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Sigil Witchery: A Witch's Guide to Crafting Magick Symbols
Discover the Power of Line and Symbol
Sigils are magical symbols that are designed to influence ourselves and the world around us. Tracing through history, art, and culture, this illustrated book offers an innovative and fresh approach to sigil magick that is accessible and intuitive. You don't need a degree in art or magick to make effective sigils!
Learn how to manifest your will through your very own designs. Explore traditional and modern meanings of shapes, symbols, numbers, letters, and colors, while receiving guidance on how to add personal meaning to your marks. Sigil Witchery includes methods of application, tips for choosing materials, and important considerations for both temporary and permanent sigils. This book helps you improve your drawing techniques, use sample exercises to challenge yourself, and gain deeper metaphysical insight and inspiration--all to guide you to develop your own powerful sigil magick.
Sigils are magical symbols that are designed to influence ourselves and the world around us. Tracing through history, art, and culture, this illustrated book offers an innovative and fresh approach to sigil magick that is accessible and intuitive. You don't need a degree in art or magick to make effective sigils!
Learn how to manifest your will through your very own designs. Explore traditional and modern meanings of shapes, symbols, numbers, letters, and colors, while receiving guidance on how to add personal meaning to your marks. Sigil Witchery includes methods of application, tips for choosing materials, and important considerations for both temporary and permanent sigils. This book helps you improve your drawing techniques, use sample exercises to challenge yourself, and gain deeper metaphysical insight and inspiration--all to guide you to develop your own powerful sigil magick.
211 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2018
About the author
Laura Tempest Zakroff
32 books425 followersLaura Tempest Zakroff (she/they) is a professional artist, author, performer, and Modern Traditional Witch based in New England.
She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and her artwork has received awards and honors worldwide. Her work embodies myth and the esoteric through her drawings and paintings, jewelry, talismans, and other designs.
Laura is the author of several bestselling Llewellyn books including Weave the Liminal, Sigil Witchery, Visual Alchemy, and Anatomy of a Witch, as well as the artist and author of the Sigil Witchery Oracle, Anatomy of a Witch Oracle, The Liminal Spirits Oracle. Laura edited The New Aradia: A Witch’s Handbook to Magical Resistance, The Gorgon's Guide to Magical Resistance, and Serpents of Circe: A Manual to Magical Resilience from Revelore Press.
Laura is the creative force behind several community events and teaches workshops online and worldwide.
Visit her at www.LauraTempestZakroff.com.
She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and her artwork has received awards and honors worldwide. Her work embodies myth and the esoteric through her drawings and paintings, jewelry, talismans, and other designs.
Laura is the author of several bestselling Llewellyn books including Weave the Liminal, Sigil Witchery, Visual Alchemy, and Anatomy of a Witch, as well as the artist and author of the Sigil Witchery Oracle, Anatomy of a Witch Oracle, The Liminal Spirits Oracle. Laura edited The New Aradia: A Witch’s Handbook to Magical Resistance, The Gorgon's Guide to Magical Resistance, and Serpents of Circe: A Manual to Magical Resilience from Revelore Press.
Laura is the creative force behind several community events and teaches workshops online and worldwide.
Visit her at www.LauraTempestZakroff.com.
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January 14, 2022
I remember the thrill I got when I first saw Laura Tempest Zakroff's blogpost where she released the Power Sigil into the wild. I get a similar buzz when she posts a sigil from a workshop on her Instagram page. So I was very excited when I saw that she had written a book about sigil crafting.
There seems to be a very welcome trend towards writing in-depth guides to specific areas of magic. Llewellyn are publishing a series on the witch's tools, and Moon Books have published guides to specific types of magic.
The book is very attractive, with the Power Sigil on the cover, and I was excited to get my hands on it.
It starts with a thorough investigation of magical marks and signs in various cultures (and warns the reader away from cultural appropriation, which is excellent).
Then there's a section on various symbols that are commonly used in many different cultures: hearts, stars, circles, triangles, crescents, dots, and so on, along with some handy hints on how to draw them. Next there's a section with some key concepts like community, inspiration, love, journeys, invoke, mirror, etc and you were invited to create symbols for each of them.
The process of creating a sigil in a ritual way is described, and how to activate and apply sigils in various ways (drawing, planting, anointing, tattoos, henna, embroidery, fabric paints, and more).
Then the author presents some exercises for sigil crafting, encouraging you to have a go at crafting sigil for some more complex ideas and situations. She then shows you her solutions to these. Finally she shares some of her beautiful sigils, paintings and artwork, followed by a helpful appendix of further reading and resources.
I particularly like the way that Laura stresses throughout the book that this is about your personal symbols, so there is no single correct answer.
I highly recommend this book to anyone and everyone who is interested in magic and witchcraft. It's a unique system of magic developed by Laura, and the book is very well written and enjoyable to read. I guarantee you will be putting pen to paper and making sigils after you've engaged with this book.
Then there's a section on various symbols that are commonly used in many different cultures: hearts, stars, circles, triangles, crescents, dots, and so on, along with some handy hints on how to draw them. Next there's a section with some key concepts like community, inspiration, love, journeys, invoke, mirror, etc and you were invited to create symbols for each of them.
The process of creating a sigil in a ritual way is described, and how to activate and apply sigils in various ways (drawing, planting, anointing, tattoos, henna, embroidery, fabric paints, and more).
Then the author presents some exercises for sigil crafting, encouraging you to have a go at crafting sigil for some more complex ideas and situations. She then shows you her solutions to these. Finally she shares some of her beautiful sigils, paintings and artwork, followed by a helpful appendix of further reading and resources.
I particularly like the way that Laura stresses throughout the book that this is about your personal symbols, so there is no single correct answer.
I highly recommend this book to anyone and everyone who is interested in magic and witchcraft. It's a unique system of magic developed by Laura, and the book is very well written and enjoyable to read. I guarantee you will be putting pen to paper and making sigils after you've engaged with this book.
December 13, 2017
This book was so informative and interesting! I enjoyed learning about sigil magick and the history behind it. And the author is such a beautiful artist...I just couldn't get over the pictures. I understood and could follow along very easily, so this book is wonderful for people who are interested and want to learn more about sigil magick.
May 4, 2018
A very cool guide to imagery with deeper meaning.
