The Practical Grimoire of Love & Relationships
Old Ways to Look for Love, Keep It Close and Care for the People in Your LifeThe Practical Grimoire
Ask love's oldest question, who is coming, with an apple, a candle and the old books' own words.
- See who might be coming on the old love nights, from St Agnes' Eve to Halloween.
- Keep the love you have, mark a wedding, welcome a new baby, steady yourself before a hard talk.
- Trust every line: each quotation is checked word for word against the old printed books.
- Work from your kitchen: bay leaves, rosemary, an apple, a ribbon. Nothing you must buy.
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Keep the love nights. See who might be coming.
St Agnes' Eve, Valentine's Eve, Midsummer, Halloween: the nights people kept for looking, and the steps to keep them at home.
On Halloween you sit at your own mirror by one candle and eat an apple slowly, as Burns' Wee Jenny wanted to in his poem of 1785. On Valentine's Eve you lay five bay leaves under your pillow and say four old lines seven times. In the morning you write down what you saw or dreamt, or that you dreamt nothing. Both count.
You'll keep the love nights the way the old books wrote them down, with what's already in your kitchen.
And you'll keep them on the right side of the one line this book never crosses: it shows who might be coming. It never tries to make anyone come, stay or return.
You go looking for the old love customs, and you find...
A spell with no author, no date and no book you could ever check.
Promises that a named person will call, fall for you or come back.
A shopping list of oils, candles and kits before you can start.
Not a word about the cat, the candle flame or what goes in someone's cup.
You were right to put those books down.
The old book's own words first, with its author, its title and its year.
Divinations that only look: who is coming, will this last. No one is pulled.
Bay leaves, apples, rosemary, a ribbon: your kitchen is the kit.
Pet, plant and fire safety wherever a working needs it, every plant checked against the ASPCA list.
Every working labeled Old or Old pattern, adapted, with what changed and why.
SEE WHO MIGHT BE COMING. NEVER TRY TO MAKE ANYONE COME.
You look. You never pull.
Next to the charms for looking, the old world sold powders for pulling. The book prints them as history, with their dates.
A churchman's checklist of sins in 1602 already named "charmed potions" and "amatorious philters". A satire of 1673 has a fake astrologer selling "love-powder". In 1714 Gay's country girl spends all her money on a powder for a man's mug at the alehouse.
You see exactly where the old line ran. Then every working you do stays on the looking side of it.
- Ask who, or whether. "Make them love me" is not a question this book answers.
- Nothing in anyone's food or drink. Not a herb, not a powder, not a drop.
- Nothing taken from another person without their knowing.
- Your own life is yours to open to love. A named person's heart is not.
Halloween night: an apple at your own mirror
Labeled Old: done the way Burns' note of 1785 records it.
The old words. "Take a candle and go alone to a looking-glass; eat an apple before it, and some traditions say you should comb your hair all the time; the face of your conjugal companion, to be, will be seen in the glass, as if peeping over your shoulder." Robert Burns, note to "Halloween", written 1785.
Why a candle. One flame, so the room behind you goes dark: the old light for looking.
What you'll need. A candle in a stable holder, a mirror you can sit in front of, an apple from the kitchen, and a comb if you like.
The steps. Set the candle to one side of the mirror and turn off the other lights. Eat the apple slowly, looking into the glass. Blow out the candle, turn the light on, and write down what you saw, felt or thought of.
The safety strip. The candle is never left alone, loose hair stays away from the flame, and the core goes straight in the trash: apple seeds are toxic to pets (ASPCA).
The honest part. Burns' note says a face over your shoulder. You may see only the candle and yourself. Either way, it goes in your log.
Every spread gives you something to do
Dark engraved openers, the old words on every working, and room on the page for your own.
Your first working tonight
Yarrow sewn in flannel under your pillow, with Halliwell's four-line rhyme of 1849. Ten minutes, then sleep.
The Love Finder
Pick what you want for your heart: to see who is coming, to keep a love, a wedding, family, friends, peace after a fight, to let go. Each points to a first working, the others and the plants. Opposite, the love nights of the year.
A true story opens every chapter
Dark engraved openers, then a story from the records. Here, the gentlewoman John Aubrey heard in the 1690s, who saw "the very face of the man that I saw in my dream" in a Salisbury pulpit.
Five bay leaves on Valentine's Eve
Four at the corners of your pillow, one in the middle, and four old lines said seven times. Bay from the spice jar; pets off the bed that night.
The year-and-a-day questions
For two people who both say yes: the old Dunmow questions asked in private, over a dish you both like. "No" is an allowed answer.
Wear the willow, then lay it down
When love ends: a willow sprig kept for a time you choose, then put away, composted or rooted. Nothing is sent to or asked of the person who left.
The Love Herbal
32 entries with Gerard's woodcuts of 1633: the old love use, a quoted source, how to know the plant, its look-alikes and the ASPCA verdict for pets.
My circle
You at the center, then love, family, friends, neighbors and work. Write what you did or wished for each person, and tick the love nights you keep.
For the one to come, and the people already here
32 workings in eight chapters, plus a first one for tonight. Each with its old source, its steps and a log.
