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A review by suburban_witchery
Baba Yaga's Book of Witchcraft: Slavic Magic from the Witch of the Woods by Madame Pamita
5.0
I recently read “Baba Yaga's Book of Witchcraft: Slavic Magic from the Witch of the Woods” by Madame Pamita and I am so very glad that I did. Baba Yaga's Book of Witchcraft is a delightful blend of slavic folklore, practice and wisdom which captured my imagination.
Madame Pamita has done an excellent job of compiling the information in a way that is engaging, and uses storytelling to illustrate a point. Personally I loved the crafting elements inherent in slavic witchcraft, and it spoke to me on a deep level as an artist myself.
Stay tuned for Madame Pamita's episode on the Witch Talks Podcast coming November 16 where we chatted deeply about this topic.
What I liked
I LOVED the formatting of this book. It is beautifully done in both presentation and readability. Having the 3 sections to each chapter beginning with the tale of Vasylyna, then the words of wisdom from Baba Yaga and finally the wisdom of Madame Pamita herself was easy to understand, and very well done.
The chapter topics wove in perfectly with the story, and encompassed such a broad variety of magick. I personally used the garlic spell for bad neighbours and the next day my neighbours were evicted! There is definitely true magick within these pages.
The book is rich with footnotes and bibliography for further reading too showing the depth of research done by the author.
What I disliked
There isn’t much at all that I didn’t like in this book, except maybe the size of the book itself made it difficult to read. It's thin but large and floppy so reading in bed became difficult unless I folded back the page. This is minor though.
I would have loved the addition of graph paper with some of the designs blown up in the back for crafting purposes, and perhaps a more extensive index or way of finding the contents. When I was looking for the bad neighbour spell it took a lot of flicking through and I would have loved to be able to search the word neighbour at the back and find the spell that way.
Do I recommend it?
Yes absolutely. I give it 5 witches hats.
Madame Pamita has done an excellent job of compiling the information in a way that is engaging, and uses storytelling to illustrate a point. Personally I loved the crafting elements inherent in slavic witchcraft, and it spoke to me on a deep level as an artist myself.
Stay tuned for Madame Pamita's episode on the Witch Talks Podcast coming November 16 where we chatted deeply about this topic.
What I liked
I LOVED the formatting of this book. It is beautifully done in both presentation and readability. Having the 3 sections to each chapter beginning with the tale of Vasylyna, then the words of wisdom from Baba Yaga and finally the wisdom of Madame Pamita herself was easy to understand, and very well done.
The chapter topics wove in perfectly with the story, and encompassed such a broad variety of magick. I personally used the garlic spell for bad neighbours and the next day my neighbours were evicted! There is definitely true magick within these pages.
The book is rich with footnotes and bibliography for further reading too showing the depth of research done by the author.
What I disliked
There isn’t much at all that I didn’t like in this book, except maybe the size of the book itself made it difficult to read. It's thin but large and floppy so reading in bed became difficult unless I folded back the page. This is minor though.
I would have loved the addition of graph paper with some of the designs blown up in the back for crafting purposes, and perhaps a more extensive index or way of finding the contents. When I was looking for the bad neighbour spell it took a lot of flicking through and I would have loved to be able to search the word neighbour at the back and find the spell that way.
Do I recommend it?
Yes absolutely. I give it 5 witches hats.