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Witches: A Compendium

By (author) Judika Illes, Foreword by Frances F. Denny

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â€œWitches: A Compendium maps the landscape of witchcraft and occult practices, past and present. Within these pages, youâ€™ll find clear descriptions of magical practices and tools, animal familiars, inspirational witch figuresÂ .Â .Â . and even witch-related sites around the world to star on your Google Maps. This book will serve as reference, guide, and inspiration to anyone curious about the magical arts.â€ â€”from the foreword by Frances F. Denny Â Witches explores what a witch is and the different ways to be one. Judika Illes presents the history, mysteries, and diverse natures of witches from around the world. Featuring a whoâ€™s who ranging from famousâ€”or infamousâ€”historical witches such as Tituba, Sybil Leek, Aleister Crowley, Isobel Gowdie, and Countess Erzsebet BÃ¡thory (widely known as the Blood Countess) to popular literary, cinematic, and TV witches such as Endora, the Scarlet Witch, Melisandre, Storm, Agatha Harkness, and the Wicked Witch of the West, Witches also offers travel tips for witches and a guide to the tools of the trade such as brooms, wands, cauldrons, and mirrors. Â This celebration of witches and witchcraft also features: Sacred witches such as Baba Yaga, Lilith, Isis, Hekate, Diana, Circe, and Yemaya Familiars and creatures closely associated with witchcraft including cats, bats, crows, owls, and foxes Art witches like Moina Mathers, Vali Myers, Rosaleen Norton, Leonora Carrington, and Cameron Different schools of witchcraft including green witchery, kitchen witchery, Wicca, and Hekatean Witchcraft The various things witches do from divination to spirit working to spell-casting