Samhain: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for Halloween

by Llewellyn, Diana Rajchel

Overview

Samhain—also known as Halloween—is the final spoke in the Wheel of the Year. At this time, the harvest has finished and the veil between the worlds is at its thinnest. This guide shows you how to practice the serious work of divination and honoring the dead along with the more lighthearted activities of Halloween.

• Rituals
• Recipes
• Lore
• Spells
• Divination
• Crafts
• Correspondences
• Invocations
• Prayers
• Meditations

Llewellyn’s Sabbat Essentials explore the old and new ways of celebrating the seasonal rites that are the cornerstones of the witch’s year.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738742168
Publisher:	Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Publication date:	09/08/2015
Series:	Darkover #16 , #6
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Llewellyn Publications has grown and expanded into new areas of personal growth and transformation since it began as the Portland School of Astrology in 1901. Along with the strong line of astrology books the company was founded upon, Llewellyn publishes books on everything from alternative health and healing, Wicca and Paganism, to metaphysics and the paranormal-and since 1994 has published a growing list of Spanish-language titles.

Llewellyn has long been know as one of America's leading publishers of New Age books, producing a wide variety of valuable tools for transformation of the mind, body and spirit. Reach for the Moon-and discover that self-help and spiritual growth is what Llewellyn is all about.

Diana Rajchel is the author of Mabon (Llewellyn 2015), Samhain (Llewellyn 2015), and Divorcing a Real Witch (Moon Books 2014), and has contributed extensively to the Llewellyn annuals. She is the former executive editor for the Pagan Newswire Collectiveandworks as a journalist, author, blogger, and general creative. She is a third-degree Wiccan priestess in the Shadowmoon tradition, an American Eclectic Wiccan tradition. Diana has written for Circle Magazine, SageWoman, The Beltane Papers and Facing North.com. Rajchel is a San Francisco Bay transplant alongside her non-Pagan life partner. Visit her at DianaRajchel.com

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Table of Contents

Contents
Series Introduction . . . 1
Old Ways . . . 13
New Ways . . . 45
Spells and Divination . . . 77
Recipes and Crafts . . . 105
Prayers and Invocations . . . 147
Rituals of Celebration . . . 177
Correspondences for Samhain . . . 211
Further Reading . . . 225
Bibliography . . . 229
Index . . . 239