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The Witch's Workshop: A Guide to Crafting Your Own Magical Tools Hardcover – May 14, 2024

by Melissa Madara (Author)
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From the author of The Witch's Feast, this is the first fully illustrated, comprehensive introduction to the handicrafts of witchcraft. Through over 60 craft projects, learn all the techniques you need to create your personalized magical toolkit.

Empower yourself as a self-sufficient witch, and become a master of the natural arts!

This in-depth guide, accompanied by step-by-step images, will show you all the craft and design skills you need to make your own, personalized and fully adaptable magical toolkit.

Melissa Madara, magical expert, herbalist and witch, shares 60+ unique projects and techniques, many of which revive spells from the history of witches past. Approachable for beginners and stimulating for established practitioners, the crafts are clearly explained through luscious photographs, detailed research, useful charts, and easy-to-follow instructions. Once you are directly in touch with the power of these crafts, understanding deeply the processes and the associations of magical ingredients, you can be inspired to create all your own unique formulations. Chapters include:

  • Incense, including kyphi temple incense, which once billowed from the temples of ancient Egypt, to house blessing incense for cleansing any new home.
  • Inks, including dragon's blood ink and botanical drawing charcoals.
  • Oils, such as flying ointment or the world's first known chemist Tapputi's royal salve.
  • Natural dyes for creating stunning eco-printed ritual gowns or a spring equinox altar tablecloth.
  • Papers, like Japanese knotweed paper or autumn equinox corn husk paper.
  • Powders essential for rituals and spells such as scrying powder and banishing salt.
  • Candles of all shapes and types, including poured, dipped and molded.

With all of this knowledge, you can create altars, rituals and spells that are highly specific, personal and in touch with your natural environment.
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Melissa Madara is a witch, herbalist, storyteller and chef. They are a co-owner at Catland Books, editrix at Venefica Magazine, and the curator of Catland's private courtyard garden, where they grow a variety of medicinal, magical and poisonous plants. Melissa's magical practice is eclectic, inspired by the praxis of chaos magic, with most of their research focused on ancient religions, traditional witchcraft and plant folklore. Melissa has been featured in The New York Times, Vice, Vogue, and many other media outlets. Their writing has been published in Venefica Magazine, Susie Magazine, and Fiddler’s Green.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Watkins Publishing (May 14, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1786788098
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1786788092
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 0.92 x 9.98 inches
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Love it
    Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2025
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  • Wendy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2024
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    I bought this because my daughter was one of the photographers. It’s a beautifully illustrated book!
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Saint Jayne’s books are amazing!
    Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2024
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    I love her books 🩶 Highy recommend for my fellow Pagans.
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  • Leah
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Read
    Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2024
    I’m always looking for cool-sounding nonfiction reads in the witchy genre. I have to admit, the cover of this book caught my eye first. It’s beautiful and I especially liked the emphasis on vivid, bright green natural items. Plus, the idea of crafting my own magical tools and items sounded very intriguing to me.

    This is easily one of the most comprehensive books that I’ve read thus far, as far as magical items goes. It’s obvious that the author has a working knowledge of each of these items, since there are plenty of helpful tips and tricks included with each ‘recipe’ or set of instructions to prevent potential snags that commonly occur. In addition, every single recipe (yeah, I’m just going to go with that since it’s easier) has a stunning, full-color photograph to go with it, so that readers know what the finished item should (ideally) look like.

    Madara takes some time at the beginning of the book to discuss the concept of green magic, how to use this book, ways to source botanicals ethically, and tools that will commonly be used throughout the book. It’s divided into chapters based on the specific tools, including incense, natural dyes, inks, papers, candles, oils, and powders. The beginning of each chapter discusses history, techniques, and tools that are used, and then we get to see a combination of some more famous recipes from history and some modern recipes that are incredibly useful.

