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Summary: love it!
Review: This book is fabulous. I just adore Scott Cunningham's work. There's so much great info in here, and it gave me huge motivation to come up with my own recipes. Fabulous. Hope you like it too. Blessed be.
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Summary: Great Charts, Adequate Recipes
Review: This book is designed for those with little experience with paganism, or at least with pagan herbalism. It does a great job at explaining the basics of pagan herbalism. It explains the uses of incense, oils, and brews in pagan life and ritual and the ways they are constructed and charged. Most importantly it desbribes the attributes of each common herb and provides complete and informative charts organized by element, by planetary influence, and by area (protection, love, healing, etc.).
It covers incenses, oils, soaps, tincintures, sachets, and brews. The major drawback of this broad coverage is that no one area is covered as fully as possible. The recipes in particular are barely adequate. Each chapter gives dozens of recipes, but most have only a sentence or two of explaination. And they merely rehash the information given by the the charts.
The information is useful, but not significantly different than that found in many other pagan herbalism books. If you do not own such books I recommend this book. It is as direct and useful a beginner text as exists. If you do, don't expect to learn much more from this. Happy Brewing!
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Summary: A Great Book
Review: I am not Wiccian, but I have just started into aromatherapy. A friend recommended this book. I was a bit skeptical when I seen the cover (Goddess making an offering). But boy was I Wowed when I read it.
Thanks Scott!
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Summary: love it!
Review: This is the first book I read about Wicca and of Scott Cunningham. He is thorough with his explainations on each recipe - the substitution list alone is worth the price of the book. If you are new to wicca, exploring wicca or have been practicing for many years, this book is a constant you will return to again and again. The references contain good information to assist you in further exploration. I especially appreciate his openness. He is not at all pretentious as I have read in other books. Scott encourages you to be creative, free thinking and not to be constantly worrying about "getting it right". A very down to earth writer who knows his subject well and communicates it in such a way to get your "magical kitchen" started. May all who read this book find the "magic" in everyday things!
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This was one of my first aromatherapy books. Whether you believe in the magical properties of herbs or not, Cunnigham does his research and shows how the historical/magical uses of herbs are often related their chemical/medicinal properties. This book is well organized and easy to use.
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Summary: a wonderful resource to those who like to make it themselves
Review: I've had this book for quite a long time and just never had the time to write what I thoght of it. Guess I'm over due. This book has a lot of useful information on makeing incense and ritual oils. I dont own many books on incense making but it's because I have never found the need for another. This one gives me just about everything I need to know to do what I want to do. I think you will find it very useful as well in your blending and incense making tasks even if they are more for personal use than for ritual use.
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Summary: Great Reference Material
Review: This Scott Cunningham classic definitely deserves a place on your bookshelf. Some of the information in this book is extremely valuable and was first brought to light in modern times by the author. Mr. Cunningham deserves great respect for the effort put forth in this book.In all honesty, there are a few problems in the incense section. He includes salt peter in the recipes when it is not needed and may give off dangerous fumes. I've actually read where some ignorant people say that this idea was Cunningham's own idea, but anyone who looks at his bibliography can see several sources that use this idea long before he does. Mr.Cunningham also says that incense making is difficult, but I've been doing it for many years and find it a joy. Perhaps that's just me. In any event, ignore those who simply offer a blanket condemation to this book. It has some imperfections, but its a classic anyway. Stick with one of the most famous magick authors of all time. Ignore the incense importers who want you to forget this book and buy their products instead. Those people aren't worth listening to - I know this from personal experience!
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