Your Book Of Shadows: How to Write Your Own Magickal Spells

by Patricia J. Telesco, Angie Marshall

Tells how to create and maintain a personal book of spells, divination methods, and notes on magic.

Genres: Wicca, Witchcraft, Spirituality, Paganism, Nonfiction, Religion, Magick

234 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2000

About the author

Patricia "Trish" Telesco is a professional author with more than 50 metaphysical titles on the market.

Trish considers herself a kitchen witch whose love of folkore (and a bit of Strega) flavor every spell and ritual. Her strongest beliefs lie in following personal vision, being tolerant of other traditions, making life an act of worship, and being the magic!

Trish travels minimally twice per month to give lectures and workshops around the country. She has appeared on several television segments and maintains a strong, visible presence in the public through journals like Circle Network News, and on the internet.

Her current pet projects include supporting pagan land funds and coordinating spiritually oriented tours to Europe.

Telesco began her Wiccan education and initiation on her own, but later received initiation into the Strega tradition of Italy. She is a trustee for the Universal Federation of Pagans, a member of the Authors Guild, a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism and a professional member of the Wiccan-Pagan Press Alliance.

In March 2012 her husband, Paul Telesco, was diagnosed with a tumor on his brain stem. Since that time, Telesco has been focused on raising awareness and fund-raising

Reviews

[Claudia Loureiro · Rating 5 out of 5]

Most books dealing with magickal Books of Shadows give you very specific information, including spells, to basically copy into a handwritten journal of your own. NOT THIS BOOK! Finally, a comprihensive guide on what to include in your BoS, how to construct it, and how to organize it. Also included are hints to doing your intial research, suggestions to personalizing your BoS, and making your own paper for a special touch that corresponds with each section of your BoS. Great book, highly recommended. An invaluable tool to help with one's own grimoire.

[Storm · Rating 4 out of 5]

The closest thing I can compare a Pagan/Wiccan/Other's Book of Shadows/Life/Living, is the christian Bible, the muslim Quran/Koran, and other Holy Books from other systems. It's the written why of someone's faith. The big difference is that each person's Book belongs only to them or their group. Christians of all varieties all believe in the Bible, it's a Group Book, and Groups of Pagans/Wiccans/Others often do have their Group Books, PLUS individuals have their privet books.

This one could help you create a Privet personal book or a group book, it's all in the goal you have in mind. While it's geared a lot towards Wiccans, I think plenty of other kinds of Pagans and Others can use the ideas of layout from this book to help make their own books. I myself am Kemetic Pagan, I follow a path of the Ancient Egyptian Deities, so while I'm not Wiccan, I did find a lot of the info on putting together my own book very useful, and got some ideas on how to suit the info to my own beliefs easily. You just have to have an open mind to make the info work for your own beliefs.

[Abraxas Abrasaxtes · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't follow most of the suggestions in this book for creating my own Book of Shadows (by the way something about that term has always irked me) and went with a different format that works better for me but there are some helpful hints. As a springboard it definitely helped to get me on the right path to organizing my own BoS.

[Heather Adkins · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great outline for helping one organize their Book of Shadows. I didn't use all her ideas and recommendations, but she gave me a lot of interesting ideas for spell craft, sacred space, and ways to organize my thoughts.

[Samantha McGuire · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book helped me a lot with my personal Magick Grimoire I worked on putting together. it basically lists out Magick "correspondences" and helps give ideas on what to include in your chapters and takes you through the creation process step by step. It is a great reference!

[Willow · Rating 3 out of 5]

Has some great ideas for starting a BOS. It contains mostly introductory Wicca and where to place and cross reference this material in your BOS.

Read my full review here: http://flyingthehedge.blogspot.com/20...

[Ella · Rating 3 out of 5]

A lot of beginner level info put did contain some good tips.

[Sharin Guiendon-simon]

I use a like of this already but some of the ideas are real good .

[Tracey-anne McCartney · Rating 3 out of 5]

I brought this book to dabble in making my own type of BOS. It's a good reference book if you're looking for a place to start.

[Samantha McGuire (Mirror Bridge Books) · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is great book for coming up with ideas and chapters to include in your book of shadows, but it is definately a book for beginners.