Glamour Magic: The Witchcraft Revolution to Get What You Want PDF
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About the Author Deborah Castellano (Bridgewater, New Jersey) is a writer, crafter, and glamour girl who serves as a frequent contributor to occult/Pagan sources such as Witchvox, PaganSquare, and Witches & Pagans. Visit her online at www.DeborahMCastellano.com. Photo by Hellion Photography Llewellyn Publications Woodbury, Minnesota Copyright Information Glamour Magic: The Witchcraft Revolution to Get What You Want © 2017 by Deborah Castellano. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any matter whatsoever, including Internet usage, without written permission from Llewellyn Publications, except in the form of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. As the purchaser of this e-book, you are granted the non-exclusive, non- transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. The text may not be otherwise reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, or recorded on any other storage device in any form or by any means. Any unauthorized usage of the text without express written permission of the publisher is a violation of the author’s copyright and is illegal and punishable by law. First e-book edition © 2017 E-book ISBN: 9780738752679 Book design by Bob Gaul Cover design by Ellen Lawson Editing by Laura Graves Llewellyn Publications is an imprint of Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Castellano, Deborah, author. Title: Glamour magic: the witchcraft revolution to get what you want / Deborah Castellano. Description: First edition. | Woodbury, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017026783 (print) | LCCN 2017012906 (ebook) | ISBN 9780738752679 (ebook) | ISBN 9780738750385 (alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Witchcraft. | Magic. | Glamour. 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Llewellyn Publications Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd. 2143 Wooddale Drive Woodbury, MN 55125 www.llewellyn.com Manufactured in the United States of America Contents All is Fair in Glamour Warfare You Are Not Like the Others One Small Thing Revolution Starts in Your Boyfriend’s Wife’s Bedroom Mirror, Mirror No One Woke Up Like This Failure is Always an Option You Don’t Have to Like it, You Just Have to Do it In the Valley of Your Hunger Leveling Up Acknowledgments Bibliography For Uncle Sock (Always) A LL IS F AIR IN G LAMOUR A W ARFARE RE YOU READY TO REVOLUTIONIZE YOUR MAGICAL PRACTICE BY LEARNING TO USE ? G YOUR GLAMOUR LAMOUR IS THE PERFECT TOOL FOR A REVOLUTION BECAUSE A , REVOLUTION IS STARTED BY A WHISPER NOT . Y . Y A GUNSHOT OUR GLAMOUR OUR . N WHISPER OT INTO THE DEEPEST WELL IN , . Y THE FOREST BUT INTO THE RIGHT EAR OU MUST TUG ON THE HEARTSTRINGS OF - MODERN DAY QUEENS AND WARLORDS WHO HAVE POWER OVER YOU SO THAT YOU CAN . T OBTAIN WHATEVER YOU DESIRE MOST HIS , WHISPER COULD UNLOCK WINDOWS OPEN , DOORS AND SLIDE THROUGH SECRET G W . Y PASSAGES FOR YOUR REAT ORK OU MUST BE BRAVE BECAUSE YOU MAY ONLY HAVE ONE CHANCE TO ASK FOR YOUR MOST . SACRED WISH FROM THIS POWERFUL PERSON Y OUR WORDS WILL ACT AS A STRAIGHT SHOT OF POTENT ELIXIR THAT HAS BEEN - . I TORN FROM YOUR STILL BEATING HEART T . I WILL HURT AS IT IS RIPPED OUT OF YOU T WILL BE TERRIFYING ONCE THE WHISPER . I . LEAVES YOUR MOUTH T RISKS EVERYTHING You . RISK EVERYTHING Do you dare? Your heart’s desire always comes at a cost. If it were easily obtained, you would not want it so badly. There is always the dark of the dreamlike woods you must force yourself to walk. Here the wicked things hide and your great and small battles reside. Bits of you must be taken by your goddesses and spirits; friends will become enemies and then friends again; you’ll see unexpected mercy shown from harsh rivals; hollow victories and cordial defeats; lost causes will be won; sure bets will be lost; high roads and low roads must be walked. You must be willing to have your face down in the mud with everything that ever mattered to you snatched up by the impassive Moirai and then equally ready to seize opportunity when they have inexplicably begun to favor you again. You must be cunning, you must be sly, you must be willing to employ tactics that aren’t considered fair. Like glamour. What Is Glamour, Anyway? The word glamour has two definitions: 1. What makes you exciting and interesting to others. 2. An illusionary spell. The second definition is useless to us. It encourages dismissal from the actual community of Witches because it’s easy to get swept up in the Hollywood special effects aspect of it. Magic doesn’t work like that, our elders scold us. And that’s a wasteful use of it anyway, even if it could work like that. It is quickly dismissed as a bad sleight-of-hand trick. You could change the color of your eyes a lot faster with contacts than concentrating large swaths of your magical practice dedicated to it. And so, glamour is dismissed as a not-terribly-realistic party trick instead of an earthshaking subtle magic that utilizes what makes you exciting and interesting to others. It’s no coincidence that glamour is also associated with female beauty, especially if this beauty dares to be tarted up by cosmetics or clothing. We have been taught that women “who try too hard” were never actually pretty, it was just their deceptive lipstick, their Spanx full of lies, their deceitfully glittering Manolo Blahniks. The lesson has been that if anyone dares to attempt to own their power, not with sheer dominance but by embracing all that is in them that is fascinating and charming to others—if they dared to try to make themselves into something that they wanted or actually reach for their heart’s desire especially by using magic, their appearance, cunning, or bravery—they must be smacked down and shamed. Society relentlessly tells us that a real person of substance would never become involved in actually using glamour (definition one or two)
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