Traditional Magic

We've noticed a pattern when new students join Hekate's Finishing School. We see some of the same questions, misunderstandings, and hesitations for witches on their paths. And it slows down their progress & causes hurdles to getting results in their practice. To help witches FAST and to make sure new students come in with an EMPOWERED perspective on learning witchcraft, we've created this crash course to get you on track - immediately. If you're curious about witchcraft, if you're just getting started and need a 'quick start' guide to practicing, or if you need a refresher on witchcraft, ...

Regional traditional witchcraft is an animistic form of witchcraft that moves away from the religious harvest festivals and fertility-minded practices associated with the more common Wiccan form of witchcraft. Very few of us in this age are farmers or dependent upon crops and harvests. Regional traditional witchcraft teaches people to find their craft in their own backyards, in the uncultivated land or urban cityscape alike, and in their ancestors rather than in ancient foreign deities or in a neopagan religious form of witchcraft. It's not about where you're from but where you are.

This is an optional book for those curious before starting the HFS Core Curriculum. For best results, each book is meant to be gone through in the order they are listed as they build on the prior one. Are you a beginner witch with a voice of doubt creating hurdles for all your magical workings? Is your voice of doubt giving away the credit for your magic to the realm of coincidences? Is society beating you back and winning, convincing you that magic isn’t real and you’re putting your heart and passion into a path that isn’t going to work? When we find the confidence we need to remove ...

The author explores earth, mineral, and plant magic as well as the magical properties of the earth’s cycles and concentrated places of power within the landscape. He examines magical workings with animals, drawing on authentic traditions such as the Toadsmen or Toadswomen, whose power is given by toads, and the Berserker qualities conferred by magical bondings with wild animals like bears and wolves.

Offering an accessible guide to Kimbanda, the author shows that this religion of the people is popular because it recognizes the dark and light sides of human morality and provides a way to interact with the deities to produce direct results.

The heist was legendary, still talked about 20 years after the priceless paintings disappeared from one of Boston's premier art museums. Most thought the art was lost forever, buried deep, sold off overseas, or, worse, destroyed as incriminating evidence. But when paint chips from the most valuable piece stolen, Gentlemen in Black by a Spanish master, arrives at the desk of a Boston journalist, the museum finds hope and enlists Spenser's help.

Something sinister and eerie is afoot in Linnly County... When Chief Sidney Becker arrives at a crime scene on the lakeshore of her small town, she’s confronted with one of the most spine chilling murders she’s ever witnessed. The victim was drained of blood, yet the crime scene is immaculate. The man’s nude body is inscribed with mysterious symbols, and strange tokens are buried nearby in the sand. A highly skilled detective, Sidney won’t rest until the killer is in custody. The investigation takes her into the world of magical practices and beliefs; her suspects include witches, ...

A fascinating mystery featuring Ladarat Patalung, the first and only nurse detective in Thailand. As a nurse ethicist, Ladarat Patalung works to save the lives of her patients, and to make sure the ones she can't save have at least the dignity of a "good death". But when wealthy foreign travelers start to go missing all across Thailand, Detective Wiriya Mookjai fears that a killer is at large and turns to Ladarat for help.

A goblin with no body and a monster with no face. A resourceful samurai and a faithful daughter. A spirit of the moon and a dragon king. This collection of 15 traditional Japanese folktales transports listeners to a time of adventure and enchantment. Drawn from the works of folklorists Lafcadio Hearn and Yei Theodora Ozaki, these tales are by turns terrifying, exhilarating, and poetic.

This is an optional book for those curious before starting the HFS Core Curriculum. For best results, each book is meant to be gone through in the order they are listed as they build on the prior one. Are you an experienced witch that has stirred ’round the cauldron a time or two? Do you keep falling out of practice and beating yourself up for not being a ‘good witch’? Are you questioning your path, your practice, or your ability as a ‘real’ witch? Have you been feeling like you’re doing half-hearted attempts at your celebrations for far too long, always promising that ‘next ...

