Also a little witchcraft if you’re so inclined.
Though I’m not actually Wiccan or Pagan, I found this book absolutely fascinating. I love Halloween and learning about it’s culture and history, so this book was perfect. Highly recommended!
The book is separated into 7 chapters, covering a pretty impressive variety of Halloween lore, beleifs and activities.

The first 3 chapters explore the history of halloween, the customs surrounding it, and the superstitions associated with it. These chapters are interesting, but show a slant toward the mainstream halloween more than the pagan holiday of Samhain. Many parts of this are highly speculative as she tries to associate just about every piece of history with witchcraft. The history in these chapters may not be completely reliable, but it’s a fairly interesting read.
Chapter four is all about divinations. This chapter somehow manages to find a bizarre balance between taking divination seriously and writing it off as a bunch of party games. The only method she goes into any great detail on is casting runes, and actually suggests making them out of pumkin seeds. This is also a chapter where she spends alot of time dwelling on apples. She has alot to say about apples in this book.

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