Free Download Forming the Early Chinese Court: Rituals, Spaces, Roles By Luke Habberstad
2017 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0295742399 | PDF | 2 MB
Forming the Early Chinese Courtbuilds on new directions in comparative studies of royal courts in the ancient world to present a pioneering study of early Chinese court culture. Rejecting divides between literary, political, and administrative texts, Luke Habberstad examines sources from the Qin, Western Han, and Xin periods (221 BCE-23 CE) for insights into court society and ritual, rank, the development of the bureaucracy, and the role of the emperor. These diverse sources show that a large, but not necessarily cohesive, body of courtiers drove the consolidation, distribution, and representation of power in court institutions.Forming the Early Chinese Courtencourages us to see China's imperial unification as a surprisingly idiosyncratic process that allowed different actors to stake claims in a world of increasing population, wealth, and power.

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Free Download Forest Magic: Rituals and Spells for Green Witchcraft by Nikki Van De Car
English | March 19th, 2024 | ISBN: 0762485337 | 144 pages | True EPUB | 49.57 MB
Connect to the enchanted mystery of trees, plants, and forests as you engage in green witchcraft, rituals, spell work, and seasonal magic crafted by the bestselling author ofPractical Magic, Nikki Van De Car.

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Free Download A Year in Practice: Seasonal Rituals and Prompts to Awaken Cycles of Creative Expression by Jacqueline Suskin
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1649631340 | 240 pages | PDF | 1.85 Mb
"If you're looking to get still, turn inward, and learn to trust your voice, this is the book for you." ―Alexandra Elle, New York Times bestselling author of How We Heal

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Free Download The Marie Laveau Voodoo Grimoire: Rituals, Recipes, and Spells for Healing, Protection, Beauty, Love, and More (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CTD219CQ | 2024 | 7 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 216 MB
Author: Denise Alvarado
Narrator: Adenrele Ojo
The first guide and spell book for modern witches on how to bring the renowned Marie Laveau's spiritual heritage to life. The Marie Laveau Voudoo Grimoire is a practical guide to New Orleans-style magic inspired by the life and traditions of Marie Laveau-the eternal and enduring Queen of New Orleans Voodoo. This is a working grimoire, or spell book, created for the modern witch and Conjure worker that provides formulas and recipes for solving the problems of daily living and enhancing quality of life using the Laveau Voodoo tradition. More than just a collection of spells, The Marie Laveau Voodoo Grimoire contains tips and recommendations for improving one's spell-crafting skills and living a magical, spiritual life. The author draws upon her own Creole heritage to bring this unique and regional style of magic to the greater public in a clear and accessible way. Alvarado teaches listeners everything from stone, root, and bone magick to ritual oils and spells for healing, protection, love, beauty, banishing, and much more.

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Free Download Stephanie Rose Bird, Deanna Anthony (Narrator), "The Healing Tree: Botanicals, Remedies, and Rituals from African Folk Traditions"
English | ASIN: B0CW1ZCWXD | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:11:00 | 261 MB
The Healing Tree celebrates the forest: its powers, spirits, magic, medicine, and mysteries. Author Stephanie Rose Bird shares how trees have provided her with personal healing, then allows us to share in that process for our own benefit and, by extension, provide healing for Earth's beleaguered forests.
Reclaiming traditional botanical and herbal practices has never been more important than it is today. So much of our future depends on our ability to use ancient Earth knowledge. Although many botanicals and herbals have been published, they tend to focus on Europe and the Americas. For many, the word "rainforest" is synonymous with the endangered Amazon Basin, as if that were Earth's only endangered patch of healing green. Africa, the Mother Continent and reputedly the birthplace of the entire human race, remains largely ignored. Yet African wild lands are as endangered as the Amazon. Equally endangered are the traditional indigenous cultures of Africa, caretakers of sophisticated botanical medicinal systems whose roots stretch back to the proverbial dawn of time.
The book offers functional, accessible recipes, remedies, and rituals derived from a variety of African and African American traditions to serve mind, body, soul, and spirit.

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Free Download The Witch's Home: Rituals and Crafts for Self-Restoration by Jo Cauldrick
English | June 20, 2023 | ISBN: 1784885770 | 160 pages | MOBI | 25 Mb
In The Witch's Home, Jo Cauldrick shares 25 soothing rituals, crafts, meditations and magical practices for you and your home, to encourage a more magical, harmonious way of living. Broken down into five chapters, witchcraft-inspired activities blending homemade crafts, potion-making and spells will help you become the best version of yourself and make your home a haven. With guidance on how to build your own altar space, create a spell bag as well as candle magic and manifesting, you will be able to slow down, connect to the earth and enhance your own spiritual practices. Designed to encourage you to become more in tune with the cycles of nature, The Witch's Home is a wonderful, practical guide to making the most of your magical potential.

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Free Download Fabrizio Ferrari, "Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia: Disease, Possession and Healing"
English | 2010 | pages: 232 | ISBN: 0415561450, 1138784796 | EPUB | 3,8 mb
Drawing on original fieldwork, this book develops a fresh methodological approach to the study of indigenous understandings of disease as possession, and looks at healing rituals in different South Asian cultural contexts. Contributors discuss the meaning of 'disease', 'possession' and 'healing' in relation to South Asian religions, including Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and Sikhism, and how South Asians deal with the divine in order to negotiate health and wellbeing.

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Free Download Llewellyn, "Mabon: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for the Autumn Equinox"
English | 2015 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0738741809 | EPUB | 6,7 mb
A thanksgiving celebration for the second harvest

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Free Download Michael Atwood Mason, "Living Santería: Rituals and Experiences in an Afro-Cuban Religion"
English | 2002 | pages: 176 | ISBN: 1588340775 | EPUB | 2,4 mb
In 1992 Smithsonian anthropologist Michael Atwood Mason traveled to Cuba for initiation as a priest into the Santería religion. Since then he has created an active oricha "house" and has initiated five others as priests. He is a rare combination: a scholar-practitioner who is equally fluent in his profession and his religion. Interweaving his roles as researcher and priest, Mason explores Santería as a contemporary phenomenon and offers an understanding of its complexity through his own experiences and those of its many practitioners. Balancing deftly between a devotee's account of participation and an anthropologist's theoretical analysis, Living Santería offers an original and insightful understanding of this growing religious tradition.

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Free Download Fabrizio Ferrari, "Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia: Disease, Possession and Healing"
English | 2014 | pages: 249 | ISBN: 1138784796, 0415561450 | PDF | 3,1 mb
Drawing on original fieldwork, this book develops a fresh methodological approach to the study of indigenous understandings of disease as possession, and looks at healing rituals in different South Asian cultural contexts. Contributors discuss the meaning of 'disease', 'possession' and 'healing' in relation to South Asian religions, including Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and Sikhism, and how South Asians deal with the divine in order to negotiate health and wellbeing.

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