The Cunning Mans Handbook

Author : Jim Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781905297689
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cunning Man's Handbook written by Jim Baker and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The desire to understand magic in any specific cultural context is an intellectual puzzle not only for scholars but believers." - Jim Baker

Author : Owen Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 082644279X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History written by Owen Davies and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cunning-folk were local practitioners of magic, providing small-scale but valued service to the community. They were far more representative of magical practice than the arcane delvings of astrologers and necromancers. Mostly unsensational in their approach, cunning-folk helped people with everyday problems: how to find lost objects; how to escape from bad luck or a suspected spell; and how to attract a lover or keep the love of a husband or wife. While cunning-folk sometimes fell foul of the authorities, both church and state often turned a blind eye to their existence and practices, distinguishing what they did from the rare and sensational cases of malvolent witchcraft. In a world of uncertainty, before insurance and modern science, cunning-folk played an important role that has previously been ignored.

Author : Stephen Skinner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780738760728
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cunning Man's Grimoire written by Stephen Skinner and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Dr. Stephen Skinner and the Golden Hoard Press comes a historical grimoire that features a fascinating blend of high magic and local village magic. Originally a handbook for a working sorcerer, this book includes a wealth of magical workings in addition to a treasure trove of critical astrological information, including a unique set of astrological tables that are generally absent from other grimoires. Going beyond the planetary days and hours, A Cunning Man's Grimoire reveals detailed aspects of timing and magical operations connected with the 28 Mansions of the Moon and image magic, which rarely appear in Solomonic grimoires. This practical manual of magic is strongly influence by Arabic and Indian roots, placing it at the crossroads of several powerful magical streams.

Author : Jason Miller
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 160163952X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Protection & Reversal Magick written by Jason Miller and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You could be the target of a spell or curse and not even know it! All people, witches or not, are susceptible to these attacks. The difference: witches and magicians can do something about it. Now you can too. Protection & Reversal Magick is a complete how-to manual on preventing, defending, and reversing magickal attacks of any kind. You will learn to: Set up early-warning systems. Appease angry spirits through offerings. Perform daily banishings and make amulets that will prevent most attacks. Make magickal “decoys” to absorb attacks against you Summon guardian spirits or gods for help. Bind, confuse, or expel a persistent enemy who will not leave you be. These techniques aren't just for witches, either, but for ceremonial magicians, rootdoctors, and anyone else who puts magick to a practical use. Like the cunning men and women of old, now you can defend yourself and your loved ones against even the strongest attacks! “This book is not only one of my favorite books on ‘defense against the dark arts’, but is actually one of my favorite books in my whole library. Throughout the book Jason provides not only on protection, but also on recognizing the symptoms of attack and creating early warning system to alert you of magickal attacks.” —Mat Auryn, author of Psychic Witch

Author : Baratunde Thurston
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062098047
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Be Black written by Baratunde Thurston and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York TimesBestseller Baratunde Thurston’s comedic memoir chronicles his coming-of-blackness and offers practical advice on everything from “How to Be the Black Friend” to “How to Be the (Next) Black President”. Have you ever been called “too black” or “not black enough”? Have you ever befriended or worked with a black person? Have you ever heard of black people? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this book is for you. It is also for anyone who can read, possesses intelligence, loves to laugh, and has ever felt a distance between who they know themselves to be and what the world expects. Raised by a pro-black, Pan-Afrikan single mother during the crack years of 1980s Washington, DC, and educated at Sidwell Friends School and Harvard University, Baratunde Thurston has more than over thirty years' experience being black. Now, through stories of his politically inspired Nigerian name, the heroics of his hippie mother, the murder of his drug-abusing father, and other revelatory black details, he shares with readers of all colors his wisdom and expertise in how to be black. “As a black woman, this book helped me realize I’m actually a white man.”—Patton Oswalt

Author : Owen Davies
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cunning-folk written by Owen Davies and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2003 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local practitioners of magic, providing small-scale but valued services to the community, cunning-folk were far more representative of magical practice than the arcane delvings of astrologers and necromancers. Mostly unsensational in their approach, cunning-folk helped people with everyday problems: how to find lost objects; how to escape from bad luck or a suspected spell; and how to attract a lover or keep the love of a husband or wife. While cunning-folk sometimes fell foul of the authorities, both church and state often turned a blind eye to their existence and practices, distinguishing what they did from the rare and sensational cases of malevolent witchcraft. In a world of uncertainty, before insurance and modern science, cunning-folk played an important role that has previously been ignored.

Author : Becca Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442474270
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Ice written by Becca Fitzpatrick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britt goes hiking in the Grand Tetons of Wyoming with her ex-boyfriend Calvin, but trouble arises when she is caught in a blizzard, taken hostage by fugitives, finds evidence of murders, and learns whom to trust and whom to love.

Author : Mary S. Rustad
Publisher : Galde Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781880090756
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Books of Elverum written by Mary S. Rustad and published by Galde Press, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emma Wilby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits written by Emma Wilby and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the hundreds of confessions relating to witchcraft and sorcery trials from early modern Britain we frequently find detailed descriptions of intimate working relationships between popular magical practitioners and familiar spirits of either human or animal form. Until recently historians often dismissed these descriptions as elaborate fictions created by judicial interrogators eager to find evidence of stereotypical pacts with the Devil. Although this paradigm is now routinely questioned, and most historians acknowledge that there was a folkloric component to familiar lore in the period, these beliefs and the experiences reportedly associated with them, remain substantially unexamined. Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits examines the folkloric roots of familiar lore from historical, anthropological and comparative religious perspectives. It argues that beliefs about witches' familiars were rooted in beliefs surrounding the use of fairy familiars by beneficent magical practitioners or 'cunning folk', and corroborates this through a comparative analysis of familiar beliefs found in traditional native American and Siberian shamanism. The author explores the experiential dimension of familiar lore by drawing parallels between early modern familiar encounters and visionary mysticism as it appears in both tribal shamanism and medieval European contemplative traditions. These perspectives challenge the reductionist view of popular magic in early modern British often presented by historians.

Author : David Rankine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781905297382
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grimoire of Arthur Gauntlet written by David Rankine and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grimoire of Arthur Gauntlet is an outstanding example of a seventeenth century London Cunning-man's book of practice. An introduction provides fresh insights into the hidden world of seventeenth century magical London, exploring the web of connections between astrologers, cunning-folk and magicians, playwrights, authors and church figures.