#ofwoodandash does book reviews

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Introducing Rune ✨️

Hello! I'm Rune! If you saw my name as something different on my blog before I changed it, no you didn't haha

Anyways, some quick facts about me:

🦊 I'm nonbinary, (Although more along the lines of gender fluid) 🦊 I'm 24 (Give or take a few days) 🦊 I love languages, history, writing, tea, and have a special connection with foxes; I tend to study pretty frequently in my free-time and I also love a good ttrpg, video game, and book. 🦊 I'm Polish American but sadly the only thing passed down from my grandparents were those lovely, lovely polish recipes, and they passed long before I can ask them more about how they grew up, so you may see some content on this blog about me discovering my roots as a Polish American from Appalachia living (suffering) in the south haha 🦊 I'm also striving to learn herbalism, but non in a crunchy, conservative way (Because yes, that does need to be clarified these days it seems) 🦊 I hate bigots and I WILL stand on business if you try to come on my blog and interact with me if you're one of them. (Aka I will block you if you are anything from a neo-nazi, to a terf, to a homophobe. Do not interact with me if you're gonna hate on others for being who they are.) 🦊 And finally- I love baking and cooking, so there might be a bit of flare of that as well.

Now, onto some facts about my practice:

🦊 I am.. very heavily pagan. Specifically Norse and Hellenic, however I've recently been looking into Celtic, and Slavic Paganism 🦊 Although rn I'm more of an eclectic witch, I'm currently building my craft from the ground up with a much heavier focus on folk magic. I will be splitting content, however, across 3 blogs. This one will be more basic, lighthearted stuff, things I wanna review first, take my time with, or very introductory; @ofwoodandash which will cover more intense, darker, and more specialized topics including but not limited too: Seiðr, traditional witchcraft, Appalachian Witchcraft, Spirit Work, chthonic aspects and the like; and finally @apagansprayers which will cover things more religious in Nature, mostly as a digital prayer book and personal e-shrine to the deities I worship, as actual information may be reblogged here (To this blog you're reading this from),, I'm still.. debating how to use that blog specifically BUT that´s a general outline. 🦊 I also have almost a decades worth of experience with Tarot, Oracle, and Pendulum readings, and I'm also currently learning the Runes

With that being said, I believe that covers enough of the basics, but! If you ever have any questions about me or my practice or just wanna chat- feel free to send me an ask or a message! I'd love to chat!

Check out Rune's Tag Masterlist for a handy guide on how to navigate this blog! (Will be posted soon)

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Book Reviews To Do

So, I'm going to put everything below a read more as this is going to be quite long and I genuinely don't want to clog up anyone's dash with an annoyingly long post, however if you're on mobile and it doesn't work I am so very sorry! Sometimes tumblr be like that ;-;

Anyways, these are just books I plan on reading and hope to actually get around to doing a review of (as that would actually get me to *read* these instead of just letting them collect dust)

Last Updated: September 17, 2019

in no particular order

Books I own:

• Folklore and Symbolism of Flowers, Plants, and Trees

• Letters from the Devils Forest

• The Black Arts

• The Book of Oberon

• The Angel Bible

• The Witches' Bible

• The Modern Guide to Witchcraft

• Flower Therapy

• Tea Leaf Reading for Beginners

• Palm Reading for Beginners

• Encyclopedia of Spirits

• Veneficium

• The Mythology Bible

• Celtic Myth and Magic (I know Edain McCoy isn't the most reliable author but you never know what you might find)

• Green Witchcraft I, II, and III

• The big Book of Runes and Runic Magic

• Goodly Spellbook

• Spells for the Solitary Witch

• Grimorium Verum

• Le Petite Albert (English Edition, obviously) [Until of course, I finish learning French as I would like to compare both versions]

• Grimoire for the Green Witch

• Of Witchcraft and Whimsy

Books I plan to Get:

• Appalachian Folklore, Omens, Signs, and Superstitions

• The Greek Plays

• Ancient Magic: A Practicioners Guide to the Supernatural in Greece and Rome

• The Black Toad: West Country Witchcraft and Magic

• Liber Nox: A Traditional Witch's Gramarye

• To Fly by Night: Craft of the Hedgewitch

• Slavic Witchcraft: Old World Conjuring, Spells and Folklore

• The Path of Shadows: Cthonic Gods, Oneiromancy, Necromancy in Ancient Greece

• The Crooked Path: An Introduction to Traditional Witchcraft

• Southern Cunning: Folkloric Witchcraft in the American South

• Keeping Her Keys: An Introduction to Hekate's Modern Witchcraft

• The Door to Witchcraft: A New Witch's Guide to History, Traditions, and Modern Day Spells

• A Deed Without a Name: Unearthing the Legacy of Traditional Witchcraft

• The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology

• Folk Witchcraft: A Guide to Lore, Land, and the Familiar Spirit for the Solitary Witch

• Backwoods Witchcraft: Conjure and Folk Magic from Appalachia

• Encyclopedia of Norse and Germanic Folklore, Mythology, and Magic

• Trolldom: Spells and Methods of the Norse Folk Magic Tradition

• The Galdrabök

• The Big Book of Practical Spells

• Popular Magic: Cunningfolk in English History

• The Greek Way of Death

• Weave the Liminal: Living Modern Traditional Witchcraft

• The Witch's Book of Spirits

• The Master Book of Herbalism

• Mastering Witchcraft: A Practical Guide for Witches, Warlocks, and Covens

• Agrippa's Three Books

• Plato's

• The Witch's Book of Mystery

• Forbidden Mysteries of Faery Witchcraft

• Plants of the Devil

• The Hearth Witch's Compendium

• Honoring your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestor Veneration

• Morbid Magic: Death Spirituality and Culture from Around the World

• Powers of the Psalms

• The Bible (Believe it or not)

• Making Magic: Weaving Together the Everyday and the Extraordinary

• Sew Witchy: Tools, Techniques, & Projects for Sewing Magic

• The Super Natural: Why the Unexplained is Real

• The Practical Witch's Spellbook

• The Spirit Almanac: A Modern Guide to Ancient Self-Care

• The Exorcist's Handbook