Customer Reviews

Sabbat Entertaining : Celebrating the Wiccan Holidays with Style

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It's so wonderful for the Earth religions to have a crafty entertainment manual of our own! There is terrific information on each of the 8 Sabbats, with recipes, crafts, games and more. The recipes are all vegetarian but could be adapted if one wanted to use meat. The crafts will make beautiful centerpieces, and the awesome cross stitch patterns for each of the Sabbats could be used separately to make something for each Sabbat or together to make a "Wheel of the Year" sampler. I am using them separately to have a towel for each Sabbat. The projects are described beautifully and with lore to make them even more meaningful. The author's tone is also as lovely as the projects inside. I recommend this book highly!

I just loved Willow's first book, Witch Crafts. Sabbat Entertaining exceeded my expectations! She even got a little yarn in this one!

For each Sabbat there are ideas for food, crafts, rituals and more. The color pictures of the crafts and food are beautiful and professional (I could not get enough of these lovely photos!). The recopies look tasty and will add to any Sabbat meal. In addition, the food is carefully chosen to work with the Sabbat. Each Sabbat has crafts that will add beauty and charm to your Sabbat celebration. Also, there is the most WONDERFUL cross-stitch wall hanging for the Wheel of the Year (made the price of the book worth it in my opinion).

The thing that I really love about this book is that it treats the Pagan Sabbats as seriously as any other religious holiday. Willow demonstrates how to have a reverent and lovely celebration with your family and friends. There is nothing cheesy about the ideas in the book. The information never seems corny (well, a little at Mobon!).

A wonderful, glossy, Martha Stewart good thing! Thank you Willow for making our Sabbats beautiful and gracious.

To be honest, I'm one of those people who viewed the Sabbats as times for ritual and not much more. (And after twenty something years in the Craft, I should know better!) This book opened my eyes. Why not have Sabbat dinner parties in addition to rituals, parties involving people other than just my closest ritual companions? And why not have adult style parties? We pay lip service to bringing the Craft more into our daily lives; this is a big way of doing that. (I'm already making plans for my Imbolc dinner party next February!)

Sabbats are Pagan holidays. Willow Polson explores all 8 of them in this wonderful book. Each sabbat is given a chapter, and each chapter starts out with an exploration of the holiday's customs and history. Ms. Polson outlines traditions and ideas for activities that relate. Then there's a section on crafts, and Willow excels in this area. Next, a menu with recipes, and finally a list of many decorating ideas. I'll get a lot of usage from this book, and I love all of her ideas. The crats are beautiful, especially the cross stitch sampler. I only wish there were more photos!

I am neither Pagan nor Wiccan but found this book to be utterly delightful with wonderful recipes and craft ideas. I have given it to two Wiccan friends who were so pleased to finally have a holiday book dedicated for their holidays.

This is a lovely book for ideas and recipes for entertaining on the Sabbats. I love the Wheel of the Year cross stitch patterns. Something for every holiday. This book is a must have.

This book is nice in that it has some cool craft idea and recipes. All recipes are vegetarian, and the craft ideas are in the same vein, little is very original. I did like the background on the sabbats. The book could also have used more drawings/pictures in describing the craft projects.

Great book with awesome recipes and rituals. Gives terefic suggestions for ritual meals and celebration

Recipes, lore, activities, ideas.... all you must have handy to celebrate your sabbat with your family and friend.
Chapters on every sabbats are not too long so they won't let you confused with loads of conflicting projects, it's direct, simple and straight to the point. An useful purchase for any witch.

I'm so glad I purchased this lovely 'Martha Stewart' style book on honoring the sabbats. There are lovely ideas and much background info on each holiday and I plan to incorporate many ideas into our celebrations. I would suggest this book to anyone interested in the history of holidays and the origins of our traditions. History buffs will note that much of modern day celebrating has remained unchanged by those who would see older ideals eclipsed by dogma. I'll be buying this as a gift for my catholic best-friend!