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Crafting magic

a junior witch's grimoire
2024
"This spell book allows kids to record their own spells, rituals, and meditations. The introduction offers tips and tricks for everything from creating your own altar to how to incorporate crystals into your practice, and also includes a table of correspondences. The grimoire is broken into three different sections (Friendship, Fulfillment, and Family) that open with sample spells, rituals, and prompts, immediately followed by pages for young witches to record personalized spells and rituals specific to whatever their need--from spells for friendship and family to passing a test, making a team, or finding calm during stressful times"--Amazon.

Witchcraft

a graphic history : stories of wise women, healers and magic
2024
Join Lindsay, a young and curious 19th-century lady, as she meets Biddy Early, the famous 'wise woman of County Clare', and learns all about the magickal arts?from which plants can be used to make healing poultices and potions, to how people dealt with the social and political stigma of practicing witchcraft. Biddy Early, who lived from 1798?1874 in Ireland, was by no means the first-ever witch, but she was the first to appear on the historical record. Before her, fears and superstitions surrounding practitioners of 'the nameless art' were too strong. It is said that Biddy took an apprenticeship with the 'good folk', sidhe or faeries, when she was very young, and it was from them that she learned her skill as a healer.

Accused of witchcraft!

Salem, 1692-1693
2023
"No one in Salem was safe. From 1692 through 1693 neighbors were accusing neighbors of witchcraft and sentencing one another to death. Follow along with the true story of a doomed town in the midst of some of the world's most famous witch trials"--Provided by publisher.

It happened in Salem

2024
"The chilling story of the infamous Salem witch trials is here brought into modern context in picture book form, showing how bias and blame have teamed throughout human history to disastrous effect"--Provided by publisher.

The Salem witch trials

spot the myths
2024
"Starting in 1692, many American colonists accused others of being witches in Salem, Massachusetts. It resulted in the deaths of several innocent people. Myths about the Salem Witch Trials have stuck around for hundreds of years. Were only women accused of witchcraft during the trials? Did the witch panic begin when two girls got food poisoning? Now it's up to you to separate the truths from the myths. Will you be able to guess them, or will you be fooled?"--Provided by publisher.

Krabat & the sorcerer's mill

2024
In seventeenth-century Germany, a boy desperately wants to escape from a school for Black Magic where he is held captive by demonic forces.

The encyclopedia of 5000 spells

2008
A treasure trove of spells and rituals rooted in magical and spiritual traditions from all over the world, this book is the comprehensive reference for anyone who is interested in folklore, mythology, or magic.

Our crooked hearts

"Told in alternating voices, years after it began, seventeen-year-old Ivy and her mom Dana's shared story comes down to a reckoning among a daughter, a mother, and the dark forces they never should have messed with"--OCLC.

The beast, the queen, and the lost knight

2023
Twelve-year-old best friends Ellie and Caedmon find themselves on opposing sides as they continue their path to knighthood.
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Gallows Hill

2023
Told in alternating voices, in 1692 Salem, Puritan Patience and Quaker Thomas are engrossed in a community panic over witchcraft, and as the list of accusers and accused grows, they question their faiths and fight to protect their families.
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