Discover the mystical world of potion crafting with "Cauldron Concoctions: 250 Potions And Enchantments For Every Witch." This comprehensive guide offers a vast array of potion recipes and magical spells to enhance your witchcraft practice. Explore the rich history of potion making and learn about the essential tools and ingredients needed for successful potion crafting. Delve into the world of essential potions, including healing elixirs, protection brews, and love potions. Unleash your enchanting abilities with spells such as candle magic, crystal enchantments, and sacred symbolism. Experience the power of magical brews through divination teas, dream elixirs, and spiritual awakening potions. Engage in ritualistic potion crafting with Sabbat celebrations, moon phase brews, and ancestor honoring concoctions. If you are new to potion crafting, the book also offers guidance on simple herbal infusions, purification tinctures, and empowerment blends. Embark on a journey of alchemy and transformation with philosopher's stone recipes, elixirs of immortality, and transmutation potions. Strengthen your bond with familiars through specially crafted brews for animal communication, feline familiars, and canine companions. Unleash the power of weather and elemental magic with storm-summoning potions, fire elemental elixirs, and water affinity brews. Protect yourself against dark arts with warding brews, cleansing concoctions, and hex-breaking elixirs. Explore the astrological realm with potions influenced by planetary alignments, zodiac elixirs, and cosmic alignment brews. Harness the magical properties of herbs and botanicals with mandrake root potions, witches' ointments, and magical herbal blends. Learn about potion crafting in ritual practice, including altar offerings, invocation potions, and ceremonial concoctions. Unlock the secrets of sorcery with forbidden potions, cursed elixirs, and dark enchantments. Through "Cauldron Concoctions: 250 Potions And Enchantments For Every Witch," embrace your inner witch and immerse yourself in a world of magical possibilities.

A collection of devotional essays on working with Hekate.

A study of the mysterious stone carvings of naked females exposing their genitals on medieval churches all over the British Isles.

Everyone has the power to make spells, and this book takes the reader step-by-step through a menu that includes everything from self-help for happy families to green magic for saving the planet.

Focusing on Slovenian mythology the book contains a review of Slovenian mythological, historical, and narrative material. Over 150 supernatural beings are presented, both lexically and according to the role that they have in Slovenian folklore. They are classified by type, characteristic, features, and by the message conveyed in their motifs and contents. The material has been analysed in the context of European and some non-European mythological concepts, and the author deals with theory and interpretations as well as the conclusions of domestic and foreign researchers. The book forms new starting points and a classification of supernatural beings within a frame of a number of sources, some of which have been published for the first time in this book.

'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer 'An invigorating and challenging book ... sets many hares running.' - The Times Higher Education Supplement

'Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. Just stick out your wand hand, step on board and we can take you anywhere you want to go.' When the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it's the start of another far from ordinary year at Hogwarts for Harry Potter. Sirius Black, escaped mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, is on the run - and they say he is coming after Harry. In his first ever Divination class, Professor Trelawney sees an omen of death in Harry's tea leaves... But perhaps most terrifying of all are the Dementors patrolling the school grounds, with their soul-sucking kiss... Having become classics of our time, the Harry Potter eBooks never fail to bring comfort and escapism. With their message of hope, belonging and the enduring power of truth and love, the story of the Boy Who Lived continues to delight generations of new readers.

"Based on the original roleplaying game rules designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson and inspired by the third edition of the game designed by Monte Cook, Jonathan Tweet, Skip Williams, Richard Baker, and Peter Adkison"--Title page verso.

Building upon existing materials in the "Dungeon Master's Guide," this title was specifically designed to facilitate play, especially when the Dungeon Master has a limited amount of preparation time. Chapters include discussion on running a game, designing adventures, building and using prestige classes, and creating campaign settings.

A comprehensive, full-color compendium of the key characters in all eight of the Harry Potter films, filled with never-before-seen photographs and illustrations, covering the costumes, makeup, weaponry, and behind-the-scenes story that brought each personality memorably to life on the big screen. Harry Potter: The Character Vault offers fans a deeper look at the creative development of the characters introduced in the books and brought to life in the theatrical series. Jody Revenson brings you closer to Harry, Ron, Hermione, and the students and faculty at Hogwarts, the bureaucrats at the Ministry of Magic, the Triwizard Tournament competitors, the wizarding world families, and the dark forces against them. Each profile in the book includes design sketches and unit photography showcasing the costumes of each character, along with an image of his or her wand, and other iconic props specific to the characters—brooms, Harry’s invisibility cloak, Mad-Eye Moody’s eye and prosthetic leg, and more. Discover how Quidditch gear and Hogwarts’ robes subtly changed as the characters grew up, discover the fashion and artistry behind the Weasley style, the Yule Ball dresses and robes, Slug Club party wear, and Death Eater masks and costumes. Interweaving interviews with the special effects experts, costume designers, makeup artists and the cast, Jody Revenson shows fans how the magic happens, revealing the unique filming techniques used to change particular characters’ sizes, such as a giant Hagrid and Madame Maxime, as well as special makeup processes that created the look of Harry’s Stinging Hex and Peter Pettigrew’s rat-like visage. Featured throughout are intriguing profiles of the special makeup effects artists who share the most memorable effects they’ve used to transform ordinary actors into their extraordinary fictional counterparts. Harry Potter: The Character Vault is your exclusive all-access pass into the creative process of the largest film franchise of all time, and comes complete with two exclusive removable features.