Secret Spells & Curious Charms

by Monika Beisner

Book Overview

This fanciful collection of magic spells and incantations covers love"I place my shoes like a letter T,/ Hoping my true love I shall see"; luck, both good and bad"See a pin and pick it up,/ All the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374366926
• ISBN13: 9780374366926
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.8" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 7 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 2 and higher

Customer Reviews

Great Fun, lovely and interesting

I have had this book since I was a little girl, when it was frustrating to never be able to find an alabaster jar, or a bag made of a sheeps bladder. Not being able to perform the fancy spells laid down did not take away from the wonder I felt for the book. It has fun little poems, and warnings, to help you in luck and love. Every time I eat an hard boiled egg, I think "break the shell to bits for fear, the witches make a boat my dear, for over the sea, awar from home, far by night the witches roam" It doesn't have to mean anything, I just always liked it. This is not likely to ever have been claimed to be an acurate magical giude, it is just a fun book for kids. I always really liked the colorful pictures too.