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This enchantingly illustrated natural history of magick, compiled in the 1920s by the globetrotting naturalist Professor Conrad Gessner for his grandson, is now unveiled for readers of today. Featuring a gold foil–embossed cloth cover, a ribbon marker and sprayed gold edges, this gorgeous volume is filled with intriguing sketches and precise notes detailing the secret world of magic, a natural force hidden all around us. Inside, you will discover the history of magic and its dazzling array of practices around the globe. Delight in this hidden world as you learn about these and more topics: Different types of magic (Explore divination, tarot reading, astrology, numerology, alchemy and more.)Powerful plants (Peppermint is fantastic for cleansing, and also known to ward off vampires.)Wand trees (Apple tree wands are helpful in matters of love and fertility while beech is best for scholars using wordy spells.)Familiars (Choose the perfect magical companion. If you love to gossip, you might choose a ferret as your familiar or, for improved thinking, an owl.)The most magical of days (Discover the power and stories of Imbolc, the solstices, All Hallows’ Eve and more.)Magical scripts (Learn about the secret languages used through history for communicating with the spirit world.) With this precious scrapbook as your guide, tap into the powerful energies that will help you harness your own magic.
This enchantingly illustrated natural history of magick, compiled in the 1920s by the globetrotting naturalist Professor Conrad Gessner for his grandson, is now unveiled for readers of today. Featuring a gold foil-embossed cloth cover, a ribbon marker and sprayed gold edges, this gorgeous volume is filled with intriguing sketches and precise notes detailing the secret world of magic, a natural force hidden all around us. Inside, you will discover the history of magic and its dazzling array of practices around the globe. Delight in this hidden world as you learn about these and more topics: Different types of magic (Explore divination, tarot reading, astrology, numerology, alchemy, and more.)Powerful plants (Peppermint is fantastic for cleansing, and also known to ward off vampires.)Wand trees (Apple tree wands are helpful in matters of love and fertility while beech is best for scholars using wordy spells.)Familiars (Choose the perfect magical companion. If you love to gossip, you might choose a ferret as your familiar or, for improved thinking, an owl.)The most magical of days (Discover the power and stories of Imbolc, the solstices, All Hallows' Eve, and more.)Magical scripts (Learn about the secret languages used through history for communicating with the spirit world.) With this precious scrapbook as your guide, tap into the powerful energies that will help you harness your own magic.
Craft of the Wild Witch: Green Spirituality & Natural Enchantment
Poppy Palin
Llewellyn Publications
2004
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Wild Witchcraft is a magical, free-spirited philosophy that embraces nature. It resonates with those who yearn to express their inherent spirituality in a joyous, meaningful manner; who sense their wild heart and soul nature; who know there is beauty, magic, and meaning in the world if only we want to find it. It is a magical path for those with poetry in their souls. Evocative and compelling, Craft of the Wild Witch reveals how to practice a form of Witchcraft that is both wild and free. Within these pages you will discover the wild Witch's way of seeing and knowing, how to discern one's suitability for the wild Witch's path, and the fundamental themes of green spirituality. Also covered in this guidebook: Rituals, chants, pathworkings, and seasonal prayers Tree meditations, spell-weaving, and trance work The Fey and other-worldly companions Herbs as helpers Other-life memories Sacred intent and safe practice
Featuring 30 highly original and stylish designs by cutting edge illustrator and renowned paper cut artist Poppy Chancellor, transform a blank sheet of paper into a stunning work of art.Forget complicated step-by-step instructions, no need for lots of expensive equipment, all you need is a sharp scalpel, craft mat, Poppy’s imaginative designs and a bit of creativity, and you can make cards, masks, invitations, partyware and presents for birthdays, hen dos, weddings, Halloween and Christmas.Complete with a beautiful paper cut cover and stunning photography.
Deep in a national park on the east coast of Tasmania, the Bay of Fires is an idyllic holiday community. There are no more than a dozen shacks beside the lagoon - and secrets are hard to keep; the intimacy of other people's lives is their nourishment. The fact that Sarah Avery has returned, having left her boyfriend and her job, is cause for gossip in itself. Then, the bikini-clad body of a young girl is found washed up on the beach; a year after another teenage girl went missing. Journalist Hall Flynn is sent to the coast to investigate, and all too quickly the close-knit community turns in on itself. As he uncovers long-buried secrets, the delicate balance of their fragile lives is threatened. . .