    Overall, this is a fantastic book for both new and experienced practitioners of the craft. There are so many interesting recipes and crafts in here that I want to try that I gave up bookmarking the pages because there were just too many bookmarks. The only thing that’s stopping me from trying out so many of these recipes is that most of them require either ingredients or materials that aren’t on hand or the kind of thing I can just pick up at the local supermarket. Other than that, it was also intriguing to read just to learn more about how these items are made—I use things like ink and paper daily, and love using candles and incense, but haven’t put much thought into how these items are made. I loved learning about all of this, and will absolutely be trying out some of these crafts.
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  • Annarella
    4.0 out of 5 stars Recommended
    Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2024
    Interesting, informative and fool of ideas. An excellent book if you are a good crafters and also with project for poor crafters like me
    Recommended.
    Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine
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  • Shirley A
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Book of Information
    Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2024
    A Great Book of Information

    The author provides quite a lot of information on the background of witchcraft, what it is or isn’t. She states that it’s important to remember that witchcraft, even as a practice that resists definition, is still distinct from other forms of
    magic.

    The author states that it is her hope that readers will explore many botanical crafts and procedures as an effort toward
    forging direct, allied relationships with plants and your local environment. She, further, states that through readers' experimenting with making incense, natural dyes, inks, papers, candles, oils and powders, that we will master the skills to craft our own magical tools.

    The author provides many recipes and spells in this book, in hope that readers will be in touch with an ancestral language, in an effort toward healing our severed relationship with the spirits of the natural world. She discusses many of the aspects of witchcraft, such as setting up an altar, tools needed in your craft, incenses, how to make incenses, and the tools needed to do so. A few of the recipes for incense that I favor are the recipes for:
    1. Home Blessing Incense
    2. Purification Incense Cones
    3. Full moon Incense Pearls
    4. Hekate Incense Pearls

    Additionally, I enjoyed very much the information on how to make the various ink colors, and the section on how to make oils, the tools needed and some recipes for making various oils, such as:
    1. The All Purpose Anointing oi
    2. The Lunar Anointing Oil
    3. Rose Oil

    I love the cleansing salt recipe.

    Additionally, this book is a treasure grove of valuable information beneficial to nor only beginners in the craft, but advanced practitioners as well. This is a gem stone, sharing its information with anyone truly interested in craft.

    Great Book to have in your reference library. Highly recommend.
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  • Stephanie
    5.0 out of 5 stars A great resource
    Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2024
    In the big picture, I did not choose this title because it claimed to provide reference to magical practices.

    Anyone who studies history understands the true role of "witches" in society, and how their rituals and holistic methods were challenged by authority and religion.

    Further, if we're going to be specific, this books covers "Green Witch" or "Gardening Witch" practices, which do not follow formal witch or wiccan ritualistic methods in the way of "worshiping" deities, joining covens, or otherwise following seasonal rituals and spell-casting. Rather, green witchcraft focuses on isolated, personal practices pulling magic from natural resources like plants, cooking, and energy from the climate.

    Coming back to this book - it is a resource for making tools related to not only magical practices, but also natural homesteading. Think of ancient societies - this is how they made dyes for clothing, candles for light, so on and so forth. In today's unreliable social climate, I am happy to have this resource, should I ever need to know how to produce light in a lightless world, make my own clothing... etc, etc, etc.

    It's a wise thing to be able to sustain a lifestyle from your own micro-environment as much as possible. It's how the ancients survived, and it's actually better for the environment too, but that's an entirely different conversation.

    Great book, 5 stars.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book -wonderfully illustrated!
    Reviewed in Canada on May 15, 2024
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    I have a pretty extensive book collection but I LOVE this book - I think it's well written & it makes a bright and engaging read- wonderfully illustrated !
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  • Theist
    2.0 out of 5 stars Crafty, missing the magic.
    Reviewed in the Netherlands on August 12, 2024
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    As a practitioner I have to be honest there’s some misinformation in the book and it reads
    as a curated collection on how to craft all the aesthetically pleasing items that merchants sell on Etsy or instagram. Rituals are simply lacking, and some ingredients missing. Good for a “cook book" of aesthetics lacks depth, and some misinformation on the occult symbols in particular are a cause for concern. I have no doubt the author has some plant knowledge, but should focus on what they know, instead of trying to create an assemblage of what's popular in the occult community using buzz words and symbols with little background. By adding multiple traditions in to one book it loses depth and comes off as a pinterest guide. That said, the photography is beautiful!
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