Spellcraft: A Handbook of Invocations, Blessings, Protections, Healing Spells, Love Spells, Binding and Bidding

by Robin Skelton

A Handbook of Invocations, Blessings, Protections, Healing Spells, Love Spells, Binding and Bidding. The author sets out to prove that spell-making is a skill and can be learned by anyone with sufficient psychic energy and powers of concentration. Learn the ancient craft of common magic, which has no connection to witchcraft or the black arts. Verbal magic, a form of wishing or transmittal of intuitive messages, is as old as language itself and as powerful as the deepest forces of the human psyche. Skelton's intelligent, informative commentary will fascinate those reading out of curiosity and those seeking knowledge.

Genres: Spirituality, Occult

175 pages, Paperback

First published July 6, 1978

About the author

Robin Skelton was a writer and poet. He also wrote as Georges Zuk.

Reviews

[Trista · Rating 4 out of 5]

This came highly recommended to me and I must say, I'm now a huge fan of the author.

The author focuses on what he calls "Verbal Magic", something as a former singer I really enjoy - the power of the voice raised in chant. He juxtapositions a witch's spell with the Lord's Prayer, shares dozens upon dozens of chants and explores the whys and whatfors of "Verbal Magic" as he guides us through the spells within ancient and modern literature. If you appreciate structure in your witchcraft, I would recommend his works.

[Gordon Cooper · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have to give this four stars. Skelton said that he wasn't happy with the book, and hoped to revise or rewrite it. Sadly he died before that could happen. It is still the best and only useful guide in Modern times (at least in English) for phrase magic. This book can serve as an introduction to oral magic and spontaneous divinatory poetry.