Supermarket Sorceress: Spells, Charms, & Enchantments That You Can Make From Supermarket Ingredients [Mass Market Paperback]

Lexa Roséan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 1996

No cauldrons, no warts, no flying brooms...

Experienced psychic, witch and high priestess, Lexa Rosean offers spells for every occasion in this amusing, magically effective and easy-to-follow guide. Taken from history and legend, all the ingredients needed, such as baking soda, tin foil, honey, tea and more, are simple, inexpensive and as close as your grocer's shelves.

With The Supermarket Sorceress, you'll discover how:

-Apples, snow peas, avocados and cherries can help you look magnificent
-Eggs banish negativity (including feelings for a lost love)
-Kitty litter works wonders on your enemies
-You can guarantee your lover's fidelity
-Turmeric, a turkey wishbone, a feather duster and a bunch of ripe bananas will help your fear of flying
-Mothballs protect against sexual harassment

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About the Author

Lexa Rosean is a Wiccan High Priestess who organizes her own coven in New York City. A counselor and psychic, she works at Enchantments, a white-magic store in Manhattan. She has made numerous television appearances.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 131 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks (March 15, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312957688
• ISBN-13: 978-0312957681
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #475,138 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lexa Ros'an is a priestess, psychic, and leading pagan author ~ not to mention poet, playwright, and performer. Her first job was as a dancing snake charmer known as the SnakePoet. Andy Warhol photographed Lexa during this time. Along with her own poems, Lexa recited great works of poetry from the likes of Poe, Shakespeare, D.H. Lawrence, and Coleridge while hanging from a tree across from the Delacort Theatre in Central Park. In 1982, the NYPD escorted the poet and her 13-foot python Lilith, out of the park at gunpoint thus forcing her to get a 'real' job for several subsequent years.

Thus began her formal magickal tutelage in the occult arts by Lord Hermes and Lady Rhea. Lexa was the manager of the original Enchantments in the East Village and Priestess for the Minoan Sisterhood training circle from 1982 - 2000. During those years, Lexa taught courses on Astrology, Tarot, Kabbalah, Wicca, Astral Projection and Spellcraft in addition to giving astrology and psychic readings. She also served as the official oracle in her own coven and channeled the word of the Goddess.

Lexa Ros'an is the author of The Supermarket Sorceress, The Supermarket Sorceress's Sexy Hexes, The Supermarket Sorceress's Enchanted Evenings (St. Martins Press), Easy Enchantments, (St Martin's Press), PowerSpells, and ZodiacSpells (St Martins Press). Her newest books are TarotPower: 22 Keys to Unlocking Magick, Spellcraft, and Meditation (Citadel Press July 05) and The Encyclopedia of Magickal Ingredients (Simon & Shuster Sep 2005) She currently writes the Celebrity Astrology Forecasts and BackPack Astrologer for CosmoGirl magazine and is the astrological advisor for Seventeen magazine.

Her plays The Prisoner, The Swim, and I Married a Lesbian Witch were produced at the WOW Caf'. Lexa has also performed her work at La Mama, Dixon Place, P.S. 122, and other downtown Venues. Her writing has been included in the anthologies Celebrating the Pagan Soul (Citadel Press 2005), and Women on Women 2 (Plume 1993). A Kosher Megila, an excerpt from her soon to be published novel Spinoza's Daughter, was included in Women on Women 3 A New Anthology of American Lesbian Fiction (Plume/Penguin1996). Her poetry is included on The Knitting Factory 100 Greatest Poets cd. Michael Musto reviewed Lexa's poetry in the Village Voice.

In addition to her many other talents, Lexa is an accomplished dancer. She studied jazz, ballet, and tap. In 1995 she discovered Argentine Tango and fell in love with the dance. Lexa taught Argentine Tango and Milonga at DanceSport in NYC and she continues to teach privately. Lexa also writes TangoStars, the astrology column for dancers for Reportango magazine and Tango Kulture, the German webzine.

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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A modern-day 'book of shadows' for the contemporary witch., October 27, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Supermarket Sorceress: Spells, Charms, & Enchantments That You Can Make From Supermarket Ingredients (Mass Market Paperback)

The Supermarket Sorceress is an updated version of a Book of Shadows. It gives concise directions and simple everyday substitutions for ancient or hard-to-find ingredients used to create magick spells.

Its author, Lexa Rosean, has been practicing the magickal arts since 1982, and she presents this much-needed contemporary spellbook for ease of use by the burgeoning population of Wiccans eveywhere. And the spells themselves are pleasant and easy. For example, a spell to induce prophetic dreams involves placing a poppy-seed bagel under your pillow before sleep.

If you are of the Olde Schoole of Magick, be admonished that the contemporary nature of the book may take some getting used to -- after all, who would have guessed that a Fig Newton bar would end up being a principal ingredient in a powerful love ritual, or that waxed, mint-flavored dental floss could be used to bind a spell? -- but overall, the magickal workings presented herein should be a delightful experience.

I would recommend The Supermarket Sorceress to anybody who is already used to ritual work and familiar with Pagan / Wiccan history, and able to accept the wonderfully creative steps Lexa Rosean has taken with regards to the ever-changing face of Contemporary Neo-Paganism.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Size does not count !, July 15, 1999

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This review is from: Supermarket Sorceress: Spells, Charms, & Enchantments That You Can Make From Supermarket Ingredients (Mass Market Paperback)

OK I must confess it I did not trust this "booklet" an inch when it reached my door. I was expecting a MANUAL and this was just a CD cover sized booklet but started flipping the pages and HEY PRESTO ! a pletora of eggcellent (not a typo, read the book and you'll understand) spells came to my eyes; I've been practicing magic(k)for ages and never found spells so easy yet so powerful. Bravo Lexa.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An eternal source of inspiration, July 6, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Supermarket Sorceress: Spells, Charms, & Enchantments That You Can Make From Supermarket Ingredients (Mass Market Paperback)

If you are in the market for a great little book of easy-to-perform spells organized by category with the exact rhyming couplets written out for you, this isn't it (try Dorothy Morrison). However, Lexa lays out some delightfully ingenious correspondences for the pagan without access to a glade or a stream or even an occult-supply store. Her style is largely anecdotal, leading the reader through the thought process she goes through to develop a spell. And her style is accessible, casual and fun. While you're not going to get step by step instructions here, you will get the inspiration you need to extrapolate your knowledge and to craft your own spells using everyday items. I refer to it again and again.