January 13, 2020
This is a book about sigil magic, something that has roots in a spectrum of ancient cultural esoterica but became popular with the rise of chaos magick in the 1970s. The book starts with a general explanation and some history of some of the systems where sigil magick began. It then continues with a full chapter on pictorial art from cave paintings to symbols used by secret societies, hitting a few little known facts but missing out obvious things like Runes, which is later explained.
I have mixed feelings about this book. As a book about art and how to apply drawing techniques for interesting looks for sigils, it excels. On magic... not so much. I have no doubt that the author's spells would work for her, but the explanations of how sigil magic works falls short and in some instances contradicts safety information I've read from more experienced and trusted authors on the subject.
I noted that an early reference to the method used in chaos magic(k) gave me the impression that it had been taken from a couple of variations that might have come from Internet forums and thought the author could benefit from reading the book by Austin Spare where that particular method originated, then later she talks about having read that very book and suggests it's difficult to follow.
She also never mentions anything about charging the sigils, which is an important step in the process. For people new to sigil magic, I'd suggest people start at the known authors; Spare, Carroll, Hawkins and possibly Hine.
I think this book would be a good resource for someone who already has a working knowledge of sigil magic and is looking to expand on the artistic possibilities. Her information on art materials was excellent and it's clear she knows her stuff on that. This would be a good supplement for visual appeal and some alternative approaches, plus some I've read about elsewhere like motion sigils get more attention here than in the earliest sources.
I have mixed feelings about this book. As a book about art and how to apply drawing techniques for interesting looks for sigils, it excels. On magic... not so much. I have no doubt that the author's spells would work for her, but the explanations of how sigil magic works falls short and in some instances contradicts safety information I've read from more experienced and trusted authors on the subject.
I noted that an early reference to the method used in chaos magic(k) gave me the impression that it had been taken from a couple of variations that might have come from Internet forums and thought the author could benefit from reading the book by Austin Spare where that particular method originated, then later she talks about having read that very book and suggests it's difficult to follow.
She also never mentions anything about charging the sigils, which is an important step in the process. For people new to sigil magic, I'd suggest people start at the known authors; Spare, Carroll, Hawkins and possibly Hine.
I think this book would be a good resource for someone who already has a working knowledge of sigil magic and is looking to expand on the artistic possibilities. Her information on art materials was excellent and it's clear she knows her stuff on that. This would be a good supplement for visual appeal and some alternative approaches, plus some I've read about elsewhere like motion sigils get more attention here than in the earliest sources.
July 15, 2020
I've been interested in using sigils in my craft for a while now, but I didn't much like the more common way of creating them. They just never looked great to me, and I didn't really enjoy the process of creating them. In response to the way Black Lives Matter protestors were being treated after the murder of George Floyd, Laura Tempest Zakroff shared a number of sigils on Instagram created in her workshops that could be used in spellwork to protect those who were protesting, and for the dissolution of hate. Using them in my own spellwork, I realised these were the kind of sigils I imagined when I thought "magical symbol", and when I realised Tempest Zakroff had written Sigil Witchery, I snapped it up.
Sigil Witchery is absolutely fantastic! The heart of this book is Tempest Zakroff sharing with us her method of creating sigils. Instead of the chaos magic style of creating sigils which I'd tried and didn't like - writing out your intention, crossing out vowels and repeated consonants, and using the shapes of the remaining letters to create a sigil - Tempest Zaroff's method is rooted in the marks and symbols the humans have been using to communicate since the dawn of civilisation. The whole first chapter is absolutely fascinating, taking us through history and the various marks and symbols our ancestors used, how they evolved, how they would have different meaning to those in different parts of the world, and so much more. I have to say, my initial attraction to Tempest Zakroff's sigils was aesthetics, but the idea of creating sigils using the marks that meant something, both mundane and sacred, to our ancestors really appeals to me. They're just so steeped in history, which to me just adds more power to them.
And the rest of the book goes into just as much depth. Tempest Zakroff talks us through all the different marks and symbols, and what they mean to her, but with space for readers to write down notes on what those symbols mean to them, our own associations and ideas. Following on from this is a chart with common words used in intentions where we are to create symbols for those words ourselves. So we have Tempest Zakroff's and our own basic meanings of symbols and marks, and then our own base to jump forward from with these list of symbols for specific words that are unique to us that we can incorporate into our own sigils. I love how nothing is set in stone, and how the emphasis is on our own sigil making.
But there's also so much more! Tempest Zakroff talks us through application and acknowledgement of our sigils, and suggestions of various ways we apply and acknowledge them. Application refers to actually using the sigil; you've created the sigil, but now the sigil has to be used in some way to work it's magic. There are so many suggestions - with reasons why certain suggestions might work better for specific intentions than others - like drawing them on the bottom of your shoes or on the bottom of a chair, sewing them into clothes, planting seeds in the shape of the sigil, and so many more. Acknowledgement refers to activiating the sigil over time, if necessary, which can simply be having it in your eye-line, tracing the sigil with your eyes or finger, anointing them on skin, or ingesting them, through drawing the sigil into food or tea with a spoon, among so many more. And then there's a whole chapter on how to design your sigil, with suggestions of art supplies the reader may with to use in designing their sigils.
There are even exercises towards the end with a number of scenarios where people are requesting sigils made for specific reasons, and we're encouraged to work through those scenarios and create those sigils before looking at Tempest Zakroff's own solutions, where she explains what she focused on in the scenario, and how she translated those elements into particular symbols, and then created the sigil from them. But she emphasises how there is no right or wrong - your sigils will probably look different to hers, but they will, and they ought to. It's about using the knowledge you have to start actually creating those sigils, feeling confident in the process and your ability, to create your own in your magical practice.
Sigil Witchery is just brilliant. For it's length and how much information we're given and the details Tempest Zakroff goes into, it's quite a quick read, meaning it won't take too long until you're creating powerful, beautiful sigils full of history and intent. It's such a fantastic guide! And I loved Tempest Zakroff's voice so much, I'm really eager to buy her Weave the Liminal, her latest book which goes into Modern Traditional Witchcraft, her own practice which she touches on in Sigil Witchery. It sounds right up my street, and if it's written anything like Sigil Witchery, it's going to be engrossing.
If working with sigils is something that you're interested in, I'd highly recommend Sigil Witchery as a different method of designing and creating magical symbols full of history and power.
