Slavic Witchcraft: Old World Conjuring Spells and Folklore

A practical guide to the ancient magical tradition of Russian sorcery and Eastern Slavic magical rites• Offers step-by-step instructions for more than 300 spells, incantations, charms, amulets, and practical rituals for love, career success, protection, healing, divination, communicating with spirits and ancestors, and other challenges and situations• Reveals specific places of magical power in the natural world as well as the profound power of graveyards and churches for casting spells• Explores the folk history of this ancient magical tradition, including how the pagan gods gained new life as Eastern Orthodox saints, and shares folktales of magical beings, including sorceresses shapeshifting into animals and household objectsPassed down through generations, the Slavic practice of magic, witchcraft, and sorcery is still alive and well in Russia, the Ukraine, and Belarus, as well as the Balkans and the Baltic states. There are still witches who whisper upon tied knots to curse or heal,