Witches

Witches

by Judika Illes
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 07/10/2024

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Witches: A Compendium maps the landscape of witchcraft and occult practices, past and present. Within these pages, you’ll find clear descriptions of magical practices and tools, animal familiars, inspirational witch figures . . . and even witch-related sites around the world to star on your Google Maps. This book will serve as reference, guide, and inspiration to anyone curious about the magical arts.”

—from the foreword by Frances F. Denny


Witches explores what a witch is and the different ways to be one. Judika Illes presents the history, mysteries, and diverse natures of witches from around the world. Featuring a who’s who ranging from famous—or infamous—historical witches such as Tituba, Sybil Leek, Aleister Crowley, Isobel Gowdie, and Countess Erzsebet Báthory (widely known as the Blood Countess) to popular literary, cinematic, and TV witches such as Endora, the Scarlet Witch, Melisandre, Storm, Agatha Harkness, and the Wicked Witch of the West, Witches also offers travel tips for witches and a guide to the tools of the trade such as brooms, wands, cauldrons, and mirrors.


This celebration of witches and witchcraft also features:



  • Sacred witches such as Baba Yaga, Lilith, Isis, Hekate, Diana, Circe, and Yemaya

  • Familiars and creatures closely associated with witchcraft including cats, bats, crows, owls, and foxes

  • Art witches like Moina Mathers, Vali Myers, Rosaleen Norton, Leonora Carrington, and Cameron

  • Different schools of witchcraft including green witchery, kitchen witchery, Wicca, and Hekatean Witchcraft

  • The various things witches do from divination to spirit working to spell-casting

ISBN:
9781633413559
9781633413559
Category:
Witchcraft & Wicca
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
07-10-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
Red Wheel/Weiser
Judika Illes

Judika Illes is an independent scholar, educator, and author of several books of folklore, folkways, and mythology.

Judika is a graduate of Rutgers University and has a certification in therapeutic aromatherapy from the Australasian College of Herbal Studies.

Her books include Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells, Encyclopedia of Spirits, The Element Encyclopedia of Witchcraft, The Weiser Field Guide to Witches, and The Weiser Field Guide to the Paranormal (published under the name Judith Joyce).

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