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A Resistance of Witches
Morgan Ryan

The Revels
Stacey Thomas

Elizabeth
Ken Green hall

Folk Witchcraft: A Guide to Lore, Land, & the Familiar Spirit
Roger J. Horne
A new, updated edition of the first entry in the Folk Witchcraft series. Complete with practical exercises, descriptions of craft theories and models, hand-drawn illustrations, and the author's working grimoire, Folk Witchcraft provides the student witch with an insightful perspective on the craft that is firmly rooted in the past, but adapted for the present. Experienced witches will deepen and enrich their practices by connecting more fully to traditional magics from hundreds of years in the past. Learn how to:<br/><br/>-Master ecstatic methods of spirit-flight described in witch-lore<br/>-Celebrate the turning of the seasons with traditional rituals<br/>-Cultivate closer relationships with nature spirits and personal familiars<br/>-Work powerful traditional charms, such as the witches' ladder, the poppet, and blessing/cursing by gesture<br/>-Discern the magical properties of herbs and plants without relying on tables from books<br/>-Augur practical guidance from the spirit world<br/>-Utilize old craft incantations, remedies, and recipes<br/>-Connect with the Old Ones, the ancestors of Folk Witchcraft<br/>-Experience shapeshifting into various animal spirit forms<br/>-Craft herbal unguents, oils, powders, tinctures, and infusions<br/>-Interpret incantations, charms, and sigils received from your own familiar spirits<br/>-Research and hone your own lore and grimoire-sourced magical practices<br/><br/>With over 50 rituals, charms, and exercises, Folk Witchcraft offers a refreshingly simple approach to the craft that is non-dogmatic, flexible, and rewarding as a personal spiritual practice.<br/><br/>From the Introduction:<br/><br/>Let’s imagine that we aren’t miles apart. We’re sitting by a fire, looking out into the mysterious night. It’s All Hallow’s Eve, so there’s a chill in the wind, and the branches of the trees are bare. The stars are bright. Embers from the fire catch on the wind in bright flurries, drifting up into the yawning dark like fireflies. We are here to talk about witchcraft, about spirits, about the land. We are going to talk about the cycles of nature and what they mean. We’ll talk about our dreams and visions. We’ll nourish our spirits with wisdom from the old lore. Beyond the crackling fire’s glow, the shadows lingering between the trees could almost be our ancestors.<br/><br/>In many ways, we are living in the golden age of witchcraft. New traditions are springing up all around us. Writers, bloggers, and vloggers share their approaches and ideas. Scholars have begun to unpack the old lore through the lens of legitimate spiritual experience. Books on the craft are published every day. These modern grammars usually share the author’s rituals, their charms, their holidays, and provide a step-by-step approach to conducting craft workings. They try to explain what witches do, what they believe, how they conduct their rituals, what rules they should follow. Sometimes they offer a spurious account of witch history and lineage that leaves the reader more puzzled than before. These books provide much of the how, but little of the why. Pre-made models and rituals that are practiced without an understanding of their source are like cut flowers: they are beautiful on the kitchen table, but quickly wither away.<br/><br/>This is not that kind of book. Make no mistake; by the end of this book, you will have a treasury of charms, rituals, incantations, and practical methods by which you can conduct your craft. My larger goal, however, is to provide students of the craft with the means by which to connect with the source of witchcraft, those gates of initiation through which any witch worth his salt must pass. Because folk witchcraft is a living tradition, most of us hone and polish our craft over time. We research, experiment, and adapt. We follow the guidance of our familiar spirits. We listen to the land...

The Familiar
Leigh Bardugo

Thistlefoot: A Novel
GennaRose Nethercott

The Familiars
Stacey Halls

Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery
Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Caine, Sherrilyn Kenyon

Devil's Call
J. Danielle Dorn

Garden Spells: A Novel (Waverly Family)
Sarah Addison Allen
The magical New York Times bestseller. In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small, quiet house in an even smaller town, is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very special sort of fruit. In this luminous debut novel, Sarah Addison Allen tells the story of that enchanted tree, and the extraordinary people who tend it....<br/>The Waverleys have always been a curious family, endowed with peculiar gifts that make them outsiders even in their hometown of Bascom, North Carolina. Even their garden has a reputation, famous for its feisty apple tree that bears prophetic fruit, and its edible flowers, imbued with special powers. Generations of Waverleys tended this garden. Their history was in the soil. But so were their futures.<br/><br/>A successful caterer, Claire Waverley prepares dishes made with her mystical plants--from the nasturtiums that aid in keeping secrets and the pansies that make children thoughtful, to the snapdragons intended to discourage the attentions of her amorous neighbor. Meanwhile, her elderly cousin, Evanelle, is known for distributing unexpected gifts whose uses become uncannily clear. They are the last of the Waverleys--except for Claire's rebellious sister, Sydney, who fled Bascom the moment she could, abandoning Claire, as their own mother had years before.<br/><br/>When Sydney suddenly returns home with a young daughter of her own, Claire's quiet life is turned upside down--along with the protective boundary she has so carefully constructed around her heart. Together again in the house they grew up in, Sydney takes stock of all she left behind, as Claire struggles to heal the wounds of the past. And soon the sisters realize they must deal with their common legacy--if they are ever to feel at home in Bascom--or with each other.<br/><br/>Enchanting and heartfelt, this captivating novel is sure to cast a spell with a style all its own....<br/><br/>From the Hardcover edition.