Sigil Witchery is absolutely fantastic! The heart of this book is Tempest Zakroff sharing with us her method of creating sigils. Instead of the chaos magic style of creating sigils which I'd tried and didn't like - writing out your intention, crossing out vowels and repeated consonants, and using the shapes of the remaining letters to create a sigil - Tempest Zaroff's method is rooted in the marks and symbols the humans have been using to communicate since the dawn of civilisation. The whole first chapter is absolutely fascinating, taking us through history and the various marks and symbols our ancestors used, how they evolved, how they would have different meaning to those in different parts of the world, and so much more. I have to say, my initial attraction to Tempest Zakroff's sigils was aesthetics, but the idea of creating sigils using the marks that meant something, both mundane and sacred, to our ancestors really appeals to me. They're just so steeped in history, which to me just adds more power to them.
And the rest of the book goes into just as much depth. Tempest Zakroff talks us through all the different marks and symbols, and what they mean to her, but with space for readers to write down notes on what those symbols mean to them, our own associations and ideas. Following on from this is a chart with common words used in intentions where we are to create symbols for those words ourselves. So we have Tempest Zakroff's and our own basic meanings of symbols and marks, and then our own base to jump forward from with these list of symbols for specific words that are unique to us that we can incorporate into our own sigils. I love how nothing is set in stone, and how the emphasis is on our own sigil making.
But there's also so much more! Tempest Zakroff talks us through application and acknowledgement of our sigils, and suggestions of various ways we apply and acknowledge them. Application refers to actually using the sigil; you've created the sigil, but now the sigil has to be used in some way to work it's magic. There are so many suggestions - with reasons why certain suggestions might work better for specific intentions than others - like drawing them on the bottom of your shoes or on the bottom of a chair, sewing them into clothes, planting seeds in the shape of the sigil, and so many more. Acknowledgement refers to activiating the sigil over time, if necessary, which can simply be having it in your eye-line, tracing the sigil with your eyes or finger, anointing them on skin, or ingesting them, through drawing the sigil into food or tea with a spoon, among so many more. And then there's a whole chapter on how to design your sigil, with suggestions of art supplies the reader may with to use in designing their sigils.
There are even exercises towards the end with a number of scenarios where people are requesting sigils made for specific reasons, and we're encouraged to work through those scenarios and create those sigils before looking at Tempest Zakroff's own solutions, where she explains what she focused on in the scenario, and how she translated those elements into particular symbols, and then created the sigil from them. But she emphasises how there is no right or wrong - your sigils will probably look different to hers, but they will, and they ought to. It's about using the knowledge you have to start actually creating those sigils, feeling confident in the process and your ability, to create your own in your magical practice.
Sigil Witchery is just brilliant. For it's length and how much information we're given and the details Tempest Zakroff goes into, it's quite a quick read, meaning it won't take too long until you're creating powerful, beautiful sigils full of history and intent. It's such a fantastic guide! And I loved Tempest Zakroff's voice so much, I'm really eager to buy her Weave the Liminal, her latest book which goes into Modern Traditional Witchcraft, her own practice which she touches on in Sigil Witchery. It sounds right up my street, and if it's written anything like Sigil Witchery, it's going to be engrossing.
If working with sigils is something that you're interested in, I'd highly recommend Sigil Witchery as a different method of designing and creating magical symbols full of history and power.
March 12, 2021
Between 4 and 4.5 stars.
Lots of great tips and background knowledge to help any practitioner or even just someone curious about how sigils work. I appreciated that Zakroff foregrounded the practical exercises of sigil witchery with statements about how people shouldn't culturally appropriate symbols into their sigil designs. This is a solid resource and I'm happy it's a part of my personal library.
Lots of great tips and background knowledge to help any practitioner or even just someone curious about how sigils work. I appreciated that Zakroff foregrounded the practical exercises of sigil witchery with statements about how people shouldn't culturally appropriate symbols into their sigil designs. This is a solid resource and I'm happy it's a part of my personal library.
November 23, 2017
FULL REVIEW TO BE PUBLISHED
I’ve seen so many books in the market that fill the description about introducing the reader to the subject of magic, divination, paganism and so on that I seriously thought there was a lack of interest and creativity in all of the content people were writing about, that everything was just being discussed with little novelty, if any.
Then only one thing I didn’t enjoy that much were the pages specifying which materials the authors uses when working with symbols and sigils, which were only for those interested in traditional art. There were some valuable glimpses of information now and then, but in general terms it slowed down my reading process as I’m not that specific public.
In the end, “Sigil Witchery: A Witch's Guide to Crafting Magick Symbols” proves to be a great addition for actually any witch’s personal library and a great guide for those who just discovered sigil magic. It has certainly opened a whole new chance for me.
I’ve seen so many books in the market that fill the description about introducing the reader to the subject of magic, divination, paganism and so on that I seriously thought there was a lack of interest and creativity in all of the content people were writing about, that everything was just being discussed with little novelty, if any.
Then only one thing I didn’t enjoy that much were the pages specifying which materials the authors uses when working with symbols and sigils, which were only for those interested in traditional art. There were some valuable glimpses of information now and then, but in general terms it slowed down my reading process as I’m not that specific public.
In the end, “Sigil Witchery: A Witch's Guide to Crafting Magick Symbols” proves to be a great addition for actually any witch’s personal library and a great guide for those who just discovered sigil magic. It has certainly opened a whole new chance for me.
October 19, 2017
First I'd like to thank net galley for supplying a copy of the book in exchange for a review.
I loved this book. It was so informative and interesting and exactly what I needed.
I loved how it started off with a look at the history of art and symbols.
This book was about sigil magick. The author begins with a history of symbols, from cave drawings to various others. Then the author explains her method. It's not the chaos method, the idea of removing all the vowels and repeated letters to make a sigil, she uses symbolism instead. The instructions in the book were clear and encouraging. The author is a beautiful artist as well.
I think Laura explains her reasonings very well. I understood everything she had to say.
If you're interested in sigil magick, read this book. So insightful.
You can also read this review on my blog: https://innerwitchwoman.blogspot.co.nz/
I loved this book. It was so informative and interesting and exactly what I needed.
I loved how it started off with a look at the history of art and symbols.
This book was about sigil magick. The author begins with a history of symbols, from cave drawings to various others. Then the author explains her method. It's not the chaos method, the idea of removing all the vowels and repeated letters to make a sigil, she uses symbolism instead. The instructions in the book were clear and encouraging. The author is a beautiful artist as well.
I think Laura explains her reasonings very well. I understood everything she had to say.
