Practical Protection Magick: Guarding & Reclaiming Your Power

by Ellen Dugan

Embrace your innate warrior skills―knowledge, balance, and wisdom―and amp up your personal power. This helpful handbook is chock-full of protection witchery and psychic self-defense techniques you can use to keep yourself and your home strong, secure, and protected. With her trademark humor and candor, best-selling author Ellen Dugan teaches how to weave safe and sensible protection magick into your Craft practice and daily life. This unique practical guide reveals how to pinpoint your psychic strengths, set boundaries, diagnose a problem with divination, and maintain health on physical, psychic, and magickal levels. You'll also find precise and potent spells, rituals, and warding techniques to defend against psychic attacks, emotional and psychic vampires, hexes, unwanted ghosts, and other forms of negativity threatening your home and your well-being.

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

240 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2011

About the author

Ellen Dugan is the award winning author of over thirty six books and the Witches Tarot. She branched out successfully into paranormal fiction in 2015 with her popular Legacy Of Magick series. Her portfolio of work also includes dozens of articles in the Llewellyn Almanacs and Calendars and 15 non-fiction books. Ellen's non-fiction titles with Llewellyn Worldwide have been translated into over twelve foreign languages. She is a psychic-clairvoyant, and has been a practicing Witch for over thirty-five years.
With over 300K books sold Ellen has a global following. She currently has over twenty published novels, the eleven book Legacy Of Magick series and three other paranormal series: The Gypsy Chronicles, Daughters Of Midnight, and Hemlock Hollow. The first four books in her Legacy Of Magick series were made into audio books with Tantor Audio in 2018.
Ellen was featured on the cover of Witches & Pagans Magazine. She has been interviewed in the studio on KMOV News Channel 4 in St. Louis, done numerous newspaper and radio interviews, and a two hour guest spot on the national syndicated live radio show, Coast to Coast. In 2017 Ellen was also featured in USA TODAY'S HEA column. More information on Ellen's work can be found at www.ellendugan.com on Instagram at www.instagram.com/ellendugan/ or on Facebook www.facebook.com/ellendugan

Reviews

[Rabbit {Paint me like one of your 19th century gothic heroines!} · Rating 1 out of 5]

There has to be better protection manuals out there is my tl;dr review for this.

Not only was the author condescending and patronizing to the reader, it was reaching Silver RavenWolf's levels. I was offended as a reader, I would be really offended if I was a fan of her works. Also her attitude towards anyone who curses, regardless of reasons, was just ugh. There are valid reasons for cursing people. *shakes fist* There was so much bitterness seeping through the pages, I feel like I have to cleanse my kindle app. :P

Also her chapter about physical fitness is just wrong and offensive. I could buy maybe taking martial arts or a self-defense course, but everything else was just not a good look. I say this as someone who works out, but is still plus sized (and I'm not bothered by that fact).

There was nothing really new here, and there were a few things that I did love, mostly a spell or a ritual here and there.

There were more personal stories then actual how-to, which is not always a bad thing, but it irritated the fuck out of me while reading.

Received this book for free, ethically, from tuebl.

ETA on 2/23/15: I can't find a nice way to say this, but the way she write about the one true pagan witch(TM) is such full of special snowflake syndrome, that it is actually infuriating. I get such bad vibes from this book that I'm glad I don't have a physical copy to taint my bookshelf. Is it just me? I know some of my fave pagan authors do this, (Ly de Angeles, I'm looking at you), but it's just her whole package of this book is a general turn-off. BLAH.

[Silas · Rating 1 out of 5]

I just can't recommend this book. It's a book on practical protection magic, and the only mention of shielding it has is to mock people for relying on it. It's protection magic 101. It deserves more than that. Beyond that oversight, the rest of the book has a haughty tone whereby the author paints herself as awesome and the reader as ignorant. This despite the fact that the book doesn't cover anything particularly revolutionary, and neither does the author seem to put much effort into making anything but the barest, most basic of incantations. If you have no concept of how to protect yourself with magic, perhaps this would help you somewhat (though I would be concerned about what else you might get from reading this). Personally, I wish I hadn't bothered, and think you would do well to seek out a different source for your protection magic needs.

[Melissa]

Initial Impressions

I'm still working my way through this book, but, as I've noticed about some of Ellen Dugan's other books, I'm becoming a bit skittish.

There are a lot of parallels between her works and Silver RavenWolf's- and many of the aren't good. Silver RavenWolf has the tendency to state her beliefs as fact, which is something many readers have noticed, especially in regards to her books about Wicca. I'm noticing that about Ellen too. This being a book about protection, she gives helpful information on astral attack, emotional and psychic vampires, and curses.

In the chapter on curses, she speaks about what she percieves are the personalities of said casters of negative magic. I don't agree with them. One of the biggest problems I see in the Pagan community is the tendency to spread out many Wiccan concepts and apply them to all Pagans, which I see as crippling. Paganism is extreamly diverse, and when we pull out the "No true Scottsman" fallacy, stating that no Pagn would ever_______ we alienate those who do such pratices and completely neglect to see the diveristy that exists within the Pagan community.

[Alice4170 🌙 · Rating 5 out of 5]

5/5 ⭐️

[Al Baker · Rating 2 out of 5]

Practical Protection Magick is simply a book for beginners with the basics of protection magick. I enjoyed learning about different ways to protect myself, however, this book is very Wicca centered. It heavily mentions the rule of three, something of wich I found annoying and I don’t believe in that rule and simply practice witchcraft. Should you read this book, take it with a grain of salt like all other books on witchcraft.

[Effie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Alrighty, so I'm not completely sold on Dugan yet. This book does have it's helpful points but I was expecting more... maybe because the cover is just so darn pretty hahaha however... this book mostly encompasses Dugan talking about herself and her situation(s) in excess... and lacking actual practical components...

Generally I enjoy when authors share their personal experiences in this style of book...I just found it incredibly excessive in this one... almost to where I could feel her bitterness through the pages... so as a "how to" it failed for me.
I'm in the process of re-reading this so maybe it'll be better the second time around?

[Regina Hunter · Rating 5 out of 5]

I didn't know they were writing my mums bio when they spoke of emo-vamps.

[Lauren · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of the personal stories were a bit overdone to me but I really liked the spells and the correspondence charts.

[Kathleen Trites · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a book about how to stay positive and how not to let others suck your energy away.

[Nicole · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful book with some great starting points for proper protection magick

[AnandaTashie · Rating 3 out of 5]

"... many folks think the answer is to send love and light in any situation. Well, good luck with that. Love is fine; but if someone is trying to physically assault you, are you going to send them love and light, or are you going to fight back and try to kick them hard in the groin or go for their eyes so that you can escape?"

Not really the tone or approach I personally prefer, but interesting to read / skim through.

[Felicia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book came in handy to me from day one. It helped me recognize some harmful things that were happening in my life and taught me what to do to not only dispel these things but also ward them away from happening again. This book is an absolute must-have in any Witch's library!

[Denise · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good combination of wit, psychology, self help, common sense, and witchcraft...and the spells are fun and helpful too! I have loved all of her books. Her writing style reads like she is sitting next to me with a cup of coffee and telling it like it is.

[K.S. Thompson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent book for those looking to empower themselves in all aspects of their lives. Read my review here :
http://kuhleecreative.wordpress.com/2...

[Leannear24 · Rating 4 out of 5]

i thought that this was a very good book
it had a lot of interesting information and tips
i think that every witch needs to read this book

[Táňa Brňáková · Rating 4 out of 5]

Moje recenze na knihu :)
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[Alia Makki · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mother Goose.