Do you want to cast a spell on a suitor, banish a ghost, cure a toothache, or harvest protective herbs? If so, this is the book for you. The Complete Book of Spells, Curses, and Magical Recipes explains how men and women throughout history have invoked the supernatural for specific uses and provides information about the history of witchcraft, magical recipes, and occult practices from ancient to modern times. Here is a comprehensive and enlightening guide to the rites, rituals, and magic of cultures throughout time.

Would you like to be able to cast spells, turn yourself into a hare or a cat, commune with the dead or protect someone from the evil eye? Packed with literally hundreds of spells and incantations drawn from all ages and cultures, this impressive survey of magical practices shows you how it's said to be done.Ranging from the magic of Ancient Egypt to mediaeval charms, nineteenth-century voodoo and even the kiva on the Internet, Leonard Ashley shows how people have always sought to invoke supernatural powers to achieve specific aims. He provides the correct formula to recite when nailing up a lucky horseshoe, expains how to cure burns, sores and ills with rituals and magical ointments, describes charms and amulets that will protect and empower those who carry them. He even includes curses and spells for bringing evil on an enemy. Magic is perennially fascinating to young and old alike, but is an uncertain art. As the author says, this is a book to read and enjoy for what it tells us about occult practices. You are advised not to try them.

"This complete self-study course in modern Wicca is a treasured classic - an essential and trusted guide that belongs in every witch's library."---Back cover

An underemployed, skateboarding party animal, Colby Buzzell traded a dead-end future for the army--and ended up as a machine gunner in Iraq. To make sense of the absurd and frightening events surrounding him, he started writing a blog about the war--and how it differed from the government's official version. But as his blog's popularity grew, Buzzell became the embedded reporter the Army couldn't control--despite its often hilarious efforts to do so. The result is an extraordinary narrative, rich with unforgettable scenes: the Iraqi woman crying uncontrollably during a raid on her home; the soldier too afraid to fight; the troops chain-smoking in a guard tower and counting tracer rounds; the first, fierce firefight against the "men in black." Drawing comparisons to everything from Charles Bukowski to Catch-22, My War depicts a generation caught in a complicated and dangerous world--and marks the debut of a raw, remarkable new voice.

"Abandon all hope ye who enter here."

Strange beliefs and even stranger omens have liferated through the ages. Here is a ripe collection which might change minds about broken mirrors, black cats and other ingrained beliefs.

This work offers practical directions for carrying out numerous spells, charms, recipes and rituals. It teaches how to concoct herb brews for mental vigour and to strengthen passion as well as how to inscribe talismans and amulets to gain welath, happiness or relief from pain.