Description
Doreen Valiente
Guild Publishing, London, 1985. Reprinted. Hardcover. 184 pages. This edition published 1985 by Book Club Associates by arrangement with Robert Hale Limited. Jacket photograph by Stewart Farrar. A beautiful Near Fine copy complete with dust-jacket.
“Magic is all around us. All we need is the ability to see and understand. This book tells how to practise the age-old white magic that village wise-woman have used for centuries.
It deals with the magic of herbs and flowers, of the four elements, of numbers and colours, amulets and talismans, how to read cards, how to interpret dreams, and much more. There are chapters on the secrets of sex-magic, and on the use of traditional spells.
If you want to learn to charm warts, to cast a love-spell, or to plant a magical garden, this book will tell you how. It will also instruct you how to protect yourself against black magic and the evil eye. An essentially practical treatise, which sets out to show how, in this new Age of Aquarius, magic can be for everyone; how, indeed, it has always been inherent in human life and nature.”
“Doreen Valiente lives in Brighton Sussex. She is the widow of a freedom fighter from the Spanish Civil War. Of British descent herself, her family come from the New Forest area of Hampshire and from Cerne Abbas, Dorset, famous for its hill-figure of a giant god of fertility.
She is a practising which and a firm believer in witchcraft, having been initiated into four different branches of the Old Religion in Great Britain.
Apart from books, she also writes poetry and has read some of her work before the Poetry Society in London. She has made many television and radio appearances, discussing witchcraft and folklore and displaying items from her collection of witchcraft objects.”