If you're interested in sigil magick, read this book. So insightful.
You can also read this review on my blog: https://innerwitchwoman.blogspot.co.nz/
March 21, 2019
My main complaint about this book is that it's very basic. That could be an upside if you are not familiar with the concept of sigil work and don't consider yourself artistic (or even a doodler!) I would say that the author makes the concepts extremely accessible.
If you know what a sigil is, and have a general idea of how others create them, this is probably not the book for you. You might be better off reading about histories of symbols, or even just diving in to work with symbols you already feel well acquainted with.
If you know what a sigil is, and have a general idea of how others create them, this is probably not the book for you. You might be better off reading about histories of symbols, or even just diving in to work with symbols you already feel well acquainted with.
September 22, 2018
This was a really excellent dive into sigil craft. I appreciate that Zakroff addresses cultural appropriation. Her tone is approachable and this is an easy to read book. I also really like the sigil exercises she gives at the end of the book, to help you practice creating sigils.
Full disclosure: I've briefly met the author and found her to be a delight, but bought the book myself and was not paid/compensated in any way for this review.
Full disclosure: I've briefly met the author and found her to be a delight, but bought the book myself and was not paid/compensated in any way for this review.
May 15, 2022
With style, wisdom, and a generous dose of humor, artist and author Laura Tempest Zakroff offers us a new look at an ancient magical practice: the creation and use of sigils, as well as modern tools to take this practice to the next level. From the historical and ritual use of symbols, signs, seals, and marks to the creative process itself, including tools and artistic techniques, Sigil Witchery makes an impressive contribution to a traditional body of occult knowledge.
February 16, 2022
Very disappointed by this book and felt shortchanged. So so basic, couldn't recommend this to anyone but an absolute beginner. A lot of filler after chapters on what is seemingly art history. Very little magick to be found in this book.
May 6, 2018
A great introduction to sigils and how to create your own. I am really looking forward to use Zakroff's teachings to further my craft with sigils.
September 8, 2023
For the witchy artist this is a must have book. Her writing style is straight to the point and very conversational, effortless, really. The exercises are open, meant to make you practice and work for your personal style and language: This is not a step-by-step "do it this way" book. It will force you to unlock your own creativity.
I see a lot of criticism on the lack of "magic": I think those readers are disappointed in the lack of spoon fed spellwork and ceremonial theory that some chaos magick sources emphasize, and miss the point of the work: It's to make you get in touch with your personal style and gnosis. It is absolutely meant to be vague. Magic is absolutely pervasive through the book, it is an inherent part of her craft. I think the issue is people come to this book expecting the traditional almost cookbook aspects of a lot of modern witchcraft books, and this defies that. The point of this book and its information is to force you to sit down in practice, discovery and self reflection. It is full of personal gnosis: It is not an expansion on "the original" sigil artists (sigils did not start with these artists, they've been around for centuries), it is not an expansion on chaos magick. If you are looking for anything like that, this probably isn't the book for you, and that doesn't make the book bad or lacking.
She also draws from a plethora of well cited sources, has great breakdowns and examples, and makes it clear that while we can and should derive inspiration from other visual languages, we should not engage without proper research and respect, if even at all.
I will absolutely be reading and purchasing more of her work, and here's to hoping she comes to another of my local Pagan Pride fests.
I see a lot of criticism on the lack of "magic": I think those readers are disappointed in the lack of spoon fed spellwork and ceremonial theory that some chaos magick sources emphasize, and miss the point of the work: It's to make you get in touch with your personal style and gnosis. It is absolutely meant to be vague. Magic is absolutely pervasive through the book, it is an inherent part of her craft. I think the issue is people come to this book expecting the traditional almost cookbook aspects of a lot of modern witchcraft books, and this defies that. The point of this book and its information is to force you to sit down in practice, discovery and self reflection. It is full of personal gnosis: It is not an expansion on "the original" sigil artists (sigils did not start with these artists, they've been around for centuries), it is not an expansion on chaos magick. If you are looking for anything like that, this probably isn't the book for you, and that doesn't make the book bad or lacking.
She also draws from a plethora of well cited sources, has great breakdowns and examples, and makes it clear that while we can and should derive inspiration from other visual languages, we should not engage without proper research and respect, if even at all.
I will absolutely be reading and purchasing more of her work, and here's to hoping she comes to another of my local Pagan Pride fests.
June 29, 2021
This is a well-written primer on sigils. Ms. Zakroff begins with a history of art, meaning wedded to shapes, intent created into form. The writing is lucid, concepts understandable, the art supplies suggestions and possibilities for manifesting sigils bold, creative, and varied. Sigil Witchery has me excited to apply what I learned from it.
August 15, 2020
Accessible for Beginners
I really enjoyed this book quite a bit...okay fine, I love it! The author explains the history of symbolism and spirituality in art across cultures, which helps pay a sturdy foundation for creating your own sigils. I always appreciate and respect practitioners who encourage research and give resources and recommendations. I intend to check out some of the sources listed at the end of the book.
I really enjoyed this book quite a bit...okay fine, I love it! The author explains the history of symbolism and spirituality in art across cultures, which helps pay a sturdy foundation for creating your own sigils. I always appreciate and respect practitioners who encourage research and give resources and recommendations. I intend to check out some of the sources listed at the end of the book.
February 5, 2025
This was an excellent guide and workbook for crafting your own personal sigils. The author offers plenty of information, suggestions, and plenty of space to practice crafting your own visual spells. Also includes a great bibliography with tons of additional resources. I highly recommend this!
June 16, 2025
Interesting if you know nothing about sigils, it's a good book to start with
July 3, 2020
This book covers the history of our need to communicate and connect through symbols, from cave paintings to graffiti. It explores the common thread that runs through them all, connecting the proverbial (and literal) dots. The detailed information on the history of the symbols is paramount to understanding the power behind the sigils you will create. The section entitled "Getting over getting it wrong" frees you up to explore and create your own symbol library to further empower your sacred work. I have long told myself that I "can't" draw but Laura teaches all of us that we CAN draw and that it's a creative outlet that will serve us well if we are brave enough to simply TRY.
This is a book that I know I will refer to time and time again. If you are considering adding a copy to your own library, I can assure you it is well worth the investment.
This is a book that I know I will refer to time and time again. If you are considering adding a copy to your own library, I can assure you it is well worth the investment.
