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Wiccecræft
Wiccecræft explores magical manuscripts from the Dark Ages to illuminate the mysterious world of our ancestors. Intended for use in healing and magic by the cunning-men and women of Britain, these enigmatic texts stored in The British Library have received little attention outside the world of academia. But for the student of the esoteric and magic, the text more commonly known as Bald’s Leechbook III reveals ancient and compelling evidence of folk customs regarding magic, witchcraft, and the shadow world of demons, elves and vampires.
159 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 30, 2010
About the author
Sinéad Spearing
6 books16 followersSinéad Spearing is a writer and historian whose work traces the quiet threads of healing, devotion, and forgotten lives. Her writing blends historical scholarship with spiritual reflection, uncovering the stories of those who offered care, wisdom, and light in the margins of history.
She trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Royal College of Music in London, later teaching flute at Benenden School in Kent. In later life, after earning a first-class honours degree in Psychology with Philosophy, she turned her focus to the emotional and spiritual legacy of healing practices across time.
Sinéad is the author of several acclaimed books exploring early English remedies and the lives of women who worked in service of others through medicine, midwifery, and quiet faith. Her translations of Old English medical texts have been praised by Professor Jacalyn Duffin of the National History Museum, and her work has been featured by the British Psychological Society and invited into the archives of televised historical documentaries.
Invited to speak at institutions including the Royal Society of Pharmacology and The Old Operating Theatre Museum in London, Sinead continues to be sought after as a historical consultant.
Her forthcoming book explores the revelations of Julian of Norwich — a woman whose vision of divine love and spiritual resilience still speaks to those living through uncertainty and silence.
Sinéad lives in the English countryside with her husband and their cats, where she continues to write, research, and walk the bramble path that winds through history and faith.
She trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Royal College of Music in London, later teaching flute at Benenden School in Kent. In later life, after earning a first-class honours degree in Psychology with Philosophy, she turned her focus to the emotional and spiritual legacy of healing practices across time.
Sinéad is the author of several acclaimed books exploring early English remedies and the lives of women who worked in service of others through medicine, midwifery, and quiet faith. Her translations of Old English medical texts have been praised by Professor Jacalyn Duffin of the National History Museum, and her work has been featured by the British Psychological Society and invited into the archives of televised historical documentaries.
Invited to speak at institutions including the Royal Society of Pharmacology and The Old Operating Theatre Museum in London, Sinead continues to be sought after as a historical consultant.
Her forthcoming book explores the revelations of Julian of Norwich — a woman whose vision of divine love and spiritual resilience still speaks to those living through uncertainty and silence.
Sinéad lives in the English countryside with her husband and their cats, where she continues to write, research, and walk the bramble path that winds through history and faith.
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November 26, 2012
First couple of chapters were interesting where the author provided excerpts from Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Then the author appears to have gotten distracted with their personal account of what may have happened. I fail to see the relevance of the inclusion of "semi-fictional" account of some modern constructed rituals were included save for padding of an already slim volume as these tended to display no historical foundation.
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