The Spiritual Magic of Dolls

by Najah Lightfoot, Judika Illes (foreword)

Dolls have been beloved companions and instruments of magic for millennia. They are among the most ancient Egyptian and Roman artifacts. Not only playthings for children, they also provide lifelong comfort and companionship. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, dolls developed therapeutic uses, especially for traumatized children and people with dementia. But dolls also possess a long history as a tool of divination, witchcraft, and the occult. In The Spiritual Magic of Dolls, Najah Lightfoot bridges these two uses—companionship and magic—to enable readers to develop profound magical and spiritual relationships with their own dolls.
 
Many have beloved dolls displayed on shelves or sitting in boxes. What if you could do more with them? Najah Lightfoot shows you how. Perhaps you still have favorite childhood dolls or have been gifted with a doll or inherited one from a relative or friend. Many people are extremely attached to one or more dolls—this book teaches you how to take that attachment to the next level.
 
Najah Lightfoot teaches how to develop a magical and spiritual relationship with your dolls. Najah writes, “This book is crafted, written for the magical practitioner or the person who has a love of dolls, who would like to learn how to bring them comfortably, lovingly into a working and familial relationship. The Spiritual Magic of Dolls seeks to connect readers to the love of dolls, especially dolls that may have had a hard life before they ended up coming into the lives of the reader. It is written for those who find themselves drawn to dolls and wish to be closer to them in magical, loving ways.”

208 pages, Paperback

Published November 3, 2025

About the author

Najah Lightfoot is the author of "The Spiritual Magic of Dolls," ~ release date November 03, 2025, published by Red Wheel/Weiser Books.

She is the multi-award-winning author of the bestselling Good Juju: Mojos, Rites & Practices for the Magical Soul, and "Powerful Juju ~ Goddesses, Music, & Magic, for Comfort, Guidance, & Protection," published by Llewellyn Worldwide.

Najah is a regular contributor to the Llewellyn annuals and a contributor to Taschen, The Library of Esoterica -Volume III - Witchcraft. Her magickal staff is on display and part of the permanent collection of the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft, located in Cleveland, Ohio.

Najah is an in-demand speaker and presenter for conferences, events, workshops, film and print media.

She lives in Denver, Colorado, where the blue skies and the Rocky Mountains uplift and fill her soul.
Find her online at www.instagram.com/NajahLightfoot, www.facebook.com/NajahLightfoot, and www.backstage.com/u/Najah_Lightfoot/