April 27, 2020
This book took me a long time to get through, which is wonderful. Laura Tempest Zakroff has explained the way she creates sigils and I'm in love. You won't find ancient languages, odd number glyphs, or runes (unless you want those). She delivers a straight-forward intuitive method of creating sigils that resonate with you, using symbols that are meaning to you. Her combination of left-brain/right-brain wholeness is a delight, and I've already been inspired to craft several sigils of my own for my own workings. Do they make sense to anyone else? Who cares! They're mine and they are meaningful to me.
This book contains a chunky section of common symbols and what they could mean (everything from dots to polygons to spoons!), and also delivers some typical associations for elements, directions, numbers, and colors. But Zakroff always emphasizes that you do you, boo. You use what works for you, add what already resonates, and create your own sigils.
This book also contains several pages of words for you to add your own symbols that resonate for you on those words. This is is honestly the part that took the longest for me, because some of these concepts are (a) ones that I knew immediately what I wanted, (b) ones that I had a few symbols [so they all went in], or (c) ones that I really don't think about, so I really needed to ponder.
AND THAT'S ALL OKAY!!
I love this book, and highly recommend it to anyone who has never been truly "won over" by runes or other types of sigil craft because all those lines and numbers and whatever just did not resonate with you at your core. These might. They did for me.
This book contains a chunky section of common symbols and what they could mean (everything from dots to polygons to spoons!), and also delivers some typical associations for elements, directions, numbers, and colors. But Zakroff always emphasizes that you do you, boo. You use what works for you, add what already resonates, and create your own sigils.
This book also contains several pages of words for you to add your own symbols that resonate for you on those words. This is is honestly the part that took the longest for me, because some of these concepts are (a) ones that I knew immediately what I wanted, (b) ones that I had a few symbols [so they all went in], or (c) ones that I really don't think about, so I really needed to ponder.
AND THAT'S ALL OKAY!!
I love this book, and highly recommend it to anyone who has never been truly "won over" by runes or other types of sigil craft because all those lines and numbers and whatever just did not resonate with you at your core. These might. They did for me.
December 7, 2017
Sigil Witchery explores sigil magick all the way from the past such as heiroglyphics, up to the modern day present with graffitti. This book is different in that it does not show you how to make a traditional sigil using a kabbalah numbers grid. It would have been helpful to show how to make a traditional sigil rather than simply mention it and move on. The instructions on how to make a sigil were based on modern magick and witchy sovereignty. A discussion on why certain symbols were sacred to certain peoples were mentioned in many chapters which was a prelude to finding one’s own symbolic significance.
Personally, I wished a more methodical approach to sigil witchery was the focus of this book, as opposed to just making your own sigil without any specific system. There was a recurring theme of playing around with shapes and designs that does require a certain level of artistry in my opinion. Not only does this turn away a large audience, but for those looking for a more ritualistic and traditional approach to sigil magick, this book would not be satisfactory.
My advice to the author would be to devote some time to explaining traditional sigil magick in order to lay the proper foundation for readers.
Personally, I wished a more methodical approach to sigil witchery was the focus of this book, as opposed to just making your own sigil without any specific system. There was a recurring theme of playing around with shapes and designs that does require a certain level of artistry in my opinion. Not only does this turn away a large audience, but for those looking for a more ritualistic and traditional approach to sigil magick, this book would not be satisfactory.
My advice to the author would be to devote some time to explaining traditional sigil magick in order to lay the proper foundation for readers.
August 19, 2026
There are plenty of books that will teach you how to write out an intention, remove the repeating letters, rearrange what remains into a symbol, charge it, and call it a sigil. That technique is useful, but it can also be explained in a few pages. What makes Sigil Witchery exceptional is that Laura Tempest Zakroff is attempting something much more interesting: she teaches you how to think in symbols.
That distinction is what made this book so valuable to me.
I’ve seen some criticism that Sigil Witchery doesn’t spend enough time on the Spare method, magical squares, ceremonial seals, or other established methods of sigil construction. But I don’t think this book was ever intended to be an encyclopedia of every historical method of making magical symbols. Those systems already have entire books devoted to them. Zakroff gives enough context to situate what she is doing and then develops her own approach. I’m glad she does, because otherwise this would just be another book repeating material that is readily available elsewhere.
Instead, she asks a much more useful question: why does a symbol work as a symbol in the first place?
From there, she breaks visual language down into its components: lines, curves, circles, spirals, intersections, direction, movement, balance, repetition, placement, and composition. Once you begin thinking this way, sigil construction stops being a formula and becomes a language.
That is also why I disagree with the criticism that the method is “too freeform.” It is freeform in the same sense that learning vocabulary and grammar eventually allows you to construct your own sentences. Zakroff isn’t withholding the rules. She is teaching you the principles underneath them so that you eventually stop needing someone else to design your magical symbols for you.
That is a much more transferable skill.
I also don’t think you need to be an artist to use this book. You need to be able to make a line. You need to be able to make a circle. Maybe a triangle. A spiral. A dot. If you can doodle in the margin of a notebook, you have enough artistic ability to begin.
Zakroff is an accomplished visual artist, so naturally her own finished work can be beautiful and elaborate. But treating those examples as the minimum artistic standard completely misses their purpose. They show how far the system can be taken, not where you have to begin. Your sigil does not need to belong in a gallery. It needs to communicate something effectively to you.
In fact, one of the things I appreciate most about Sigil Witchery is how liberating it can be for people who have convinced themselves that they “can’t draw.” Magical symbols have never required photorealistic artistic ability. Humans have been communicating enormous concepts through incredibly simple marks for thousands of years. A cross, circle, spiral, arrow, wave, or intersecting pair of lines can contain an astonishing amount of information when you understand what you are doing with it.
I’ve also seen people wish the historical material went deeper. I understand the desire because the history of magical symbols, seals, talismans, alphabets, and signs is fascinating, but that could easily become several books of its own. Sigil Witchery is a practical book. The historical material establishes that symbol-making is an ancient and widespread human activity, but Zakroff’s real concern is what you are going to do with that knowledge now.
And that is where this book shines.
Rather than giving you a dictionary of magical symbols and telling you what each one “means,” Zakroff encourages you to investigate how symbolism actually operates within your own consciousness. That is incredibly important. Symbols certainly have cultural and historical associations, and those deserve to be understood, but symbols also accumulate meaning through experience. The goal isn’t to memorize somebody else’s correspondence table. It is to become fluent enough in visual language that you can consciously construct meaning.