Spells for Forgetting: A Novel
Adrienne Young

The Bewitching
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Bone Witch
Rin Chupeco

Practical Magic
Alice Hoffman

The Unmaking of June Farrow
Adrienne Young

Morgan Is My Name
Sophie Keetch

The Book of Witches
Jonathan Strahan

Lois the Witch
Elizabeth Gaskell

A Discovery of Witches: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy, Book 1)
Deborah Harkness

The Witching Hour
Anne Rice

The Book of Witching
C.J. Cooke

One for My Enemy: A Novel
Olivie Blake

All the Parts of the Soul
Catherine Fearns
<p>The year is 1545; Geneva has defeated the Catholic forces of the Duke of Savoy and established itself as the center of the Reformation, with John Calvin as its spiritual leader. But peace is fragile, and in a city ravaged by plague, the atmosphere is one of fear and suspicion. So when new rumors of witchcraft emerge from the isolated village of Satigny, Calvin sees an opportunity and plucks a reclusive young magistrate to investigate.</p><p><br></p><p>Henry Aubert was orphaned by plague at the age of twelve, and since then, he has lived alone, consumed by fear and by the temptations he finds in the margins of his book collection. Now, for the first time, he is forced to confront the possibility of society, friendship, even love. Local healer Louise de Peney is kind and beautiful but skirts dangerously close to the fringes of his investigation. Can he escape the horrific task he has been set? And is it too late to save a soul that has too long been turned in on itself? </p><p><br></p>

Red Rabbit
Alex Grecian
<p>"Impossible to put down.” —Kelly Link, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist <i>Get In Trouble</i><br><b><br>A ragtag posse must hunt down a witch through a wild west beset by demons and ghosts—where death is always just around the bend</b><b>—</b><b>in this new supernatural horror by bestselling author Alex Grecian.<br></b><br>Sadie Grace is wanted for witchcraft, dead (or alive). And every hired gun in Kansas is out to collect the bounty on her head, including bona fide witch hunter Old Tom and his mysterious, mute ward, Rabbit.<br><br>On the road to Burden County, they’re joined by two vagabond cowboys with a strong sense of adventure – but no sense of purpose – and a recently widowed schoolteacher with nothing left to lose. As their posse grows, so too does the danger.<br><br>Racing along the drought-stricken plains in a stolen red stagecoach, they encounter monsters more wicked than witches lurking along the dusty trail. But the crew is determined to get that bounty, or die trying.<br><br>Written with the devilish cadence of Stephen Graham Jones and the pulse-pounding brutality of Nick Cutter, <i>Red Rabbit</i> is an epic adventure of luck and misfortune.<br><br><b>“Echoing <i>True Grit</i>, RED RABBIT is a riotous, Boschian, gun-slinging marvel.” —Laird Hunt, author of <i>In the House in the Dark of the Woods</i></b><br><br>Also by Alex Grecian:<br><i>Rose of Jericho</i></p>

The Lighthouse Witches
C. J. Cooke
A Most Anticipated Novel by Pop Sugar * Book Riot * Betches * Bustle * and more! "Utterly spellbinding....Witchcraft meets thriller."--Pop Sugar Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found--but she's still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting. When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, it's an opportunity to start over with her three daughters--Luna, Sapphire, and Clover. When two of her daughters go missing, she's frantic. She learns that the cave beneath the lighthouse was once a prison for women accused of witchcraft. The locals warn her about wildlings, supernatural beings who mimic human children, created by witches for revenge. Liv is told wildlings are dangerous and must be killed. Twenty-two years later, Luna has been searching for her missing sisters and mother. When she receives a call about her youngest sister, Clover, she's initially ecstatic. Clover is the sister she remembers--except she's still seven years old, the age she was when she vanished. Luna is worried Clover is a wildling. Luna has few memories of her time on the island, but she'll have to return to find the truth of what happened to her family. But she doesn't realize just how much the truth will change her.

The devil's mistress
J. W. Brodie-Innes

The Trial of Anna Thalberg
Eduardo Sangarcía

The Invocations
Krystal Sutherland
<b>From the author of <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>House of Hollow</i> comes a darkly seductive witchy thriller where, though both men and demons lurk in shadows, girls refuse to go quietly into the night. Now in paperback!<br><br>AN INSTANT <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER</b><br><br><i>Three girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . . .</i><br><br>Zara Jones believes in magic because the alternative is too painful to consider—that her murdered sister is gone forever and there is nothing she can do about it. Rather than grieving and moving on, Zara decides she will do whatever it takes to claw her sister back from the grave—even trading in the occult.<br><br>Jude Wolf may be the daughter of a billionaire, but she is also undeniably cursed. After a deal with a demon went horribly wrong, her soul has been slowly turning necrotic. It’s a miserable existence marred by pain, sickness, and monstrous things that taunt her in the night. Now that she’s glimpsed what’s beyond the veil, Jude’s desperate to find someone to undo the damage she’s done to herself.<br><br>Enter Emer Byrne, an orphaned witch with a dark past and a deadly power, a.k.a. the solution to both Zara’s and Jude’s problems. Though Emer lives a hardscrabble life, she gives away her most valuable asset—her invocations—to women in desperate situations who are willing to sacrifice a piece of their soul in exchange for a scrap of power. Zara and Jude are willing, but they first have to find Emer.<br><br>When Emer’s clients start turning up dead all over London, a vital clue leads Zara and Jude right to her. If a serial killer is targeting her clients, Emer wants to know why—and to stop them. She strikes a tenuous alliance with Zara and Jude to hunt a killer before they are next on his list, even if she can’t give them in return what Zara and Jude want most: a sister and a soul.

Weyward: A Novel
Emilia Hart

The Manningtree Witches
A. K. Blakemore

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Silvia Federici

The Year of the Witching
Alexis Henderson

The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem
Stacy Schiff
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials.<br/><br/>It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death.<br/><br/>The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic.<br/><br/>As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, The Witches is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story -- the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians.

Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
Brom






