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Halloween: Customs, Recipes & Spells | 
 enlarge | Author: Silver Ravenwolf
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  69 reviews
Sales Rank: 15332
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1567187196
Dewey Decimal Number: 394.2646
EAN: 9781567187199
ASIN: 1567187196
Publication Date: September 1, 1999
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It's a time for children to dress up as princesses and pirates and go from house to house, calling, "Trick or Treat!" Their eyes will get big as they are rewarded with treasures and sweets. And perhaps you will celebrate Halloween by going to a costume party or a haunted house.
But did you ever wonder where all this holiday gaiety came from and what it means? Silver RavenWolf (I'm sure you know her!) reveals the answers in Halloween.
The book begins by sharing the history of where this harvest holiday came from. Did you know it was originally called Samhain? Samhain means "the end of summer". You'll find out what the ancient people did to celebrate this holiday and how the ideas about it have changed over the years. Did you know it has really become wildly popular in the U.S. only over the last 100 years? It's true! You'll also find out why ghosts and skeletons, jack-o'-lanterns and vampires are associated with October 31 of each year.
Halloween shows you lots of neat stuff you can do, either by yourself or at a party. First you can learn to do divination (or foreseeing the future) in a variety of ways. You can use pumpkin seeds or magick mirrors, nuts or tap water to find out what is going to happen.
There are all sorts of recipes for Halloween treats and fun you can have in the kitchen, making things like "tuna ghouls" or "magickal mice." They're tasty, too!
Next you can do real magick. There are spells here for protection, love, prosperity and much more. Finally, you'll learn rituals to honor the dead.
Honor the spirit of this hallowed harvest holiday with the rituals, recipes, and spells you'll find in Halloween.
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 Fantastic October 9, 2008
I love Silver Ravenwolf's books. Especially this one. I like the recipes inside and I've been making the pumpkin bread (with a few changes) for the past 3 years. I make it around Halloween time and again during Thanksgiving. She also does a great job with giving the background and history of this magickal day.
Great book February 23, 2008
Very helpfull book I really enjoyed it! Halloween is my very favorite holliday and I found the customs and recipes to be a real treat!
The Fluffy Side of Halloween October 31, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This Halloween book is ideal for neophytes of the Samhain celebration and this timely ritual.I can't recommend this book for anyone looking for a serious guide to a 'Wiccan Halloween'.The book is geared to younger readers ,who dabble in 'weekend wicca' for fun and giggles.It's a good book for mom's,who are planning a more authentic Halloween party for their grade-school kids.So,you have to take the purpose of this book for what it is intended.Yet,there are more Halloween texts around that can explain the pagan 'Holy-day' better.Because Halloween has become like Christmass, over the last one hundred years,it has really lost touch with what the 'holy-day' once stood for.The major Christian holidays are quite commercialized and materialistic thesedays.With little ,is any,focus on the spirituality of the event.Like this book's cover implies,it's a glossy Halloween book for fun.If it's your type of Halloween,then you will enjoy this book.Samhain is the Celtic New Year's Day and even the Neo-Druid's Samhain Eve has become 'demonised' thesedays.In Detroit,they have the 'Devil's Night' inferno and back East there is the soapy suburban 'Goosey-Night'.Where it usually rains the next day and the 'victim' gets a free car-wash.This book also has many great recipes.I think it's a good idea to hand-out toothbrushes or mini-tubes,instead of candy everyyear.Happy Halloween and Blest Samhain this season!
Great book! October 3, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is one of the most wonderful books on Halloween ever! I love it, and use it every year. You have to make the Pumpkin Bread in this book, it's the best! It has great info and fun things to do. The spells are Awesome too.
 Fine and Fun July 27, 2007
I found the beginning of this book a little confusing with all the history and the way she bouced around. I was a little disappointed that alot of the history wasn't based on wiccan view of Halloween or Samhain. It was alot of Christian history. And the rest of the book was fun which is good but then some of it seem real childish like ghoulish tuna sandwiches and whatnot. I just wish there had been more wiccan emphasism.
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