The Wisdom and Magic of Brazilian Makumba

Explore the Mysteries, History, and Magic of Makumba

With the soul of a memoir and the practical information of a grimoire, this book invites you to learn the historical and cultural roots of Brazilian Makumba as well as the plants, spirits, and stories responsible for its rich tapestry of magic. Though Makumba is an initiatory path, there's plenty of space within it for practitioners of different lineages. A lifelong Makumba practitioner, Débora Greer provides all the knowledge and inspiration you need to build a practice that is deeply personal to you and your people.

Débora first gives you solid ground to stand on through fundamentals and history before leading you into her ancestral garden. There, she prepares you for ritual, introduces you to the spirits she loves so dearly, and demonstrates how to honor the power of nature and those who make this magic possible. With her guidance, you will create a respectful practice that brings greater connection, resilience, and personal transformation.

This illuminating guide to the living traditions of Slavic Paganism unveils the rich cosmology of deities, folk magic, and the unique Dual-Faith tradition that blends Pagan elements with Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Drawing from her Serbian American heritage and decades of devotional practice, priestess and vračara (witch) Anna Urošević Applegate introduces powerful gods like Perun and Veles, alongside the nature spirits that inhabit forest, field, and home.

Learn to honor ancestors through traditional veneration techniques, create authentic altars, and perform seasonal rituals that connect you to the Slavic Wheel of the Year. No matter your background, this book provides practical tools for incorporating Slavic folk magic into your spiritual path while developing meaningful relationships with these venerated ancient deities.

Weiser Books

In Secrets of Romani Fortune-Telling, Paulina Stevens and Jezmina Von Thiele share the knowledge and personal experiences of being raised to be fortune-tellers. They share divination methods, tools, and techniques that have been created, adapted, or popularized by the Roma, including card reading, palmistry, dream divination, and tea-leaf and coffee reading. They share exercises to strengthen your intuition and discover your natural gifts, and explain how divination helps with shadow work, blockages, and self-awareness.
 
“Readers will gain a solid grounding in Romani divination practices and Romani spirituality. While much of our culture remains closed to outsiders, Jezmina and Paulina continue their mission of building bridges between the Romani and other cultures and helping others appreciate our beautiful, diverse traditions. Laćhi buti, phenja! (Good work, sisters!)”
—Caren Gussoff Sumption, author of So Quick Bright Things Come to Confusion and Three Songs for Roxy
 
Fortune-telling is both a job and a spiritual practice. The authors, cohosts of the Romanistan podcast, introduce the history of the Romani people and their infamous relationship to fortune-telling. Secrets of Romani Fortune-Telling features additional resources, enabling readers to further explore Romani culture and spiritual practices.

Crossed Crow Books

Long mentioned but rarely explained, fluid condensers are a powerful yet elusive tool in occult and magical traditions. In Fluid Condensers, Aerik Arkadian demystifies this powerful practice, offering a thorough and accessible introduction suitable for both seasoned occultists and curious seekers.

Blending historical references, modern interpretations, and practical applications, Aerik provides clear explanations, step-by-step exercises, discussion prompts, and sample recipes for a variety of magical goals. Fluid Condensers becomes a hands-on manual for deepening personal power and refining spiritual technique.

Designed to serve practitioners of all paths, this work is not tied to any one tradition. Instead, it positions fluid condensers as a living expression of modern alchemy—practical, empowering, and transformative. Whether you're looking to energize your magical practice, understand esoteric principles, or work more consciously with elemental forces, Fluid Condensers offers the tools and insight to do so. 

The History Press

Magic pervades every inch of Wales, from Anglesey in the north to the Vale of Glamorgan in the south, from the Marches in the east to the shores of the west. Every corner of this landscape has stories of local magicians and witches, yet so many of these figures are relatively unknown outside of Wales and are overshadowed by their English counterparts.

Set in encyclopedia format, Of Doves & Ravens invites readers on a tour through the rich folklore of this landscape. Discover the recollections of market fortune-tellers who historically plied their trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and meet the gwrach who dwell in lonely places; the dynen hysbys who help find lost cattle and protect against the malevolence of witches; and the legendary magicians who summon demons and often are buried in the walls of church.

This is magical Wales revealed.

Build a strong, healthy relationship with your ancestors using this guide to the concepts and considerations of ancestral veneration. This tradition non-specific book presents historical and cultural examples of veneration from around the world, the ins and outs of ritual practice, and inspiring stories related to grief and building community. Ben Stimpson shows you the role ancestors can play in daily life and encourages you to explore deeper questions about the living and the dead. Sharing meditations and journal prompts, Ben helps you connect with your ancestors and develop an authentic, living practice. He introduces you to the various types of ancestors, such as blood, adoption, and affinity, and discusses the physical elements of practice, including sacred space, props, and offerings. This book encourages you to explore your beliefs and create a legacy for current and future generations.

