The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca Craft [Mass Market Paperback]

Miria Liguana (Author), Nina Metzner (Author)

Book Description

Series: The Complete Idiot's Guide | Publication Date: September 7, 2004

Fun, illustrated projects for those who believe in magick.

From sewing, gardening, and jewelry-making, to calligraphy and lotion- concocting, here are Wicca craft projects for everyone. And with the ritual tools, altars, amulets, candles, mirrors, cauldrons, and a deeper understanding of their meanings, new and veteran Wiccans can enrich their ceremonies, from Esbats and Shabats to magical circles, and from kitchen magick to ritual baths.
• For readers of The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Wicca and Witchcraft and The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Spells and Spellcraft
• According to FoxNews.com, Wicca is hugely popular on college campuses, and at least two colleges excuse believers from class on Wiccan holidays
• Ideal for both "sole practitioners" and groups of Wiccans
• Only "make-your-own" book on Wicca crafts

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About the Author

Miria Liguana spent 14 years as High Priestess of a coven and has a Celtic and Shamanistic background. She learned about modern Wicca from her mother, a practicing "white witch." Liguana teaches and practices Wicca in the Pacific Northwest.
Nina Metzner is a practicing Wiccan and holds an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in creative non-fiction and expository writing.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Alpha (September 7, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592572626
• ISBN-13: 978-1592572625
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,449,276 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Literal Title, February 12, 2005

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Maverynthia (Somewhere, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca Craft (Mass Market Paperback)

Most people will read the title and think it's a 101 book on Wicca or Witchcraft or both. However it's NOT either. Taking the title literally it's a book on CRAFTS. Basically a how-to book on making robes, candles, brooms, wands, crosses, pendulums, smudges, books, athames!!!, holiday related, etc.
So if you really want to learn how to do it yourself for pretty much ANYthing that deals with working magic, ritual and what to do for the holidays this is it.

The only part I found...bad was the athame part. It's almost copy and paste from Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft. Not only that, the book makes it out that every craft is simple and easy to do and everybody can make these out of stuff lying around. I'm sorry I don't have a metal cutter and metal grinder just lying around my house. White glue and newspapers...maybe.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Covers a little bit of everything... but only a little bit., May 23, 2008

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Ana Mardoll (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca Craft (Mass Market Paperback)

Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca Craft / 1-59257-262-6

To date, I have found about three guides on Wiccan craft projects, and these guides are all fairly disappointing.

"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca Craft" tries to do a little bit of everything - cooking, brewing, sewing, miscellaneous crafting, and so on. Sadly, each topic is remarkably shallow - in this case "a little bit of everything" means, apparently, a VERY little bit.

The section on sewing a ritual robe basically involves buying a really big bolt of cloth, cutting a robe-sized shape out of the bolt, and then sewing the two sides together and wearing the result. I'm not a professional seamstress, but I do know how to sew a robe and I know how to sew a potato sack; the instructions here are far closer to a potato sack. For the record, if you want to sew a ritual robe, I personally recommend buying a "Christmas Pagentry" pattern for 99 cents and sewing up the ubiquitous "Angel Robe". If you want a hooded robe, check out the Halloween patterns - there's always a good "Elven Cloak" pattern available. These patterns are professional but not too hard, and you'll have actual sleeves and a proper neckline and maybe even a back zipper, rather than a potato sack to slip over your head. I'm just frustrated with why this book doesn't use simple and obvious tips and patterns like this, instead of describing a potato sack as a ritual robe!

Everything else is superficial as well. The full moon cookies are a basic sugar cookie recipe my mom has used for years. The goddess libation is a common non-alcoholic drink mix. The majority of the other crafts utilize very simple and "childish" craft materials - white Kraft glue, glitter, paper plates, Popsicle sticks, and so forth. I think this would be a GREAT resource for pagan parenting, or if you were trying to put together some kind of pagan "Sunday School" class, but since I don't have children it doesn't do much for me.

I think the biggest problem is that a lot of these authors assume that if a person is new to the Craft then they must also be new to crafting. I'm still looking for a good Wiccan crafting book that is really in-depth and professional, but if you're looking for a book to involve children in Wiccan crafting, this is probably a decent resource.

~ Ana Mardoll

5.0 out of 5 stars Any idiot can follow this., April 11, 2009

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April Lusk (Tulare, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca Craft (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is excellent. It is full of creative craft projects for the wiccan practicing person. It is a great way to create items for rituals and altars and it also has recipes for many different items to be made for rituals and the celebrated holidays.