A Wise Woman's Guide to Spells, Rituals, and Goddess Love [Paperback]

Elizabeth Brooke (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2000

This remarkable compendium of magical lore, psychic skills, and women'¬?s mysteries is a comprehensive guide to Goddess wisdom, spells, rituals, and recipes including such topics as:Goddess worship, past and present.A brief study of witchcraft.Starcraft and the moon.Festivals and the wheel of the year.How to create rituals.Ethics in witchcraft.Spellcraft.Developing psychic skills.Divination-the tarot.Herbal lore.

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From Library Journal

Brooke (An Astrological Herbal for Women, Crossing Pr., 1995) relates the basic aspects of the practice of modern witchcraft?wicca. She covers the areas of ritual, history, festivals, ethics, divination, herbs, goddess lore, and psychic development. Her divination focuses on the use of tarot. The information she presents is thoroughly researched and well written; the bibliography is comprehensive. The rituals and meditations are quite excellent. The history of wicca and witchcraft, however, is not a straightforward one, and Brooke delineates nicely the differences between her opinions and controversy. She does not cover in this volume the role of men in wicca, and her book is not a definitive guide to modern witchcraft but the reflections of a practitioner. Recommended for appropriate collections.?Gail Wood, SUNY Coll. of Technology Lib., Alfred
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Product Details

• Paperback: 254 pages
• Publisher: Crossing Press (January 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 089594779X
• ISBN-13: 978-0895947796
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,464,099 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Glorious All-In-One that is HIGHLY Recommended!, January 14, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: A Wise Woman's Guide to Spells, Rituals, and Goddess Love (Paperback)

This particular volume was a gift, and it has been one of the BEST compliments to my Witchcraft library!! Elisabeth gives excellent background to Goddess worship, and then proceeds to inform and explain well and nicely to the Practitioner just how to practice! There is a lovely Herbal section in the book, as well! For literature I did not select myself, it was nonetheless a truly worthy book. I use her prayers, chants, activities and guidelines to ritual in most all of my practice.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Overview, April 2, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: A Wise Woman's Guide to Spells, Rituals, and Goddess Love (Paperback)

I would definately recommend this book. I go back to it time and time again. It has a great overview to many aspects of Goddess worship, astrology, tarot, herbal folklore and the history of Goddess worship. She cites many resources in the back of the book that can provide further reading depending on where your interests lie. Excellent book, especailly for the beginner.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good for beginners, April 7, 2001

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This review is from: A Wise Woman's Guide to Spells, Rituals, and Goddess Love (Paperback)

when i'm feeling down, i take this and read a bit, then i'm feeling ok again. this is a great book for the beginner who is studying feminist witchcraft, and it covers herstory, witchcraft history, sabbats, herbs, tools, some spells, chakras, divinination, meditations, ethics etc. not so deeply, i guess, but enough to know, what to do. the author wrote this book with power and passion, like if i read few pages, i can feel or sense it so clearly, that it leaves me wordless. but anyway, at least i know that goddess-worshipping craft is part of me. that's why and how it makes me feel better.