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:

-Master ecstatic methods of spirit-flight described in witch-lore

-Celebrate the turning of the seasons with traditional rituals

-Cultivate closer relationships with nature spirits and personal familiars

-Work powerful traditional charms, such as the witches' ladder, the poppet, and blessing/cursing by gesture

-Discern the magical properties of herbs and plants without relying on tables from books

-Augur practical guidance from the spirit world

-Utilize old craft incantations, remedies, and recipes

-Connect with the Old Ones, the ancestors of folk witchcraft

-Experience shapeshifting into various animal spirit forms

-Craft herbal unguents, oils, powders, tinctures, and infusions

-Interpret incantations, charms, and sigils received from your own familiar spirits

-Research and hone your own lore and grimoire-sourced magical practices

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.

Distinct from the devil of Satanism and the devil of Christianity, the witches' Devil remains a potent figure in the lore of folk and traditional witches today. Approaching this enigmatic figure as an inherently syncretic being of many compounded aspects over time, The Witches' Devil explores his complex symbols, roles, and appearances across the ages. Here, the lore of the Devil is unpacked, revealing a host of powerful spiritual entities that can be accessed today by drawing on the threads of myth and folklore. Along this journey, we find the Devil's age-old connections to tree and plant spirits, the mass of the candles, bestial bodies, the demonic spirits of the grimoires, and the serpent that rebirths the world. We see his roles expand and fracture into such titles as Primus Magus, Angel of Poison, First Heretic, Father of Cunning, Bound Spirit of the Abyss, Founder of the Hosts of Faery, and Rex Aenigmatus (King of Riddles). We are challenged to re-examine our understanding of psalmistry and popish folk magic in witchcraft within a framework of heretical craft grounded in his lore. Most importantly, we are invited to light our own candles of illumination at his altar, to become wise, and to enrich our own magics by learning from this potent and often misunderstood Old One.

Preserved in medieval and early modern witch-lore, the image of the witch embarking upon flight has become iconic from a historic and folkloric perspective. In the accounts of previous ages, however, it was commonly understood that witches flew in spirit form rather than corporeal form, leaving the physical body behind as the practitioner voyaged into the otherworld to procure knowledge, learn charms, visit boon or bane upon others, and attend the spiritual gathering of the witches' sabbat.

In this unique offering, the author organizes the lore and charms of the transvective arts around thirteen central lessons and approaches in methodology, acting as gates through which the practitioner may cross. Some approaches offered here may be familiar to folk and traditional witches, such as via veneficium (by way of poison) and via equarum (by way of steed), while others, like via imaginibus (by way of image) and via tempestatis (by way of storm) draw on historic lore and charms in order to innovate upon old craft while maintaining the spirit that flavors these beloved arts.

By mastering the often overlooked work of sabbatic ekstasis, the witch is brought into direct contact with familiar spirits, powers of the land and of ancestry, and with the primal sources of witchcraft itself, yielding an inexhaustible and ever-unfolding curriculum of the art magical.

A unique course of study in the folkloric witching ways of common plants, The Charmer's Root weaves together historic folk-magical knowledge with modern animist techniques, recipes, and rituals that any practitioner can master using the wild and ubiquitous flora of North America and the British Isles. Reach into the roots of the herbal charming arts, and learn how to:

Craft legendary herbal preparations using easy-to-follow recipes, including the lesser-known formulae of inks, salts, flower and leaf essences, plant spirit waters, and the plant-veiled stonePractice safe methods for working with the magics of even dangerous or poisonous plantsDevelop your own approaches to ritual and incantation, drawing on historic grimoires and loreMaster herbal charms that draw on the powers of flora to accomplish a variety of goalsConjure the plant spirit to aid and empower magical workings Discern the personalities and properties of plants using the age-old doctrine of signaturesForm partnerships and pacts with your own personal guides and familiar spiritsExplore the relationships between plant magics around you as occult maps and ontologiesExperience spirit flight via the fabled practice of riding plants via unguent or potionBless and consecrate dried plant matter to awaken its full potency by hallowing the leavesCall the plant spirit into relics and talismansDeepen your bond with the land around you and the hidden land of the otherworld

In addition, The Charmer's Root includes in-depth folk-magical profiles on 36 legendary herbs, most of which can be foraged easily in regions that experience frost, as well as a further index of over 200 plant associations adapted from lesser-known Victorian compendiums. This volume also includes an eco-sinistral exposition on The Black Meadow, exploring the meaningful relationship between dark folk witchery and our innate calling to revere the sacred wild.

In this new and expanded edition, including 180 individual incantations rooted in the lore and age-old texts of previous centuries, The Witch's Art of Incantation reveals the often-overlooked diversity of the incantatory arts: charms that beckon, charms that command, charms that poison, charms that bless and heal, charms that remember, charms that terrify, charms that praise and exalt. Because each charm is accompanied by an approximate date, region, and associated source text, student witches will sharpen their knowledge of folkloric texts while engaging with these rich and potent spells. The practical methods provided in the introduction, though seemingly simple, outline rarely discussed methods of incantation, including the construction of the magical listener and pairings with sympathetic and contagious ritual acts. New to this edition is a chapter devoted to heretical psalmistry as a branch of the witch's incantatory arts, including both a collection of practical psalms and a complete index of the magical uses of the psalms.

Roger J. Horne is a writer, folk witch, and modern animist. His spiritual practice is informed by his ancestral currents of Scottish cunning craft and Appalachian herb-doctoring. He is the author of Folk Witchcraft, The Witch's Devil, and other works. Through his writing, Horne seeks to help other witches rediscover the living traditions of folk craft. Read more about his work at rogerjhorne.com.