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THE
ELEMENT ENCYCLOPEDIA OF 5000 SPELLS
The Ultimate Reference Book for the Magical Arts
Enter
the world of folklore, myth, witchcraft and magic!
The Element Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells, a comprehensive guide to
the magical arts, features five thousand spells spanning five thousand
years of magical history drawn from Earth’s every inhabited
corner, from ancient to modern Egypt, from old Mesopotamia to today’s
African Diaspora. There are spells from Celtic, Chinese, Italian,
Jewish, Romany, Slavic and Tibetan traditions plus many more. There’s
practical magic, high ritual magic, spells that demand careful planning
and spells to be cast spontaneously, spells one might wish to cast
daily as well as spells that should perhaps never be performed,
spells whose components include precious resins and priceless gems
and spells whose every ingredient is free: ocean water, moonbeams,
dirt.
Within The Element Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells’ more than one
thousand pages you’ll discover:
•
Banishing spells
• Better Business and Professional Success Spells
• Cleansing Spells
• Courtcase Spells: Spells for Legal Justice
• Death Spells: Death and Funeral Spells, Ghosts, Necromancy and
Vampires
• Divination Spells
• Dream Spells: Dreams, Insomnia, Astral Projection, Witches Flying
Ointments
• Fertility Spells
• Gambling Spells
• Healing Spells, both general healing and spells for specific ailments
• Hexes and their Antidotes
• Invisibility and Transformation Spells
• Over 100 pages of Love Spells
• Marriage and Divorce Spells
• Money Spells
• Pregnancy and Childbirth Spells
• Protection Spells
• Plus more . . .
Spells take many forms. Key concepts necessary for successful spell-casting
are explained in plain English. In addition to the spells, The Element
Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells includes a guide to various forms of
spell-casting including working with
• Animals (Familiars and allies)
• Botanicals (in varied forms: dried and fresh herbs, roots, essential
oils, flower essences and more)
• Elements (air, earth, fire, water)
• Minerals (crystals, gemstones, lodestones, holed stones)
• Planets, especially Luna and our own Earth
• Spirits (angels, demons, djinn, fairies, lwa, orisha, saints official
and otherwise)
• Words (charms, incantations, rhymes, words of power)
• and more . . .
Within these pages you’ll also find a guide to crafting, charging
and working with a wide variety of magical tools including:
• Brooms
• Candles
• Cauldrons
• Dolls
• Magic mirrors
• Magic swords
• Magic wands
• Mojo hands
• and more . . .
A Formulary features recipes for classic charged waters, condition
oils, magical inks and powders including:
• Angel’s Water
• Florida Water
• Flower Waters
• Holy Waters
• War Water
• Abra-Melin Oil
• Black Cat Oil
• High John Oil
• Jezebel Oil
• Magnet Oil
• Goofer Dust
• Graveyard Dust
• Kyphi
• Dragon’s Blood Ink
• Lampblack Ink
• and more . . .
The Element Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells also serves as a tribute
to the magical books of the past. According to many anthropologists,
the need to record magic spells and divination results (and taxes!)
may have stimulated the very birth of writing.
According to legend, the very first books that ever existed were
grimoires, (the technical name for books of magic spells) such as
the Book of Thoth, authored by the Egyptian god of both magic and
writing or the Book of Raziel, authored by an angel and given to
Adam as consolation for his expulsion from Eden. (The angels preferred
giving human women private tutorials rather than books.)
The Book of Thoth has been missing for thousands of years although
a version of The Book of Raziel is currently in print. (The original
volume, engraved on sapphire, is allegedly beneath the sea.) During
the Burning Times, when magical practitioners were burned by the
thousands or the millions, depending upon whose count one finds
reliable, grimoires too were destroyed and burned, together with
alchemists’ texts and witches’ private books of shadows,
countless volumes of occult wisdom forever lost in the shadows.
The majority of the spells contained in The Element Encyclopedia
of 5000 Spells are traditional spells. Although the Burning Times
are over, traditional magic remains under siege in much of the world.
Spells are lost daily. In a world of ‘rationalists’ and
fundamentalists, ancient Earthly wisdom as well as its practitioners
are an endangered species.
Magic spells are our common human heritage as are knowledge of magical
techniques, whether we choose to use them, whether we wish to keep
them on hand for times when they’ll be needed or whether they
serve as inspiration and guidance so that we may create our own
individual, personalized spells, furthering the evolution of that
oldest of human arts, magic.
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