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the_pagan_philologist's review
4.0
This book is very usefull if you're already somewhat advanced in the craft and know how to tweak rituals and spells to fit your path. Jason Miller is obviously extremely knowledgeable and offers some great ideas on how to protect yourself. The drawback of this volume is that the author draws from a vasta array of tradition whithout explaining their most frequently used terms. The average reader who may be familiar with one or two traditions is therefore left with some questions. Furthermore at one point he offers a recipe for a cleansing bath that contains ammonia - this doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
However I find myself referencing this book a lot since many of his suggestions are easily adaptable in a safe and simple way. The ideas for charms and powders for example are really good. I also need to add that this is a very important topic to write about and I'm glad that Jason Miller did so. When you cast his spells and rituals please make sure that the ingredients are chemically safe and know what entities you are calling upon. It did the trick for me to change the wordings and correspondence to the entities I'm familiar with.
However I find myself referencing this book a lot since many of his suggestions are easily adaptable in a safe and simple way. The ideas for charms and powders for example are really good. I also need to add that this is a very important topic to write about and I'm glad that Jason Miller did so. When you cast his spells and rituals please make sure that the ingredients are chemically safe and know what entities you are calling upon. It did the trick for me to change the wordings and correspondence to the entities I'm familiar with.
queenaries's review
5.0
I personally wouldn’t recommend for really new witches simply because this author works with several deities in the book. If you have never worked with deities then I recommend doing more research before picking up this book. With that being said, I loved this book a lot. It had lots of helpful information & defensive magic. I think all witches need to read this book at some point in their practice.
johnnynolen's review
5.0
I would venture to say this is the best and easiest to utilize book on protection magick that I've come across in my thirty years of queer witchery. For any practitioner that doesn't want to dawdle around with the cliquey, meddlesome circles that can exist in local witchcraft, this is a good tome for the introverted hermit. If you are meddlesome yourself, then you may have different need for this toolkit.
eeves's review
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Great book on protection magick, informative. Some of the example rituals/spells that are suggested aren’t likely to be used by me, either because materials would be hard to come by or the spirits/deities invoked aren’t my go-tos, although Miller himself does make a point to customize each rite as you choose so
emilygaynier's review
4.0
Really good broad overview of protection magic and baneful magic.
I did skim when specific rituals or spells I am not interested in doing were described in detail
I did skim when specific rituals or spells I am not interested in doing were described in detail
oisin175's review
informative
medium-paced
4.0
Provides useful information, though probably more useful for intermediate practitioners. Would have preferred more outlines/skeletons of spells with a discussion of the elements so they could be edited for followers of other deities. Still useful though.