put them and burn quickly to ashes, the marriage or relationship will be harmonious.
If there is a certain amount of crackling the life of the pair will be disturbed by quarrels. If the leaves fly apart with fierce crackling the projected relationship is undesirable. Do you want to know if someone is chaste or promiscuous? Simply lay a sprig of fresh basil on their hand. It will immediately wither if that person is "light of love. The basil is also used to ensure that one's mate remains true.
Sprinkle basil powder over your body thoroughly while he or she is asleep, especially over the heart, and fidelity will bless your relationship. Basil is strewn onto floors, because where it is, no evil can live. It is also used in exorcism incenses and in purification baths. Small amounts are sometimes placed in each room of the house to bring protection.
Basil is also used to keep goats away from your property, to attract scorpions, and to prevent inebriation. Witches were said to drink about 'A cup of basil juice before flying off into the air. Basil can also be used to diet, but only by a second party's help, and without the dieter's knowledge. According to an ancient spell, a woman or a man, presumably will not be able to eat a bite from any dish if basil has been secretly placed beneath it.
Basil given as a gift brings good luck to a new home. Bay leaves are used as decorations at Yule. Magical Uses: Bay is used in clairvoyance and wisdom brews, although its taste is strong.
Bay leaves are placed beneath the pillow to induce prophetic dreams, and are also burned to cause visions. It is a protection and purification herb par excellence and is worn as an amulet to ward off negativity and evil, burned or scattered during exorcism rituals, placed in the windows to protect against lightning, and hung up to prevent poltergeists from working any mischief in the house.
A sprig of bay is used to sprinkle water during purification ceremonies, and the tree planted near the home protects its inhabitants against sickness.
Bay leaves mixed with sandalwood can be burned to remove curses and evil spells. Bay leaves give strength to those engaged in wrestling and athletic sports if worn at the time of competition.
Wishes are written on bay leaves which are then burned to make them come true, and a bay leaf held in the mouth wards off bad luck. BEAN Phaseolus spp. Beans not used for food may be poisonous. Beans are always sacred to harvest goddesses.
According to tradition only the highest-ranking priestess in Scotland could either plant or cook the bean. Beans, along with pork, were offered to Cardea in Rome on June 1 st. They are also associated with the Underworld and the dead: and in ancient Rome they were distributed and eaten during funerals. Magical Uses: In general, beans were used in classical times and still are as a charm against evil sorcerers.
Put a bean in your mouth and spit it out at the person. Dried beans are carried as an amulet against negativity and evil magic. They are also used in rattles to scare away spirits, especially those who have entered into bodies and made those people sick. To avert evil spirits, say very quickly three times in one breath, Three blue beans in a blue bladder.
Rattle, bladder, rattle. If a couple is quarreling, the woman should carry three lima beans strung on a silk thread for two days. The couple will quickly smooth over their difficulties. Beans help cure impotency if they are carried or eaten. This is due to the fact that they resemble testicles. A bean love spell: a woman should place seven beans of any kind in a circle on the ground. Next, she must have the man of her choice step into the circle or walk over it. If this can be done, he will be attracted to her.
But this might also be manipulatory. To cure warts, rub a dried bean on each wart during the waning Moon. As you do this say: As this bean decays, So wart, fall away! Your wish will come true if it is to be. Carry the wood or leaves to increase creative powers. Beet juice is used as an ink in love magic, and is also a blood substitute. Bellona is the Roman Goddess of war. Magical Uses: Today belladonna is little-used in herb magic due to its high toxicity—all parts of the plant are extremely poisonous and there are still reports of death resulting from accidental ingestion of nightshade.
In the past it was used to encourage astral protection and to produce visions, but safer alternatives are available today and belladonna is best avoided. A fine "clearing" herb. Make an incense of benzoin, cinnamon and basil, and burn to attract customers to your place of business.
Often used as a base for incenses. They can both be used as described above, but Benzoin Sumatra is better suited for cleansing, while Benzoin Siam is better suited for attraction.
Benzoin Siam can be substituted for storax, to which it is related. Fresh leaves are also rubbed onto money before spending it to ensure its return. Also used in "success" rituals and spells. The pseudo-Apuleius said that the plant protected the wearer's soul as well as the body, and that when placed beneath the pillow it shielded the sleeper from visions and dreams. Betony is added to purification and protection mixtures and incenses, and it is traditional on Midsummer to burn it on a bonfire and then jump through the smoke to purify the body of ills and evil.
Betony is also grown in gardens to protect the home, and is scattered near doors and windows. This forms a kind of protective wall around the property through which no evil can pass. Cunninghams Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs Betony is also a good plant to carry when making love advances, and is said to reunite quarelling couples if the plant is added to food.
