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    Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven
    Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven
    Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven
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    Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven

    Written by Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman

    Narrated by Amy McFadden

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    Want to feel terrifyingly beautiful? Wear the right color of eye shadow to project otherworldly glamour. Need to exorcise a toxic friendship? Repeat the proper incantation and make it disappear. Want to increase your energy? Whip up a tasty herbal "potion" to rev up your stamina.

    DIY projects, rituals, and spells summon the best trends of the modern witchy lifestyle and the time-trusted traditions of the hell-raising women of the past.

    With humor, heart, and a hip sensibility, Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman dispense witchy wisdom for the curious, the cynical, and anyone who could use a magical boost.

    Contains mature themes.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 17, 2018
    ISBN9781977374349

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    • 5/5
      I received this book for free from the publisher (Quirk Books) in exchange for an honest review. I’ve been wanting to read this book for the longest time. I’ve been very interested in witches and witchcraft since I read the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and watched the Craft and the Love Witch (I really recommend this movie if you haven’t already seen it). Please be advised that this book doesn’t feature “real” witchcraft that Wiccans would use, so if you are looking for that, then I would suggest looking elsewhere. Like most of the books Quirk Books publishes, this is more fun than it is serious. Instead this book takes the spirit of witchcraft and combines them with the ideas of feminism and turns it into a self help book.From the self help point of view, I found all the chapters to be really empowering and useful. I could definitely see people actually doing some of these rituals. The rituals/spells were all about your mind and how you view situations. One of my favorite things about this book were the historical sidebars about witches. I always love learning little historical tidbits.The only thing I didn’t like was that there wasn’t a concluding chapter. I have a thing about nonfiction books and conclusions. I hate it when they just end, without any sort of wrap up. I would have loved to have seen some final words from the authors. Overall, if you are looking for a fun and different self help book, or want to dabble in witchcraft without going full on Wiccan, then definitely check this book out.

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    • 5/5
      Was such a well written book, I couldn’t put it down. Not particularly in depth about witchcraft but I don’t believe that was the point, it provided fantastic spells and rituals and explained different histories and meanings that were just so interesting. I wouldn’t say it’s a book for very new aspiring Witches since you might need to already understand the very basics but it was wonderful and I couldn’t recommend it more!

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    • 2/5
      Its definitely not a acurate account of witches. For example there isn't a dress code and the word witch didn't come from wicca.

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    • 4/5
      I liked that a lot of the rituals were based on techniques in psychology. Reprogramming the mind can help immensely!
      There probably should have been more about protecting yourself and energy during your workings from outside sources but that’s another book.
    • 4/5
      * review by baby witch *

      for somebody who is a beginer, this book was easy to understand and give me many ideas about what I can do in my craft, but there were few parts in this book where I just don't understand. For example, I don't wear makeup, and in one spell for people who don't wear makeup the main item you need is empty lipstick .....
    • 5/5
      Great book for a curious person. Learned alot and fast truelly enjoyable. Easy manageable excercises. Pure awsomeness
    • 2/5
      it was ok!! readable and beautifully designed and illustrated.

      but it was way more like a self-help book than a witch's guide. it was like "here's a witchy way of dealing w something if you're having a bad fight with a friend".

      there were some spells, but i wasn't interested in them. i thought it would be more like how to run a coven or ... the subtitle just gave me a different impression than the contents? idk.

      i enjoyed the witch's history sections, so i'm gonna go look up more witch history.

      such a shame, bc the illustrations were so cute!
    • 5/5
      Excellent book

      If you are expecting a manual of Wicca or spell-casting, this book will not be what you're looking for. Saxena and Zimmerman are writing about witches in the sense of unruly and disobedient women who defy cultural expectations through positive energy, self love, and speaking up for themselves. They do recommend rituals, spells, and even divination, but with the explicit caution that no one actually has to believe in magic in order to perform these. These are more psychological tricks to soothe or empower similar to many of our rituals; these may seem outwardly silly but are powerful through repetition and intentional acts. Saxena and Zimmerman have a charming and often funny style of writing and are inclusive and celebratory of diversity. This book is helpful for any woman, or even man, who feels pressure from society to act or look in a certain way and may need a little bit more help in learning how to break free of those expectations.
    • 5/5
      I received this book for free from the publisher (Quirk Books) in exchange for an honest review. I’ve been wanting to read this book for the longest time. I’ve been very interested in witches and witchcraft since I read the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and watched the Craft and the Love Witch (I really recommend this movie if you haven’t already seen it). Please be advised that this book doesn’t feature “real” witchcraft that Wiccans would use, so if you are looking for that, then I would suggest looking elsewhere. Like most of the books Quirk Books publishes, this is more fun than it is serious. Instead this book takes the spirit of witchcraft and combines them with the ideas of feminism and turns it into a self help book.From the self help point of view, I found all the chapters to be really empowering and useful. I could definitely see people actually doing some of these rituals. The rituals/spells were all about your mind and how you view situations. One of my favorite things about this book were the historical sidebars about witches. I always love learning little historical tidbits.The only thing I didn’t like was that there wasn’t a concluding chapter. I have a thing about nonfiction books and conclusions. I hate it when they just end, without any sort of wrap up. I would have loved to have seen some final words from the authors. Overall, if you are looking for a fun and different self help book, or want to dabble in witchcraft without going full on Wiccan, then definitely check this book out.
    • 4/5
      I'm a bit older than the target audience for this book (actually, quite a bit older) (all right, a lot older), but the note in the description about exorcising a toxic friendship was made the decision to request it. I was curious. I've always had an interest in how people integrate spirituality of whatever flavor into their lives – and I ended up being deeply impressed by this book. It's not a deep and in-depth guide to how to practice wicca, not a hardcore spellbook or grimoire or whathaveyou, as such; the prevailing opinion I've always encountered is that it's flat-out dangerous to mess around with something like that on your own, especially when very young and inexperienced. (I mean, it's the sort of thing which, even if you don't believe in any of it, still – a bit of common sense never hurts. Never go jogging wearing earphones that render you deaf to your surroundings (especially if you're a woman alone), be aware of your surroundings, never ever play with a Ouija board, and never mess around with spells when you don't know what you're doing. The demon you prevent from entering this dimension may be your own.What this actually is is a positive, warm, funny guide to how to handle situations that are bound to come up in everyone's life. For example, that note that got my attention about toxic friends? I've got two, people I work with who used to be friends who knifed me when I wasn't looking, and whom I can't avoid. Will the section on what to do about it make it all better? Nope. But it serves as proof that I'm not alone – I'm not the only one who is going through something like this. And it does serve as a pretty good guideline of how to manage the way I think about it.I'm not entirely thrilled with the light tone with which demons are discussed, but maybe I've been listening to too many funky podcasts lately. And nothing in here seems at all dangerous - quite the opposite.In a lot of ways this is more therapy or counsel than Magick. Well, maybe it comes to the same thing, in the end. The usual disclaimer: I received this book via Netgalley for review.