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Missing Witches
Missing Witches: Recovering True Histories of Feminist Magic | Risa Dickens, Amy Torok
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A guide to invocations, rituals, and histories at the intersection of magic and feminism, as informed by history's witches--and the sociopolitical culture that gave rise to them. When you start looking for witches, you find them everywhere. As seekers and practitioners reclaim and restore magic to its rightful place among powerful forces for social, personal, and political transformation, more people than ever are claiming the identity of Witch. But our knowledge of witchcraft and magic has been marred by erasure, sensationalism, and sterilization, the true stories of history's witches left untold. Through meditations, stories, and practices, authors Risa Dickens and Amy Torok offer an intersectional, contemporary lens for uncovering and reconnecting with feminist witch history. Sharing traditions from all over the world--from Harlem to Haiti, Oaxaca to Mesopotamia--Missing Witches introduces readers to figures like Monica Sjoo, HP Blavatsky, Maria Sabina, and Enheduanna, shedding light on their work and the cultural and sociopolitical contexts that shaped it. Structured around the 8 sabbats of the Wheel of the Year, each chapter includes invocations, rituals, and offerings that incorporate the authors' own wisdom, histories, and journeys of trauma, loss, and empowerment. Missing Witches offers an inside look at the vital stories of women who have practiced--and lived--magic.
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literarymermaid
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"whitewashed is brainwashing"

I never thought of it that way, but yeah

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literarymermaid
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"Methodology is Ritual. Hypotheses are Prophecies. "

I just came across this and had to share. There is magic in normal things when we look for it. I'm attempting that life.

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wanderinglynn
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Thank you Amanda! I loved the wrapping paper!

And what an amazing #BWS box! I love it and can‘t wait to dive into the books and chocolate 🍫

Happy Samhain! Blessed be 🕯

StaceGhost Wow!!! This is so cool! 1y
sprainedbrain Lovely! 😍 1y
MatchlessMarie 🧡🔮🖤 1y
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slategreyskies
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Thanks, @Clare-Dragonfly for your review and commentary on this book. It looks amazing and is on sale on Kindle today. Thought I‘d pass on the info for anyone who‘s interested.

#witchy

BookBosomed1 This book is sitting on my TBR shelf. It looks good. (edited) 2y
ju.ca.no Oh thanks for the tip, I‘ve just bought it😍 2y
Tera66 Thanks for sharing! I'm getting it!🧙‍♀️ 2y
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Clare-Dragonfly

#LittensDressedInBlood – Black Magic Woman – There are some real black magic women in this book! And by that I mean women who do magic, black women who do magic, and women who do black magic.

MidnightBookGirl This sounds amazing! 3y
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Pickpick

Loved this book so much!!!!

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Clare-Dragonfly
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Pickpick

This book is powerful, inspiring, and utterly magical. Anyone who calls themselves Witch should read it.

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Clare-Dragonfly
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“As Witches we are called to listen to the suffering, to the river, to the ghosts beyond the veil, and to be changed by what we hear. We work and craft to be tuned like instruments so that our voices rise and resonate.”

Yeah, I‘m posting a lot of quotes from this book. Sorry not sorry 😆

Clare-Dragonfly This line also inspired me to write my very first original prayer, so, that‘s cool. 3y
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Clare-Dragonfly
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“At Samhain in particular, we ritualize the knowledge that death is close but also that our lives matter. That this present moment is always a portal, a circle of white flame that holds space for things wildly new and very old. All our work is ancestor work, and in the great fertility tradition of Witchcraft, we are the womb and the tomb, we sit on the edge of life and death, calling new possibilities into the world.”

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Clare-Dragonfly
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“…keeping you ashamed of being *different* is a great way to make sure you‘re always dimming your light. Keeping hidden your shining sun of multiplicity and otherness. It‘s easier that way. Easier for them.”

slategreyskies Wow, great quote. Thanks! I‘m sold. 2y
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Clare-Dragonfly
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This is what happens when I read this book without my bullet journal handy to write down quotes 😆

FelinesAndFelonies I take pictures of the quotes so I don't have to write them down or tag the pages. 3y
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Clare-Dragonfly
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“But be warned. Some won‘t draw their shades. Some will attempt to put out your light. With mockery. With violence. In a perfect world (that we are creating here together), everyone would be safe to express who they truly are. Radical. Queer. Different. Witch. In this society, the choice is yours: blend in or take the heat that comes with standing out.”

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Clare-Dragonfly
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“This idea, that a splitting into binary suggests a potent sacred *something* beyond the binary, before the split (and in between), is at the core of Witch knowledge.”

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Clare-Dragonfly
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“…whitewashing is brainwashing. That‘s what colonialism does. It takes the sacred and rebrands it until we all forget where it came from. Mass produces and mass markets until all power and meaning are scrubbed out.”

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Clare-Dragonfly
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I decided to participate in #witchstacksunday on Instagram and figured I‘d post my stack here too! Missing Witches is my current read; the rest are TBR.

TalesandTexts What a fabulous witch stack! Love this! 😀 3y
Darklunarose Is it any good? 3y
Clare-Dragonfly @Darklunarose @nishaagni Oh my gosh, it‘s so good! I knew I would like it since I love the podcast, but it‘s even better than I anticipated so far. It‘s so intense and magical. I am writing down so many notes. 3y
Darklunarose @Clare-Dragonfly sounds like I really really need this in my collection! 3y
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Clare-Dragonfly
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Yay! I‘ve really been looking forward to this one!

For my fellow nerds: there are 16 pages of endnotes and 10 pages of bibliography 😍

TalesandTexts I'd love to know your opinion about this book. It's in my wishlist. 3y
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Clare-Dragonfly
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I am just rolling in new books lately! These just arrived from an Instagram giveaway that I won! 😍😍😍 I‘m so excited to read them.

DivineDiana Congratulations on winning the giveaway! 👏🏻👍🏻📚 3y
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