Additionally, betony prevents intoxication if carried, strengthens the body when worn, and is a cure for the mysterious disease known as 'elf-sickness. The tree is also used for protection, and Russians used to hang a red ribbon around the stem of a birch to rid themselves of the evil eye.
The birch also protects against lightning. The traditional broom of the Witches was made of birch twigs, and cradles were once manufactured from birch wood to protect their helpless charges. Burn with frankincense to improve psychic powers, or when using divination. The infusion sprinkled about a place will drive out poltergeists. Bistort is carried in money-attracting sachets and is added to wealth and money incenses.
The bittersweet is also used to protect against and to remove evil from both humans and animals, by tying a small piece of the herb somewhere on the body.
Tied to the neck, bittersweet cures vertigo or dizziness of the head, according to Culpeper. To the present day, blackberry pies are baked on Lughnasadh August 2 by some of the Wiccans in commemoration of the harvest, seen poetically as the death of the God. Magical Uses: A bramble bush that forms a natural arch is a great aid to magical healing.
On a sunny day, crawl through the arch backward and then forward three times, going as nearly east to west as possible. This will cause boils, rheumatism, whooping cough and even blackheads to disappear. The blackberry leaves are used in spells of wealth, as are the berries themselves, and the vines are protective if grown.
The blackberry plant is also used to heal scalds by dipping nine blackberry leaves in spring water and then laying them against the wound gently, while saying the following chant three times to each leaf 27 times in all : Three ladies came from the east, One with fire and two with frost. Out with fire, in with frost. This is an old invocation to Brigit, the ancient Celtic Goddess of poetry, healing, and smithcraft.
Therefore, intercontinental travellers should carry this plant. It is also used in sea spells to summon the spirits of the sea, by throwing it onto the waves and calling them.
This will gain their favor and they will aid your magic. Cunningham's Encyclopedia of MagicaJ Herbs Kelp is used to summon the winds: Stand on the shore and hold a long strand of the fresh seaweed in your hand, whip it around in the air above your head in a clockwise direction and whistle.
The winds will come. Make an infusion of the plant and scrub the floors and doors of a place of business to attract customers and bring good vibrations into the store. Also use in all money spells. A particularly potent spell entails simply filling a small jar with whiskey, placing some kelp in it, capping tightly, and placing this in the kitchen window. This will ensure a steady flow of money into the household. Bladderwrack is also used in sachets to increase psychic powers and is carried to protect against mental derangement.
If the juice is red, your love has a heart full of love for you. But if it is white, he or she doesn't love you. When grown, the plant brings love. The bleeding heart, when grown indoors, has the reputation of producing negative vibrations. To forestall this, plant a coin in the soil and all will be right. It is also carried to avert evil spells and negativity.
Place near doorways and windowsills so the home will be protected. The darkest red roots are considered to be the best, and are known as "king roots," or "he roots.
The next time you see a bluebell, pick it and repeat the following words: Bluebell, bluebell, bring me some luck before tomorrow night. Slip it into your shoe to seal the spell. Anyone who wears a bluebell is compelled to tell the truth in all matters. This protects against evil as well. Make blueberry pies or tarts and eat when under psychic attack; this gets the protection inside you and increases the herb's effectiveness.
The root is also placed in cash registers to increase business. In the East, sacred fires are fed with its wood. Since Buddha also sat beneath this tree in meditation for six years, it is sacred to Him, and the heart-shaped leaves still tremble remembering the divine vibrations.
Magical Uses: If you feel evil near, simply circle this tree several times and the evil shall flee in terror. Barren women walk naked beneath a bodhi tree to become fertile.
Use the leaves in meditation incenses and all mixtures designed to give wisdom. Make an infusion and sprinkle about the house to drive away evil. A tea of borage induces psychic powers.
Bracken is also used for protection, healing and fertility. If the root is placed beneath the pillow it causes solutions of problems to appear in dreams. Money placed near a briony root will increase, as long as it is left there. The root is also hung in houses and gardens as a protection against the effects of bad weather.
The plants are also protective, and so are a good choice of house plants. Also, an infusion of broom sprinkled through the house exorcises poltergeists. Although the infusion was once used as a drink to increase psychic powers, this can be dangerous because the plant is slightly poisonous; carry instead for this purpose. To raise the winds, throw broom into the air while invoking the spirits of the Air, preferably from a mountaintop. To calm the winds, burn broom and bury the ashes. If you do outdoor spells which is the best place to perform magic sweep the ground with broom prior to your workings, if it grows nearby.
