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Summary: Help me
Review: I haven't read this book but I'm posting this here for people to help me. I'm a beginner in the craft and where I live I have no help about the craft. Please email me if you have any ideas, spells or advice and I'm sorry about taking adantage of this borad but I have no other way to get this message accross, I'm sure it's a great book.
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Summary: this book is alright
Review: I liked the book, it had a lot of information in it for anyone who has a garden or such but if you live where I live it's very hard to find the herbs you need for most of the potions, it's a good book if you live in wet areas such as oregon or washington, but if you live in drier areas I wouldn't recomend it!
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Summary: "Charming" but of little value
Review: I loved reading through this book and still pull it out from time to time, because the writing style is endearing. But I have't used a single charm - though that one that involves boiling a chicken heart in civit oil is - um - fascinating. ;-) I would think, for a beginner, too much emphasis is given to what symbols to carve and what words to say and not enough to the mental state and concentration required to make a charm or spell effective. And an experienced practitioner would be more likely to create her own charms for her own purposes. These As someone mentioned, some of the materials are obscure - and I would *not* want to try to carve these detailed symbols on little wooden disks!
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Summary: Eight Bucks?
Review: I think the comment above in the synopsis about the "old woman in the isolated cottage" is demeaning to witch's in the first place. That's the title we are trying to avoid. Now about the book....I wasn't sure what I was getting into when I first started to read this book.But my fears diminshed,somewhat.Some spells are downright nasty! All in all the book is okay,but for the price, thats what you get. The last chapter on Ceremonies For The Year was better than the whole book.
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Summary: It was a very advanced book
Review: If you are a young witch then i don't recomend this book it is very advanced and deep. i myself didn't understand it until i was nearly 15. If you are ready for advanced magic go for this but if you are a beginer I recommend somthing a little less deep
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Summary: Cheers for the Crone
Review: It;s almost become a cliche to say that Valerie Worth's two "Crone's Books" are written in a style so evocative that we really feel we're reading our great-grandmother's Victorian grimoire, or that we found this stuff in a trunk in the attic, etc. That's because it's true. Worth wasn't a witch at all, but a poet, and she had always been fascinated by folk magic. From this fascination came the Crone's Books, two books of magic written in an archaic and poetic style. The device works perfectly. Come on now, fellow witches, admit it: when you first got into the Craft, you were secretly longing for some great-aunt to draw you aside and confess that your whole family had been witches since time immemorial. ;) This book was written in the sixties, but it *feels* like lovingly preserved family tradition, and therein lies the magic. The writing style takes you right into a frame of mind where you're ready to believe anything is possible, and that's always the best way to make your magic work! Now, not all the spells are useful, and some of them will be found unethical or offensive by some readers. However, there are some gems, especially the Ceremonies for the Year. (The book ends with a set of twelve rituals to celebrate the Wheel. They are absolutely spine-tingling.) Overall, _The Crone's Book of Charms and Spells_ is a testament to the power of language to make magic. I've readtons of modern spell books that just don't give the reader that magical feeling. This book inspires both the Witch and the fantasy writer in me. Brava.
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Summary: Cheers for the Crone
Review: It;s almost become a cliche to say that Valerie Worth's two "Crone's Books" are written in a style so evocative that we really feel we're reading our great-grandmother's Victorian grimoire, or that we found this stuff in a trunk in the attic, etc. That's because it's true. Worth wasn't a witch at all, but a poet, and she had always been fascinated by folk magic. From this fascination came the Crone's Books, two books of magic written in an archaic and poetic style. The device works perfectly. Come on now, fellow witches, admit it: when you first got into the Craft, you were secretly longing for some great-aunt to draw you aside and confess that your whole family had been witches since time immemorial. ;) This book was written in the sixties, but it *feels* like lovingly preserved family tradition, and therein lies the magic. The writing style takes you right into a frame of mind where you're ready to believe anything is possible, and that's always the best way to make your magic work! Now, not all the spells are useful, and some of them will be found unethical or offensive by some readers. However, there are some gems, especially the Ceremonies for the Year. (The book ends with a set of twelve rituals to celebrate the Wheel. They are absolutely spine-tingling.) Overall, _The Crone's Book of Charms and Spells_ is a testament to the power of language to make magic. I've readtons of modern spell books that just don't give the reader that magical feeling. This book inspires both the Witch and the fantasy writer in me. Brava.
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Summary: Powerful!
Review: My ex-husband, Bobs, was, is and always will be the love of my life. Though I know it's difficult to believe, I was not always the love of Bobs' life. When we first met Bobs declared me "a hideous, monkey-faced ogress" and he claimed that he feared for his life every time he set eyes on me. My love for Bobs was so strong that I would do anything to win his admiration. I'd drive by his house at night and throw clams at his windows. I kidnapped his neighbor and parochial scapegoat, Chompson, and attempted to extract one kiss from Bobs as ransom, but eventually I had to let him go because the smell was getting to me. Finally I discovered this book and the rest is history. Bobs and I got married and had children. As an added bonus there was also a spell that made Chompson's body odor manageable. Our life together was wonderful and we lived in a palace and ate food with french names and we never fought and we were always happy. Well, until the divorce that is.
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Summary: Nothing to do with witchcraft? I beg to differ!
Review: Not all witchcraft is the nice, post-Gardnerian stuff that we find in Ravenwolf and Cunningham. Ms. Worth's teaching are diffeent, yes, but most people taught by family trad have ways different from other neopagans. This is an excellent book of various charms and things, and wonderful suggestions for new workings. I enjoyed reading through it, and i believe Ms. Worth has given us a book full of interesting new and unique info. It is a shame we cannot tell her thank you on this plane of existence now.
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Summary: Very difficult stuff here...Not for begginers....
Review: Of all my expierence of practicing Wicca, this book here has got to be filled with the most difficult and advanced spells I've ever read of. Several of them could be described as IMpossible.Many of the items crucial to do them are either very expensive, or are only available in certain parts of the world! This being said, im sure that they're much more affective because of the lengths needed to go thru to complete any of these.
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