Once I understood that, I started seeing sigil possibilities everywhere.
A sigil could be tiny and private or enormous and public. It could be drawn on paper, incorporated into jewelry, painted onto an object, traced in the air, built into a larger piece of artwork, carved into something, included in ritual design, or hidden inside an otherwise ordinary image. The method becomes much larger than “make a squiggly symbol for a wish.”
That is where Sigil Witchery separates itself from so many other books on the subject. It isn’t really giving you a collection of sigils.
It is teaching you sigil literacy.
And once you understand the underlying visual language, you don’t need to keep looking up somebody else’s symbol for protection, prosperity, love, creativity, healing, or courage. You can think about what that force means, how it moves, what qualities it possesses, and how those ideas can be translated into visual form.
Of course that requires experimentation. Of course two practitioners might construct completely different sigils for the same intention. I consider that a strength rather than a flaw. Witchcraft is a creative practice. There should be room for the witch in the witchcraft.
People who want a rigid formula may prefer another approach, and there is nothing wrong with that. But if you want to understand magical symbol-making well enough that you can eventually stop following formulas, Sigil Witchery is one of the strongest books I’ve encountered on the subject.
It doesn’t just teach you how to make a sigil.
It teaches you how to see symbols, understand them, construct them, experiment with them, and eventually develop a magical visual language that belongs to you.
Five stars. This is one of those rare books that doesn’t simply give you another magical technique. It gives you a new way of thinking about magic.
That distinction is what made this book so valuable to me.
I’ve seen some criticism that Sigil Witchery doesn’t spend enough time on the Spare method, magical squares, ceremonial seals, or other established methods of sigil construction. But I don’t think this book was ever intended to be an encyclopedia of every historical method of making magical symbols. Those systems already have entire books devoted to them. Zakroff gives enough context to situate what she is doing and then develops her own approach. I’m glad she does, because otherwise this would just be another book repeating material that is readily available elsewhere.
Instead, she asks a much more useful question: why does a symbol work as a symbol in the first place?
From there, she breaks visual language down into its components: lines, curves, circles, spirals, intersections, direction, movement, balance, repetition, placement, and composition. Once you begin thinking this way, sigil construction stops being a formula and becomes a language.
That is also why I disagree with the criticism that the method is “too freeform.” It is freeform in the same sense that learning vocabulary and grammar eventually allows you to construct your own sentences. Zakroff isn’t withholding the rules. She is teaching you the principles underneath them so that you eventually stop needing someone else to design your magical symbols for you.
That is a much more transferable skill.
I also don’t think you need to be an artist to use this book. You need to be able to make a line. You need to be able to make a circle. Maybe a triangle. A spiral. A dot. If you can doodle in the margin of a notebook, you have enough artistic ability to begin.
Zakroff is an accomplished visual artist, so naturally her own finished work can be beautiful and elaborate. But treating those examples as the minimum artistic standard completely misses their purpose. They show how far the system can be taken, not where you have to begin. Your sigil does not need to belong in a gallery. It needs to communicate something effectively to you.
In fact, one of the things I appreciate most about Sigil Witchery is how liberating it can be for people who have convinced themselves that they “can’t draw.” Magical symbols have never required photorealistic artistic ability. Humans have been communicating enormous concepts through incredibly simple marks for thousands of years. A cross, circle, spiral, arrow, wave, or intersecting pair of lines can contain an astonishing amount of information when you understand what you are doing with it.
I’ve also seen people wish the historical material went deeper. I understand the desire because the history of magical symbols, seals, talismans, alphabets, and signs is fascinating, but that could easily become several books of its own. Sigil Witchery is a practical book. The historical material establishes that symbol-making is an ancient and widespread human activity, but Zakroff’s real concern is what you are going to do with that knowledge now.
And that is where this book shines.
Rather than giving you a dictionary of magical symbols and telling you what each one “means,” Zakroff encourages you to investigate how symbolism actually operates within your own consciousness. That is incredibly important. Symbols certainly have cultural and historical associations, and those deserve to be understood, but symbols also accumulate meaning through experience. The goal isn’t to memorize somebody else’s correspondence table. It is to become fluent enough in visual language that you can consciously construct meaning.
Once I understood that, I started seeing sigil possibilities everywhere.
A sigil could be tiny and private or enormous and public. It could be drawn on paper, incorporated into jewelry, painted onto an object, traced in the air, built into a larger piece of artwork, carved into something, included in ritual design, or hidden inside an otherwise ordinary image. The method becomes much larger than “make a squiggly symbol for a wish.”
That is where Sigil Witchery separates itself from so many other books on the subject. It isn’t really giving you a collection of sigils.
It is teaching you sigil literacy.
And once you understand the underlying visual language, you don’t need to keep looking up somebody else’s symbol for protection, prosperity, love, creativity, healing, or courage. You can think about what that force means, how it moves, what qualities it possesses, and how those ideas can be translated into visual form.
Of course that requires experimentation. Of course two practitioners might construct completely different sigils for the same intention. I consider that a strength rather than a flaw. Witchcraft is a creative practice. There should be room for the witch in the witchcraft.
People who want a rigid formula may prefer another approach, and there is nothing wrong with that. But if you want to understand magical symbol-making well enough that you can eventually stop following formulas, Sigil Witchery is one of the strongest books I’ve encountered on the subject.
It doesn’t just teach you how to make a sigil.
It teaches you how to see symbols, understand them, construct them, experiment with them, and eventually develop a magical visual language that belongs to you.
Five stars. This is one of those rare books that doesn’t simply give you another magical technique. It gives you a new way of thinking about magic.
May 10, 2020
The author is exceptional at making ideas clear and approachable, even for this non-artist reader. She weaves together history, meaning, and inspiration perfectly, providing examples while making it clear how each reader can pursue their own symbolism. She also provides practical art supply tips and other resources.
December 27, 2021
Super creative way of doing sigils! Personally, it makes more sense than most classic ceremonial systems. This book helps you come up with your own magical symbology and put it together in a beautiful way.
September 27, 2024
Sigils have been part of magical practice for centuries, but few books approach them with as much artistic flair and modern relevance as Laura Tempest Zakroff’s Sigil Witchery. Rather than limiting sigil crafting to formulaic patterns or cryptic scripts, Zakroff breathes life into this age-old art by encouraging witches to blend intention with creativity. This book is more than a guide—it’s an exploration of how to create personalized magical symbols that resonate deeply with your unique practice and aesthetic sensibilities.
