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    A Witch's Beverages and Brews: Magick Potions Made Easy
    A Witch's Beverages and Brews: Magick Potions Made Easy
    A Witch's Beverages and Brews: Magick Potions Made Easy
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    A Witch's Beverages and Brews: Magick Potions Made Easy

    By Patricia Telesco

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    A Witch's Beverages and Brews shares the wonderful heritage of beverage making and consuming -- how drinks appeared on altars as gift to the gods, where toasts come from, and why we pass wine clockwise around the table. All this lore and superstition combines with modern magickal methods to help you design beverages that quench both physical and spiritual thirst completely while tantalizing your taste buds.

    In the later half of the book, each chapter is devoted to a specific theme with a suggested component list, preparation ideas (timing), and a host of recipes for both consumption and spellcraft purposes. Some of the themes that are covered are "keeping love true," "prosperity potions," and "concocting a little luck." Whether you're creating a drink so you can internalize its qualities for daily living, or making it for a friend, there's something here for all occasions, needs, and tastes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Page Books
    Release dateNov 1, 2000
    ISBN9781632658067
    A Witch's Beverages and Brews: Magick Potions Made Easy
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    Patricia Telesco

    Patricia Telesco is a practicing herbalist, metaphysical lecturer, and author of Goddess in My Pocket, 365 Goddess, and other books on dreams, divination, magick, and Wicca.

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      I absolutely love the recipes in this book. I haven't tried them all but not for lack of wanting. Hopefully soon I will be able to try out every recipe in this book. This is an absolute must even for people who aren't into the craft.

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    A Witch's Beverages and Brews - Patricia Telesco

    INTRODUCTION

    Oh, many a peer of England brews, livelier liquor than the muse; and malt does more than Milton can, to justify God's ways to man.

    —Alfred E. Houseman

    As most people stumble into the kitchen and reach for a morning cup of coffee, they probably do not think of this moment as remotely magickal—except perhaps for that uncanny spiritual pleasure derived from the first sip. Nonetheless, coffee (along with many other beverages) has played an important role in the world's mystical and religious practices! In fact, temple altars from Japan to South America have often been adorned with elaborate cups just waiting to be filled. With what? All manner of drinks including wine, water, beer, milk, or other similar liquids aimed at honoring and appeasing the god or goddess to whom that temple was built.

    While this custom seems far removed from our drive-through society, you will still see water- or wine- filled chalices on many church altars today. Even outside this setting there are a lot of beverages that we have come to treasure on a personal, familial, or cultural level. For example, do you prepare eggnog on Yule from an old family recipe or always use the same set of glasses to serve out wine for special occasions? These kinds of actions indicate a unique quality in beverages that has captured human imaginations and taste buds for centuries!

    This book comes to you with that rich heritage in mind by offering options for an assortment of enchanted brews and beverages that will appease your physical and spiritual thirst. Additionally, you'll find effective ideas for using the folklore and history of various beverages as a way to add culturally or personally significant dimensions to anything you might wish to drink. The liberal mixing of tradition and custom with creativity allows you to draw on the best of the past and present for a potent blend whose energies you internalize when you quaff it!

    As you might have gathered by my enthusiasm, I really enjoy the ancient art of brewing as a hobby. But there are plenty of recipes and techniques discussed here for those of you who are time-challenged. The great beauty of beverage magick is that it need not be complex at all. Even the simplest of beverages prepared with willful focus and sound metaphysical methods can have just as potent results as those made diligently from scratch. For example, rather than make a wine or juice yourself, you can simply use the blessing and energizing methods suggested with a store-bought brand. So long as the ingredients in a beverage and your intentions match, there's no limit to the kind of results you can achieve this way.

    I offer the recipes and methods in this book as a sensitive exploration of both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages as a magickal tool. While many people choose not to imbibe these days, magick recognizes that anything treated respectfully holds the potential for positive energy. Additionally, many alcoholic beverages were considered sacred when served out in a liturgical context. So, even if we decide against consuming alcoholic beverages for personal reasons, that doesn't mean it can't become an offering or libation in the context of a ritual or spell.

    As with magickal cooking, spiritually enhanced beverages require some thoughtfulness in their making. This book offers you various ways of personalizing recipes so that they reflect your preferred flavors and prevalent needs all in one glass. The appendix of ingredients and magickal correspondences will also help with that process, as will keeping your inventive, intuitive self close by while you work.

    By making your own ritual brews, you are partaking in an age-old tradition. No matter the final use of that liquid, this gives you a chance to blend talent, vision, love, and discretion into something tasty and filled to overflowing with blessings. Stir up a witch's brew today!

    THEN AND NOW: RELIGION, MYTH, AND MAGICK

    As he brews, so shall he drink.

    —Ben Johnson

    Since nature’s holy law is drinking, I’ll make the law of nature mine and pledge the universe in wine.

    —Tom Moore

    The history of beverages and specifically brewing is far more intimately linked with religion, lore, and societal traditions than most people realize. There was even a time when certain beverages had to be prepared by a priest or monk, feeling that the art was a sacred task. Add to that the fact that we still call alcohol spirits and continue to toast special occasions with beverages (which is actually a kind of invocation), and you begin to see how much of our drinking customs have a mystical connection—albeit somewhat removed from our modern mind-set, except perhaps in a few spiritual sectors.

    Today’s witches, for example, are very practical and creative. We look to everything in the world as having potential in our practices, including our foods and beverages. In fact, these hold even more potential because you consume them, literally taking the energy into yourself and accepting it into every cell in your body. Before you can make this huge leap from just grabbing a glass of water to quaffing magick, however, it helps to see from where our methods and ideas on this subject originate.

    HISTORICAL AND MAGICKAL ROOTS

    To understand the ancient reverence for beverages, we have to turn back the hands of time. In humankind’s earlier history, water was not always safe to consume. So when brewing came along it was honored as a gift of the gods that could keep people healthy and make them feel happy. Thus it was that all manner of fermented beverages found their way into healing, the church, social occasions, and magickal methods.

    On a far simpler level, the human body requires a certain amount of liquid to survive. So, milk and water held similar places of honor. Milk, for example, often symbolized the Goddess being that it’s a beverage produced by woman that literally gives life to a child and protects the baby’s health. Water in desert regions was often used as a viable, and very costly, offering to the Divine when needs were pressing. To give of something that was in such short supply surely would get a god or goddess’s attention!

    Here is a brief overview of the ways in which specific beverages were introduced into religious and magickal settings throughout history:

    This review is but a short montage from a much larger picture. Beverages have touched nearly every part of human life, from our daily meals to celebrations and the early sciences. At least part of the reason beverages found a comfortable niche in so many settings is because they were included in the great bardic stories told again and again at the fireside and the hearth.

    LEGENDS AND LORE

    The complete beverage picture includes the great myths and legends woven by storytellers throughout the millennia. Above and beyond the fact that these stories give us a peek into the way ancient people perceived the world and its mysteries, they also reveal a lot of magick and mysticism along the way.

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