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Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 6:21 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 6:33 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 6:38 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 6:59 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 7:13 pm
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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:56 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:29 am
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:39 am
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:56 am
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 1:06 am
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 1:44 am
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*shrug* After reading the comments on amazon.com, there are quite a few negative responses, but most of them are just complaining about his use of the word "warlock" (which I get, but isn't enough, imo, to warrant one star) or how his magic breaks the rede or whatever.
On the other hand, most of the positive responses don't make me want to run out and buy it. Quite a few of them seem to like it just because it's not "yay love and light glitter fairies etc".
Apparently he includes saying the Lord's Prayer backwards as a part of a spell, or something, and there's this stuff about selling one's soul. I get the idea, from a flick through the preview, that he draws some of his ideas from mediaeval magical concepts and thoughts about witchcraft. Not as practised by actual witches, you understand, but the sort of things alchemists scribbled over just before succumbing to mercury poisoning wink Nah, I kid. But it does give a strong impression of imagination. "Witch names in runes" and "fascination jewels" and so forth... I'd like to track down some fam trads and ask them what sort of resemblance this has to actual reality, you know? It seems more like the sort of thing one would imagine would be true, rather than what is actually true. Romanticised history, if you will. Fun, but....
He did mention something about "tapping into the power of mercury" or something by reciting deity names, which annoys me, and he has a section on runes that starts off incorrect at the very beginning by claiming that the runes were used for divination from ancient times (there's no evidence of this that I'm aware of). And he calls Theban "runes". Someone find me my gun.
I think if I saw it at the library, I'd have a flick through it, but I wouldn't buy it. Apparently it's an important historical volume in the history of modern witchcraft, published as it was in 1960. A lot of it reminds me of my old "Almanac of the Uncanny", which was great fun to read as an occultly-inclined child but was also full of "lord of the flies, abbadon" stuff and "the mysterious witches of suchandsuch rock" and the sort of thing you'd see on bad documentaries at 11pm. Don't get me wrong, there's stuff in my old almanac that's quite fascinating. Then on the next page they go on about UFOs. I would expect the same sort of thing from this book; good info on one page, silliness on the next.
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