One of the first things that stands out about Sigil Witchery is its accessibility. Zakroff emphasizes that anyone, regardless of artistic background, can craft potent sigils. You don’t need formal training in art, nor do you need to be versed in complex magical theory. All you need is the willingness to experiment and the curiosity to explore. This egalitarian approach ensures that readers feel empowered from the start, confident that they can produce meaningful and effective sigils even if they’re new to the practice.
The book’s structure is intuitive and engaging. Zakroff weaves together history, theory, and practice in a way that feels seamless, providing a foundation for understanding where sigils come from and how they’ve evolved across cultures. But the real value lies in her step-by-step guidance on crafting sigils that are visually compelling and magically charged. From choosing materials to selecting shapes, symbols, and lines that hold specific meanings, Sigil Witchery is packed with practical advice on how to create designs that speak directly to your intentions.
Zakroff’s approach to sigil crafting is refreshingly freeform. While she respects traditional methods, she also encourages readers to follow their intuition, allowing the design process to become a form of meditation and magical alignment. Her techniques move beyond simply encoding an intention into a symbol; instead, she focuses on creating art that is vibrant, fluid, and deeply connected to the practitioner’s energy. The result is a system that feels less like a set of rules and more like an invitation to engage in a creative, dynamic dialogue with one’s own will.
One of the book’s most compelling aspects is its focus on symbolism and aesthetics. Zakroff dives into the meanings behind various shapes, lines, and patterns, explaining how each can influence the way a sigil works. She also explores how elements like color, symmetry, and movement can enhance a sigil’s power, making it not just a functional tool but a piece of living magic. For those who think visually, this emphasis on the artistic dimension of sigil crafting will be particularly inspiring, opening up new ways to think about and create magical symbols.
Throughout the book, Zakroff provides numerous examples and exercises to spark creativity and encourage experimentation. She offers techniques for making both temporary and permanent sigils, providing tips on choosing surfaces, using different mediums, and even incorporating sigils into body art and architecture. This versatility ensures that readers can integrate sigil craft into all aspects of their magical and mundane lives, making it a truly adaptable practice.
Perhaps the most transformative message in Sigil Witchery is that creating sigils is not just about the final product, but about the process itself. Zakroff frames sigil crafting as an act of devotion and self-expression, a way to weave one’s intentions into the fabric of reality through art and action. This focus on the journey, rather than the destination, makes the book not only a manual for crafting magical symbols but a guide to deepening one’s connection to personal power and creativity.
One of the first things that stands out about Sigil Witchery is its accessibility. Zakroff emphasizes that anyone, regardless of artistic background, can craft potent sigils. You don’t need formal training in art, nor do you need to be versed in complex magical theory. All you need is the willingness to experiment and the curiosity to explore. This egalitarian approach ensures that readers feel empowered from the start, confident that they can produce meaningful and effective sigils even if they’re new to the practice.
The book’s structure is intuitive and engaging. Zakroff weaves together history, theory, and practice in a way that feels seamless, providing a foundation for understanding where sigils come from and how they’ve evolved across cultures. But the real value lies in her step-by-step guidance on crafting sigils that are visually compelling and magically charged. From choosing materials to selecting shapes, symbols, and lines that hold specific meanings, Sigil Witchery is packed with practical advice on how to create designs that speak directly to your intentions.
Zakroff’s approach to sigil crafting is refreshingly freeform. While she respects traditional methods, she also encourages readers to follow their intuition, allowing the design process to become a form of meditation and magical alignment. Her techniques move beyond simply encoding an intention into a symbol; instead, she focuses on creating art that is vibrant, fluid, and deeply connected to the practitioner’s energy. The result is a system that feels less like a set of rules and more like an invitation to engage in a creative, dynamic dialogue with one’s own will.
One of the book’s most compelling aspects is its focus on symbolism and aesthetics. Zakroff dives into the meanings behind various shapes, lines, and patterns, explaining how each can influence the way a sigil works. She also explores how elements like color, symmetry, and movement can enhance a sigil’s power, making it not just a functional tool but a piece of living magic. For those who think visually, this emphasis on the artistic dimension of sigil crafting will be particularly inspiring, opening up new ways to think about and create magical symbols.
Throughout the book, Zakroff provides numerous examples and exercises to spark creativity and encourage experimentation. She offers techniques for making both temporary and permanent sigils, providing tips on choosing surfaces, using different mediums, and even incorporating sigils into body art and architecture. This versatility ensures that readers can integrate sigil craft into all aspects of their magical and mundane lives, making it a truly adaptable practice.
Perhaps the most transformative message in Sigil Witchery is that creating sigils is not just about the final product, but about the process itself. Zakroff frames sigil crafting as an act of devotion and self-expression, a way to weave one’s intentions into the fabric of reality through art and action. This focus on the journey, rather than the destination, makes the book not only a manual for crafting magical symbols but a guide to deepening one’s connection to personal power and creativity.
August 20, 2026
I love sigil magic, but I've always found it strange that so many approaches teach you how to make a sigil by essentially hiding a sentence inside an abstract design. Laura Tempest Zakroff asks a much more interesting question: what if the symbol itself is the magic?
That shift is what makes Sigil Witchery so good. Rather than giving you a formula where you remove repeated letters, rearrange what's left, and call the resulting shape a sigil, Zakroff teaches you to think symbolically. Lines, curves, circles, spirals, intersections, direction, repetition, and composition become a visual magical vocabulary. You're not disguising language. You're learning to speak another kind of language entirely.
As an artist herself, Zakroff brings an understanding of visual communication to magic that is often missing from books on sigils. She explores how symbols have functioned historically and culturally while encouraging readers to develop a personal vocabulary that actually means something to them. The process becomes intuitive without becoming arbitrary. That's an important distinction. You're given principles to work with rather than a collection of symbols you're expected to copy.
And it's ridiculously fun.
Once you start thinking this way, everything begins looking like a potential surface for magic. A sigil doesn't have to be a tiny mysterious glyph drawn on a piece of paper and burned afterward. It can become part of artwork, jewelry, ritual objects, decorations, clothing, your home, or practically anything else you can mark or create. The book opened up sigil work for me from being a particular magical technique into something closer to an entire visual approach to witchcraft.
