Storytelling for Magic
By: Dr. Halo Quin - Moon Books - $10.95
Overview: In your hands are the keys to bringing the gifts of the ancient magic-weavers, the storytellers, into your life. The Bards of old wove magic with their words.
Through myth and legend, history and inspiration, they shaped the world around them. Just like them, you can connect with the magic of storytelling to create powerful change.
Verdict: So here within the pages of the brand new book from author Halo Quin, Storytelling for Magic: Bardic Skills and Ritual-Craft for Witches and Pagans, we can join professional performer, ritualist, bard, and witch Halo Quin, and discover how to use your voice in magic, how to unravel the secrets of stories, how to craft your own rituals to bring the power of myths and folk tales into your life, and how to find, learn, and tell stories to enchant the world inside and outside the circle.
In what is an excellent prose for anyone wishing to know more about the aforementioned bardic skills and ritual-craft for both Witches and Pagans alike, we quickly learn that words have power, that words can be magic, and that using this book correctly, giving yourself to its impassioned, structured reasoning, the tools offered up within will soon have you also developing into an astute performer.
Broken down into nine chapters, complete with four appendices, the author Halo Quin herself graciously welcomes us all into her world by opening with the aforementioned, and most heartwarming prose of a hug: Hello my lovely readers! In your hands you hold the keys to bringing the most powerful magic of those ancient magic-weavers, the storytellers, into your lives!
This book is a guide to using the skills of the bard in your rituals to enhance your magic, whether crafting spells on your own, or performing ritual for a crowd. In these pages you will learn how to use your voice in magic, how to unravel the secrets of stories, how to craft your own rituals to bring the power of myths and folk tales into your life, and how to find, learn, and tell stories that enchant your audience.
About the Author - Dr Halo Quin is a practicing witch, storyteller, author, philosopher, and a lifelong lover of magic. She is a devotee of the Faery Queen, a lover of the Welsh gods and myths, and sensual witch exploring the divine erotic and sacred nature of pleasure and beauty, and working to (re)enchant the world. She lives in Aberystwyth, UK.
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