Explore the Fascinating World of Southern Folk Magic Featuring an introductory look at Granny Magic, Hoodoo, Brujería, and Curanderismo in the American South, Crossroads of Conjure provides a fresh perspective on folk magic. This authentic and powerful book demonstrates how these systems are interconnected, celebrates their sustainability, and dispels the myths and misunderstandings about them. Learn about each path's beliefs, practitioners, history, and how its traditions are carried on in modern society. Discover the techniques practitioners use for healing, survival, protection, and more. This entertaining and informative exploration of folk magic also helps you determine which practice resonates with you the most.

When myths become real, danger stalks White Haven. The Crossroads Circus has a reputation for bringing myths to life, but it also seems that where the circus goes, death follows. When the circus sets up on the castle grounds, Newton asks Avery and the witches to investigate. This proves trickier than they expected when an unexpected encounter finds Avery bound to a power she can't control. Strange magic is making the myths a little too real. As Avery grows weaker, and with time running out, Caspian is only too willing to help, and although Alex hates relying on him, he'll do anything to save Avery. Shadow has her own agenda. When a mysterious stranger comes to town with a proposition, will she betray them when they need her most? The witches might stand a chance, if they can get the Raven King and Green Man on their side. Without them they'll lose everything - and Avery will lose her life. If you love witches and magic, and lots of myth and mystery, you'll love the sixth book in the White Haven Witches series. Buy your copy now!

In this fascinating journey through the magical, folkloric, and healing traditions of Italy the reader learns uniquely Italian methods of magical protection and divination and spells for love, sex, control, and revenge. "Mary-Grace Fahrun's Italian Folk Magic is an intimate journey into the heart of Italian folk magical practices as they are lived every day. Having grown up in an extended Italian family in North America and Italy, the author presents us with the stories, characters, saints, charms, and prayers that form the core of folk religion, setting them in context in an authentic, down-to-earth, and humorous voice. A delight to read!"—Sabina Magliocco, Professor of Anthropology, University of British Columbia Italian Folk Magiccontains: magical and religious rituals prayers divination techniques crafting blessing rituals witchcraft The author also explores the evil eye, known as malocchio in Italian, explaining what it is, where it comes from, and, crucially, how to get rid of it. This book can help Italians regain their magical heritage, but Italian folk magic is a beautiful, powerful, and effective magical tradition that is accessible to anyone who wants to learn it.

Remaining in New Orleans with Jean-Paul despite her growing fears about the city's dark side, Alison James is propelled by haunting nightmares into a magic circle that threatens to overtake her. Original.

Learn the ways of magic and healing from the living, oral tradition of Appalachian Conjure in The Candle and the Crossroads. Orion Foxwood offers a primer on the real magic and techniques of Southern root magic, knowledge he learned first-hand growing up in rural Appalachia. Foxwood explains magical techniques including: Spirit SightWorking by the Signs (the ability to synchronize work such as farming, fertility of humans and animals, orcharding)ConjuringFaith HealingSettling the Light (candle magic)Doctoring the Root (the ability to use herbs, roots, stones, or animal parts—bones, claws, fur, etc. for magic or the clearing, cleansing, and blessing of the spirit of a person, also known as his or her root)Praying or Dreaming True (Blessings of spirit/God to a person, place, or thing as well as prophetic or predictive dreaming)Blessing or Cursing The Candle and the Crossroads shows how to create magic in today’s world with the old ways and traditions of Appalachia.

The authors draw from a wide range of sources, bringing together historical research which provides insights into the magical and religious practices associated with the Goddess Hekate. In doing so they provide an indispensable guide for those wishing to explore the mysteries of Hekate today.

Discover, for the first time in one complete work, the rich legacy of magick and ritual handed down by Italian witches through the generations. Ways of the Strega reclaims the beliefs and practices of southern European Pagan spirituality. Learn the secrets of Janarra (lunar) witches, Tanarra (star) witches, and Fanarra (ley lines) witches. This book also details the how-to's of modern Strega traditions.

How was magic practiced in medieval times? How did it relate to the diverse beliefs and practices that characterized this fascinating period? This much revised and expanded new edition of Magic in the Middle Ages surveys the growth and development of magic in medieval Europe. It takes into account the extensive new developments in the history of medieval magic in recent years, featuring new material on angel magic, the archaeology of magic, and the magical efficacy of words and imagination. Richard Kieckhefer shows how magic represents a crossroads in medieval life and culture, examining its relationship and relevance to religion, science, philosophy, art, literature, and politics. In surveying the different types of magic that were used, the kinds of people who practiced magic, and the reasoning behind their beliefs, Kieckhefer shows how magic served as a point of contact between the popular and elite classes, how the reality of magical beliefs is reflected in the fiction of medieval literature, and how the persecution of magic and witchcraft led to changes in the law.

In a post-apocalyptic world... Duncan must provide for his people as the new Chief of Ivy Island. He discovers that his father had been blackmailed by one of the village leaders. He needs to find what his father wanted to keep hidden. The abandoned underground city proves that what he thought was a fairytale, is history. When he goes raiding for the second time, he finds more than what he bargained for when a woman name Altha is pulled from the river. Can Duncan right his father's wrongs and be a successful leader? Altha has been told her mother was killed by raiders. She now lives alone and must provide for herself. A soldier destroyed her garden, she must scavenge for food or starve. Can she escape the soldier that torments her? Bargaining with the raiders led by Duncan might be her only chance...or might place her in a worse situation. Will she find happiness in life again? Buy now.

A comprehensive illustrated reference guide with more than 400 entries on the subjects of magic and alchemy.