{"id":520,"date":"2020-01-23T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/01\/23\/operative-witchcraft\/"},"modified":"2020-01-23T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T14:52:00","slug":"operative-witchcraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/01\/23\/operative-witchcraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Operative Witchcraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/operative-witchcraft-cover-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15482\" \/>If you read Nigel Pennick&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=14681\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Witchcraft and Secret Societies of Rural England<\/a>and found yourself wanting more, look no further, Pennick has got you covered. His latest book, Operative Witchcraft: Spellwork &#038; Herbcraft in the British Islesis an excellent follow up or stand-alone title.<\/p>\n<p>Here, buried in traditions of rural tradespeople, you&#8217;ll find the roots of magic and witchcraft as it&#8217;s practiced today. Pennick outlines in detail not just what the magic was, but why it was believed to work. Operative Witchcraftcovers a lot of magical ground in its approximately 200 pages: the crafting of talismans, animal magic, identifying places of power, creating tools, herbal treatments, and more! He discusses the belief of the different types of witches: White, Black, and Gray. Eventually, he leads us to an exploration of what happened when these rural practices butted up against the Church.<\/p>\n<p>If you want a well written, thoroughly researched look at witchcraft&#8217;s past and possible future, get yourself a copy of Operative Witchcraft.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innertraditions.com\/books\/operative-witchcraft\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781620558447?aff=MagicalBuffet\">Shop your local indie bookstore<\/a><---This is an affiliate link to IndieBound, which supports independent bookstores throughout the United States. If you use this link to purchase the book, I will make a small commission at no additional cost to you.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we look at the roots of witchcraft with Nigel Pennick&#8217;s &#8220;Operative Witchcraft&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}