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Italian Folk Magic

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Italian Folk Magic

By: Mary-Grace Fahrun
Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
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Italian folk magic is a beautiful, powerful, and effective magical tradition that is accessible to anyone who wants to learn it, including Italians who want to regain their magical heritage. Containing magical and religious rituals and prayers, this book explores divination techniques, crafting, blessing rituals, witchcraft, and, of course, the evil eye, which is known as malocchio in Italian and which the author thoroughly explains, including what it is, where it comes from, and, crucially, how to get rid of it. Such insights will help listeners learn unique methods of magical protection, divination, and spells for love, sex, control, revenge, and more.

©2021 Mary-Grace Fahrun (P)2021 Red Wheel Weiser Magic Magic Studies Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts Social Sciences Tradition Witchcraft Italy Witches & Wizards
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I soaked this book up. Both in print and when I wanted to listen in my car. As having had grandparents from Sicily and southern Italy I’ve wanted to reconnect with my culture but the organic mystical aspects that had no central teachings, no doctrine, was diversely interpreted and practiced, and were practiced side by side in a delicate dance with Catholicism was so hard to find. I had only my memories and words of those like me who could also remember some of the “old ways.” As the Italian diaspora has evolved so much of these traditions and the magic of our ancestors is disappearing in a divisive struggle between those eschewing tradition for modern secular skepticism and those resisting clinging ever so tightly to dogma and doctrine. The space to utilize imagination, magic, and mystical connection to the Ancestors is becoming thinner and thinner but is beginning to assert and define itself. This I think is a common theme that can be witnessed among many cultures. I love how the author points out things that her nonna did that I can relate to but also define the fluidity and personal nature of Practice as even those she practices today are modifications of the practices of those before her. It’s a beautiful journey of faith, imagination, magic, spirituality, tradition, food, finding the sacred in the mundane and longing for meaning and self discovery we all have.
My only complaint…the reader. I really hate to do this because readers are human too and I don’t want to be rude or mean. But just being honest it became hard to listen to as I found the reader to be over dramatic with her voice, and seemed out of touch with Italian American culture as her accents and pronunciations of Italian/Sicilian words were at times painful to listen to. But maybe I’m just being a snob. Anyhow give it a shot! No matter your religion, race, or cultural/ethnic background you can’t help but find something in this read you’ll be able to relate to.

A much needed treasure trove of traditional folk Spirituality of Southern Italy and its diaspora

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this brought back a lot of memories.. Everything makes sense now. All the mystery, the traditions, the whispers. Thank you

Everything makes sense now

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Such a gift to have all of these folk concepts together in one place. I needed this. The reader has a clear voice and it would have been great for a story, but she was too over dramatic for a nonfiction book. Going into and out of hokey accents of the author’s relatives was uncomfortable.

Such a gift

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Brings back my yearning to rekindle my heritage, a beautiful testimony and gracious look into a culture I had felt distant from. Very grateful for this.

Reviving

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Loved the insiders view of the Italian culture in this book. Can't wait to try the recipes, food is magic! This is a good book for anyone interested in any folk magic really, as there is lots of room to make things more personal to you!

A good book for anyone into any folk magic!

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This book is incredible. It made me want to learn more about my Italian heritage and about the recipes my ancestors grew up on. Thank you!

Beautifully Written

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I loved this book. Definitely one of the easier listens for me 🙂 It was exactly what I was looking for.

Love!

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Fabulous and warm intro to Italian Folk Magic practices. Great insights, and wonderful opportunity providing structure and pathways.

Perfection

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at chapter 5 the recording gets uneven and therefore almost impossible to follow the narrative. can others listeners confirm if that is the case with their download.

recording "gargles" after chapter 5

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