The Encyclopedia of Magickal Ingredients

A Wiccan Guide to Spellcasting

By Lexa Roséan

From one of the most respected practicing Wiccans in the world comes a comprehensive quick-reference guide to the ingredients of spell craft.

Now, with this extraordinary new book, Lexa offers a reference that only someone with her rare depth of arcane knowledge could possibly produce. Featuring more than 1,300 entries, The Encyclopedia of Magickal Ingredients offers spellbinding facts about every herb, spice, flower, vegetable, fruit, metal, and color that plays a role in the magical universe. Readers will learn why asparagus is eaten for power, protection, prosperity, and sexual stamina: that potatoes, sacred to the moon, were the original substance from which voodoo dolls were carved; that salt, one of the most precious substances of the earth, is used in Wicca to purify and create the sacred circle (and was once used to pay wages in ancient Rome): and much, much more. Remarkably detailed and endlessly fascinating, this book is destined to become an indispensable addition to every occult library.

October 2005/Paraview Pocket Books Trade Paperback Original.