Park Street Press

Part grimoire and part herbal formulary, this guide to the Poison Path of occult herbalism shares history, lore, and information regarding the use of poisonous, consciousness-altering, and magical plants. Author Coby Michael explains how, despite their poisonous nature, baneful herbs can become powerful plant allies, offering potent medicine, magical wisdom, and access to the spirit realm.

Detailing the spiritual, alchemical, astrological, and symbolic associations of each plant, the author explores their magical uses in spells and rituals. He focuses primarily on the nightshade family, or Solanaceae, such as mandrake, henbane, and thorn apple, but also explores plants from other families such as wolfsbane, hemlock, and hellebore. He also examines plants in the witch’s pharmacopoeia that are safer to work with and just as chemically active, such as wormwood, mugwort, and yarrow.

The author shares rituals suited to the individual nature and powers of each plant and explains how to attract and work with plant spirit familiars. He offers plant alchemy methods for crafting spagyric tinctures and magical techniques to facilitate working with these plants as allies and teachers. He shares magical recipes featuring the plants, including a modern witches’ flying ointment. He also explores safely cultivating baneful herbs in a poison garden.

Destiny Books

A handbook for working with poisonous plants for enhanced psychic abilities and spirit guidance

• Shows how plants can help us communicate with the spirit world, the dead, and the divine for advice, insight, and direct answers to questions

• Explains how to work with specific plant spirits, such as the nightshade family, foxglove, and fly agaric, for divination and trancework

• Shares exercises for plant spirit journeying and how to incorporate plant spirit work into dream work, scrying, and runes

In this practical guide, Coby Michael explores how to incorporate the plants of the poison path into your divination practice to enhance your psychic abilities and develop strong allies in the spiritual realms.

Michael looks at divination in ancient cultures, exploring how baneful plants and fungi were used ritually by oracles, seers, and shamans to reach out to the spirit world for advice and insight. Focusing on the most important and recurring poisonous plant spirits that appear throughout history, such as the nightshade family, foxglove, and fly agaric, the author shows how these entheogenic plants can help us access altered states of consciousness to communicate with spirits, the dead, and the divine. He explains techniques to connect directly with plants as spiritual allies and how plant spirit medicine can be combined with trancework for profound results.

The author explores how to incorporate plant spirit work into other divinatory methods, including dream work, scrying, cartomancy, and runes. He shares exercises for plant spirit journeying as well as specific plant formulas and practices for meditation, ceremony, and spirit work. He also explains how to create tools for water gazing, mirror scrying, and channeling spirits.

Revealing plants as powerful partners for oracular practice, this book shows how to safely and effectively incorporate poison plants into your divination practice for better guidance, enhanced abilities, and a stronger connection to the spirit world.

Destiny Books

Examining the art and science of working with noxious and malefic plants and fungi, Coby Michael discusses the occult properties of poison and how poison plants can be used in spell work and other magical operations. He looks at the plants of Fate and the divination practices they support, love magic with poison plants, shadow work, the devil’s garden, and the use of nightshades as power plants for medicine and magic. Presenting a detailed formulary, he shares rituals, magical correspondences, and recipes for working with specific poison plant allies and other baneful herbs of occult herbalism.

Exploring the path of dark herbalism, the author explains how it encompasses not only veneficium—poisonous plants and fungi—but all plants that humanity has tried to forget, from “invasive” plants and those we can’t domesticate to those that have been regulated arbitrarily or simply feared as “toxic” or “poison.” He shows how the dark herbalist seeks out plants that are adversarial or taboo because the qualities we consider “dark” are really the plant’s spiritual medicine and can offer powerful wisdom and healing. Examining poison history, lore, and occult toxicology, he explains how the aim of using these plants is not to cause physical death, but rather death of the ego. He shows how “poison” in this sense is an alchemical force that allows the practitioner to become a vessel for the forbidden fruit of knowledge and how the transmutation of our personal poisons can lead to powerful self-transformation.

A comprehensive ebook about the  transformative and liberating magic of the Orisha Oya Iansa and some of her herbal allies.

This work focus on plant magic from the perspective of a Brazilian Makumba practitioner, witch and herbalist: blending dancing, singing, herbal preparations under the guidance of Oya. The recipes and rituals provided focus on supporting the reader through transformation, transitional periods, recovery, sexual and emotional trauma recovery, grief and liberation from all of patriarchal and colonial dogmas.

Examples of rituals included are:

Coconut and Basil Cream for Smooth Transitions

Healing our energetic womb with Red Rose medicine

Hexing in Self Defense with Dumb Cane

This work is friendly towards the LGBTQ+ community and sex work community.