Italian Folk Magic: Rue's Kitchen Witchery

✍ Scribed by Mary-Grace Fahrun

• Publisher: Weiser Books
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 242
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Italian Folk Magic is a fascinating journey through the magical, folkloric, and healing traditions of Italy with an emphasis on the practical. The reader learns uniquely Italian methods of magical protection and divination and spells for love, sex, control, and revenge.

The book contains magical and religious rituals and prayers and explores divination techniques, crafting, blessing rituals, witchcraft, and, of course, the evil eye, known as malocchio in Italian--the author explains what it is, where it comes from, and, crucially, how to get rid of it.

This book can help Italians regain their magical heritage, but Italian folk magic is a beautiful, powerful, and effective magical tradition that is accessible to anyone who wants to learn it.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Preface: The Eye
Introduction
1. The Kitchen
2. Sacred Spaces and Home Altars
3. Food
4. Witchcraft or Medicine?
5. Nature
6. Superstitions and Proverbs
7. Amulets and Talismans
8. Communication or Divination
9. Spells and Charms
10. Rituals
11. Malocchio (The Evil Eye)
12. Curses
13. Working with Spirits
14. The Sacred and the Profane
15. Conclusion
Glossary
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Backcover