Listen to the whispers of forgotten witches, embark on a journey of transformation and discover folk wisdom from around the world in this stunning 60-card oracle deck.

Delve into the awe-inspiring tales of witches from all over the world across the ten suits in this deck: meet curse-bringers, shape-shifters, survivors, avengers, mesmerizers, well-wishers, alchemists, revenants, nature witches and fate-turners.

Within these 60 beautifully illustrated cards, you will also meet familiars, spirits, deities, magical items and magical places, providing insight and empowerment with every card you draw. The accompanying oracle booklet tells the story of each card, and offers instructions on how to use six unique spreads for deeper divination:

• Hecate Spread: when you feel stuck and need quick guidance, draw three cards related to Hecate’s dagger, torch and key.
• Pentagram Spread: draw five cards related to the five points of a star, representing earth, water, air, fire and spirit, to examine the effects of a specific situation.
• Magnum Opus Spread: this spread will guide you through a ten-step process of transmutation, drawing on the wisdom of spiritual alchemy, using a card from each suit.
• Storyweaving and Collective Storyweaving Spreads: create your own mini folktales, or gather with friends, and interpret them as you would a dream, uncovering connections between your imagined story and life.

As you draw these cards, interpret to the wisdom and weave tales of your own, you will gain insight and empowerment from these inspiring magical practitioners who once terrorized, devoured, helped or empowered their communities.

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More than peculiar organisms underfoot, fungi are catalysts of ecological, cultural and spiritual renewal across the globe. Entwining modern science and ancient wisdom - and ancient science and modern wisdom - this book digs deep into the mycological heart of life on Earth. Complemented by fascinating photography and art in many forms, this transformative book invites you to personally connect with the fungal world:

• Discover the close relationship between fungi and death, how decay becomes new life and the historical practices of midwives and witches who commune with fungi.
• Connect with the divine, with mushrooms as "light-filled herbs" which can cleanse, purify and elevate consciousness.
• Journey from soils to seas to skies: Learning how global networks and food webs are connected by fungi.
• Listen to the lessons mushrooms teach: From providing medicine and inspiration for many civilizations, to teaching us to embrace paradox and uncertainty.
• Interact with these fascinating organisms: Build a living psychedelic sanctuary; learn how to read a tree; create your own medicinal mushroom extracts and so much more!

This volume features 30 short stories, each entangling the life of a human and a fungus, with each tale ending with a recipe or experiment from notable figures in the fungi community.

Entangle yourself in the myth, madness, medicine and malaise of these creatures to deeper your connection with yourself, others, and the world around you.

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The perfect gift bundle for the folklorist in your life!

The Watkins Book of English Folk Tales is a golden treasury of over one hundred English folktales captured in the form they were first collected in past centuries. Read these classic tales as they would have been told when storytelling was a living art – when the audience believed in boggarts and hobgoblins, local witches and will-o’-the-wisps, ghosts and giants, cunning foxes and royal frogs. These tales rank among the finest English short stories of all time in their richness of metaphor and plot and their great verbal dash and daring. Perfect for fans of Madeline Miller, Philip Pullman and the Brothers Grimm.

The Watkins Book of Urban Legends is a rich and unique collection of folktales and urban legends from around the world. Each story comes with an accompanying brief note to provide context. Including new tales reflecting new concerns; old tales repurposed for new audiences and new ways of telling. This is the first such popular book to bring together stories with both traditional and digital media origins and to examine how the phenomenon of social media has affected both the spread of urban legends and their very nature. Perfect for fans of true crime podcasts, creepypastas and real life mysteries.

The Watkins Book of African Folklore contains 50 stories that take you from Egypt in the north all the way down to South Africa and many places in-between. Discover the geographical and cultural variety of the continent of Africa, carefully researched and vividly retold by noted folklorist Helen Nde who also provides marvellous context for history and colonial influences for the stories. From creation myths and foundation legends to fascinating stories of human relationships and amusing animal tales, these stories provide a perfect gift for fans of folklore, fantasy and globetrotting.

Ghosts, Monsters and Demons of India is an encyclopedia of evil entities and folkloric fiends from across India, from Ladakh to Tuchenkwaka, complete with 60 spooky illustrations. Inside you will find killer robots built with stolen Roman engineering technology that once guarded the relics of the Buddha and diabolical entities conjured into existence by the simultaneous deaths of seven tigers. This illustrated guide to the folktales and real-life stories of India - a culture famously rich in tradition and legends - is perfect for fans of Eli Roth's Urban Legends and Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities.

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TRUE HAPPINESS IS FOUND IN BECOMING WHAT YOU’RE CAPABLE OF.

Performance is for everyone. When you unlock your potential, life gets easier, because you get better. Now, for the first time, James Vincent shares the timeless principles once reserved for Olympic athletes and world-class leaders. These principles are available to anyone who wants to think clearer, feel stronger, and live calmer – not sometimes, but consistently.

