Witchy Books

Learn how to create powerful, transformative rituals that are both effective and deeply meaningful to you. Phoenix LeFae helps you build a strong foundation of ritual practice while also leaving room for your own creative exploration. She covers not only how to craft rituals, but also why rituals are important, and she offers a variety of exercises, meditations, and activities to enhance your experiences.This inspiring book walks you through every step of ritual work, from setting your intentions to creating sacred space to closing the ceremony. You'll discover the breath, bones, and blood of ritual as well as guidelines for building unique rituals from scratch. A great companion to Life Ritualized, this book helps you make solitary and group rituals that are the perfect fit for you.

Invite more magic into your life with this engaging follow-up to A Year and a Day of Everyday Witchcraft. Deborah Blake guides you through 366 quick activities that you can follow chronologically or dip into as time allows, including spells, rituals, meditations, crafts, recipes, journal prompts, and more.

Inspire Your Craft with the History, Lore, and Practice of Air Magic

Filled with spells, rituals, meditations, and correspondences, this impressive entry in Llewellyn's Elements of Witchcraft series strengthens your connection to the element of air. Astrea Taylor presents amazing methods for activating the air energy within you and raising your practice to new heights.

Learn about the magical realm of air and how to transmit your intentions into it. Enhance your spiritual practice with a deeper awareness of the magic of words, incense, wind, sounds, and aromas. This enlightening book also features contributions from well-known writers, including Laura Tempest Zakroff and Phoenix LeFae. With captivating insights on air deities, animal guides, sacred sites, herbs, crystals, and more, Air Magic empowers you to harness the element of air and take flight.

“Hendrickson takes readers on a magical journey where they learn how to construct a personal Book of Shadows filled with ancestral wisdom.” —Theresa Reed, author of Twist Your Fate
 
Most of us know our immediate family and maybe even a generation or two beyond, but few of us are attuned to those who lived earlier. Many of us have forgotten how to keep our own stories alive. This is where the ancestors come in and where this book begins.

Ancestral Grimoire is a guide to reconnecting with your ancestors. It will show you how to access their unique wisdom—their magic!—and create your own personal ancestral grimoire, a spell book or Book of Shadows, unique to you and your heritage. Through divination, intuition, and sometimes a little luck, you will learn the magic of each ancestor and how you can use their gifts to make your life richer and more fulfilling.

As you go through this book, you’ll save your ancestral work in a journal or loose-leaf binder that will become the place to store the stories, spells, rituals, and everyday life, lore, and legend of twelve of your ancestors. At the end of a year, you will hold a personal Book of Shadows with every bit of ancestral knowledge within its pages unique to you. No two will ever be alike. In an age when family storytelling has been lost, you will have created a legacy—and a life—that the ancestors could only dream of.

Your ancestors hold the key to your future, but how much do you really know about your past? Just knowing some of your family’s stories―where you come from and what makes you who you are―and working with those narratives can bring about positive change and help you feel empowered on many levels. Join best-selling author Kirsten Riddle and learn how to heal yourself through ancestral ties, and channel familial superpowers to manifest what you need now. Discover how to meet your ancestors and communicate with them through nighttime dreams. Learn about ancestral karma and uncover your inherited beliefs, often carried down through the generations subconsciously. Create an ancestral altar to honor and work with your ancestors. Be supported with ritual and practical techniques using herbs, crystals, candle magic, talismans and much more, all found in the Ancestral Magic toolkit. The past does affect the future, so why not enhance yours!

Celebrate the seasons of the year according to the ancient Pagan traditions. Ancient Ways shows how to prepare for and conduct the Sabbat rites, and helps you harness the magickal energy for weeks afterward. The wealth of seasonal rituals and charms within are drawn from ancient sources but are easily performed with readily available materials.

Learn how to look into your previous lives at Yule. At Beltane, discover the places where you are most likely to see faeries. Make special jewelry to wear for your Lammas celebrations. For the special animals in your life, paint a charm of protection at Midsummer.

