Customer Reviews

A Century of Spells

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This is a great book...It's filled with a hundred spells from various cultures, religions and traditions that work independent of any specific culture, religion or tradition. What's wonderful about it, is that Draja focuses on making magick PRACTICAL. How refreshing! A lot of the spells are simple to perform and require items that are easily available to most people. There are a few spells that i find to be rather peculiar or overly time-consuming, but they're an interesting read at the least. He provides practical spells for most of the situations that people encounter in their daily lives...money, health, jobs, luck, relationships, etc. He does have a slight paternal tone in telling people not to alter the spells, but i take that to simply be a guardrail for the novice magick user. It's a great little sourcebook for spells and as inspiration to help you create your own. Definately a "must-have" for me! =))

Draja Mickaharic's books A Century of Spells, and Spiritual Cleansings have been in my library since the 80's, and although many magical books, and spell books have been bought afterwards, I always seam to go back to Draja. A Century of Spells dabbles and mixes well Southern Hoodoo, Santeria, Christian Magic, and Caribbean Magic. This book is filled with wise wisdom on how to create excellent and powerful ritual incense such as High Spirit Incense, Meditation Incense, and House blessing Incense, it also gives you good instructions on how to fumigate, "smudge" with incense. The Herb section is just a quick basic intro to herbalism, and some of the herbs used in Hoodoo Magic such as Solomon's Seal, Snakeroot, and Poke root to name a few.

There are spells using loadstones, how to create Four Thieves Vinegar. Methods for Spiritual Bath., oils, water sprinkles, spoken spells, and written spells are also discussed. If you are an opened minded person, because the book has spells using Jesus Christ, the Archangels, The Seven African Powers "Orishas", and Allah, then this little handy book belongs in your library.

When I bough this book I thought this would be just another bogus book. But it's not! This book is full of interesting spells like reversing spells, protection spells,and even making baths. I would recommend this book to anyone who intersted in this kind of magick.

I have a vast collection of books on magick, spells and witchcraft - some good, some not so - but this one is my bible! It's always the first volume I grab when in need and I've had some great results.

An excellent little collection of spells. Not wicca or CM, so if you're looking for those you might be more pleased with some other selection. But it's good solid folk magic, largely of a mixed African and European flavor.

I wouldn't say the book is indispensable for the advanced or intermediate practitioner. It's largely addressed at the beginner. But it's a pleasant read, well organised, and contains more useful practical spells than most books on the market these days.

I definitely class it as a good value, especially at the price.

I liked this bok very much. I have an older printing with a different cover so Im not sure if the new edition is any different. I really enjoy the author's style in writing and his material seems well researched. This is NOT a wiccan book, this is based more on a mystical catholic style and contains wisdom from african and african based tradtitons. There are a lot of spell books on the market, this is one of the few good ones.

Nicely written and easy to understand, I found this book a good reference search for magical works. Most of the ingredients are quite easy to find except one had me scouring the local hardware stores for almost 8 months before I could find the stuff. But in the end, all's well that ends well. I like the author's work and I feel she has set a certain style when it comes to appealing to general needs and senses. Even the title of this book is very enticing. Who can possibly ignore such a treasured find? Imagine..a century of secrets tuck between the pages for a small price. Well, as for whether the spells work, I cannot really say cos I did perform some protection spell and I know nothing is 100% full proof. But again, perhaps it did in its own mysterious ways; although for real dramatics," The Truth About Witchcraft Today" by the late Scott Cunningham did grab my total awe for immediate results.

I was very happy to find this book. When i first came across it, a friend of mine showed it to me. Later on I decided to purchase a copy and it's been a staple of my spirituality ever since. This book is filled with folk wisdom, simples, recipes, and more. If you are looking for a non-wiccan spell book then this is for you.

I really wish I had come across all of the books by this author several years ago. Then Amazon wouldn't quite have as much of my money as they do!

There is a clarity and a delightful lack of the condescension that one so often finds in many authors writing in this genre today. His writing style is fluid and the instructions and cautions are presented in a simple and clearly stated manner.

I have 6 of his books now and, I've just discovered a couple titles that I don't have already so Amazon will be getting some more money.

This small book contains a very good collection of spells from variouse traditions and best part of is that most of the spells presented in this book can be done with simple ingredients found in one's kitchen,Unlike some other spells where sometimes getting the ingredients for a particular spell may sometimes become quite challenging and time consuming process.The author presents her work in a very simple and easy to understand way.I would give this book 5stars.This is one book which one can use for his/her lifetime and is well-worth the money.