Frankincense mixed with buchu is burned directly before retiring to produce prophetic dreams. Only a small amount should be burned, and this must be in the bedroom. A charming legend concerning the buckthorn says that if one sprinkles buckthorn in a circle and then dances within it under a full Moon, an elf will appear.
The dancer must notice the elf and say, "Halt and grant my boon! The elf will then grant one wish. I cannot make any guarantees this will happen, however. Buckthorn is also used in legal matters carried or worn to court, etc.
Or, use to form magic circles on the floor around you while performing magic. Add a few grains of buckwheat to money incenses, and keep some in the kitchen to guard against poverty. Add to protection incenses and use in such spells. Gather burdock roots in the waning Moon, dry and then cut them into small pieces. String these on red thread like beads and wear for protection against evil and negativity.
The leaves of the burdock, when laid to the soles of the feet, help to cure gout. Grown indoors, they protect against unwanted intrusions and burglaries, and also absorb negativity. Outside, one cactus should be placed facing each direction, next to the house, to further protect it.
Cactus spines are sometimes used in Witch bottles, and to mark symbols and words on candles and roots. These are then either carried or buried to release the power. Small pieces of the root kept in all corners of the kitchen protect against hunger and poverty. Growing the plant brings good luck to the gardener, and calamus is also used to strengthen and bind spells. Place the fresh blossoms in vessels of water on the altar during money and prosperity rituals.
Also place beside the bed for this purpose. A bag of camphor or the bark of a camphor tree hung around the neck, prevents the contraction of colds and flu.
Camphor is sometimes used in divinatory incenses; unfortunately, true camphor is all but unavailable in the United States, so synthetics usually have to suffice. The caper is also used in love and lust formulae. It is often carried for this purpose.
Any object which holds some caraway seeds is theft-proof. The seeds are also used to encourage fidelity, and are placed in sachets and talismans to attract a mate.
When baked into cookies, bread, or cakes they are lustinducing. Chewing the seeds is helpful to gain the love of one you desire. They also strengthen the memory, and a small bag of the seeds placed in a child's bed protects the child from illness. They are also baked into apple pies for a wonderful amatory pastry, and are added to love sachets and incenses. Carnations are placed in convalescent rooms to give the healing patient strength and energy, and are also used in healing spells.
Place fresh carnations red are best on the altar during healing rituals and add the dried blossoms to sachets and incenses for the same purpose. Carrots are eaten to promote lust and to cure impotence. It will help you win your case.
Cascara sagrada is also used in money spells, and worn as an amulet against evil and hexes. It is also intoxicating to the cat. Catnip is used in love sachets, usually in conjunction with rose petals. If you hold catnip in your hand until it is warm, then hold anyone else's hand; they will forever be your friend, as long as you keep the catnip you used for the spell in some safe place. Grown near the home or hung over the door, catnip attracts good spirits and great luck.
Catnip is also used in spells designed to enhance beauty and happiness. Large catnip leaves are pressed and used as bookmarks in magical texts. Twigs of the cedar are burned and smouldered, or made into incense. To heal head colds, they are placed upon the hot rocks in sweat baths for purification by some American Indians. Cedar hung in the home protects it against lightning strikes. A cedar stick carved into three prongs is placed prongs up into the ground near the home to protect it against all evil.
A piece of cedar kept in the wallet or purse draws money, and cedar is used in money incenses. Cedar is added to love sachets and is burned to induce psychic powers. Note: Juniperus verginiana is often used in place of cedar. Wear next to the skin and replace every three days for this purpose. Celandine also imparts good spirits and joy if worn. It also cures depression. Wear to court to win the favor of the judge or jury, or as a protective herb. Burned with orris root, celery seeds increase psychic powers.
The stalk, along with the seeds, induces lust when eaten. Witches supposedly ate celery seeds before flying off on their brooms so that they wouldn't become dizzy and fall!
It is also used to attract money. The sunny nature of German Chamomile has been used to combat curses and spells. It is used in sleep and meditation incenses, and the infusion is also added to the bath to attract love.
It is also a purificatory and protective herb. When sprinkled around the property, it removes curses and spells cast against you. A beautiful Japanese spell to find love is simple: tie a single strand of your hair to a blossoming cherry tree.
More complex is the following love spell. This is the type of complicated spell which can be simplified if desired. Collect as many cherry stones as years you are old. Drill a hole through no more than one stone each night, beginning on the night of the New Moon. Do not drill any holes during the waning Moon. This means that the most you can drill in one month is fourteen stones. Thread them on a piece of red or pink thread and tie this around the left knee each night for fourteen nights.
Sleep with it on and remove each morning. This will bring you a husband or wife. To find out how many years you will live, run around a tree full of ripe cherries, then shake it.