Baba Yaga's Book of Witchcraft is an exciting book of ancient Slavic magical practices. In this book, you'll sit at Baba Yaga's side and listen to her stories about the birth of the sun, the land of the blessed ones, and the spirits that live right beside us. More importantly, you'll learn the secrets of her magic―crafts, talismans, inscriptions, incantations, and rituals that will allow you to discover your own Baba Yaga within.

Each chapter develops the fairytale of Vasylyna―the girl who is sent to the frightful witch―and Baba Yaga herself narrates explanations of folk lore represented in the tale. Author Madame Pamita completes each chapter by sharing how to put the elder-witch's wisdom into practice, with instructions for Ukrainian folk embroidery, weaving wreaths from herbs, using magical poppets, and working with the spirits of the forest, the hearth, and the sauna. With more than fifty illustrations and a bounty of tips and information, this book teaches you to embrace the beauty and power of these traditional practices as you learn to reclaim your personal magic.

In Backwoods Witchcraft, Jake Richards offers up a folksy stew of family stories, lore, omens, rituals, and conjure crafts that he learned from his great-grandmother, his grandmother, and his grandfather, a Baptist minister who Jake remembers could "rid someone of a fever with an egg or stop up the blood in a wound." The witchcraft practiced in Appalachia is very much a folk magic of place, a tradition that honors the seen and unseen beings that inhabit the land as well as the soil, roots, and plant life.

The materials and tools used in Appalachia witchcraft are readily available from the land. This "grounded approach" will be of keen interest to witches and conjure folk regardless of where they live. Readers will be guided in how to build relationships with the spirits and other beings that dwell around them and how to use the materials and tools that are readily available on the land where one lives.

This book also provides instructions on how to create a working space and altar and make conjure oils and powders. A wide array of tried-and-true formulas are also offered for creating wealth, protecting one from gossip, spiritual cleansing, and more.

Create an enchanting garden for mindfulness and magick right in your own backyard. No matter what your skill level is, you'll find practical advice for building and maintaining a biodiverse space, as well as spiritual guidance for keeping it sacred and safe. Backyard Garden Witchery covers not only the ins and outs of dirt types, zones, and sun exposure, but also the energy of plants, regions, and land spirits. This beginner-friendly book makes it easy to develop your own living, breathing sanctuary for herbalism, meditation, spell work, divination, healing, or worship. Laural Woodward's thoughtful instruction and enthusiasm for the outdoors can help you design a natural haven that feeds your sense of wonder and enhances your connection to the earth.

practice. Tracing the evolution of Baphomet through the works of Éliphas Lévi, Aleister Crowley, and Peter Carroll, author Michael Osiris Snuffin explores how a mysterious name associated with the trial of the Templars became a modern Pagan deity in the late 20th century. This book demystifies an often misunderstood but essential current of esotericism, providing varied perspectives on Baphomet from diverse practitioners.

Michael introduces you to the three symbolic faces of Baphomet―the Spirit of the Earth, the Outsider, and the Transmuter―which define the deity and offer different ways to interact with them. He also shows you how to build a relationship with Baphomet through meditation, ritual, and invocation. This enigmatic deity will not only help you reconnect with the Earth and the five elements, but also inspire you to change your ways and stop harming the planet.

A magical lifestyle guide for everything from powering up a stylish crystal to banishing terrible Tinder dates

Want to feel terrifyingly beautiful? Wear the right color of eye shadow to project otherworldly glamour. Need to exorcise a toxic friendship? Repeat the proper incantation and make it disappear. Want to increase your energy? Whip up a tasty herbal “potion” to rev up your stamina. DIY projects, rituals, and spells—along with fun historical sidebars—summon the best trends of the modern witchy lifestyle and the time-trusted traditions of the hell-raising women of the past. With humor, heart, and a hip sensibility, Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman dispense witchy wisdom for the curious, the cynical, and anyone who could use a magical boost.

