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Includes around 100 spells and recipes – many revealed for the first time – for eating, drinking and making your life merrier, along with plenty of practical advice on witchy subjects such as potions to improve your looks without ruining your bank balance! Traditionally much of the work of the Witch took place around the hearth, where, herbs, plants and other ingredients were specially blended to create medicines to mend the body and heal the spirit, and foods and wines were created to celebrate the festivals of the Wheel of the Year. Today's hearth is the kitchen, and for many Witches it is the work-centre where they make the recipes and other 'tools' of their trade. The book includes: Oils, lotions and ointments, for magical and healing purposes • Soaps and bathing distillations, to prepare for Magical undertakings. • Brews and teas, using herb lore to heal the body and mind. • Soups, stews and other foods to sustain the sick and aid healing. • Candles and incenses, for use in Rituals and Magic. • Cakes, biscuits and breads, to honour the Goddess and the God. • Sabbat foods and wines to celebrate the Wheel of the Year. • Sachets of herbs to be given to those seeking protection, healing, confidence and many other problems

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Kate West has been a practicing Witch for over 30 years. She is High Priestess of The Hearth of Hecate, an established Coven with groups around the country. She is Media officer for the Children of Artemis, the UK’s foremost, and fastest growing Witchcraft and Wiccan organization, and previously served terms of office as both Vice President and Media Co-ordinator of The Pagan Federation. Kate is a respected and sought after speaker on Witchcraft, appearing at Pagan conferences, as well as non-Pagan and interfaith events. She has an extensive list of TV and media credits, being the subject of a BBC Everyman documentary, and appearing several times on ‘The Heaven and Earth show’, as well as doing numerous radio and press interviews. Kate is the author of the ‘Real Witches’ books which reveal the Craft for those who live in the real world. ‘The Real Witches’ Handbook’ and ‘The Real Witches’ Kitchen’ being Witchcraft bestsellers in the UK and the USA. ‘A Spell in Your Pocket’, a small gift book, will be published towards the end of 2002. She has just finished ‘The Real Witches’ Coven’ (due out Feb. 2003) which explores group working from both the perspective of running a Coven and being a Coven member. And is currently working on a collection of spells and rituals, to see the practicing Witch through the whole of the Wheel of the Year.

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