Mrs. B’s Guide to Household Witchery:
Everyday Magic, Spells, and Recipes
By Kris Bradley
By Kris Bradley
Genre: New Age/ Wicca
Publisher: Weiser Books,
an imprint of Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC
ISBN: 978-1-57863-515-3
Number of pages: 224
Word Count: 49,000
Cover Artist: Jim Warner
Book Description:
For domestic goddesses everywhere—add some magic and fun to
those mundane household chores with Mrs.
B.'s Guide to Household Witchery. Whether you're sweeping the floor,
making a meal, or cleaning out that junk drawer, domestic witch Kris Bradley,
creator of the popular blog, Confessions
of a Pagan Soccer Mom, will show you how to create spells and magic to
bring happiness and balance into your home.
Bradley offers ideas and solutions to make the most out of
everyday items, activities, and obligations. From Anchovies to Broccoli, and
Wine to Yeast, from sweeping the floor to blow-drying your hair, you can change
your outlook on life with a pinch of knowledge and a dash of magic! The book
includes simple rituals, spells, and ways to connect with the spirits that
watch over your home and family. Includes an appendix of herbs and a complete
materia magica from the kitchen pantry.
Mrs. B's Guide to Household
Witchery features:
Room by Room:
How to create magic while you cook, set up a family altar in the living room,
or do a junk drawer divination
The Elements
for the Domestic Witch: a primer on the 4 elements and how to balance them in
your home
The Domestic
Witch's Herbal: Magical uses for every herb and food in your pantry, as
well as instant magic with prepackaged spice mixes
Simple
Sabbats for the Busy Witch: simple ways to celebrate the
passing of the seasons
Magical Recipes: More than 100
recipes and spells
Thoughts...
This book is wonderful! You want to know what the magical properties exist in an apple. It's there. You want to stir a little lust with your partner? That's there too.
Kris is a great source for all things in the magical community. Her blog posts are informative and from the heart, and her book continues in the same vein. I enjoyed the down to earth simple spells, home and hearth blessings and overall felt like the book really focused on what you can do at home with everyday items. This is the kind of witchery that most appeals to me. If it is too elaborate, well, the chances of it happening are going to be nil. Especially with my schedule. For many of us, this holds true, so Kris's book is a great solution.
5/5 Awesome and witchy resource!!!
Making
and Using Black Salt
-Kris
“Mrs.B.” Bradley
One of
the great things about Domestic Witchery is that it really gives you the option
of pulling from different tradition and practices to create magic in your
home. In reading about the Hoodoo,
I was completely thrilled to find how much I could create using items that I
already had on hand.
Black
salt is one of those things that has multiple uses and can be created quite
easily. In fact, it can be created in several different ways. As
with much of magic, it’s more the intention you put behind it than the
ingredients or tools that you use.
Black
salt is sometimes called Sal Negro, Witches’ Salt, Drive Away Salt, Voodoo Salt
or Santeria Salt. It can be used for driving away evil or negative
energies, it can be added to war water. You can sprinkle it in the
doorways and corners of a room or business to drive away negativity or give you
protection against unpleasant neighbors or co-workers. Sprinkle it around your
property or garden for protection. It can be used to cast circles of
strong protection. Black salt has also been traditionally used in
removing hexes and jinxes.
So how
do you make black salt? There are several different ways, which include
mixing 2 parts salt to 1 part of another substance; cast iron scrapings, ash
from a fire place, charcoal, black pepper or black dye are the most often used.
For my
mix, I use the scrapings from my cast iron cauldron, which includes a bit of
cast iron, a bit of ash from burning things, and a bit of charcoal. In
fact, I intentionally burn herbs of protection on self-lighting charcoal so I’ll have plenty of
matter – with a boost of protective energies- for my black salt.
An old
metal spoon is the perfect tool to scrape out the burnt bits from your cauldron,
giving the sides a good scrape to get a bit of the cast iron into your
mix.
Remove
any large, unburnt chunks, then mix together with twice as much salt, always
concentrating on protective energies.
It’s a
great idea to whip up a batch of this salt and have it on hand before you need
it. I’ve made a tradition of adding it
to the protective herbal mix that I strew around my property line each
Samhain. A little extra boost of
protection never hurt!
About the Author:
Kris Bradley is the
magic behind the popular blog Confessions of a Pagan Soccer Mom (2500 readers).
She helped establish The Sisterhood of the Triple Goddess coven in Keyport, NJ
and is a legally ordained minister, in addition to being a witchy wife and
mother. Her work on domestic witchery has been featured in PaganParenting.org
and as a national column for Examiner.com. She lives in Keyport, NJ.
Website: http://www.krisbradley.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KrisMrsBBradley
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I love this book!! It's fabulous!!
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