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Book of Shadows

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I bought this book primarily because of the author's past writings. I'm very disappointing at how basic this little book is in light of the author's previously demonstrated knowledge.

This book is even more basic than most introductory books, and the information it contains is quite thin. I'm further disheartended to find nothing new here. Essentially the book is just another rehash of what has been commonly published over, and over, and over again.

What you'll find in this book is the typical sketchy rituals of the full moon and sabbats you've seen before, and the same lame initiation rituals that keep popping up in every book written since the 1960s. I'm afraid that if you have one or two of ANY basic book on Wicca then you already have everything you'll find in this book.

Argh, just when I thought it was safe to buy another Wicca book... :(

There are many books with the title of Book of Shadows. This one takes the reader through what happens in a traditional Gardnarian coven. Ms. Wippler outlines the basics of First, Second and Third Degree Initiation ceremonies and what they entail in Part One of the book. Part Two contains brief descriptive chapters for many of the items and spell work that are common to witches. She titles this chapter "Magic of the Witches."

Ms. Wippler writes the book from an observer's prospective. She has never been a Gardnerian coven initiate, claiming to be self-initiated instead, and writes her explanations in third person.

I have serious reservation about this book and would hesitate to recommend it to anyone not already familiar with the precepts of Gardnerian Wicca.

I thought think this is a great book on Wicca and the magic you can use in Wicca.

This book presents great information that can be learned in a Wiccan coven including spells, the witches ladder, the levanah necter, recipees, herbology and others.

Either skip the information about intiation or read over it ... If you are thinking of joining a Gardnerarian or Alexandrian coven, read over that part to familiarize yourself with some general traditional Wiccan information, you can skip over it if you are remaining solitary and go to the meat and potatoes of the book.

I really think the information presented in this book is excellent!! Don't buy it thinking you are going to learn the secrets of the Wiccan sabbats, circle castings or initiations -- because you won't .... it just generally covers that information -- buy this book for the magical information that is presented after those chapters .... It really is good magical information!!!

Much Love & Many Blessings,
Thorn Nightwind

This is another order in which I was sent the wrong book. The book I received was "ShadowQueen" by Debbi Federici & Susan Vaught. Can these people read or what. I am not happy at all. I wait for my books and have been charged for them and it is the wrong book.

Thank you,

Mona Ghaffari