Imagine a life where you …

• Control your mind instead of battling it
• Turn self-doubt into unstoppable belief
• Wake up driven – fuelled by purpose, not pressure
• Build the mindset that changes everything: your outcomes, your resilience, your life
• Master the habits and skills that elevate you to world class
• Stay calm, clear and composed when pressure breaks everyone else

When you master the six forces, you discover your edge – and once you do, you’ll never go back. Infinite Edge will Inspire You, Move You and Change You.

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Using fishing as a metaphor for personal growth, healing and belonging, Black Fish is a captivating blend of practical fishing guide, intimate memoir and cultural reflection, written by multitalented musician Speech Debelle. Lyrically woven across an array of practical fishing advice – from chosen equipment and casting techniques to weather considerations and mindfulness – each chapter interlaces interviews and stories by seasoned anglers with Speech’s reflections on community, identity and finding one’s roots.

• Fishing can be a practice of healing from trauma. Understand how to trust the process, have grace with yourself and break emotional cycles.
• Learn about fishing as an indigenous practice and ancestral skill. Through stories of the movement of peoples across water, see how and why the fishing practices that have evolved with them. Discover how to reclaim space and to create your own fishing community.
• Understand the water and how to create a relationship with it, including all the guidance you'll need on what equipment to use when, safety gear, comfort and convenience tips, tide times and packing essentials.
• Practice how to tie and untie personal knots, set up your gear, navigate weather and terrain and get to grips with mindfulness before casting.
• Once you get a bite, strike and reel it in. Learn how to remove a hook, dispatch and release. Be sure to celebrate your successes and return home with your catch.

Speech’s story offers a unique perspective that inspires you to find inner peace within life’s tumultuous currents and become a steward to our abundant oceans.

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Get The Witch's Feast and The Witch's Workshop Book Bundle!

The feast is a meeting place between family and friends, between humans and gods.

This decadent collection of enchanting dishes is an indispensable companion to kitchen witchcraft, revealing the storied history and seductive art of magical cooking. With witch, herbalist and chef Melissa Jayne Madara as your guide, explore five facets of the occult through food: traditional recipes, the wheel of the zodiac, devotional meals to the planets, seasonal feasts to celebrate solstices and equinoxes, and practical spellwork.

• Recreate a pagan feast of lamb roasted with milk and honey, with cheesecake baked in fig leaves for dessert.
• Celebrate a Gemini birthday with herbed fondue, followed by lemongrass pavlova.
• Align with the poetic pleasures of Venus with edible flower dumplings, or commune with Saturn over blackberry pulled pork sandwiches.
• Enjoy the vibrancy of the spring equinox with herb and allium quiche with a potato crust, radish salad with cherry blossom vinaigrette and jasmine tea shortbread.
• Share an evening of storytelling over mugwort and catnip divination tea, or embody an otherworldly spirit with ritual bread masks.

Packed with ancient knowledge, practical advice and witchcraft expertise, this book will help you develop your craft through culinary creativity. Gather, share, and rediscover the most fundamental of human rituals: the divine indulgence of the senses and the soul.

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.

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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Like the four elements—water, earth, fire, air—there are four suits of unicorns: Art, Music, Science and Poetry. Together, the unicorns speaks to the souls’ journey and cycles of creative imagination. This gorgeous deck will introduce you to each unicorn, describe their qualities and associations, and will explain how to work with each, channeling their energy and wisdom into your everyday life.

The Unicorns of Art embody inner vision. They give form through exalting the spiritual light within you.
The Unicorns of Music summon the life force to celebrate your existence, complete with heart and soul. These unicorn invite you on a path to express beauty and love.
The Unicorns of Science beckon you to know the world, as well as supporting you to understand yourself. These unicorns inspire learning, innate intelligence and intuition.
The Unicorns of Poetry recognize the many-sided expressions of truth when we write or speak from inspiration and creative imagination. These unicorns help to express revelation.

These Oracle cards are a picture book for any age of reader, for self-development and the imagination, facilitating playfulness and discovery. For any artist or traveller on their road to self-discovery, they will empower imagination, clear vision and bring determination to all intentions.

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Forage in the footsteps of the witches who gathered plants for the medieval Nine Herbs Charm, and explore the traditional powers of the herbs all around you to boost wellbeing.

Divided into three parts, this book first reminds us of the wonder of the Nine Herbs Charm (also known as the Lacnunga) – the herbs that were most useful for medicine, food and magic in the early medieval period. Author Adele then constructs her own version of the charm with common herbs used today. In part three, readers can create their own nine herb charms from a long list of herbs, fungi and mosses, all with their uses listed too.