- Tonight, with a sprig of yarrow. Sew it in flannel, say Halliwell's rhyme of 1849 once, and write down your dream in the morning (p 11).
- A Midsummer rose kept till Christmas. Gather it in silence on June 23, fold it in clean paper, and don't look until December 25 (p 48).
- Questions for the two of you. Once a year, the old Dunmow questions asked in private, with something good to eat between you (p 74).
- Rosemary for every wedding guest. A sprig tied with ribbon at the door, and lines from a songbook of 1584 on a card beside it (p 88).
- A visit for whoever mothered you. Going a-mothering in Lent with a cake or a small gift, the custom Chambers recorded in 1864 (p 102).
- A coin back for a knife. A knife given outright "was said to cut or sever friendship" (Napier, 1879). Tuck in a coin and ask for it back (p 118).
- Water in your hands before a hard talk. At first light, cupped hands and Carmichael's Highland line, "Love be in my countenance" (p 122).
- A willow worn, then laid down. When love ends: a time you choose, an end date you write down, and nothing sent to the person who left (p 132).
- The love nights on one wheel. St Agnes' Eve to New Year's Eve, each night with its page and the old reason for it (pp 16, 41).
- Your own working, from eight old patterns. Sleep on it, look, tie it, give it and four more, with a worked example and four worksheets (pp 20 to 23, 160 to 163).
Made for seeing, never for pulling
Not for you if
- You want a spell to make a named person love you, stay or come back.
- You want a promise of a partner, a proposal or a date.
- You want ready recipes with no history: Old Witch Book of Spells is that book.
- You want a hardcover or color pages: this is a black-and-white paperback.
For you if
- You want the old love customs with their sources, not a list called ancient.
- You'd rather ask who is coming than try to make someone come.
- You like working with an apple, a candle and a sprig from the garden.
- You want ways to care for a mother, a friend, a neighbor's new baby.
- You like to write it down, then build your own.
Guard the house, then care for the people in it
Love & Relationships is book 2 of four. Protection guards your home, your sleep and the people you love. Prosperity keeps the purse, the larder and the harvest full. Peace & Renewal turns the year, keeps a quiet house and remembers the people you love. Same labels, same safety, same care in every book.
All four in one parcel: $119.95, against $159.80 bought one by one.
See who might be coming. Start with yarrow tonight.
Ten minutes, a little yarrow, a scrap of flannel and four lines from 1849. Then the love nights of the year, the workings for the people already in your life, a love herbal with Gerard's woodcuts, and the method to build your own.
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Questions people ask
1.Will it bring me a partner, or bring someone back?
No, and it never says it will. The old divinations only look: who is coming, will this last. What you see or dream goes in your log. The book gives you the custom and the steps, never a person, and nothing in it draws, binds or brings back anyone.
2.Can I name a specific person?
Not to make them come. Naming someone to make them come turns a look into a pull, and every working stays on the looking side. A few old divinations ask "whether", with names kept folded and private: a look, never a pull.
3.I'm new to this. Is it for beginners?
Yes. Part One starts with a ten-minute first working, then shows how each working is built, your kitchen kit, the love nights, safety and the method. Every working has numbered steps, a best night, a safety strip where it needs one, and a short log.
4.Is it a Wiccan or a religious book?
Neither. It is a book of British folk customs recorded in old printed books, mostly from 1584 to 1900. Many of the old love nights fall on saints' eves, and a few quoted Hebridean prayers name God and Christ: they are printed as the record gives them. Nothing asks you to hold a belief.
5.What do "Old" and "Old pattern, adapted" mean?
Old: done the way the source records it, the same act, words, place and night. Old pattern, adapted: the old working changed for today, with a dashed box on the page that says what changed and why, for example the kale stalk pulled in your own garden instead of a field at night. Modern means no old source; Part Two has none.
6.Do I need to buy anything?
No. Your kit is your kitchen: apples, hazelnuts, flour and salt, bay leaves, rosemary, a mirror, a candle in a holder, thread and ribbon. Picking wild is never needed.
7.I have pets. Is it safe?
Every plant in the workings is checked against the ASPCA's list of plants toxic and non-toxic to dogs, cats and horses, and the page says which. Where a working uses a toxic plant, like yarrow or bay, the safety strip tells you how to keep it out of reach. Flames, pins and food get the same care.
8.Is it help for a relationship that's going wrong?
It is a book of history and folk practice, not counseling, and it never promises to fix a marriage or a family. It says plainly that it is not help for abuse, coercion or stalking, and pages 18 to 19 point to real help. Workings for a couple are for the two of you, together and willing, and the letting-go workings never contact the other person.
9.Which Practical Grimoire should I start with?
The one for what you want most right now. Each book stands alone and names the others where they meet: Protection for the home and your sleep, Prosperity for the purse and the harvest, Peace & Renewal for the turning year. If you want all four, the Complete Series costs less than buying them one by one.
10.How big is it, and what's inside?
176 pages, 7 x 10 in, a paperback with a matte color cover and a black-and-white interior. Inside: 10 dark engraved openers, 32 workings plus a first one for tonight, a love herbal of 32 entries with 31 Gerard woodcuts, worksheets, a workings log and the My Circle map.
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