Profound wisdom is made accessible with this contemporary 78-card deck and expansive guidebook, which demystifies the traditional Tarot without losing its essential magic or structure. This down-to-earth yet captivating Tarot reveals the extraordinary in the ordinary, reminding you that there’s nothing humdrum about everyday life. The distinctive cards depict recognizable characters of all ages, appearances, and abilities, providing insights and inspiration from people just like you. The comprehensive book allows each familiar character to communicate directly, combining their story with keywords and clear descriptions that invite your intuitive interpretation. This warmly inclusive Tarot celebrates all life, embracing nature and the non-human beings that share our world—our unseen companions and our creature-kin. Here wild spirits and animals, car mechanics and busy parents are all equally vital, and each has something meaningful to share. These engaging individuals support and encourage you on your journey, making every day more enchanted. Card dimensions: 3 3/8" x 4 3/4"
Set in the last days of the Samurai, old ghosts and new loves coincide in this romantic timeslip adventure
The only thing to fear about the past is it may destroy the future… 'Fun, romantic and heartbreaking. Serious Outlander vibes with a fresh new twist.' Pim Wangtechawat, author of The Moon Represents my Heart A Marie Claire Summer Reads Pick, 2024 2005: While researching her Japanese ancestors, Isla travels from Scotland to Kagoshima. There, a vicious typhoon hurls her through a strange white gate and back to 1877, amid the dawn of the Satsuma Rebellion – the conflict that ended the samurai. When she meets Keiichiro Maeda, a samurai who introduces her to a way of life only previously encountered in books, Isla begins to wonder if she has found her true home. But as the samurai fight a losing battle, she is increasingly distraught. Should she forewarn Keiichiro and save the man she loves or let him die the glorious death he so believes in, proud to the end that he remained a faithful warrior? And what will become of Isla? Is she willing to leave the past behind, knowing her future will forever be changed? 'Refreshingly original... A stunning debut.' Jason Ayres, author of The Time Bubble series
A young woman finds herself transported back in time to 1920s Tokyo just as Japan enters a dangerous new era. Yui Sanada struggles to raise her twelve-year-old brother, Hiro, while contending with a neglectful, alcoholic mother. During a trip to Ueno Park, Hiro runs away from his sister into a strange passage beneath a samurai statue. Yui chases after him and soon finds herself in a Tokyo far removed from the familiar world of 1995. When Yui emerges from the tunnel, she cannot find Hiro but meets a young woman named Chiyo and her family and learns she has travelled back through time to 1923. As feelings between the two women develop, Yui realizes she has appeared just weeks before the devastating Great Kanto Earthquake, a terrifying event that will kill tens of thousands of people and level the city. Will Yui be able to find her brother and save her new family from the oncoming disaster? And if she does find her brother, will he be the same boy she lost in 1995?
Fbs: Wisdom for Today's Woman: Insight from Esther
Poppy Smith
Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc)
2001
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As women study the dramatic life of Queen Esther, they'll learn vital lessons about choices, personal trials, pride, faith, control, and other foundational truths upon which a wise woman builds her life and faith. Original.
Speaking Wisely: Exploring the Power of Words
Poppy Smith
Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc)
2003
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Wild Spirituality shares a way of living well that is as unique as the individual experiencing it. It offers a direct means of witnessing reality in all its aspects, revealing a way to the green heart of being that is untamed but never undisciplined. Many of us now feel an authentic, autonomous impulse to understand and experience all expressions of existence, be they seen or unseen, human or non-human. Wild Spirituality accompanies the reader through this process of re-awakening, encouraging us to witness the life-force inherent in all creation as well as appreciating our own particular dance in the wild dream of life. Living a deeply connected, and essentially natural, spirituality encourages inner and outer balance. It allows us to experience infinite consciousness - the Source of All Being - whilst remaining grounded with meaningful, earth-honouring practices. Through this seamless uniting of the questing, empathetic and intuitive aspects most needed in today's world we may live more fully, with genuine compassion, integrity and awareness. Wild Spirituality advocates a means of expressing our inherent mysticism that is poetic, wholesome and mutually beneficial. It firmly rooted in the author's own life-practice and extensive empirical examination of the hidden aspects of existence.
