The Complete Book of Magic and Witchcraft

by Leonard Ashley and Leonard R.N. Ashley

Book Overview

A hodgepodge of information on various schools of magic and witchcraft including demons, devils, fairies, talismans and conveniently vague descriptions of spells. The book covers topics from the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569800499
• ISBN13: 9781569800492
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Barricade Books
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Hunting season is Open on Fluff Bunnies

I can't help but chuckle at all the Fuff bunnies who are completel offended by this book. NEWS FLASH: WICCA IS LESS THAN 60 YEARS OLD! For those of you advocating Buckland and Cunningham, please understand that these authors present modern WICCA, which is NOT the same as WITCHCRAFT! The "witchcraft" presented by Cunningham is a mix of superficial folklore, ceremonial magick, Amer-Indian spirituality and Thelema. This book however gives a good, is sometimes harsh view of Witchcraft in history. Certainly the bias of the times needs cnsidering, however, most withes were not simple old nature worshippers kepping the tradition of the Goddess alive. Realizing this fact does not invalidate Nature worship today. Presenting Wicca as a factual history of Witchcraft is retarded. This book will help to blow any fresh faced impressionable "priestess of Avalon" out of the water and let them know about serious witchcraft. Please get it through your head that the Witches of the past DID NOT use techniques such as visualization, casting a circle, calling the watchtowers (watchtowers btw are Huge "angelic" forces and are completely derived from Christian Mythos) Nor did they worship the "God" and the "Goddess". Trying to present modern Wicca as historical witchcraft is classic Murrayism. Lets get past this stuff people. Lets open up Hunting season on Cute little bunnies. I got my crosshair on Sliver Ravingwolf.

INFORMATIONAL

I have read many books on the subject of witchcraft and I am 15 years old and I know that the author wrote this book as a informational book about witchcraft from around the world and the past. He wrote the book as a history of witchcraft and although he wrote of some curses and some rather gruesome things, he also added that he would rather not have the reader practice anything he wrote. I understand how the Wiccans around the world feel about this book but they to should not take the book as a ''how to'' book.

Very informative . . .as always

While most people would say that witchcraft has nothing to do with the Devil, witchcraft does. Wicca does not. This book is about witchcraft. the old ways of the Middle Ages, before and beyound. I think this book is very well written and complete as one of Ashley's books in the occult series.The book satified my desire for knowledge and I would recommend this book to anyone with interest in the wide world of teh occult. For the record . . . Ashley is a very smart and educated and wise man, well and greatly knowledgeble in the occult

Different

This book is totally different than any others that I've read in the past and I recommend it for anyone that is interested in a blast back to reality.