Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven

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Tap your inner sorceress and channel the magical arts with this bewitching lifestyle guide. Need to exorcise a toxic friendship Say the right symbolic curse and banish it from your life. Want to enhance your attractiveness Pick the right power eye-shadow color and project otherworldly glamour. Interested in boosting your self-confidence Whip up a tasty herbal "potion" to strengthen your resolve. All that plus historical and pop culture sidebars that situate today's witchcraft trend within a broader context. With humor, heart, and a hip modern sensibility, this charming guide dispenses witchy wisdom for the curious, the cynical, and anyone who could use a magical boost to get through the day.

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The practical mantras and rituals inBasic Witcheshelp banish toxic vibes and summon the sorcery to lead an empowered life. Pairs well with a cauldron of ros.Los Angeles Times

A must-read book of spells and lifestyle tips for the aspiring millennial witch. . . full of humor, positive affirmations, historical asides, feminist rants, and adorable illustrations.Bustle

The perfect book for our timesIts not going to tell you how to turn invisible, or use positive thinking to bring yourself everything you ever want in life. What Saxena and Zimmerman created is a fun, thoughtful, and sometimes very funny way to use rituals to take care ofyourself, to create reminders of the way you want to move through the world... Magic, indeed.Tor.com

Packed with plenty of magick, including spells you can cast by yourself or with your BFFs, this book is for the basic witch in us all.HelloGiggles

With humor, heart, and a hip sensibility, Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman dispense witchy wisdom for the curious, the cynical, and anyone who could use a magical boost.Autostraddle

A modern take on mysticism for theRookieset.Sanctuary

A handy guide to boosting self-confidence and reaching positive outcomes.Publishers Weekly, starred review

Interesting and empowering.Syfy Wire

This book is a gemget it for you, for your girl gang, and any woman who might be occasionally tempted to hex a catcaller.BookRiot

The perfect read for women who wish to embrace the power they have from within and transform it into personal purpose, truth and intention.Soul & Spirit Magazine

Author Bio

Jaya Saxena is coauthor of Dad Magazine (Quirk, 2016) and The Book of Lost Recipes (Page Street, 2016). Her work has appeared in many outlets, including the Toast, Buzzfeed, Eater, The New Yorker, WNYC's TL;DR podcast, and many others. Jess Zimmerman is a staff editor at the Establishment. Her writing has been published in Atlas Obscura, Hazlitt, the Guardian, the New Republic, the Hairpin, the Toast, Eater, Aeon, and others.