Four friends.Four impossible situations.Four reasons for hope? Meet Amelia, Hattie, Emmie, and Kate, thrown together by chance and inseparable ever since. Young career women with a lifetime of adventures ahead, they're not exactly looking for love to shake things up. Then Amelia's fianc leaves her at the altar and everything changes. Love at First Sight is an anthology of four contemporary over-the-top, insta-love stories about finding true love at the most unlikely of times. No cheating, no cliffhangers, and only consensual shenanigans await: Meant to be YoursI'd thought it was wedding jitters. That'd be enough to make any groom-to-be nervous. But then my fianc never showed up to our wedding.I feel lots of things.Hurt. Confused. Betrayed.But love isn't done with me yet. It has one more trick up its sleeve . . . Love TumbleI don't believe in love at first sight.Then I tumble - literally - into an undergrad on campus and I find myself thinking that this guy's smile makes me happy. Like, really happy.I can't make myself walk away from this stranger. So the only question is - will I let myself believe in the impossible? Head Over HeelsI wouldn't say I've lived a charmed life, but seeing things through rose-colored glasses? That's kind of my thing.That is, until some bad news comes along and has the balls to knock the wind out of me.Maybe that's why I'm suddenly seeing single dad Ben Larsen in a whole new light. But he's off-limits.The thing is . . . I'm not sure that I care. One in a MillionI'm one in a million - because love's not in the cards for me.I'm a therapist by profession and the simple fact is that I know too much about what can go wrong in love to believe that it can ever go right for me.But then an incident brings silver fox Oliver Lewis into my life and threatens everything that I think I know about me and love . . This collection of super hot love stories will make you squirm with delight.;) Steamy happily evers after guaranteed *Please note: each of the stories in this collection is also available individually.
Creative Histories of Witchcraft
Poppy Corbett; Anna Kisby Compton; William G. Pooley
Cambridge University Press
2022
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How can researchers study magic without destroying its mystery? Drawing on a collaborative project between the playwright Poppy Corbett, the poet Anna Kisby Compton, and the historian William G. Pooley, this Element presents thirteen tools for creative-academic research into magic, illustrated through case studies from France (1790–1940) and examples from creative outputs: write to discover; borrow forms; use the whole page; play with footnotes; erase the sources; write short; accumulate fragments; re-enact; improvise; use dialogue; change perspective; make methods of metaphors; use props. These tools are ways to 'untell' the dominant narratives that shape stereotypes of the 'witch' which frame belief in witchcraft as ignorant and outdated. Writing differently suggests ways to think and feel differently, to stay with the magic, rather than explaining it away. The Element includes practical creative exercises to try as well as research materials from French newspaper and trial sources from the period.
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities explores the relationship between avatar and gamer in the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game World of Warcraft, to examine notions of entangled subjectivity, affects, and embodiments – what it means and how it feels to be posthuman.With a focus on posthuman subjectivity, Wilde considers how we can begin to articulate ourselves when the boundary between self and other is unclear. Drawing on fieldnotes of her own gameplay experiences, the author analyses how subjectivity is formed in ways that defy a single individual notion of “self”, and explores how different practices, feelings, and societal understandings can disrupt strict binaries and emphasise our posthumanism. She interrogates if one can speak of an “I” in the face of posthuman multiplicity, before exploring different analytical themes, beginning with how acting theories might be posthumanised and articulate the relationship between avatar and gamer. She then defines posthuman empathy and explains how this is experienced in gaming, before addressing the need to account for boredom, the complexity of nostalgia, and ways death and loss are experienced through gaming.This volume will appeal to a broad audience and is particularly relevant to scholars and students of cultural studies, media studies, humanities, and game studies.
Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities explores the relationship between avatar and gamer in the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game World of Warcraft, to examine notions of entangled subjectivity, affects, and embodiments – what it means and how it feels to be posthuman.With a focus on posthuman subjectivity, Wilde considers how we can begin to articulate ourselves when the boundary between self and other is unclear. Drawing on fieldnotes of her own gameplay experiences, the author analyses how subjectivity is formed in ways that defy a single individual notion of “self”, and explores how different practices, feelings, and societal understandings can disrupt strict binaries and emphasise our posthumanism. She interrogates if one can speak of an “I” in the face of posthuman multiplicity, before exploring different analytical themes, beginning with how acting theories might be posthumanised and articulate the relationship between avatar and gamer. She then defines posthuman empathy and explains how this is experienced in gaming, before addressing the need to account for boredom, the complexity of nostalgia, and ways death and loss are experienced through gaming.This volume will appeal to a broad audience and is particularly relevant to scholars and students of cultural studies, media studies, humanities, and game studies.