At the crossroads of #MeToo, #HexthePatriarchy, and the increasingly vocal feminist and LGBTQ+ movements comes a highly readable and moving collection of writings

The difference between the witch and the layperson is that a witch already knows they are powerful. The layperson may only suspect. Becoming Dangerous is a collection of deeply personal essays by marginalized people operating at the intersection of feminism, witchcraft, and resistance about summoning power and becoming fearsome in a world that would prefer them to be afraid. Written by women artists, authors, columnists, comic book writers, fashionistas, performers, and video game designers, these essays are personal explorations about how and why rituals of resistance work for them. Their goal is to help readers summon their own power to resist, survive, and thrive.

This text describes the practice, theory, and underlying rationale of black magic in all its branches - the summoning and control of evil spirits, necromancy, psychic attack, devil worship, witchcraft, evil charms and spells - as well as other branches of occult theory.

One part The Drunken Botanist, one part Blackthorn's Botanical Magic—shaken, not stirred—Blackthorn’s Botanical Brews offers a fresh, fun way of bringing botanical magic into your kitchen, cocktail parties, and home remedies. Blackthorn’s Botanical Brews has something for everyone. This book outlines the magical uses for many well-loved, traditional beverage ingredients found throughout time. Readers learn what potions are, what purpose they serve, and how to create their own brews, bitters, vermouth, and kombucha, as well as how to blend the perfect tea for their magical desires. Included:: •Getting to Know Your Spirits •Adding Magic to Your Daily Activities •In the Kitchen •In the Bar •Fruit Feeling Frisky (Making Sodas and Syrups) •Herbal Beers, Mead, and Cider •What to Do with Leftover Potions?

Here is the first contemporary guide to the transformative powers of essential oils for use in spellcraft and the cultivation of ritual power. From rose-scented rosaries, the lingering aroma of frankincense, and the ritual energy of white sage, Amy Blackthorn - the woman behind Blackthorn Hoodoo Blends - will take you on a journey beyond the soothing, healing power of scents into their hidden realms and their use in prayer, meditation, shamanic journeying.

Find spiritual healing and everyday magic in this beautifully mysterious guide to communing with your ancestors.

Picking up where The Book of Séances left off, artist, author, and witch Claire Goodchild delivers a guide that is truly the first of its kind: The Book of Ancestors, a map for seekers looking to develop a relationship with their ancestors.
 
Through a combination of text and illustration, The Book of Ancestors explores the history of traditional genealogy topics, such as “how to research and build a family tree” and “the history of cemeteries.” Alongside these practical measures, Claire provides rituals, spells, and crafts from her own personal practice, drawing on the British and Slavic traditions of her heritage, alongside contributions from fellow witches including Codi Popovich and Marjorie from The Punk Priestess for a broader, more enriched lens.

As the text progresses, Claire guides her readers through the creation their own “Book of Ancestors,” a family grimoire of sorts, blending together their own ancestral legacies with witchcraft that can be passed down to future family. Visually, The Book of Ancestors pairs with The Book of Seances, containing witchy, esoteric, and funerary images in a Victorian style with lots of floral embellishments and classic colors. Whether a seasoned witch, or a newcomer to the spirit world, readers will walk away from The Book of Ancestors feeling empowered to perform their own rituals and spells, research family history, and form a lasting relationship with those who came before.

Featuring authentic candle magic that anyone can do, this impressive little book shows how you can connect to spiritual realms and bring positive change to your life with just a little wick, wax, and flame. Madame Pamita offers both step-by-step instructions for specific candle spells and reference materials to create your own spells.The Book of Candle Magic empowers you to manifest more happiness, love, prosperity, and fulfillment through candle spells. Discover how to make candles from scratch, perform candle readings, create your grimoire, and add some pizzazz to your rituals. Explore the best herbs, gems, talismans, and symbols for giving your spells a boost. With this beautiful book, you can claim your birthright of using fire to reach your magical goals.

