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Besom, Stang & Sword

A Guide to Traditional Witchcraft, the Six-Fold Path & the Hidden Landscape

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By: Christopher Orapello, Tara-Love Maguire
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
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Regional traditional witchcraft is an animistic form of witchcraft that moves away from the religious harvest festivals and fertility-minded practices associated with the more common Wiccan form of witchcraft. Very few of us in this age are farmers or dependent upon crops and harvests. Regional traditional witchcraft teaches people to find their craft in their own backyards, in the uncultivated land or urban cityscape alike, and in their ancestors rather than in ancient foreign deities or in a neopagan-styled religious form of witchcraft. It's not about where you're from but where you are.

The material is adaptable to any region in which the practitioner lives. Although the lack of deity worship and holy days is a significant part of the authors' nonreligious approach, this book presents a complete system of practice utilizing ritual, chant, trance, the six paths of witchcraft as defined and explained by the text, and the practices associated with traditional witchcraft.

©2018 Christopher Orapello and Tara-Love Maguire (P)2019 Tantor Magic Magic Studies Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts Spirituality Witchcraft Witches & Wizards Magic Users
Crystal Clarity • Practical Guidance • Clear Reading • Comprehensive Information • Primal Approach • Structured Lore
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informative, reliable, and engaging. this reaffirmed a lot of things that I already knew about some of the things in my own practice. great book about traditional witchcraft

great

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I learned lots of new things I didn’t know about witchcraft. Some were good and bad, overall it was a great learning experience! Thanks again

Interesting indeed

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This is lovely writing about Black Tree and the practice of magick. The narrator is a little pretentious sounding, but if you can get past the drama, you can find very useful spells rituals, and rites.

Good book, Narrator a bit mmmmmm

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Everyone's path is different. For the most part, this wasn't for me, but there were a few nuggets of wisdom that stuck with me.

Meh

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The reading is very clear and and pairs well when going along with the book to see what the diagrams are that are being spoken of.

Very helpful and easy to follow

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Good information, but can't listen to it. The robot narration is terrible. I'm not sure where they got this voice from. Maybe they should redo it in a different robot voice.

Bad Robotic Narration

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Although all the practices and description of the witch lord don’t appeal to me, I can appreciate and respect an actual structure of lore which is not often provided in typical witchcraft books. Some of it smells of Christian roots, which is not appealing to me as well. Some of the information is contradictory but they on the fact that they have just created some thing that is most meaningful to them, and conclude that you can be flexible as well.

More structure than typical Witchcraft books.

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Great book, really not crazy about the narrator though... just his voice.

also, can't listen to it a second time for some reason.

great book, bad narrator

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As someone who practices a BTW path, I found this information super enlightening, as there's practices from old traditional witchcraft that may or may not have been mentioned but not passed down to me or that I've read before. I'm finding these books on traditional witchcraft have good info on the Devil/Witch Father, familars, and other unfamiliar practices or more in depth than other sources. I ordered the book to be able to reference these things better.

But as others have mentioned, the writers did have a tone of 'we changed this in our tradition and think this is better because...' , however it may just be the tone of the reader. if they didn't change anything and didn't have a reason to do so, they wouldn't have created their own path. I chose to take it more as explanatory for what made sense to them. But funny that this is a traditional witchcraft path, because when you change something from the tradition, it's no longer traditional - it's what you made up.

great information

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the narration made this nearly impossible to finish.. very robotic/AI sounding. like Microsoft sam or early AI

the narration...

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