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A Witch's Guide to Ghosts and the Supernatural

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You are in for a hauntingly good read! Author Gerina Dunwich has recorded her own stories, sometimes terrifying experiences into a subject that is usually propagated as bad or horrifying. Before you call in the exorcist, be sure to read this book.

She begins her book with Phantasms and Ectoplasms, Understanding Ghosts and and Spirits. In this chapter she explains the difference with Ghost vs. Spirit, Poltergeist Phenomena, Cold Spots and Spirit Portals, To Dream About a Ghost, Communicating with Spirits Through Dreams, Evil-Natured Ghosts, How to rid yourself of an Unwanted Spirit, Samhain: Night of the Dead, The Feasts of the Hungry Ghosts, The Ghost Dance, Crisis Apparitions and Doppelgangers, How to Properly Conduct a Ghost Hunt, and an Interview with a Spiritual Medium. All this is packed in the first chapter!

Moving into the next chapters, True Tales of Ghosts and Hauntings. The author leaves you riveted as she goes back in time from one story into another that she has experienced. Moving on to Spiritualism, The Necromantic Arts, Possession, Obsession, and Exorcism, Spells and Sorcery, Herbs Associated with Ghosts, winding down with Ghostly Superstitions and Creatures of the Night. Ending with Deities of Death and the Underworld.

With this wonder tool you will learn communication with the dead, the dangers associated with it, how to do a proper witch hunts, the secrets of necromancy and divination by the dead and explore spiritualism from Victorian age to the present. You will delve into the supernatural with vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters and other creatures. Go into the secret world of both witch and non-witches for protections of darkly creatures of the mists.

Gerina Dunwich has done her homework and brought us an easy to read, fascinating book in Ghosts and the Supernatural. Not only is it a knowledgeable read, it is also very entertaining.

M.L. Benton
Copyright © 2002

In this book Gerina Dunwich teaches alot on the spiritual realm, from many different views, the book includes spells and rituals, spiritualism, necromancy and much more. She keeps you in touch with the basic knowledge of the craft as well as adds to your intellect of ghost and spirits.

She has a very connecting writing style, and you feel as though you are having a conversation with her, rather than reading a book.

I would reccomend this book for any witch, it is full of essential knowledge that will only help one in their quest for the truth.

I dont want to go into detail but it has great information on necromancy, the rituals are the real thing, has haunting herbal information, eyewitness accounts, and many cultural out looks on different views on ghost etc. Information about how to protect from evil spirits, come in contact, as well as many saftey guidelines that wont need you to run and get an exorcism. THIS IS TRULEY A GREAT BOOK FOR THE PAGAN READER or ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO LEARN ABOUT GHOSTS AND GHOST MAGICKS!
REALLY REALLY GOOD!!

An absorbing and well-researched book that fuses spiritualism and witchcraft with a no-nonsense approach. With a copious collection of spells, anecdotes, and true experiences centering around earthbound spirits and haunted houses, this comprehensive guidebook to the paranormal is practical, as well as enlightening and entertaining. Also deals in an aboveboard manner with seances, ouija boards, exorcism, possession, obsession, animal spirits, how to conduct a ghost hunt like a professional, and so much more. I highly recommended this book to all readers - witches and non-witches alike - who are interested in the fascinating subject of ghosts and the supernatural!

I love all her books. The first part on ghosts was truly scary and real. I do remember my father in law with Parkingtons and seeing people, so I think that part was the medicine. But everything else was excellent. A true Capricorn with great Knowledge.

Years ago, I became fascinated by a plant in the buttercup family called "Wolfbane." I had watched an old werewolf movie in black and white and wanted to know more of the folklore surrounding it. Unfortunately, searching through all my herb manuals produced no good effect (other than to alert me to the poisons affiliated with this purple flowering plant-helper). I felt concerned; as though the folklore had been lost forever.

Then I found this book, "A Witch's Guide To Ghosts and the Supernatural," by Gerina Dunwich, and I've felt thankful ever since because it addressed the mystery surrounding Wolfbane and its connection to werewolves.

This book shares fascinating stories about all sorts of beasts and haunting characters. For example, I found it interesting to realize that one can become a werewolf VOLUNTARILY (not just by being bitten by a fang-wielding nut-job, or cursed by an evil sorcerer, or otherwise having the your father's sins contaminate your family gene pool)!

According to Gerina Dunwich, to become a werewolf, intentionally, you merely need to do one of the following:

* Eat meat killed by a wolf (such as the body of a lesser wolf or sheep)
* Drink from a water source where werewolves have first imbibed
* Eat a werewolf's brain (proving this is a dog-eat-dog sort of world)
* Ritualistically eat human flesh (I'd personally remind readers to feel warned: While notorious cannibals like Albert Fish, Andrei Chikatilo, Edward Gein and perhaps Jeffrey Dahmer all earned a death sentence, as far as the records show, they never showed any evidence of being able to shape-shift!)

HAPPILY? There's a vegetarian ritual so much easier to employ! (You might find this option to "turn yourself into a werewolf" most palatable):

* WEARING OR SMELLING THE WOLFBANE PLANT!

In addition to turning you into a werewolf, folklore insists Wolfbane can also cure you of it. I suppose it's sort of like a bad drug that can send you on a scary hallucinogenic trip - and then, being the hair of the dog that bit you, bring you back down from that super human adventure.

Wolfbane supposedly cures WEREWOLFdom when it is consumed PRIOR to the first full moon, after first being bitten/turned. Once you have actually shape-shifted into that ravenous beast, however (e.g. w/the moon's pregnant cycle) the plant remedy proves ineffective. {Dang it.}

Once you make your first werewolf kill, you are forever cursed or blessed (depending on how you look at it). Then you can roam the earth feeling very powerful; until some sickos from an animal testing lab capture you for weird DNA testing of your hairy frame. {These are my thoughts, not Dunwich's}.

P.S. Wolfbane is also known as aconite, monkshood, wolfsbane, leopard's bane, women's bane, Devil's helmet and blue rocket.

I must say that this is probably the best work by Ms Dunwich out on the market. I've always been fascinated with the "paranomal" since early childhood, so I was excited when I was finally able to get this book.

Inside, Dunwich tells sometimes frightening, chilling stories about her own encounters with spirits, the differences between a ghost and a spirit, definitions and folklore. Also included are different methods of conjuring, banishing and communicating with the dead. She mentions the Ouija board as a method of communication, but I do not recommend that to anyone.

Overall, it is a fantastic book and I'm going to take it with me on all of my ghost-hunting trips :)