Description
The Ultimate Reference Book for the Magical Arts
The Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells, a comprehensive guide to the magical arts, features five thousand spells spanning five thousand years of magical history drawn from Earth’s every inhabited corner, from ancient to modern Egypt, from old Mesopotamia to today’s African Diaspora. There are spells from Celtic, Chinese, Italian, Jewish, Romani, Slavic and Tibetan traditions plus many more. There’s practical magic, high ritual magic, spells that demand careful planning and spells to be cast spontaneously, spells one might wish to cast daily as well as spells that should perhaps never be performed, spells whose components include precious resins and priceless gems and spells whose every ingredient is free: ocean water, moonbeams, dirt.
Within The Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells’ more than one thousand pages you’ll discover:
Banishing spells
Better Business and Professional Success Spells
Cleansing Spells
Courtcase Spells: Spells for Legal Justice
Death Spells: Death and Funeral Spells, Ghosts, Necromancy and Vampires
Divination Spells
Dream Spells: Dreams, Insomnia, Astral Projection, Witches Flying Ointments
Fertility Spells
Gambling Spells
Healing Spells, both general healing and spells for specific ailments
Hexes and their Antidotes
Invisibility and Transformation Spells
Over 100 pages of Love Spells
Marriage and Divorce Spells
Money Spells
Pregnancy and Childbirth Spells
Protection Spells
Plus more . . .
Spells take many forms. Key concepts necessary for successful spell-casting are explained in plain English. In addition to the spells, The Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells includes a guide to various forms of spell-casting including working with:
Animals (Familiars and allies)
Botanicals (in varied forms: dried and fresh herbs, roots, essential oils, flower essences and more)
Elements (air, earth, fire, water)
Minerals (crystals, gemstones, lodestones, holed stones)
Planets, especially Luna and our own Earth
Spirits (angels, demons, djinn, fairies, lwa, orisha, saints official and otherwise)
Words (charms, incantations, rhymes, words of power)
and more . . .
Within these pages you’ll also find a guide to crafting, charging and working with a wide variety of magical tools including:
Brooms
Candles
Cauldrons
Dolls
Magic mirrors
Magic swords
Magic wands
Mojo hands
and more . . .
A Formulary features recipes for classic charged waters, condition oils, magical inks and powders including:
Angel’s Water
Florida Water
Flower Waters
Holy Waters
War Water
Abra-Melin Oil
Black Cat Oil
High John Oil
Jezebel Oil
Magnet Oil
Goofer Dust
Graveyard Dust
Kyphi
Dragon’s Blood Ink
Lampblack Ink
and more . . .
