Folk Magick Empowerments

The Craft of the Hearth, the Spring and the Crossroads

Before the grimoires and the lodges, there was the magick of the kitchen and the village: a Bosnian grandmother pouring molten lead into a bowl of cold water above a frightened child, a Greek healer reading drops of oil to lift the evil eye, a Mexican curandera breaking an egg into a glass to see what it has drawn from the body. Its tools are the humblest things a household owns, lead, wax, oil, salt, thread and bread. Its words are charms that order the harm to depart, some of them already recorded by Roman physicians fifteen centuries ago.

The power of these gestures has always rested on the permission behind the hand, handed down from one healer to the next. Each tradition gathered here, from many lands, is offered complete: its history, its prayers and formulas in the original language, its full practice, and the empowerment that confers that permission.