Spells at the Park - Magic Herbarium for Young Witches - Coloured edition!
Discover the magic of flowers and plants, wear amulets made of spices, make a wish using berries, leaves and wildflowers. With stories of fairies, mythical monsters and legendary princesses, popular culture and witchcraft combine to reveal the magic of nature. Dear witch, are you ready to learn how to collect plants for spells, to store and catalog them and to know all the magical ingredients for potions? Do not worry, everything you need can be found at the park, in the fields or on your balcony. Let's start this magical journey! Since the dawn of time, Wizards and Sorcerers have used herbs to cast their spells. Even today, the idea that a plant has certain magical properties still fascinates young and old people. Spells at the park is a real herbarium written for girls aged 8 to 15 and it is different from all other texts related to this field, because it contains spells that can be made with plants, flowers and spices that can be commonly found in every garden, park or grown on the balcony. After a brief introduction to magic, young readers are invited to connect with nature, to grasp its beauty and the messages it sends. This herbarium, according to its classic structure, collects the botanical cards, not too detailed, of very common medicinal plants, followed by simple spells that can be made with parts of the plant itself. Girls are taught how to collect leaves for magical use, how to store them and how to make little magic with them. The botanical and magical part is followed by historical notes with the narration of myths and legends with kings, queens, monsters and other mythical figures as protagonists and that mostly belong to the oral tradition. The second part is dedicated to medicinal plants, then you can find the part about talismans creation, always using the most common spices. Girls are also taught to create hair clips, brooches to use or give as "powerful Talismans". The journey into green magic gets to the heart with the chapter of flowers. Here there is an introduction to their language, the structure of the single flower card with its botany, magical use, myths and related legends. A particular section is dedicated to the almost forgotten Florimancy. Our great-great grandmothers, whether they were very powerful witches or women who did not use magical powers, used Florimancy every day. This magical practice has ancient origins and is an all-female knowledge, handed down from women to the girls of the family. Little rituals of Florimancy still remain today and are taught to girls. Let's think about picking a daisy and detaching its petals one by one repeating "he loves me, he loves me not". This herbarium ends by revealing to the little readers all those magical spells with flowers that women have always used, such as the famous rose water or that of St. John, to be done every year on the summer solstice. It is not meant to invite you to believe in magic and lapse into superstitions and negative beliefs, but it aims to bring girls closer to nature and to renew interest in all that popular culture that was once handed down from mother to daughter.
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