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Magickal Herbs and Their Uses
A simple reference guide to the magickal properties of herbs and their uses in Witchcraft.
68 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 18, 2012
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July 1, 2020
"Simple" doesn't even begin to describe this book. "Lacking Content", "I've already seen this before", and "this is nothing new" far more accurately sum up the contents of this book.
First off, kudos to the author for actually including a warning that plants are toxic and managing to mark some of the plants in the index. However, points are again lost for not marking even half of them- because I noticed most of the ones marked as toxic were only ingestable herbs; zero warnings, from what I saw, for herbs that aren't safe to touch, and there are plenty more that should have been marked that weren't. Another problem I had was that there was absolutely no extra information on how to properly research herbs- and no information on how to handle toxic ones.
I understand that this is a basic reference guide. Safety is important, however, and if you are going to include the warnings in a Guide specifically focusing on Magical Herbs, their uses, and how to use them, then I believe that it is imperative that you walk them through the basic safety steps instead of leaving them to figure it out on their own.
Another problem I have with this book is it is the exact same correspondence list that I have ever come across on basically every fluffy new age site. This information is nothing new, it is the same over-publicized information that is already out there in droves- just in a much harder to read format. There was absolutely nothing unique about this book, and honestly nothing truly informative about it.
The writing and formatting itself was pretty bad as well, and essentially makes it useless as a reference guide. It is useless and I feel that any beginner who buys it will not only more than likely have to relearn everything in it, but will also more than likely get hurt. Save yourself the money. Even the market price of $0.99 USD when it's not on sell isn't worth it.
First off, kudos to the author for actually including a warning that plants are toxic and managing to mark some of the plants in the index. However, points are again lost for not marking even half of them- because I noticed most of the ones marked as toxic were only ingestable herbs; zero warnings, from what I saw, for herbs that aren't safe to touch, and there are plenty more that should have been marked that weren't. Another problem I had was that there was absolutely no extra information on how to properly research herbs- and no information on how to handle toxic ones.
I understand that this is a basic reference guide. Safety is important, however, and if you are going to include the warnings in a Guide specifically focusing on Magical Herbs, their uses, and how to use them, then I believe that it is imperative that you walk them through the basic safety steps instead of leaving them to figure it out on their own.
Another problem I have with this book is it is the exact same correspondence list that I have ever come across on basically every fluffy new age site. This information is nothing new, it is the same over-publicized information that is already out there in droves- just in a much harder to read format. There was absolutely nothing unique about this book, and honestly nothing truly informative about it.
The writing and formatting itself was pretty bad as well, and essentially makes it useless as a reference guide. It is useless and I feel that any beginner who buys it will not only more than likely have to relearn everything in it, but will also more than likely get hurt. Save yourself the money. Even the market price of $0.99 USD when it's not on sell isn't worth it.
August 12, 2014
The clue is in the description "simple reference". Exactly what it says, good reference point.
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