When we’re kids, we’re bombarded by talk of magic. From children’s books, shows, movies, and games — to Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy — there’s no shortage of magical explanations for things. Our entire worldview is filled with magical explanations of things. Part of growing up, it seems, is leaving magic behind, and focusing instead on understanding how things work. That’s not to say that there is no place for wonder and admitting that we don’t know something. In fact those attitudes are a great way to start learning and improving. And these days, it ...

This book systematically explores the foundational aspects of modern traditional witchcraft. The book is structured into 13 core chapters or classes that cover all essential skill sets for any modern, traditional witch in a practical, caring way. Each chapter offers suggested activities and/or reflections for journaling and a reading list for further exploration. Advanced skills such as hedge riding and ritual possession are taught in a structured, explicit way that makes them accessible to a wider audience.

Book of Shadows - The Path Begins This is the second book in the HFS Core Curriculum. For best results, each book is meant to be gone through in the order they are listed as they build on the prior one. The book of shadows is the hardest working tool in any practice. But how can something so small and so important be so frustrating and difficult to start, manage, and find any kind of consistency while maintaining a passionate and prolific life of practice on this path? As is the case in most situations with practicing, it's easy - as long as you get a few things right. It all falls into ...

Este es un libro para aprender brujería tradicional por tu cuenta. Al terminar este libro tendrás tu propio libro de las sombras, y sabrás cómo usarlo para hacer hechizos, sortilegios y conjuros. Si te interesa la brujería tradicional, la brujería celta, la brujería verde, o simplemente aprender a hacer hechizos de magia en general, dándoles tu toque personal y único, este libro puede serte de gran ayuda.

The traditional retold fairy tales in this volume speak of the awesome and the marvellous, of the perilous and the exhilarating. We shall explore the traditional, age-old stories for children our ancestors have told us about Dragons. These fairy tales of awe have grown and flourished all over the globe, although as you travel futher East it’s likely that you’ll find more dragons — and also kindlier ones. For not all dragons are the same: they’re not really siblings to each other, they’re more like removed cousins. Some are imbued with fire, others with light, and others with rain ...

This is the fifth book in the HFS Core Curriculum. For best results, each book is meant to be gone through in the order they are listed as they build on the prior one. Energy work is the foundation of what we live and practice as witches. Any witch has the potential but it takes practice to gain proficiency. If your spells don't work - it's your energy work that needs practice. In this book, we dive into the techniques and exercises taught to traditional hereditary witches from an early age. These techniques and exercises are appropriate for all ages and ability levels. Variations of the ...

The tenth book in the Libby Sarjeant series of British murder mysteries which feature a retired actress as the female sleuth and are based in the picturesque village of Steeple Martin. Libby Sarjeant and her friend Fran Wolfe are asked to look into the sudden and unexplained death of a devoted churchgoer. The police appear to have lost interest, but the villagers are certain that their new lady vicar has something to do with it! But if it is murder, how was it done?

This is the sixth book in the HFS Core Curriculum. For best results, each book is meant to be gone through in the order they are listed as they build on the prior one. In this book, we explore the foundation of sympathetic magic that take spell work and energy work to the next level. We don't waste time on fluff - let's get straight to the point and focus on what matters. We're digging into the pitfalls and limitations of depending on passive strategies in your work. Explore the ways you can elevate sympathetic magic into more active skill sets on your path and how it benefits you for years...

A collection of six new ghost stories woven from the fabric of England’s dark dreaming. The Orangery Wooed by a Georgian gentleman of taste, a young bride-to-be finds that all is not as it appears at her fiancé’s elegant Gaddesbury estate. There is a whiff of corruption at its heart which, for all his acid wit and fashionable acquaintance, grows ever stronger, until . . . Her Master’s Call Temesforde. Such a peaceful Shropshire parish. And yet, what a pity about the vicar. What did he know? How could he have known? The Reverend Ruth More knows nothing of it when she arrives to start ...

This is the third book in the HFS Core Curriculum. For best results, each book is meant to be gone through in the order they are listed as they build on the prior one. The Moon has been associated with witchcraft since the dawn of time and the birth of humanity. Still, there is a disconnect with modern witchcraft in how to implement the Moon Phases as a central aspect of the practice in an easy yet efficient way. And a growing trend of witches falling out of practice as they gradually fall out of connection with their path. This is a problem that adding the moon phases can certainly help to...