Renowned author Kristoffer Hughes presents a beginner guide to Druidry that covers what it is, where it comes from, and why it's an important and fulfilling spirituality. Hughes shares not only the nuts and bolts of how to be a practicing Druid, but also Druidry's deep roots in history, its evolution into modern times, and ethical and environmental considerations. Druids are defined by what they do, and this book offers many ways to put Druidic theory into action. Explore what it means to talk with trees, answer the call of wild awakening, honor the ancestors, and work with deities. Use prayer, meditation, and ritual to expand your awareness, develop relationships with the unseen, and engage with elemental powers. This book provides Celtic wisdom and helps you connect with the Awen the blessed breath of inspiration.

A hands-on resource for pagan parents and pagan families with hundreds of rituals, prayers, blessings, and meditations for every occasion along with suggestions for creating a sacred home.

A Book of Pagan Family Prayers and Rituals provides a reference guide for pagans who wish to celebrate their religion as living, family tradition steeped in pagan ritual and pagan prayer.

The book contains:

• Ritual guidelines for weddings, births, birthdays, seasonal celebrations, lunar phases, coming of age, divorce and death.
• Suggestions for the creation of the sacred home (including blessings and household shrines).
• Children’s activities including meditations, mask and rattle making, drumming, and storytelling.
• Prayers for throughout the day.
• Tips for teaching children about paganism.
• References and resources for further information in the appendices.

This book was first published in 1995 under the title The Pagan Family: Handing the Old Ways Down. This new edition is substantially revised and includes new, previously unpublished material.

Steeped in tradition - "Those of us who call ourselves Pagan owe a debt to all those who came before us" - and based on more than a quarter century of research and practice, A Book of Pagan Prayer teaches us to pray in the ways of our ancestors for very modern times and concerns.

A unique collection of nearly 500 prayers written to fulfill the needs of contemporary pagans from a variety of traditions, A Book of Pagan Prayer is a book to turn to again and again.

A beautifully mysterious guide to conducting seances and communing with the spirits in our conscious and unconscious lives.

As long as people have lived, they have longed for wisdom and comfort from those who have died. In The Book of Séances, artist, author, and witch Claire Goodchild takes readers on a journey through the historical landscape of spiritualism and guides questers through safe practices for cultivating a connection with the other side.
 
The Book of Séances details the four types of spiritual encounters, teaches us how to protect ourselves, and breaks down the different tools -- from spirit boards and tarot to dominoes and charms -- that are essential for opening a bridge to the afterlife. Whether conducting solitary or group séances, this book offers a way to safely glimpse beyond the veil.

Through her evocative writing and singular art, Claire provides a comprehensive history of the séance, alongside an immersive guide to accessing and communing with the spirit world. The Book of Séances provides hauntingly lovely signposts into our own personal mythology as revealed through our conscious and unconscious lives.

The complete practical guide to spellcraft, bringing the ancient wisdom of witches into the modern world.
 
Discover the art of spell casting to add some magick to your daily life. 
 
Whatever your hopes and dreams, learn how to successfully set your intentions, raise and direct energy, and manifest your desires with 150 simple rituals.
From protection and banishment spells to empowering incantations and folk charms for good fortune - each page offers steps to enhance a different aspect of your life, allowing you to take the practice into your own hands and connect to the magick within. 

This beautifully illustrated guide is overflowing with wisdom to help hone your craft, no matter where you are in your witchcraft journey.
 
Each spell is set out in simple, easy-to-follow steps, ideal for those beginning their witchcraft journey. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this book includes an introduction into witchcraft, the tools you may want to include, and an extensive correspondence of herbs and crystals as well as a simple guide to create your own unique spells and rituals.

