Frater Barrabbas - Spirit Conjuring for Witches: Magical Evocation Simplified

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Spirit Conjuring for Witches: Magical Evocation Simplified 2017 by Frater Barrabbas.

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First e-book edition 2017

E-book ISBN: 9780738751160

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Barrabbas, Frater, author.

Title: Spirit conjuring for witches: magical evocation simplified /

Frater Barrabbas.

Description: First Edition. | Woodbury: Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd, 2017. |

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016043854 (print) | LCCN 2016048871 (ebook) | ISBN

9780738750040 | ISBN 9780738751160 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Witchcraft. | Magic.

Classification: LCC BF1566 .B264 2017 (print) | LCC BF1566 (ebook) | DDC

133.4/3dc23

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This book is dedicated to Kevin Wilson,
the witch who inspired me to write it;
to my dear wife, Joni, who taught me how to write
nonfiction and who has steadfastly supported my
writing endeavors; and to my beloved first cat, Jynx,
who passed away to Summerland last spring.

Contents

• . Legendary Witches and Their Craft
• . Modern Witchcraft and Repurposing of Spirit Conjuration
• . Witchcraft and Ritual Magic: Nomenclature and Technique
• . Building the Tools of the Modern Conjuring Witch: Part One
• . Building the Tools of the Modern Conjuring Witch: Part Two
• . Spirit Conjuration for the Modern Witch
• . Spirit Lists, Managing Different Spirits, and Traveling the Spirit World

Spirit Conjuring and the Spirit Traveling Witch

Spirit Lists: Detailed Category of Various Angels and Demons

Overview of the Old Grimoires and How to Use Them

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Jim Baker for his invaluable help with the history of magic and witchcraft, and Steve Posch, for his steadfast support for my book project, and my close Witch friends who got to add their own two cents.

I would also like to thank Sara Joseph for her graphic and artistic help with producing examples of some of the illustrations.

Legendary Witches
and Their Craft

I myself have seen this woman draw the stars from the sky; she diverts the course of a fast-flowing river with her incantations; her voice makes the earth gape, it lures the spirits from the tombs, send the bones tumbling from the dying pyre. At her behest, the sad clouds scatter; at her behest, snow falls from a summers sky.

Catullus

W e all know about the legendary witches who lived long ago in the times of myth and magic, and we know them from our childhood when we eagerly listened to our parents read to us the timeless fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm and others. We shivered with delight hearing about how wicked they were and cheered when they finally came to a bad end, vanquished by the stout-hearted hero or some clever ruse. Some of us might have wistfully hoped that the witch might live to see another day and maybe introduce another thrilling story, or perhaps, like myself, they might even have felt sympathy for the wicked witch or sought to emulate her in some manner. Needless to say, most of us gave up our imaginative childhood for the rigors and seriousness of adulthood. The stories, legends, and myths receded into the fond and distant memories of our childhood as we took upon ourselves the trials, joys, and heartbreak of mundane existence.

We have left behind these legends, stories, and myths even as we pursued seemingly corollary paths such as Paganism and Modern Witchcraft. However, while we are pursuing a life that has only the remotest relationship to the color, vibrancy, and fascination of our childhood imaginings, the very stories that thrilled us as children have a powerful element of truth hidden deep within them. Even as we learn to master all of the modern tropes of Traditional Witchcraft, the very stories of the past starkly contrast to our self-conscious attempts at developing and promoting a new Pagan and magical-based religion. We are a pale and vaporous shadow when compared to the stories of the legendary witches and their associated powers and abilities. Of course we can scoff at these tales and relegate them to the fantasies of our childhood, telling ourselves that the real world requires a factual approach to magic and religion. The irony of this approach is that it is like the steadfast rationalist who whistles in the dark when walking past a graveyard at night.

This brings us to ask the really important question about all of our current achievements with Modern Witchcraft and magic: Have we forgotten something important? Is it relevant to compare ourselves to the legendary witches of the various myths and stories? Some might say that it is certainly not relevant (after all, we live in a modern world with obvious limitations), but I am one who thinks it is relevant. I believe that of all of the powers and abilities that the legendary witches possessed, it was their ability to conjure spirits and converse with them that was most intriguing. I found nothing in my Book of Shadows that formalized the methodology for spirit conjuring, and I have an authentic third-generation Gardnerian Book of Shadows, as does anyone who is in my line of Alexandrian Witches. Alex Sanders supposedly experimented with these and many other techniques, but it appeared he had only purloined his lore from what remained of the old grimoires of the previous epoch. Nothing was really passed down, so it seemed that such techniques were the provenance of ceremonial magicians.