I also appreciate that the system encourages creativity instead of rewarding artistic perfection. You don't need to be able to draw beautifully. You need to understand what you're trying to communicate and learn how shape can carry that intention. In some ways, that makes the process feel closer to the oldest forms of magical mark-making than many of the rigid modern formulas presented as "traditional" sigil magic.
By the end, I wasn't simply thinking about how to make better sigils. I was noticing symbols differently.
That's probably the highest compliment I can give a book like this. Sigil Witchery doesn't just provide another method to add to your magical toolbox. It changes the way you look at the toolbox.
That shift is what makes Sigil Witchery so good. Rather than giving you a formula where you remove repeated letters, rearrange what's left, and call the resulting shape a sigil, Zakroff teaches you to think symbolically. Lines, curves, circles, spirals, intersections, direction, repetition, and composition become a visual magical vocabulary. You're not disguising language. You're learning to speak another kind of language entirely.
As an artist herself, Zakroff brings an understanding of visual communication to magic that is often missing from books on sigils. She explores how symbols have functioned historically and culturally while encouraging readers to develop a personal vocabulary that actually means something to them. The process becomes intuitive without becoming arbitrary. That's an important distinction. You're given principles to work with rather than a collection of symbols you're expected to copy.
And it's ridiculously fun.
Once you start thinking this way, everything begins looking like a potential surface for magic. A sigil doesn't have to be a tiny mysterious glyph drawn on a piece of paper and burned afterward. It can become part of artwork, jewelry, ritual objects, decorations, clothing, your home, or practically anything else you can mark or create. The book opened up sigil work for me from being a particular magical technique into something closer to an entire visual approach to witchcraft.
I also appreciate that the system encourages creativity instead of rewarding artistic perfection. You don't need to be able to draw beautifully. You need to understand what you're trying to communicate and learn how shape can carry that intention. In some ways, that makes the process feel closer to the oldest forms of magical mark-making than many of the rigid modern formulas presented as "traditional" sigil magic.
By the end, I wasn't simply thinking about how to make better sigils. I was noticing symbols differently.
That's probably the highest compliment I can give a book like this. Sigil Witchery doesn't just provide another method to add to your magical toolbox. It changes the way you look at the toolbox.
August 12, 2026
Sigil Witchery is easily one of my favorite books on sigil magick because Laura Tempest Zakroff does something genuinely different with the subject. Rather than presenting one formula for creating sigils and having the reader repeat it indefinitely, she explores the actual language of symbols and teaches you how to develop a personal visual vocabulary for your magick. I especially appreciate how much creativity this gives back to the practitioner, encouraging you to think about why particular lines, shapes, numbers, letters, patterns, and symbols communicate what they do while considering both traditional meanings and your own personal associations. Zakroff’s background as an artist is evident throughout, particularly in the attention she gives to line, form, movement, composition, materials, placement, and the difference between temporary and permanent applications. What I love most is that she teaches a way of thinking rather than simply a technique. You come away with the tools to develop a symbolic magical language that can continue evolving alongside your practice. Creative, intelligent, practical, and genuinely original, this book completely changed the way I think about sigils and magical symbols.
October 30, 2019
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I concetti che spiega non sono affatto difficili o complesse e l'inglese è alla portata di tutti, credetemi io sono pessima con i libri in lingua ma questo me lo sono praticamente divorato.
Una sezione molto interessante è quella in cui associa i simboli ai significati: dai numeri alle lettere, dal punto fino alla freccia, dal cuore alla bilancia e così via...
Un sacco di simboli e significati che mette a disposizione per far si che anche noi possiamo disegnare i nostri sigilli, premettendo sempre una cosa però: questi sono suoi significati MA DOBBIAMO SEMPRE ASCOLTARE COSA CI DICE IL NOSTRO ISTINTO.
Io conoscevo solo un metodo per creare sigilli (volevo parlarvene in un post a parte) e l'ho praticato per molto tempo e prima di comprare questo libro ero arrivata ad un punto che non mi soddisfaceva più molto.
Il suo metodo è più completo a mio parere e allo stesso tempo semplice da usare.
Vi consiglio questo libro dal cuore e CREDETE SEMPRE IN VOI STESSI!
Voi lo avete letto?
Buona giornata Lunatici!
Rebecca
I concetti che spiega non sono affatto difficili o complesse e l'inglese è alla portata di tutti, credetemi io sono pessima con i libri in lingua ma questo me lo sono praticamente divorato.
Una sezione molto interessante è quella in cui associa i simboli ai significati: dai numeri alle lettere, dal punto fino alla freccia, dal cuore alla bilancia e così via...
Un sacco di simboli e significati che mette a disposizione per far si che anche noi possiamo disegnare i nostri sigilli, premettendo sempre una cosa però: questi sono suoi significati MA DOBBIAMO SEMPRE ASCOLTARE COSA CI DICE IL NOSTRO ISTINTO.
Io conoscevo solo un metodo per creare sigilli (volevo parlarvene in un post a parte) e l'ho praticato per molto tempo e prima di comprare questo libro ero arrivata ad un punto che non mi soddisfaceva più molto.
Il suo metodo è più completo a mio parere e allo stesso tempo semplice da usare.
Vi consiglio questo libro dal cuore e CREDETE SEMPRE IN VOI STESSI!
Voi lo avete letto?
Buona giornata Lunatici!
Rebecca
January 4, 2019
Well done, just not exactly my jam. Still, Zakroff made it intriguing enough that I had to pick this up, and it's a fast, interesting read. The parts I knew (lots of good tips for beginner and very self-conscious, anxious artists) or found annoying were easy to skim or skip, thanks to the headers and not-overly-wordy writing. I ended up with several pages of notes on the things that did pique my interest, and wound up trying some of the exercises (yesgood, everyone should include exercises). I don't see myself practicing anything resembling the sigil magic in this book or that I've seen on the internet, but I will keep playing with the ideas that appealed to me.
Points for the history section with a survey of different applications for sigils/symbols, complete with gentle reminders not to appropriate and lots of citations. Some of those points are lost for misspelling *and* mistranslating segulah (final mem instead of samech; d'oh!), which raises questions about the rest of the section.
Points for the history section with a survey of different applications for sigils/symbols, complete with gentle reminders not to appropriate and lots of citations. Some of those points are lost for misspelling *and* mistranslating segulah (final mem instead of samech; d'oh!), which raises questions about the rest of the section.
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