• Part 1: The Nine Herbs Charm: Discover the original nine herbs: mugwort, broad-leafed plantain, betony, shepherds purse, chamomile, stinging nettle, crab apple, chervil and wild thyme.
• Part 2: The Modern Nine Herbs Charm: The charm updated for modern magic: parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme, fennel, rosemary, ground elder, wild mint and oregano.
• Part 3: Make Your Own Nine Herbs Charm: Select your own nine herbs to create the charm that works for you.

This book offers a fun new way to explore foraging and the use of herbs, discovering little-known treasures along the way, along with their uses, their history and cultivation tips too.

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Having purrfected the art of having nine lives, the witchy cat familiar is the perfect figure to lead us through our tarot reading, imparting wisdom and guidance. The Witch’s Cat Tarot combines the enigmatic allure of feline wisdom and the ancient symbolism of the tarot, with a twist of 21st century fun, offering a unique and powerful tool for exploring the mysteries of life.

Meet each card as you've never seen them before:

• The Fool becomes Bold Kitty, a young cat ready to explore the world.
• The Hierophant is now Sacred Cat, a spiritual master of the skies.
• The Magician is shown as Magic Cat, a wise old cat practicing the arts.
• The Hermit becomes Cave Cat, the feline keeper of inner wisdom.
• Death becomes Nine Lives, a brave kitty on its ninth life.

With expert guidance and fun spells from Tree Carr to encourage you to learn from the ever mysterious and enigmatic witchy cat as well as magical illustrations from Sonja Pröhl, this is the perfect deck for witches and cat lovers.

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What happens once the marches end? "Activism" has become synonymous with disruption, superglue and arrest – but there is another way. Discover a new type of change-making that builds resilience for lasting impact. 

Award-winning youth activist Katie Hodgetts founded The Resilience Project after a period of burnout from climate activism, and in this book she empowers young adults to navigate a changing world by building up resilience through rest, community, connection and celebration.

Drawing on her own experiences, as well as research conducted alongside Imperial College London and Stanford University in California, Katie proposes a new type of activism for an anxious generation: one that breaks the cycle of fighting fire with fire, and is sustainable for our mental health and sense of identity as well as the planet. Follow the eight steps in this book:

• Step 1: Vulnerability as strength
• Step 2: Beyond identity politics: meet as humans
• Step 3: Emotional permaculture: fight dragon, get the gold
• Step 4: Control your narratives
• Step 5: Learn to navigate burnout
• Step 6: Build your resilience rucksack
• Step 7: The eight types of rest
• Step 8: Practice gratitude

This is activism meets self-care – for young people who want to be responsible world citizens without sacrificing themselves in the process.

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The Anger Professor Dr Ryan Martin shares easy research-driven hacks to help you manage your emotions and improve your day-to-day life. His goal is to show that small changes to lifestyle, diet, sleep and ways of thinking will create real and beneficial changes in the way you experience fear, sadness, anger, happiness and the other emotions. This step-by-step guide to great emotional management will enable you to:

• Understand the science of emotions – to enable you to hack them.
• Interpret emotions as signals that guide behaviour and decision-making.
• Learn how emotions develop in stages – 1. the stimulus; 2. your pre-existing mood; 3. your appraisal; 4. feelings; 5. actions – so you can intervene.
• Manage other people's emotions.
• Deploy 50 easy and effective emotion hacks that will enable you to deal with any challenging situation, eg Identify Your Patterns, Avoid Catastrophizing, Pay Attention to Self-directed "Shoulds", Refocus Positively – and many more!

Rooted in psychological research and everyday experience, How to Feel Better Fast will enable you to work with the science of happiness. It's all about establishing healthy emotional habits: small changes that will lead to seismic changes in your state of mind.

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Break free from your money prison by learning how to manage your money – and to make more of it – by designing the life of purpose and passion you’ve been dreaming of.

Drawing from more than twenty years working in investment banking, plus her own journey from financial despair to success, Sarah Bennett-Nash takes you on a journey to redefine your relationship with wealth so that you can make more money and use it to create your dream life. Break free from the cycle of living from paycheck to paycheck, spend more time with loved ones and follow your passions.

This book will empower you to step into a new reality where stable finances are a cornerstone for your emotional, intellectual, physical and spiritual growth. Sarah provides clear steps towards aligning your finances with your deepest aspirations, based on practical tools and tangible techniques that have worked for her.

Discover Sarah's comprehensive three-step roadmap to wealth:

• Awareness of your money story and limiting beliefs – what is holding you back?
• Alignment of your financial goals with your values and dreams – what do you want your ideal life to look like?
• Action – learn practical steps to turn your vision into your legacy by automating your finances and developing additional income streams.

This book is a call to redefine your relationship with money and step into a life teeming with balance and purpose. The time for more is now!

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