03.10.2023

“Wild Medicine: Tamed Wild’s Illustrated Guide to the Magick of Herbs” by Shelby Bundy and Kate Belew

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "A gorgeously illustrated herbal from the witchy experts at Tamed Wild, this handy guidebook introduces readers to the most common and powerful healing herbs and the wisdom gained over centuries of use. Ideal for green witches and budding herbalists! Inspired by Tamed Wild’s best-selling herb decks, this handbook covers more than 60 magickal herbs--a must-have for anyone interested in the power of herbal healing. A lovely hand-painted watercolor introduces each herb, offering an artist’s look at the identifying characteristics. The accompanying text offers the key information every herbalist needs to know: A visual and botanical description of every plant An explanation of the plant’s historical medicinal uses ...>>

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03.10.2023

“Enchanted Cross-Stitch: 34 Mystical Patterns for the Modern Stitch Witch” by Grace Isobel

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Put the craft in witchcraft and infuse some magic into your stitching with this beautiful book of original cross-stitch patterns featuring crystals, tarot, astrology, and more. The world of magic offers us a way to find patterns and meaning in the mysteries of the everyday, whether that means mapping the movement of the stars and planets onto our lives through astrology or focusing our thoughts and intentions with the symbolism of crystals and candles. And cross-stitch is an embroidery art that's accessible, orderly, and easy to learn: With a little practice, anyone can bring the patterns to life. In this all-new collection of 34 patterns by Grace Isobel, the creator of Innocent Bones Cross-Stitch, you'll...>>

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03.10.2023

“The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft” by Diana Helmuth

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "A skeptic’s year-long quest to find spiritual fulfillment through modern Witchcraft, perfect for fans of A.J. Jacobs and Mary Roach. Diana Helmuth, thirty-three, is skeptical of organized religion. She is also skeptical of disorganized religion. But, more than anything, she is tired of God being dead. So, she decides to try on the fastest growing, self-directed faith in America: Witchcraft. The result is 366 days of observation, trial, error, wit, and back spasms. Witches today are often presented as confident and finished, proud and powerful. Diana is eager to join them. She wants to follow all the rules, memorize all the incantations, and read all the liturgy. But there’s one glaring problem: no Witch can...>>

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03.10.2023

“Cats: Keepers of the Spirit World” by John A. Rush

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Explores our intertwined spiritual history with cats • Examines spiritual and occult beliefs connected to cats from Mayan, Aztec, and Native American mythology as well as from ancient India, Samaria, Babylon, Japan, and Egypt • Looks at spiritual behaviors attributed to cats as well as modern biological research into cat behavior and their highly sophisticated sensory systems • Reveals the similarities between cat and human emotions and the deep connection between cats and meditation We have been connected to cats for more than 30 million years. To our prehistoric ancestors cats were deadly predators of the night, and because of this ancient memory etched onto our DNA, cats epitomize our fear of the dark. Yet in addition...>>

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03.10.2023

“Embracing the Darkness: A Cultural History of Witchcraft” by John Callow

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"As dusk fell on a misty evening in 1521, Martin Luther — hiding from his enemies at Wartburg Castle — found himself seemingly tormented by demons hurling walnuts at his bedroom window. In a fit of rage, the great reformer threw at the Devil the inkwell from which he was preparing his colossal translation of the Bible. A belief — like Luther's — in the supernatural, and in black magic, has been central to European cultural life for 3000 years. From the Salem witch trials to the macabre novels of Dennis Wheatley; from the sadistic persecution of eccentric village women to the seductive sorceresses of TV's Charmed; and from Derek Jarman's punk film Jubilee...>>

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