Product Description

Witch - what a powerful word it is. It attracts, it repels, it frightens, it fascinates. It offers hope to those who do not know where to turn. Modern witches - following the traditions of our earliest ancestors - are the shamans and healers of the twenty-first century. They practise the ancient art of sacred magic in the modern world. "The Wicca Handbook" is both a tutorial for new witches and an exceptionally well organized reference book for experienced practitioners. It guides us through the first steps in becoming a witch, explores many Wiccan traditions, initiations and magical practices. The Wiccan year - the eight Sabbats - along with many of its rituals and ceremonies are examined. You will learn about spell casting, sex magic and the techniques used to raise power. One of the most outstanding features of this book is Eileen Holland's extensive correspondence tables which cover virtually every facet of witchcraft: creativity, fertility, healing, love, magic, finances, psychic protection, astral projection, wisdom, heavenly bodies, animals, colours metals, rock and gemstones, the alphabet and numbers. With so much information, this is bound to become a dog-eared favourite in any witch's library.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #661904 in Books
• Published on: 2001-04-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

About the Author
Eileen Holland is a solitary eclectic witch, a Wiccan priestess and a poet. She calls her path Goddess Wicca. As webmaster for Open Sesame, one of the Internet's most popular sites for Wicca, witchcraft and pagan spirituality, she has helped many seekers along their paths. She lives in New York City and is currently writing a book about mythology.

Customer Reviews

Not bad, but...
I quite liked this book when I first got it. However, when I came back to it later after I'd studied magick systems for several months, it seemed that I couldnt think of any particular benefit of the book.

Although the book does encourage you to be more free styling with ritual creation (just look up correspondences, and away you go!) the information on individual matters is very scant. These days I would rather know more about a deity before I invoke it, than the briefest of information about its sphere of influence.
Also, a lot of her information comes from StarHawk and from The Witches Bible by the Farrarrs. If you read The Witches Bible, and The Spiral Dance, the only good this book may do you is with correspondences. And if you study magick long enough, you'll get a sense of what correspondences work for you anyway.

I'll admit I enjoyed this book, it just hasn't helped me a great deal.

Everything you need to know
This book pretty much covers everything you need to know about Wicca for both the beginer and experienced practicioner. Great advice, very in deapth correspondance tables, this has it all!

A Great But Bias Book
This is a great book for both beginner and adept alike. I did however find two flaws in in. The authors bias to egyptian deities and tradition tainted the spells and incantations in the book; this however is not a problem if you favour or work exclusivly with egyptian deities (and is still no big problem if you dont as names in incantations and spells are easily substituded with other god/dess names). Secondly, though the author provides many thorough correspondences in the book with many deities included; she gives no description of where their dominion lies or from which culture they come from which may be confusing for the novice.

Still, all in all this is great and i would recommend it to any practcioner. This had a space on my bookself long before it was written.