Witchery isn't limited to the sabbats and to the occasional full moon; magick happens every day. In this treasury of enchantments, spells and witchery, popular author Ellen Dugan presents her personal grimoire of magick essentials to keep you happily conjuring seven days a week! Formerly available as 7 Days of Magic, new and advanced material has more than doubled the witchy wisdom within these pages, yet it still fits into a busy Witch's schedule. As you learn daily magickal correspondences and themes, you'll build a solid foundation of knowledge and open up amazing possibilities for highly effective spellwork and witchery each and every day.

Includes:

• At-a-Glance Correspondences
• Daily Magickal Applications
• Deities
• Meditations
• Magickal Plants & Flowers
• Colors, Candles, Crystals & Metals
• Potions, Philters & Oils
• Daily Witch Crafts
• Daily Rituals

Praise:
"This treasury of enchantments and spells will keep you conjuring seven days a week!"—Prediction Magazine

Here is the most complete self-study course in modern Wicca available, written by the person who first went public with 'The Old Religion' in the United States. For group or solitary use, it includes rituals; exercises for developing psychic talents; information on all major 'sects' of the Craft; sections on tools, beliefs, dreams, meditations, divination, herbal lore, healing, ritual clothing; and much, much more.

Even those who have practiced Wicca for years find useful information in Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft, and many covens are using it as their textbook. Profusely illustrated and full of music and chants.

Anyone who has made a wish before blowing out birthday candles has practiced candle magic. Quick, easy, and effective, this magical art requires no religious doctrine or previous magic experience. Anyone can practice candle magic and Richard Webster shows you how to get started. Learn how to perform rituals, spells, and divinations to gain luck, love, prosperity, protection, healing, and happiness. Also included are tips for which kinds of candles to use, candle maintenance and preparation, best times for magic, and how to make your own candles.

Explore the magical qualities of our feline friends through history, folklore, and myths with Cat Magick. Cat Magick dives into the history of cats, myths, and folklore, specifically some of the myths surrounding black cats. With special features that are distinct to each type of cat, this helpful guide provides a new set of rituals and spells! Discover magick work for shorthair, purebred cats, and big cats like tigers, lions, panthers!

The years since the financial crash have seen the realization dawn across the west that the world is rapidly changing. For many, the great promise of modern civilization will go unfulfilled. The Chaos Protocols provides definitive magical steps for finding and achieving meaningfulness in a world that is no longer set up to provide it. It begins by helping you find the courage to see the world the way it is, rather than the way you want it to be. Then it shows you how to become invincible through initiation and wage the mind war that will keep you moving toward what you really want professionally and personally in order to achieve a fulfilled life.

Scholar of the occult and secret histories, John Michael Greer shines a light on 100 mysterious conspiracies and hidden societies throughout history, from Ancient Greece to the modern era.

The Freemasons. The Satanic Hell-Fire Club. The Illuminati. This fascinating book delves into 100 mysterious conspiracies across time, ranging from secret societies that planned revolutions to underground groups with sometimes-nefarious agendas. Illustrated with intriguing photos and ephemera, it's a must-read for anyone interested in learning more about the hidden forces that have shaped some of the most significant events in history.

100+ Spells for Bags, Jars, Sachets & More

Capture the magic within using Charity L. Bedell's original workings rooted in Conjure, Hoodoo, European folk magic, and modern witchcraft. She lays out the basics for using containers and shares extensive resources, making it easy to work magic with whatever supplies you have on hand. This book teaches you how to choose the right container, fill it for specific purposes, and cleanse and dispose of materials. You'll discover packets and poppets for short-term goals, charm bags for money magic, and witch balls for long-term protection. Featuring herbal and crystal correspondences, incense and oil formulas, and more, this is the spellbook you've always wanted.

