Product Description: The second volume of more spells, charms, incantations, amulets, talismans, and divination techniques for modern witches. The first volume sold over 500,000 copies.
Amazon.com Review: An informal guide to the practice of casual white magic, focusing on the concentration of emotion as a power source. The book has a personal feel to it, as if Morrison is sharing secrets among friends, and includes perhaps a few too many anecdotes while promising some impressive results.
Dated, not for Wiccans, but still interesting... Okay, this book is really dated. She's feminist in the extreme and her views for the future of marriage and sexuality are laughable. Also, she gives tons of information on manipulative magic, and even spells on how to kill people. If she spent any time on ethics, I don't remember it. No Wiccan would perform any of these spells. It will also freak out non Craft friends and family if they pulled it off your shelf and flipped through it. However, she doesn't claim to be Wiccan, and it's just a book of dated spells, not religious philosophy. It was fun and enjoyable to read, and I got a kick out of her writing style. I also found her section on talismans and amulets to be fasinating and correct. I've had great luck with the one I tried. Pick up this book for fun, gleam the useful info out of it, and keep it out of the hands of angry or fearful people.
wow - how things have chnaged I used to own a copy of this book. I found it fun and useful at the time. I was looking to order a new copy, as mine went walk-about (I assume to another who needed it more than I). Anyway - in reading these reviews, I am stunned. I see that many people not care for the book, or for the author's statements in the book; and the author herself writes a rather snippy post. Saying she was around before the Wiccan "movement", but not admitting that Wiccans have been practicing their religion for generations struck me as very narrow- minded. At this point, I have concluded that this book does not fit my needs at this time. I have grown in my magick, and will find something that has grown as well.
Misspelled, Mistaken, and Misrepresented? The cover of this book SAYS "Book II," but the cover design is of a previous printing of Book I, the book I was trying to replace. The mistake was mine when I ordered this book anyway, albeit perhaps not entirely mine. The caption does say, after all, "Modern Witch's Spellbook, Book II (Modern Witch's Spellbook)". So which is it? AND, the Book II I received had an entirely different cover, anyway. AND it was a poor-quality printing: the cover is barely thicker than the pages and there are misspellings in the text. I'm only keeping it because I enjoy Sarah Lyddon Morrison's work. Gauged on its own merit, I'm not happy with this book at all.
It's okay I bought this book to see what all the fuss was about. And to tell you the truth: not much!
Most of this book is dedicated to love or hate magic (98% to be exact). While there were some interesting spells in each section, I think that witchcraft is about a lot more than seducing and hexing people. What happened to money, weather, healing, and so on magic?
One thing that I did like about this spellbook was the sharing of the personal experiences that came about from using these spells (either to the author or her weird bunch of friends), which I think is lacking in most spellbooks published these days. I also liked one of the spells, "Talisman to Fulfill Your Wishes" on page 209. While I haven't tried it and don't plan to any time soon, it does seem like a very interesting spell (like another reviewer already mentioned).
All in all, I could've done without it. If you want a more superior spellbook that has spells from all over the world and from many historical eras (with many different topics, not just love and hate), I would recommend "The Element Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells" by Judika Illes.
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Ésta es brujería This book is one of the closest to Brujeria available in the american market. This is NOT wicca or any other type of new age fluff bunny garbage, this is witchcraft. There are many workings contained in this volume which are taken and or adapted from Mexican folk practice. If you r afraid to get your hands dirty or if your hung up on some eastern karmic ideas then this is not the book for you.
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