Magick Potions [Paperback]

GERINA DUNWICH (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2000

Whether it's a love potion, a money-attracting brew, a healing infusion, an aphrodisiac, or an oft-needed meditation tea, "Magick Potions" completely addresses the magickal needs of contemporary witches by devoting itself entirely to the art and craft of potions.

Product Details

• Paperback: 164 pages
• Publisher: Citadel (June 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806519827
• ISBN-13: 978-0806519821
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,019,604 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gerina Dunwich (b. December 27, 1959, Illinois, United States) is a professional astrologer, occult historian, and New Age author, best known for her books on Wicca and various occult subjects. She is also involved in paranormal research and is the founder of the Paranormal Animal Research Group, which investigates cases of alleged hauntings by animal spirits.

Her first newspaper article (co-written with her cousin, Barbara Williams) was published in October 1976. It was an interview with singer/songwriter Jim Peterik from the local Chicago band, the Ides of March (and later, Survivor). By the spring of 1980 Dunwich was publishing a small press literary journal called Golden Isis, a one-woman operation that specialized in Goddess-inspired poetry and off-beat fiction.

In December 1993 she moved to Fort Covington, Franklin County, New York, where she opened a small shop on High Street called "The Country Witch" (later renamed "The Calico Cat Whatnot Shop"), which sold antiques, curios and various occult supplies. She officially established Coven Mandragora on Candlemas 1996 and served as its High Priestess. That same year she established the Wheel of Wisdom School (an educational organization offering correspondence courses on the sabbats) and the Pagan Poets Society (a literary circle for writers and publishers of Pagan poetry), along with a local networking organization known as North Country Wicca. In February of 1998 she received a ministerial license from the Universal Life Church. Dunwich is also the founder of the Bast-Wicca tradition.

A respected spokesperson for the Wiccan/Pagan community, Dunwich has been a guest on numerous radio talk shows throughout the United States and Canada. She has lectured and presented workshops at festivals and gatherings across the country, such as the CraftWise Pagan Gathering (Waterbury, Connecticut), the Real Witches' Ball (Columbus, Ohio), and Panpipes' Pagan Day Festival (West Hollywood, California).

A member of the Fellowship of Isis, Circle, the Pagan Poets Society, the Authors Guild, and the Authors League of America, Dunwich's biography is listed in a number of reference works, such as Who's Who in the East, Personalities of America, The Wicca Source Book, The Modern Witch's Complete Sourcebook, and Crossroads: Who's Who of the Magickal Community (published by The Witching Well Education and Research Center, 1988). She is also mentioned in Anne Carson's Goddesses and Wise Women (The Crossing Press, 1992) and other works. Her articles, poetry, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including Playgirl, American Woman, Magical Blend, Sage Woman, Circle Network News, and Pagan Free Press.

Gerina Dunwich lives in Western New York, where she owns and operates an antique shop. She is currently working on a new book.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Normally I am not a fan of Dunwich's BUT...., February 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Magick Potions (Paperback)

BUT this book is one exception (the other being 'the Wicca Garden' - her spellbooks and others are marginal at best) The potions, oils and other recipes, and there are a lot of them, are great as are the Tarot meditation teas. I have used quite a few of the recipes with good success and highly recommend this book.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars PASS BY THIS BOOK!, May 9, 2009

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A Priest of An Morrighan (Iowa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Magick Potions (Paperback)

If you should see this book for sale either on-line, or at any book retailer, PLEASE do yourself the upmost favor and pass it by (you'll thank me later, I promise)! I purchased this book long before I bought my first computer and established an internet connection, so in my naivite I assumed that it would contain a wealth of information from an experienced Witch. I was sorely disappointed. The title led me to believe that it would be an exhaustive monograph dealing with the history, brewing, and employment of Magick Potions! It wasn't. Instead, what few "potion" formulas that were included were, in actuality, tea recipes or herb simples (single herbs infused in boiling water and meant to be imbibed for health benefits (in other words, more teas!). Furthermore, the book seemed to be a rather erratic mish-mash of information easily accessible to any nauvice Pagan, such as a discussion of Sabbats, etc. which has nothing to do with potions. So, I must concur with an earlier reviewer that Ms. Dunwich doesn't seem to know what to write about, and may only be after a quick buck (if this is so, I cannot say with any certainty, of course). But, what is more astonishing is that, if she had been a genuinely *experienced* Witch by any definition, than this book would have been FAR better: it would have met with my expectations and contained numerous personal ritual potions ment to be rubbed ointo the skin or candles, etc. instead of just TEAS--which is not what I paid for (I bought it mail-order, you see)! (Has the author any *actual* experience in brewing her own potions, or even in creating her own formulas? Scanning over her books, from memory, her "potions" seem to be from friends that she knows, such as Voodoo Priests or Priestesses, as in her Candle Magick book, or Herb Simples, as in this book, and old formulas from Grimoires in her love spell book that you wouldn't want to try on anyone living!) It also would have relayed her personal experience and education in the subject of potion-crafting. Neither was this even broached in this book. I have, long-since, gladly disposed of this book from the depths of my personal library. I sold it to the Half Price Bookstore! Still, looking at these glowing reviews has forced me to write a review of my own. I am still shocked all these years later by what I had read in the pages of this book. The author ought to know better, to be honest. I felt like I was seriously mislead, as a consequence.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This one is interesting., December 31, 2002

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J. Dougherty "Kalimir" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magick Potions (Paperback)

This is a great book on potion making. But be careful all because something is natural does not mean it cant make you sick. Like Cats claw is not good for a pregnant woman to drink. She does not put these warning on her book. Regardless of the reader not being warned it is a great book. O love the mandrake section and I have incorporated some of her potions in my spells. The Mandrake potion for revenge is a good one. Im glad this book is not a wishy washy goodie two shoe book. She has postive uses for her potions as well most of these potions are for positive purposes. By the way if your back is against the wall and you need to use a spell to get someone away from you I dont see that as negative I see that as survival. Anyway this is a great book to get wheatehr you are a Witch, Santarian, Shaman or whatever your magickal/spiritual path is this book is of use.