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Spells, Charms, Talismans & Amulets: A Complete Guide to Loving Enchantment
The author of The Complete Dream Dictionary now offers a new guide to enchantment. Pamela Ball has been a professional dream counselor and spiritual guide for over thirty years and has advised and guided many thousands of people, including leading figures in business, politics and the arts. Over 120 spells and rituals are included, all of them positive, life-affirming tools to help you in myriad ways.
392 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2001
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August 11, 2021
Book Review ⭐⭐⭐
Spells, Charms, Talismans and Amulets by Pamela Ball
Gives a brief overview of the following traditions of magic.
Polytheism, Pantheism, Monotheism, Atheism, Paganism, Neo-paganism, High and Low Magic, Hermeticism, and Kabbalah.
Goes into magical techniques including, colours, herbs, candles, crystals, knots, representational, symbolic and elemental magic. Talismans, amulets and charms, altars, circles, tools and sacred space, nature spirits, forming rituals, incense.
Provides a list of Celtic, Egyptian, Roman, Greek, and Norse deities. Correspondences for days, hours, sabbats, esbats, amulets, runes, ogham, magical alphabets, numbers, talismans, the archangels, the elementals.
Various spells and rituals are dotted throughout.
Overall this is a pretty decent book for beginners. Giving a nice overview of many points of interest that can be delved into using more specific sources. As a slightly older book, it's free of a lot of the fluff and woo that many modern books seem to have.
My only quibble is with the occasional mention of smudging and specific wording around subjects that in the current time would be considered cultural appropriation. But the book is 20 years old, so you can't really hold it to today's standards for that aspect.
So if you're a beginner and want to get an understanding on a wide range of topics, this is a great starting point to get a good foundation.
I would also recommend Psychic Witch by Mat Auryn to EVERY beginner. Learning what magic is and what to do is all fair and well, but you first need to develop the necessary abilities to work magic. Mat Auryn's book is unrivalled in this area.
Spells, Charms, Talismans and Amulets by Pamela Ball
Gives a brief overview of the following traditions of magic.
Polytheism, Pantheism, Monotheism, Atheism, Paganism, Neo-paganism, High and Low Magic, Hermeticism, and Kabbalah.
Goes into magical techniques including, colours, herbs, candles, crystals, knots, representational, symbolic and elemental magic. Talismans, amulets and charms, altars, circles, tools and sacred space, nature spirits, forming rituals, incense.
Provides a list of Celtic, Egyptian, Roman, Greek, and Norse deities. Correspondences for days, hours, sabbats, esbats, amulets, runes, ogham, magical alphabets, numbers, talismans, the archangels, the elementals.
Various spells and rituals are dotted throughout.
Overall this is a pretty decent book for beginners. Giving a nice overview of many points of interest that can be delved into using more specific sources. As a slightly older book, it's free of a lot of the fluff and woo that many modern books seem to have.
My only quibble is with the occasional mention of smudging and specific wording around subjects that in the current time would be considered cultural appropriation. But the book is 20 years old, so you can't really hold it to today's standards for that aspect.
So if you're a beginner and want to get an understanding on a wide range of topics, this is a great starting point to get a good foundation.
I would also recommend Psychic Witch by Mat Auryn to EVERY beginner. Learning what magic is and what to do is all fair and well, but you first need to develop the necessary abilities to work magic. Mat Auryn's book is unrivalled in this area.
August 15, 2013
A lot of information, some interesting insights into the conceptualization of magickal thought and history. Along with taking a snapshot view of many arts within the craft. Though I am not usually big on these sorts of books, this one gets a four for the intriguing thoughts it brings along the way.
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