Elhoim Leafar's Blog: About your own Abundance. - Posts Tagged "folk-magic"

"Elhoim Leafar has created a beautiful, empowering, and immensely accessible manual for crafting charm bags. Teaching simple and effective ways to make charms bags for every purpose under Moon and Sun, these portable powerhouses of magic will enhance your daily life and spiritual practice. I enjoyed using charm bags before, but after reading The Magical Art of Crafting Charm Bags, I absolutely adore them!".

–- Michael Butler Smith, shamanic witch and author of Embracing Isis: A Witch’s Guide to the Great Goddess

"Using a combination of methods from various traditions and cultures, Elhoim Leafar presents us nothing less than a manual on the magical arts. From magic circles and planetary correspondences to utilizing color associations, herbs, stones, bones, and the phases of the moon, Leafar offers simple methods for the creation and consecration of charm bags for a veritable plethora of practical purposes. Easy to understand and full of interesting details, The Magical Art of Crafting Charm Bags is a great guide for the beginner, but will also provide the seasoned practitioner with new perspectives on the art of making one of the most beloved forms of spells that folk-magic has to offer."

―Storm Faerywolf, author of Betwixt and Between: Exploring the Faery Tradition of Witchcraft

"Charm bags rank among the most popular amulets in the world today and yet up until now there has been precious little accessible, practical information about how to make them. Elhoim Leafar remedies that situation with his comprehensive book The Magical Art of Crafting Charm Bags. Elhoim leads the reader through all stages of creating these powerful magical tools, as well as enumerating and describing their various components, ranging from crystals and perfumes, to bones and herbs. This book will be a welcome and useful addition to any magical practitioner’s bookshelf."

--Judika Illes, author of the Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells, Magic When You Need It, The Big Book of Practical Spells, and other books of magic