The Witch’s Book of Spells: Simple Spells for Everyday Magick

• Author: Lindsay Squire, Illustrated by Viki Lester
• Genre: Witchcraft
• Publication Date: August 20, 2024
• Publisher: Leaping Hare Press

Thank you to NetGalley and Leaping Hare Press for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Tap in to your magick powers and embrace your inner Witch with this unique collection of simple spells and rituals from The Witch of the Forest, Lindsay Squire.

Learn how to cast spells, follow rituals, and develop a Witchcraft practice that is authentic to you as you channel the power of Witchcraft for wellbeing. Suitable for beginner and intermediate Witches, discover the perfect time to practice each spell or ritual, and the meaning behind each magickal ingredient. 

In this mystical guide, find spells, rituals, and recipes for:

• Health & well-being;
• Self-love & self-care;
• Money, prosperity & abundance;
• Career boosting;
• Good luck & success;
• Love & romance;
• Kitchen witchery;
• Protection & banishing.

Including a mixture of modern and traditional spells and rituals, from an elemental spell to manifest your dreams, to a tarot spell to attract romantic love, there’s something in this definitive spell book for every Witch.

I read a book a few years back by Lindsay Squire and loved it so much I had to buy a hard copy after it came out, so I was prepared for this one. If this was anything like her book on tarot, I was fully expecting to buy a hard copy of this one too, because I like Squire’s straightforward writing style and her way of breaking down concepts so that I can understand everything easily the firs time I read about it. (I wound up owning the hard copy of this one too).

To start with, there are these adorable little illustrations on nearly every page. They’re related to what is being discussed, and it reinforced what was on the page. In some cases, it’s a depiction of a diagram or setup that should be copied, while in others, it’s a rune, or a cute image of an ingredient that is central to the spell or recipe. 

The book opens with an introductory discussion covering spell casting, which covers information that isn’t just useful to beginners, but can benefit more experienced practitioners as well. From there, it dives right into spells and rituals, touching on so many areas. There are spells and rituals devoted to specific seasons and sabbats, as well as the highly varied specializations, including: moon magick, finances and prosperity, employment and ambition, peace and happiness, good fortune, protective magic, health and well-being, self-care and self-love, psychic abilities, ancestor connections, home and kitchen witchery, family and friends, and love and romance. 

In the other Squire book I read, she emphasized the importance of tweaking things to make them your own and working with what you have. She carries that same tone into this book, and I love that. While all of her spells include “ingredients” that are relatively simple to get, she also includes a note that it is okay to work with what you’ve got and make substitutions if there is an ingredient that you don’t have. At the end of the book, there’s a list of correspondences, to make it easier to find an ingredient that can work as a substitute. 

Unlike other spell books that I’ve seen, where the majority of them look really cool but aren’t the type that I’m going to be using any time soon, this one is absolutely full of spells and rituals that I will be using. There is also a note before each spell letting readers know when the best time to do the spell is, whether it is a sabbath, a weekday, or a moon phase. Overall, this is a fantastic book and I’m so glad that I have a hard copy on my shelf. Just a heads up—if you like to flag pages, beware, because you might run out of flags before pages!

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