Pagan Portals - Magic for Hedge Witches

This is a great resource for any witch, but I do think it tends to be more for the experienced practitioner. If you still buy it and find this to be true for yourself, just hang onto it…you’ll reference it often and grow into it as you grow as well.

I’m good with this not having a lot of spells and recipes, as I want the basics and foundation. Being a history lover, the little nuggets sprinkled throughout are treasures! I’ll be referencing this one for a long time to come.

A fantastic reference book for those who are maybe a bit more advanced in their witchcraft journey.
I enjoyed the references to witchcraft in history throughout the book, and I have written some suggestions down for things that have caught my eye to look up.
I particularly enjoyed the clear and concise guides to certain objects and their meanings. This would be useful to have on hand when you want to look up a topic quickly.
I would have liked to have seen more examples of recipes and concoctions, but I believe this book is more for giving us an understanding of the basics first, walk before you can run!
Thank you to the author for also referencing specific books throughout. This is useful when it comes to finding other books on a certain subject matter that the reader may have more of an interest in.

Magic for Hedge Witches gives developing practitioners the framework to craft a more personal magical practice. In particular, the connection exercises and the discussion regarding making old spells new are absolute gold for someone with a serious interest in using the world around them to connect and manifest their own personal magic. This book contains not just the wisdom of crafting personal magic, but basic apothecary knowledge for a beginning natural healer with encouragement and additional resources to expand their growing practice.

Very few magical instruction books contain actual practical information about how to craft a magic spell. Most give you the ingredients and the words and the implication is that you perform it as if in a play. This is the definition of ritual and a reasonable expectation for a "spellbook". Magic for Hedge Witches by Harmonia Saille is a different kind of book. It gives readers a new perspective and empowers them to develop their own organic magical practice firmly rooted in the traditions of natural healing and built around the practitioner's own surroundings, interests, and needs.

This informative book reads like a reference book, which isn't a bad thing necessarily. I learned a lot about history and took away from this more I wanted to learn, specifically about hedge witchery. This book feels like a reference book, but also like a guide to getting to where you want to be as a witch, with very few actual spells but a lot of recipes. I would definitely recommend this book to someone who is already familiar with folk-magic or hedge witchery more than to a complete beginner, however.