“Witches: A Compendium” by Judika Illes

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Witches explores what a witch is and the different ways to be one. Judika Illes presents the history, mysteries, and diverse natures of witches from around the world. Featuring a who’s who ranging from famous—or infamous—historical witches such as Tituba, Sybil Leek, Aleister Crowley, Isobel Gowdie, and Countess Erzsebet Báthory (widely known as the Blood Countess) to popular literary, cinematic, and TV witches such as Endora, the Scarlet Witch, Melisandre, Storm, Agatha Harkness, and the Wicked Witch of the West, Witches also offers travel tips for witches and a guide to the tools of the trade such as brooms, wands, cauldrons, and mirrors. This celebration of witches and witchcraft also features: ...>>

“A Confluence of Witches: Celebrating Our Lunar Roots, Decolonizing the Craft, and Reenchanting Our World” by Casey Zabala

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Featuring voices from the contemporary witchcraft community, A Confluence of Witches is an invitation to explore the authentic intersections of magic, spirituality, personal development, and social justice. A Confluence of Witches aims to highlight how witchcraft has always been a diverse, constantly evolving, culturally specific practice with many lineages and rich traditions. It features essays, spells, and reflections from witches, traditional healers, herbalists, and artists on themes of magical activism, animism, and merging ancient practices with modern technologies, among other mystical subjects. The diverse representation of contributors will honor and celebrate the multicultural and multivalent ways that the witch operates within our society. With an increased interest in and practice of witchcraft comes a...>>

“The Book of Psychic Self-Defense: A Practical Guide to Protecting Yourself from Energetic and Supernatural Attacks” by Leanna Greenaway and Beleta Greenaway

"A comprehensive guide to the vital practice of psychic self-defense Have you ever entered a room and immediately felt the negative energy? Worried that an ex or person from your past is wishing you ill? Noticed that the others in a meeting don’t seem particularly friendly toward you? In The Book of Psychic Self-Defense, psychic self-defense experts Leanna and Beleta Greenaway offer their wisdom to help readers to protect themselves from energetic and other supernatural attacks. With easily accessible and ready-to-use advice, The Book of Psychic Self-Defense is a comprehensive guide to the vital practice of self-defense, covering everything from ghosts and demons to the evil eye to curses and black magic For readers both new and...>>

“Shamanic Teachings of the Condor: Encounters with the Mystical Traditions of the Andes” by Martha Winona Travers

"Experience the heart-opening wisdom of Andean shamanism • Presents the teachings of revered Ecuadorian Kichwa elder Taita Alberto Taxo as vivid, experiential journeys • Details how to return to intimacy with Nature and the natural world through communicating with the elements • Shares Andean shamanic practices and ceremonies for opening the heart, expanding consciousness, and shamanic journeying In this deep dive into South American shamanism, Martha Winona Travers shares the teachings and practices she learned during her 22 years as an apprentice to revered Ecuadorian Kichwa elder, Taita Alberto Taxo. Presenting Taita Alberto’s teachings as vivid, experiential journeys, Travers allows you to immerse yourself in his direct, heart-centered wisdom as if you, too, were one of his shamanic apprentices....>>

“A Gothic Cookbook: Hauntingly Delicious Recipes Inspired by 13 Classic Tales” by Ella Buchan and Alessandra Pino

"A literary-inspired cookbook that reveals the hidden meaning behind food in your favourite Gothic tales, from Jane Eyre to Beloved, The Picture of Dorian Gray to The Haunting of Hill House. Dracula lulls his victim into a false sense of security with a spicy, smoky, peppery stew, served here with black tagliatelle for full Gothic effect. Frankenstein’s "monster" starts out as a vegetarian who feasts on acorns, which happen to make crumbly, delicately sweetened bread. A sumptuous honeymoon dinner of pheasant with hazelnuts and chocolate signals consumption and indulgence in The Bloody Chamber, while the dripping crumpets and melt-in-the-mouth angel cake from Rebecca are pawns in a battle for control. With knife-sharp analysis followed by divinely...>>