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Summary: What a wonderful book
Review: This book has it all. Silver explains things so you can understand them. I've learned a great deal about my new religion from this book. I recommend it to anyone staring witchcraft.
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Summary: Good starter book
Review: This was a good, user friendly starter book for many people, including myself. One of the few that was easier to get through when I first started in the Craft. I like it how she tells you to get out a pen and make a BOS , sort of a little more than just a book, a workbook at times too. I enjoyed this book, well worth the purchase.
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Summary: Great book on Wicca for the whole family!
Review: This book was not only informative but entertaining. I loved it and passed it on to my boys, husband and mother. We all loved it!
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Summary: Decent, good for beginners
Review: Not a big Silver fan as a rule, I prefer Scott Cunningham, but this book is a good one for a beginner. Does a good job of touching on all the various topics a new witch should be familiar with.
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Summary: A must have for beginners
Review: This is a beautifully written, practical introduction for novices. If you're interested in wicca, this is the place to start! It outlines everything you ever wanted to know. Make sure to check out Silver's other books too including the sequel to this one, To Stir a Magick Cauldron.
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Summary: Mama, {Silver} I love you. Mama, my friend...
Review: I just adore Silver's books and I think this one is very helpful. Teen Witch is a better book if a teen is looking for personal empowerment. I became a first degree Witch thanks to Mama's books. Before I read Silver Broomstick, I didn't know about astral projection, chakra centers, bi-location, how to write a perfect Book of Shadows, how to make a wand... and lots of other stuff. Thanks to this great book, I even picked a name! Thank you Mama! Silver, Silver, oh so fair, Why is there magick all over your hair? For a little magick and horror mixed together, go to http://www.maxpages.com/spooked
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Summary: New Generation Witchcraft is New Age, not Wicca
Review: Jenine Thayer (Silver RavenWolf), a mother of four, has defined a new, attractive witchcraft. It is well-suited for a parent having difficulty: the parent can form a family Coven as an aid to communication among family members. But New Generation Witchcraft is not Wicca. Wicca is a globally practiced religion that has constants: worship of the Goddess and the God; respect for the Earth; and adherence to The Rede, Wicca's "prime directive". There are many versions of The Rede but all are analogous to the physician's Hippocratic Oath: "First do no harm." Ms. Thayer defines Wicca differently. On pp. 14-15 she states [the parentheses are Ms. Thayer's] "The word 'Wiccan' ... projects a different set of associations - weaving, church, New Earth, wicker furniture (don't ask me why) and the movie 'The Wicker Man' (which although I despised, I fully understand). It also means 'front,' a way to bring the public into accepting our belief system for what it actually is, not what their preconceived ideas of a word dictates to them." Ms. Thayer's book is attractively illustrated, and is clearly written in a conversational style. She discusses several popular New Age topics in a disorganized manner. Ms. Thayer provides good details on candles, colors, crystals, fortune telling, herbs, and starting on page 62 "Self-help and other mind programming tapes and videos". She discusses meditation and discusses tantra (opening the chakras), but the discussions are insufficient to practice these disciplines. Ms. Thayer also discusses several less well-defined New Age subjects: astral projection, healing, spell casting, and telepathy. Ms. Thayer's book is attractively written and contains good detail on several New Age topics, but New Generation Witchcraft is not Wicca. I recommend both "Inside A Witches' Coven" by Edain McCoy and "Wicca: A Guide For The Solitary Practitioner" by Scott Cunningham as first books for the Wiccan novice.
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Summary: A Mediocre Introduction to Wicca
Review: Having just come off the high of reading Starhawk's "The Spiral Dance", I was enthusiastic about reading this selection from one of the most popular names in modern Wiccan writing. I was rather disappointed. Ravenwolf's authoritative tone combines with her disjointed writing style to make a book that is difficult to read and contains mediocre content. Additionally, the tone she adopts makes it seem as if her version of Wicca is the only version and all others are nonsense. I found this attitude repugnant from a wiccan author. Some of her rituals are good along with some sound advice from time to time, but don't make this your introduction to modern Witchcraft. You'll be disappointed. There are much better books to read first and much better authors to learn from. After reading this selection, I found myself surprised that Ravenwolf is so popular. Personally, I won't be reading any more of her work.
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Summary: A Superficial Look At Witchcraft
Review: It seems that Ravenwolf is quite popular among aspiring witches, and being a beginner myself I chose to check her out. I was disappointed. It seems there are two tracks of thought involving witchcraft, one involves the glamour of being in a coven and using an athame and getting money and love just from the wave of a wand-- and if this appeals to you, great, then this is the book for you! Personally, however, I think this line of thinking is a little superficial for my tastes-- there's a bit in the book where she says she doesn't want to go on about how magick will get you money and love and fix all your life's problems, but then goes on to assure you that is can! It seems like magick works for Ravenwolf but she doesn't really have a good grasp on the spirituality of it, and her writing seems to pander to a much younger audience-- I hate to be judgmental but my opinion is that the writing style itself is young. Personally I picked up Yasmine Galenorn's Embracing the Moon and found that much more enlightening-- her approach is that magick will _not_ solve all your problems, it is not a cure-all to the deficiencies of self, but it is rather an augmentation to you on your path. I'm still looking for books that are written to post-pubescent audience (I'm 21) but that by far is the best I've found. So if you're looking for depth-- don't buy Ravenwolf's books, I'm afraid you must look elsewhere. If you're a beginner that just wants to have fun, Ravenwolf's books are just that.
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Summary: Its ok.
Review: This book is a pretty good book. Silver has a nice, intimate writing style which I like, but she didn't write enough on some subjects and wrote too much on other subjects. She could have talked a little more on writing your own rituals. I didn't like how she seemed to push self-dedication before experimenting more with Witchcraft. Witchcraft is not to be taken lightly and one should certainly feel like they know what they are getting into when they dedicate themselves--and this can't happen without prior ritual practice--something Silver should, but doesn't really emphasize. In the last section she seems to get in over her head. Silver really shouldn't have discussed OBE or past life regressions in a beginner's book. Those things should be in a book by themself so they can be explained in better detail. Silver also seems to contradict herself a little in this section--in the chapter about death, reincarnation and summerland. Aside from all that, she has great beginner information on candle magick, gemstones, herbs, holidays, altars and sacred space, and coming out of the broom closet. I recommend this book--but this certainly should not be the ONLY book a person should read.
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