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Natural Magick: Inside the Well-Stocked Witch's Cupboard

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With lucid explainations, NATURAL MAGICK answers questions for those just becoming farmiliar with magick and the Craft. With well-rounded insight, the book sorts through the well-stocked witch's cupboard and answers all the questions left over for the well-practiced in magick. Whether your looking for a reference guide or didactic text, Dubats satisfies both. The book goes through the many different facets of Wicca and Magick while interconnecting them with eachother and the world around us. Ever wonder why certain colors are associated with certain emotions? Or why ancient peoples used the same "tools" for ritual as we do today? NATURAL MAGICK answers these questions so that the reader may see the connection between the energy of magickal objects and the results that they can manifest. This approach really gives magic a deep spiritual meaning and made it "feel" right for me. Astrology, Tarot, Numberolgy, and Runes are all discussed. After reading Dubat's understanding of divination, you'll never again look at numbers, symbols, or colors in the same way. Perhaps my favorite part of the book is the author's acceptance of all ways, faiths, and practices and her teachings that follow accordingly. You can't go wrong!

I found this book to be *very* useful, especially for Solitary practices. (Actually, I found it better than many books supposedly written for Solitaries.) It *does* get a little too "white light dreaminess" in some areas, but they don't come even close to the "fluffy bunny" garbage that gets printed so often these days.

The best sections were those on runes, which describes a method of use and study that integrates them more easily into a more Wiccan-oriented practice. The herbal and crystal/stone section contains detailed information without dogma. Also useful were the energy descriptions for the individual Sabbats.

The main drawback is that this book has no index, and the bibliography contains mostly "modern" books, with little reference to more scholarly works. But then, this is supposed to be a workbook, not a reference book. Best of all, it isn't put out by the Crescent Moon Gang. All in all, I consider this money well spent.

Sally Dubats literary style is so reader friendly you can hardly put this book down. Her comprehensive compilation of necessary needs for the craft is easy to follow, and simple to implement. If you are interested in having a clear understanding of Wicca presented in a gentle flowing way read this book. This book should become a classic in Wicca tradition!

Having a strange compulsion to buy books on the magical arts, as well as one to spend every penny I own, I purchased this book with the last £10 of my student loan. And was it worth it? Well, yes and no. The book itself is very good, although Ms Sally Dubats writting style i find slighly pretentious and pious at times. She certainly knows her stuff, however, and contained in the book are easy-to-understand, alphabetical guides to different mystical plants, crystals and colours, as well as instructions on how to write your own spells. I found this especially helpful, as anyone who is interested in magic knows that it comes from within, so reading other peoples words out of a book is more in the domain of cartoons than reality! This book would be better for someone who is just starting out into the Astral plane, and, as it is written by a "white witch", also has a leaning towards a female, wiccan audience and style. But hey, i'm a bloke, i'm not a Wiccan and I enjoyed it! Why would I write a review otherwise! Just one comment..."Dubats".Come on, youre not telling me thats her REAL surname!

I love, love, LOVE this book!! It provides everything a witch/pagan needs to know, though its not very indepth. It provides just enough info to get your feet wet. My favorite thing about the book is the herbal & stones sections. She lists herbs and stones from a to z, what they do, the best uses for them, etc. She doesn't provide spells, but she gives you so much infomation that you can make your own.

Its a great book to have on your bookshelf. If you're new to the craft, you won't regret buying it!

*blessed be*

I found it got right to the point,it wasn't yards of history with a little information.It reads like a how to book without alot of weird religious rules.Its user friendly with alot of useful information

This book was like a beginners guide more than a supply and why like I thought it was going to be. Dubats had a great method for chanrging your tools though. This is a good book for people researching the craft and those who want to look at it from a nonwiccan point of view. That was one thing I found very refreshing. I get annoyed with the lack of instruction for the person who isn't wiccan. A great book for all!

This book is very informative, allowing a beginner (or more advanced member) of the craft to gather knowledge on commonly used implements/herbs/etc.

this book is very excellent. it touches some very important stuff of magick and rituals that most books dont cover at all, it has a whole section to help you write spells instead of giving you a spells, very excellent its good for anyone interested in magick beginner or advanced or in between

This is one of my reference staples in my bookshelf--it is dog-eared from use. Sally Dubats is a bit pretentious at times, but not annoyingly so, and she does such a good job introducing one to various aspects of magic that she should be completely forgiven. As another reviewer said, she does indeed know her stuff, and she lays it out in a way that is easily absorbed by someone new to witchcraft, yet can be used as a reference work for more advanced practitioners.

I also like that this is not a super-Wiccan book, as many people (including myself) consider themselves witches but not Wiccans. Her chapters on gemstones/crystals and herbs are particularly useful, but the whole book is a treasure trove of solid, basic information on natural witchcraft. I highly recommend it for your magickal library.