Elhoim Leafar - The Magical Art of Crafting Charm Bags: 100 Mystical Formulas for Success, Love, Wealth, and Wellbeing

Praise for The Magical Art of Crafting Charm Bags

Using a combination of methods from various traditions and cultures, Elhoim Leafar presents us nothing less than a manual on the magical arts. From magic circles and planetary correspondences to utilizing color associations, herbs, stones, bones, and the phases of the moon, Leafar offers simple methods for the creation and consecration of charm bags for a veritable plethora of practical purposes. Easy to understand and full of interesting details, The Magical Art of Crafting Charm Bags is a great guide for the beginner but will also provide the seasoned practitioner with new perspectives on the art of making one of the most beloved forms of spells that folk-magic has to offer.

Storm Faerywolf, author of Betwixt and Between: Exploring the Faery Tradition of Witchcraft

It is clear when reading The Magical Art of Crafting Charm Bags that Elhoim Leafar knows what magick is, namely an ancient and noble force capable of generating all kinds of effects in space and time. He unlocks the keys to this magick providing basic, yet vital, information needed to get started creating altars, talismans, and, ultimately, charm bags. If you are looking for ways to improve and expand your magick this is the book for you.

Lilith Dorsey, author of Love Magic

The Magical Art of Crafting Charm Bags blends multiple cultures into a working system of magical potency. It is a useful grimoire and reference for any magical practitioner. Within its pages, you can learn to put magic in the palm of your hand.

Adam Sartwell, co-founder of the Temple of Witchcraft and award-winning author of Twenty-One Days of Reiki and The Blessing Cord

Charm bags rank among the most popular amulets in the world today, and yet, up until now, there has been precious little accessible, practical information about how to make them. Elhoim Leafar remedies that situation with his comprehensive book TheMagical Art of Crafting Charm Bags. Elhoim leads the reader through all stages of creating these powerful magical tools, as well as enumerating and describing their various components, ranging from crystals and perfumes to bones and herbs. This book will be a welcome and useful addition to any magical practitioner's bookshelf.

Judika Illes, author of Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells

Elhoim Leafar has created a beautiful, empowering, and immensely accessible manual for crafting charm bags. Teaching simple and effective ways to make charms bags for every purpose under Moon and Sun, these portable powerhouses of magic will enhance your daily life and spiritual practice. I enjoyed using charm bags before, but after reading The Magical Art of CraftingCharm Bags, I absolutely adore them!

Michael Butler Smith, author of Embracing Isis: A Witch's Guide to the Great Goddess

The Magical Art of Crafting Charm Bags is well resourced with easy to follow instructions. I will keep it as a companion and I suggest you do the same. It's a must-have for all practitioners of the magickal arts. I love it.

Lady Rhea, author of The Enchanted Candle and The Enchanted Formulary

This edition first published in 2017 by Weiser Books, an imprint of

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Copyright 2017 by Elhoim Leafar

Foreword copyright 2017 by Devin Hunter

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC. Reviewers may quote brief passages.

ISBN: 978-1-57863-619-8

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Leafar, Elhoim, 1987- author.

Title: The magical art of crafting charm bags : 100 mystical formulas for success, love, wealth, and wellbeing / by Elhoim Leafar.

Description: Newburyport : Weiser Books, 2017. | Includes index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017008986 | ISBN 9781578636198 (5.5 8.5 tp : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Witchcraft. | Charms--Miscellanea. | Magic.

Classification: LCC BF1566 .L43 2017 | DDC 133.4/4--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017008986

Cover design by Jim Warner

Cover photograph by David F. Dagnino Viloria

Interior by Deborah Dutton

Typeset in Adobe Garamond Pro, Muriel Regular, and Koch Antiqua

Printed in Canada

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This book is a tribute to all those who were here before us.

Each time we perform a magic ritual, we use different herbs, crystals, stones, plants, flowers, and oils extracted from Mother Earth to channel various energies. But we must remember that this powerful energy was once in the hands of our ancestors and that, even now, they remain a part of ita part of its memory, its essence, and its spirit. Thus, through the practice of magic and sorcery, we honor our ancestors. We channel them and embrace them in an eternal cycle of colorful energies that rotates between planes and reaches our hands.

This book is for all those who have discovered the power of magic and inherited the ancestral wisdom that connects us to Mother Earth, to the Sun, to the Moon, and to the rest of the stars in the sky, in all of their various phases. This book is meant to honor them from a small corner of every magic shop and every house where a witch, a sorcerer, a magician, or a believer dwells.

May this book be a balm for your spirit and a fresh breath of magic for your home. May it be a talisman of wisdom and a powerful force for magic in your life, every day of your life. Read it, study it, and let it guide your practice. And may it teach you to become an agent of magic in the lives of those around you. May it guide you on your path to becoming a powerful mage, honoring your ancestors by helping others through its magical lore. May you yourself become a charm bag full of blessings, magic, and wisdom. May you do magic every day and may your days be full of happiness. This is the best gift you can give to your ancestors.

To my ancestors and yours, blessed be their spirits in every life and every cycle, always.

Blessings, Elhoim.

By my mind and my body, by my soul and my will,
I conjure a magic that's focused and still

By curio and herb, by darkness and light,
I conjure a talisman with strength and with might.

By breath and by smoke, by oil and key
I conjure a charm that's tied just to me.

By blessings and prayers, by songs and by rhyme
I conjure a spirit that will grow in time.

With this enchantment, my sovereign decree,
I conjure my ally, so shall it be!

The Conjuring of the Charm Bag, from my own Book of Shadows.

Currently I have a charm bag in every room of my house and business, in my car, as well as two that travel with me on my many adventures. I consider them to be trusty companions along the all too often lonely road of life. Some of them are so old and I have worked with them for so long that I am convinced that they possess their own personalities. Always willing to express gratitude for an offering well-made and always willing to express disappointment when I have lacked on my end of the bargain. Faithful to me and me alone, these charm bags are crafted from the finest ingredients and, in some cases, took months to make. Raw opals from Australia, volcanic ash from Mt. St. Helens, a feather gifted by an owl-keeper, and the dried husks of an Amazonian pitcher-plant are some of the curios you might find among my wares. Each article was carefully selected and laboriously nurtured, before combining it with the others. Every magical practitioner has their own special way of constructing charm bags and no two are quite the same, our secret alterations kept close to the heart.