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The Little Big Book of White Spells is a cute little book with simple spells that can be done for a multitude of different needs. I found it to be kind of on the folk magic side.

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The Little Big Book of White Spells by Ileana Abrev

9780738751696

408 Pages
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, Llewellyn Publications
Release Date: January 8, 2017

Nonfiction (Adult), Religion, Spirituality, Magic, Witchcraft

The book is divided into the following sections.

White Spells
White Spells for Love
White Spells for Protection
White Spells on the Go

The book contains spells for colors, crystals, candles, herbs, and essential oils. It is like having your own grimoire with spells for every need. I was pleased that the author does not use manipulation especially in love spells, or what she refers to as dark love. I must admit, this is one of the most complete spell books I have come across. The author did a wonderful job writing directions and providing supply lists for each spell. If you are looking for a specific spell, I am sure you will find it in this book. I recommend this book to level practitioner.

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I enjoyed reading Abrev's 'The Little Big Book of White Spells'. Books on Magick can often feel very serious and mysterious, requiring readers to be steeped in knowledge and in possession of tons of crystals, herbs and time. Abrev's book feels much simpler, much more straightforward and simple. Her spells feel applicable to life in their focus and their ease, and as a novice I'd much rather attempt something like this. It's also nice to see all of Abrev's spell books combined into a single collection.

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Not my cup of tea, couldn't even get into it! Not a subject I'm into anymore!

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I was unfamiliar with any kind of spell. Looking through “The Little Big Book of White Spells” helped me to understand people different from me and doesn’t seem as far away from praying as I thought it would.

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Loved everything about this book! Glad to have it in my collection to read again and again.

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Quick. Gimicky. Too childish to be taken as a serious resource for serious study of witchcraft.

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Whether you are a beginner of magic practise or someone more advanced, this book will benefit you. With plenty of information on how to build an altar, cast a circle and prepare your magical environment, the author has answered all the need to knows before you even get to the spell portion of the book.

This book is well organised and makes it easy for you to locate just the kind of spell you are looking for. The spells range from simple to more complex and include a variety of topics and ways to perform them to get the utmost effects from them.

This is an enchanting read, filled with good ideas and a lot of useful information for any stage of a magical journey.

I found this book to be highly useful and look forward to having a copy of it on my magic shelf.

This review is based on a complementary copy from the publisher, provided through Netgalley, All opinions are my own.

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I've just finished Ileana Abrev's "The Little Bog Book of White Spells", which is a good spell book with some useful information in it. I've read several different types of spell books, and this one is pretty on par with what to expect.

Abrev discusses how to get started using this book and the basics of spell working. How to set up a altar, color magic, some crystal work, correspondence charts, items you will need to set up a practice, all of this is useful setting the groundwork for being successful. This is great for beginners, and a useful reference or refresher for the more advanced worker.

This book has a wide range of different spell workings, ideas for candle spells, love spells, workings for letting go and so on. Most of these are easy to do, with ingredients and supplies that shouldn't be too hard to find. I do appreciate that in a spell book (or well any "crafting" book for that matter) as trying to find ingredients like eye of bat and tongue of newt can be hard to come by. My favorite section of this book is titled "Once, Twice but not a Third Time Around". These are quick spells Abrev designed to get your message across quickly without having to to terribly long workings.

If you have other spell books, you may not need this one. I liked some of the workings in it, but nothing in this was dramatically new. That isn't a bad thing, but if you already have a shelf full of spell books you may not "need" this one. If you are just starting out and your collection is small, I can recommend this book. Seems to have a solid foundation for to grow upon and these are easy workings and information you can do and use to gain confidence in yourself. I enjoyed the book, I found it useful as I love reading about how other people approach the craft.

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I love how easy all the spells are and the instructions are well written. Abrev eloquently wrote about how we need to protect ourselves from negative energies.

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I recently read for review The Little Big Book of White Spells by Ileana Abrev. This book is out now and available from Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. and on Amazon by clicking here.
I found this to be a captivating read, with more then 200 spells for all your hearts wishes and desires. This is a book of hope and would make a lovely gift. Perfect for those who are interested in witch craft, powers and laws of attraction and of course writers with an interest in witch craft and the paranormal like me!

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Interesting book! I still haven't tried any of the spells - honestly, I'm not sure if I believe this - but I really liked to learn more about crystals and colors.

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Do you want money, love, power, friendship, more color in your life, and are you interesting to defeat your most common disturbs? Maybe The Little Big Book of White Spells by Ileana Abrev will be the answer for you! The book will be published this January 8th by Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd.

You can have good luck, you can attract the world, you can aovid negativirs, you can be more...colored do you know? Yes you can, also thanks to the help of... Colors! Yes colors, and in particular chosing them carefully for your wardrobe.

Crystals, another chapter of the book will be able to cure a lot of symptoms and little illness, and then magical bath, herb and plant magic...An important chapter to me the one of candles.

I don't know you but I love candles. After my dad passed away I sure enjoy everyday to bring him some candles for avoiding any kind of obscurity and I love to light candles at home.

Each candle and each color of the candle you will pick up will have a different meaning. If you will choose the white one you will search for protection and purity, purple for family and so on. It depends the use you must do with candles and the message you want to spread to the Universe and the answers you are searching for.

A special section of the book all dedicated to love, and self-love, break-up, negativities connected to love.

The book written with great enthusiasm by Ileana Abrev The purpose: helping you to realize your dreams and desires using remedies pretty old, more commonly used by pagans. Fascinating.

It's a great book! and I like the cover so badly. When I meet a black cat I can tell you my day will be extra-lucky! Oh, what a terrible witch I am! ;-)


I thank NetGalley and Llewellyn Publishing.

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