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Halloween: Customs, Recipes & Spells
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ISBN13: 9781567187199
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Additional Halloween: Customs, Recipes & Spells Information
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It's a time for children to dress up as princesses and pirates and go from house to house, calling, "Trick or Treat!" Their eyes will get big as they are rewarded with treasures and sweets. And perhaps you will celebrate Halloween by going to a costume party or a haunted house.
But did you ever wonder where all this holiday gaiety came from and what it means? Silver RavenWolf (I'm sure you know her!) reveals the answers in Halloween.
The book begins by sharing the history of where this harvest holiday came from. Did you know it was originally called Samhain? Samhain means "the end of summer". You'll find out what the ancient people did to celebrate this holiday and how the ideas about it have changed over the years. Did you know it has really become wildly popular in the U.S. only over the last 100 years? It's true! You'll also find out why ghosts and skeletons, jack-o'-lanterns and vampires are associated with October 31 of each year.
Halloween shows you lots of neat stuff you can do, either by yourself or at a party. First you can learn to do divination (or foreseeing the future) in a variety of ways. You can use pumpkin seeds or magick mirrors, nuts or tap water to find out what is going to happen.
There are all sorts of recipes for Halloween treats and fun you can have in the kitchen, making things like "tuna ghouls" or "magickal mice." They're tasty, too!
Next you can do real magick. There are spells here for protection, love, prosperity and much more. Finally, you'll learn rituals to honor the dead.
Honor the spirit of this hallowed harvest holiday with the rituals, recipes, and spells you'll find in Halloween.
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What Customers Say About Halloween: Customs, Recipes & Spells:
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She makes the holiday festive and fun but also has great ideas for the more somber part of the holiday recognized by many pagans. I have always enjoyed how Silver Ravenwolf writes and this book was no exception. She gives a great accounting of how Halloween came to be the way it is without a lot of negativity. There are food ideas, crafts, divinitations (some serious some silly), a ritual and lots of lore. A wonderful read.
Halloween is a very informative book. Not only does it go through some of the more widely practiced rituals today, it also goes through some of the history of the holiday, as well as mentioning several legends. For the modern wicca practitioner, it is sure that this book will help to prepare for Samhain, the new year.
I like the recipes inside and I've been making the pumpkin bread (with a few changes) for the past 3 years. I love Silver Ravenwolf's books. Especially this one. I make it around Halloween time and again during Thanksgiving. She also does a great job with giving the background and history of this magickal day.
Very helpfull book I really enjoyed it. Halloween is my very favorite holliday and I found the customs and recipes to be a real treat.
This Halloween book is ideal for neophytes of the Samhain celebration and this timely ritual.I can't recommend this book for anyone looking for a serious guide to a 'Wiccan Halloween'.The book is geared to younger readers ,who dabble in 'weekend wicca' for fun and giggles.It's a good book for mom's,who are planning a more authentic Halloween party for their grade-school kids.So,you have to take the purpose of this book for what it is intended.Yet,there are more Halloween texts around that can explain the pagan 'Holy-day' better.Because Halloween has become like Christmass, over the last one hundred years,it has really lost touch with what the 'holy-day' once stood for.The major Christian holidays are quite commercialized and materialistic thesedays.With little ,is any,focus on the spirituality of the event.Like this book's cover implies,it's a glossy Halloween book for fun.If it's your type of Halloween,then you will enjoy this book.Samhain is the Celtic New Year's Day and even the Neo-Druid's Samhain Eve has become 'demonised' thesedays.In Detroit,they have the 'Devil's Night' inferno and back East there is the soapy suburban 'Goosey-Night'.Where it usually rains the next day and the 'victim' gets a free car-wash.This book also has many great recipes.I think it's a good idea to hand-out toothbrushes or mini-tubes,instead of candy everyyear.Happy Halloween and Blest Samhain this season.
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