The Practical Grimoire of Prosperity
Old Ways to Keep the Purse, the Larder and the Harvest FullThe Practical Grimoire
The old customs people kept for the purse, the larder and the harvest, each from a named, dated book, with steps you can follow tonight.
- Make butter in a jar tonight, with a charm printed in 1655.
- Know where every working comes from: its old book, its year, and what was changed for today.
- Use what you already own: coins, cream, flour, a bay leaf, seeds. Nothing to buy.
- Build your own workings with nine old patterns, a ledger and a chart of your year.
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Your kitchen already holds
the old customs of plenty.
In the 1690s, the market women of London kept the first money of each morning "in a Pocket by itself". Farm wives said words over a slow churn. On Twelfth Eve, Devon farmers carried a pan of cider into the orchard and toasted their apple trees.
None of them bought a kit. They used coins, cream, flour, salt and seed: what was already in the house.
You'll get their customs in their own words, with the book and the year each one was written down, and the steps to do it today. Then you'll learn the pattern behind them and make your own.
Old ways, never a promise of money. The book prints what people believed as their belief, and gives you the custom.
Search for a prosperity working and you get...
Money lists with no source and no reason behind a single line.
Every spell called ancient, and not one date you can check.
Shops telling you to buy oils, candles and kits before you can begin.
Answers that contradict each other, so you never know which to trust.
The thin books and the noise left you guessing. The old books never did.
Every custom from a book you can name and date, from Pliny in AD 77 to the Scottish Highlands in 1900.
Every quotation checked word for word against the old printed books.
A label on every working, Old or Old pattern, adapted, with what was changed and why.
Coins, cream, flour, salt and seeds. Nothing you must buy.
The old books' own doubts printed too: Tam Aldren never got his linen back, and the book says so.
YOU'LL KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING, AND WHERE IT CAME FROM.
Step out at the first crescent
knowing exactly what Leeds did.
TURN THE MONEY AT THE NEW MOON · OLD PATTERN, ADAPTED
"Turn the money in your pocket on the first sight of the new moon, and you will always have plenty there."
Sayings at Leeds, in William Henderson, Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties, 1879, p 114
That is what they believed, and the page says so: "We print it; we don't promise it." A second source, Gregor in 1881, shows the same custom far to the north. Then you get the steps:
- Put a coin in your pocket before you go out. Gregor's rule: never meet her empty-handed.
- Go outside. Not through a window: the old books are firm about the glass.
- Find her low in the west after sunset, one to three evenings after the new moon.
- Turn the money in your pocket over, once, while you look at her.
- Write the date in your table of first crescents.
What was changed, and why, sits in its own box: the old rule is the first sight, whenever it comes; the book sends you out on the right evening. A crescent finder shows where to look, and a safety strip covers coins, small children and the dark.
Open it anywhere and
you'll know what to do next.
A Finder by what you want more of. Eight chapters that each open on a true story or a recorded legend. Workings with their source cards, steps and safety. A herbal, tables, worksheets and a ledger to make it yours.
Start with what you want more of
Money and luck, the larder, work, a sale, something lost, bees and hens, the garden, the new year. Each points to a first working, its plants and its old timing.
Your first working, tonight
Five lines said three times over a jar of cream, printed by Thomas Ady in 1655. Butter in about ten minutes, and your first line in the log.
Every chapter opens on a story
The Musgraves kept one fairy glass in its own leather case for generations. Chambers wrote that its real history "cannot now be ascertained", and the book tells it as legend.
A first-sale habit with 300 years behind it
The handsel, turned into steps for a stall, a yard sale or an online shop. Will it bring more sales? The page answers: "We promise nothing; the old sellers only hoped so."
Toast your apple tree on Twelfth Eve
"Health to thee, good apple tree", as a Cornish man told it to John Brand in 1790. Apple juice works as well as cider, and a potted tree counts.
32 plants, with Gerard's woodcuts of 1633
Latin name, an old quote, how to know it, the look-alikes and a pet line from the ASPCA. Bay laurel, never cherry laurel.
Nine old patterns, then your own
Keep the first, give a little back, begin in a name, sow while it grows. Learn the nine and you can read any old custom, or build one for your own purse, desk or garden.
A chart of your own year
Mark each first crescent, the old books' days, your paydays, market days, sowing and harvest. Six ledger pages before it keep what you did and what you noticed.
A year of old customs,
done in your own kitchen and garden.
32 workings in 8 chapters, each with its source, its steps and its safety strip.
- Turn the money at the first crescent. A finder shows where to look: low in the west, one to three evenings after the new moon (p 28).
- Keep your first sale of the day apart. The London market women's handsel, for a stall, a yard sale or an online order, with a coin of yours when the buyer pays by card (p 74).
- Make butter in a jar with words from 1655. And when the cream stalls, a silver spoon, as Charlotte Burne's own family did (pp 11, 50).
- Wassail your apple tree on Twelfth Eve. The Devon custom told to John Brand in 1790, with apple juice and a flashlight (p 118).
- Look for a lost thing, in order. Old English charms from manuscripts of the 10th to 12th centuries, kept to the thing, never the thief (pp 84 to 97).