The number of cherries that fall represents the number of years left. Be sure to shake the tree hard! Cherry juice is also used as a blood substitute where called for in old recipes.
It is carried for this purpose. At one time it was thought to make its possessor invisible, and to open locked boxes and doors if held against the locks. But for these last two purposes, chicory has to be gathered with a gold knife in perfect silence at noon or midnight on Midsummer. Others bring love or protection. Does your household need more money? You'll find instructions for making a talisman using cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, basil, and black tea.
Herb magic is popular because it is simple, it is powerful, and it works. If you are ready to begin learning this system of powerful magic, this is the book you should begin with. Scott Cunningham is recognized as one of the leading experts on herb magic in the world. Shouldn't you learn from the best? Well known for perfecting his spells and rituals through experimentation before publishing them, Cunningham wrote with unmatched simplicity and grace.
His words in this collection are sure to inspire you on your path to an enchanted life. About the author: Scott Cunningham was a much-loved writer whose classic book, Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner, introduced generations of young witches to the Craft.
There's a reason caviar has a reputation as a love food, but a little vanilla or peppermint can work wonders too! You'll savor mushrooms like never before after experiencing their intuitive-raising effects, and a munch of celery will resonate with new meaning as it boosts your sexual desire and psychic awareness. Virtually any item in your pantry can be used for personal transformation. From artichokes to kidney beans to grape jelly, food contains specific magical energies you can harness for positive results.
This encyclopedia of food magic offers twenty-seven of Scott Cunningham's favorite recipes. Magical menus for more than ten desired goals including love, protection, health, money, and psychic awareness are provided as well. This commemorative edition also presents special features and articles celebrating Scott Cunningham's remarkable life.
Cunningham's classic introduction to Wicca is about how to live life magically, spiritually, and wholly attuned with nature. It is a book of sense and common sense, not only about magick, but about religion and one of the most critical issues of today: how to achieve the much needed and wholesome relationship with our Earth.
Cunningham presents Wicca as it is today: a gentle, Earth-oriented religion dedicated to the Goddess and God. Wicca also includes Scott Cunningham's own Book of Shadows and updated appendices of periodicals and occult suppliers.
The ways of magic are revealed in nature. The secrets are written in meandering streams and drifting clouds, whispered by the roaring ocean and cooling breeze, echoed through caves and rocks and forests.
When you draw a heart in the sand, call on the four winds for assistance, or ask the rain to wash away a bad habit, you are practicing earth magic. By working in harmony with nature, we can transform ourselves, our lives, and our world. This tried-and-true guide offers more than one hundred spells, rites, and simple rituals you can perform using the powerful energy of the earth. Scott Cunningham was a greatly respected teacher and one of the most influential members of the modern Craft movement.
A practitioner of elemental magic for twenty years, he wrote more than fifty books, including the seminal Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner. Explains the effects of fragrance, identifies useful flowers, spices, herbs, and oils, and suggests their magical properties.
Spell Crafts Take a look at your hands. See them as wondrous vehicles of power. Feel the energy that flows through everything you do. Tap into that power! Carve a symbol, dip a candle, mix fragrant herbs, sculpt clay, and make your life all that you want it to be. When crafts are used to create objects intended for ritual or to symbolize the divine, the connection between the craftsperson and divinity grows more intense. This second edition of Spell Crafts, the much-loved and oft-read guide to magical handwork, features new illustrations and a new preface by David Harrington.
Learn how to create and use all of the following: - magical simmering potpourris - a beaded psychic mandala - clay pentacles, plaques, and runic dice - a shaman''s arrow - sand paintings - Corn Mother - a magical spell broom - protective hex sign - Witch bottles - flower garlands - spell banner - magic mirror - prosperity trivet - wheat weaving.
Llewellyn is pleased to present a new Scott Cunningham book—a long-lost Book of Shadows. Discovered in a battered manila envelope, this previously unpublished manuscript was penned by Scott in the early s. This rare book includes original spells, rituals, invocations, and an herbal grimoire.
Featured in the design are Scott's actual hand-drawn signs, symbols, and runes. More than twenty years after his passing, Scott Cunningham is still an iconic and highly regarded figure in the magical community. His books on Wicca are considered classics, and his writings continue to inspire and inform those new to the Craft.
Recognize and celebrate the magic of life with timeless rites and spells. Create a magical household—a haven of harmony, safety, spirituality, security, and romance. The benefits include a happier existence, protection against thieves, improved health, restful sleep, satisfying spiritual experiences, and a perfect environment for positive magic. Some of the techniques listed in Cunninghams Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs Llewellyns Sourcebook Series may require a sound knowledge of Hypnosis, users are advised to either leave those sections or must have a basic understanding of the subject before practicing them.
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