Writing Real World Witchcraft & Magic

Celebrating the anniversary of my book on poppets & what I'm working on now

If you enjoyed my Gothic short story The Doll last month, you might also like my earlier non-fiction witchcraft book: Pagan Portals - Poppets and Magical Dolls, about how to use effigy magic for help and healing as well as traditional curses. In fact I’m celebrating the seventh anniversary of that book and it's on the way to becoming a best-seller. Here's the description from the back cover:

Poppets are dolls used for sympathetic magic, and are designed in the likeness of individuals in order to represent them in spells to help, heal or harm. Pagan Portals – Poppets and Magical Dolls explores the history of poppets and offers a practical guide to making and using them in modern witchcraft. It also covers seasonal dolls, from Brigid dolls, used in celebrations for the first stirrings of spring, to fairy dolls enjoyed in tree-dressing at Yuletide.

A Guide to Dowsing

I'm currently writing a new title in Moon Books’ Pagan Portals series. It's on dowsing, or the art of divining using pendulums, rods and a few other traditional things.

If you’re searching for something, whether that's water, lost keys, the answer to a question or the best place for a witchcraft ritual when you're out in the woods, dowsing can help. In Pagan Portals - Dowsing I teach how to use pendulums, rods, and the tingles in your fingers to find what you’re looking for.

Working on this book is taking me back in my memories to my childhood, because my father was a good dowser and taught me how to do it. I can sense him guiding me as I write.

All My Earlier Witchcraft Books

Here's the full list of the witchcraft books I've written or edited, published by Moon Books:

• Pagan Portals - Candle Magic

• Pagan Portals - Poppets and Magical Dolls

• Pagan Portals - Guided Visualisations

• Pagan Portals - Scrying

• Every Day Magic - A Pagan Book of Days

• Pagan Portals - Rounding the Wheel of the Year

Moon Books also published my Gothic novel Erosion. You can find my author page here

Shops that sell my books:

• Treadwell's bookshop, 33 Store Street, London or order online.

• The College of Psychic Studies usually has copies at 16 Queensberry Place, South Kensington, London SW7 2EB.

• Paperbacks can be ordered from Bookshop.org, which supports independent bookshops.

• Ebooks and paperbacks can be be viewed on Amazon

(Note: I earn commission from some links.)

I’m Teaching Magical Workshops Too!

Divination: On Wednesday 3 September and 10 September I'm running a two-part online evening class on Scrying: Divination Using Crystals, Mirrors, Water and Fire via the College of Psychic Studies. Each class starts at 7pm. Tickets are £65/£85 for both workshops. You can find out more and book tickets here: https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/workshops/psychic-training/scrying-divination-using-crystals-mirrors-water-fire/

Candle Magic: My next in-person candle magic workshop is on Saturday 13 September at Treadwell’s Bookshop, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury London, WC1E 7BS. The class starts at 1pm and tickets are: £22 per person. To find out more or book visit https://www.treadwells-london.com/ or reserve a place by visiting the shop.