Cord magic is one of the easiest and most satisfying ways to make magic. This book shows you how to quickly and effectively twist your own magical cords, with specific tips for choosing colors, setting your intention, charging the cords, and incorporating powerful knot spells. You will discover dozens of hands-on instructional worksheets and specific project ideas for a myriad of magical purposes, including protection, transitions, finding new love, blessing a graduation, improving one's creative life, celebrating a handfasting, and many more. Cord magic is portable and versatile - you can twist a cord in a matter of minutes, whether you're at home or out in public. You can wear a magically charged cord as an accessory or simply carry one in a pocket or bag. This book explores the history of cord magic and it teaches everything you need to know about the tools and techniques you need to create your own magical twists and knots.

Bring Magic and Meaning to Every Inch of Your Home with Homemade Décor From Full Moon Wreaths and Witch?s Besoms & Brooms, to Smoke Cleansing Wands and Spell Jars, this collection of magical crafts is the ultimate handbook to protect and enchant your home and hearth. Seasoned witch and artist Suzanne Lemmon shares her expertise in handmaking gorgeous décor with simple projects for house witches of all experience levels. Suzanne?s tips and tricks help you harness the power of energy-charged crystals and charms for altars and adornments. Her detailed reference guide to working with herbs, flowers and other botanicals in spells will elevate your daily practice. Plus, she offers in-depth information on selecting the right raw materials for each project, so you can tailor it to your specific intentions and goals. You will love creating and using projects like Nature-Adorned Offering Bowls, Witch?s Wands and Faerie Lamps that are meaningful to you and your needs. Combining detailed instructions and step-by-step photography, this collection of inspired projects will fill your home with magic and good intentions.

Heed Ye Flower, Bush, and Tree, and by the Lady, Blessed Be!' From The Wiccan Rede

Celebrate the changing of the seasons and the beauty and power of the Moon, the Stars, and the Sun. Written by a Witch who has spent many years teaching the Craft of Wicca to newcomers, this introductory guide presents everything you need to know for successful witchery, including:

An essential set of instructions and guidelines for beginning the practice of the Ancient arts
An overview of Wiccan beliefs, laws, rules, and principles
Directions for creating and using basic tools of the Craft--athame, wand, cup, pentacle, cauldron, broom, black mirror, and meditation
Easy-to-follow instructions for altar setup, circle-casting, building power, Deity invocation, and more
An assortment of miscellaneous spells, chants, and invocations for a variety of purposes

Walk the path of the Witch-live in harmony and balance, and discover the sacred within the natural world with The Craft.

Wild Witchcraft is a magical, free-spirited philosophy that embraces nature. A Wild Witch finds magic in the mundane and inspiration in everyday life. Craft of the Wild Witch is a poetic guidebook to the green-spirited path-where thoughts and deeds become acts of devotion or enchantment.

Poppy Palin teaches how to read nature's language and develop a living relationship with the land. From the perspective of a Wild Witch, she reviews Sabbats/ Esbats, spell-weaving, Fairies, companion spirits, intuition development, rules of safe witchcraft practice, and much more.

"Suddenly the sky overhead is alive. From east and southeast, west and northwest, large black birds fly, travelling in their groups of hundreds, swirling, cawing, interweaving, dancing a greeting in the air. The sky is thick, black, feathered. We watch in awe as they combine and dissipate above our heads, as though we are lying on the bottom of the ocean, looking up at the surface world. Then, without signal or warning, they circle the heart of the wood and land in hidden roosts. Silence falls once more."

After months of feeling lost and burned out, a chance encounter with crows begins an adventure in the dark woods—inner and outer—leading to a strange and powerful initiation.

Three-time Nautilus award-winning author Lucy H. Pearce’s previous bestselling book Burning Woman was an initiation of fire. She of the Sea an initiation of water and Crow Moon is an initiation of earth and air, a way back to the heart of ourselves through wild revelation.

Strikingly illustrated by the author, with contributions from over 30 women—artists, healers, authors—who have also been called by the strange magic of crows at decisive moments in their lives.

Enter the dark woods. Follow the crow, the moon, and the mushroom on a journey of transformation and remembering.

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.