- Bring something in first on New Year's morning. Bread, salt, coal or water, before anything goes out of the house (p 130).
- Know every plant before you use it. 32 herbal entries with Gerard's woodcuts, look-alikes and a pet line, plus the toxic plants of the old books, as history only (pp 140 to 157).
- Write your own workings. A seven-step method, 4 worksheets, a 6-page ledger and a twelve-month chart (pp 20 to 23, 160 to 171).
Is this the right book for you?
Not for you if
- You want a spell that promises money, a job or a win.
- You want workings aimed at another person's luck or will.
- You want money oils, hoodoo or other closed practices.
- You need financial or debt advice. The book points you to free help instead (p 18).
- You want no Christian words at all. Some old charms are quoted as written, with a version in our words beside them.
For you if
- You want customs you can trace to a book and a year.
- You'd rather use coins, flour and seeds than buy a kit.
- You like to know which part is old and which part is new.
- You sell at a stall, a fair or online and want a first-sale habit with a history.
- You keep a notebook and want to build your own workings.
Keep the whole house
with all four books.
Prosperity keeps the purse, the larder and the harvest. Three more books keep the rest of the house, built the same way: dated sources, the same labels, a herbal with Gerard's woodcuts, safety strips and pages to write your own.
- The Practical Grimoire of Protection: old ways to guard your home, your sleep and the people you love.
- The Practical Grimoire of Love & Relationships: old ways to look for love, keep it close and care for the people in your life.
- The Practical Grimoire of Peace & Renewal: old ways to turn the year, keep a quiet house and remember the people you love.
The Complete Series brings all four in one parcel, for less than buying them one by one.
A jar of cream, five old lines,
and the old customs of plenty are yours.
Open to page 11 and make butter the way it was coaxed in 1655. Then turn to the Finder, pick what you want more of, and follow the old way with what's in your kitchen, purse and garden.
Read it, try a working, keep your ledger. If it isn't the book you hoped for, our 30-day money-back guarantee returns what you paid.
Questions about The Practical Grimoire of Prosperity
Straight answers, from the book itself.
1.Is it for beginners?
Yes. Page 5 shows how to use the book, page 11 gives you a first working for tonight, and pages 12 to 13 take one working apart so you can read every other one. Each working lists what you'll need, the best timing (or says plainly that any day will do), numbered steps, a safety strip and a log.
2.Will these workings bring me money?
The book makes no promise of money, a job, a sale or a harvest. It gives you the old customs and their steps, and prints what people said a custom would bring in their own words, as their belief. It is not financial advice: if money is a worry, pages 18 to 19 point you to free, nonprofit help first.
3.Which Practical Grimoire should I start with?
Start with what you want more of. Prosperity covers the purse, the larder, work, buying and selling, lost things, bees and hens, the garden and the new year. Protection guards the home and sleep, Love & Relationships looks for love and cares for the people in your life, and Peace & Renewal turns the year and keeps a quiet house. Each book stands on its own.
4.Is it a Wiccan book?
No. It is a book of folk practice: what market women, farm wives, plowmen and weavers did, as the old books recorded it, from Pliny in AD 77 to the Scottish Highlands around 1900. You can use it alongside your own practice.
5.Does it have religious content?
Some of the old charms and blessings are Christian, from the Old English charms and the Hebridean Carmina Gadelica. They are quoted as they were written, as history, with a version in our own words beside them, labeled ours. Lines that bind a thief or blame a people are left out, and the page says so.
6.Do I need to buy anything?
No. The kit is your kitchen and your purse: coins, a purse, bread, flour, cream and a jar, salt, a spoon, seeds, a jug of water and a notebook. No money oils, no kits, no special candles.
7.What do "Old" and "Old pattern, adapted" mean?
Old means the working is done as the source records it: the same act, words, day and materials. Old pattern, adapted means the old working with something changed for today, and a box on the page says what changed and why. For the handsel, for example: no spitting on the coin, and a coin of your own stands in for a card payment.
8.Where do the quotations come from?
From 18 named and dated sources on the book's timeline (pp 8 to 9), all public domain and published 1930 or earlier, among them Tusser (1580), Gerard's Herball (1633), Brand (1813), Henderson (1879), Gregor (1881) and Burne (1883). Every quotation was checked word for word against the old printed books, and the full list is on p 172.
9.Is it safe with pets and children?
Safety comes first. Pages 18 to 19 cover coins and small children, fire and candles, food, bees and plants. Every plant in the herbal carries a pet line from the ASPCA, toxic plants of the old books are told as history only, and look-alikes like cherry laurel are named. Coins never go in food, and nothing is eaten beyond ordinary kitchen use.
10.I sell online. Does the book cover that?
Yes. The handsel and the luck penny are written for a stall, a yard sale or an online shop: a coin of your own stands for the first card payment, and the luck penny can go in as a small extra in the package (pp 22, 74).
11.How big is the book?
176 pages, 7 x 10 inches, paperback, with a black-and-white interior and a matte color cover. Every working has a log, and the back of the book gives you 4 worksheets, a 6-page ledger and a twelve-month chart to fill in.
12.How does shipping work, and what if it isn't for me?
Each copy is printed for your order and shipped to you, and shipping is free. You're covered by our 30-day money-back guarantee.