Whether your home is a small apartment or a palatial mansion, you want it to be something special. Now it can be with The Magical Household. Learn how to empower where you live with love, protection, health, and happiness. Here you will learn simple, quick and effective magickal spells that use nothing more than common items in your house.

The Magical Household looks at your household from three perspectives: protecting, blessing, and finding magic. If you have land outside your home, it is revealed here that you can begin to ensure a loving household by planting gardenia, primrose, spearmint, tomato, pansy, jasmine, and catnip. Many other plants are listed to bring you a variety of good things.

Next is the front door. You will discover that hanging a gourd on both sides of the outside of a door will ward off unwanted negativity, as will a piece of bamboo or a wreath of leaves and thorns placed over it. Five shiny pennies placed beneath the porch will bring money and love. There is much more, too.

Once past the door you will find folklore and magical techniques for protection and magick in every room: kitchen, bathroom, living room, etc. Furnishings are covered, also. For example, the shape of an area rug can be of great importance. Round rugs are symbolic of spirituality and peace so they should be used in quiet rooms. Square or rectangular rugs represent the material world, intellect, and technology so they are good for offices, libraries, and so forth. Oval rugs, work well everywhere. You will learn about the secret "trap door" that many handloomed rugs have and why they are there. You'll also find out about clocks, tables, and mirrors, plus the magical qualities of candles, lamps, and woods used in furniture.

The Magical Household also includes legends and magical techniques associated with cleaning your home; moving to a new home; purifying and protecting your entire house; using a household altar; and celebrating the seasonal holidays. The authors provide formulas for purification, protection, and health incenses.

One of the most enjoyable parts of this book is the section on household omens and portents. If you knock a chair over when rising from the table, it is a sign that you lied while seated there. If apples burst while baking in the oven, good news is on the way.

Well-known Wiccan author Ray Buckland writes of this book that "a more complete covering of 'a magical household' would be hard to imagine." And that says it all. No matter where you live, you'll appreciate what this book can do to bring magick into your home. Makes a great housewarming gift!

Other books by Scott Cunningham:

Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner

Living Wicca: A Further Guide for the Solitary Practitioner

Earth, Air, Fire & Water: More Techniques of Natural Magic

The Complete Book of Incense, Oils, and Brews

Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem & Metal Magic

Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs

Magical Herbalism: The Secret Craft of the Wise

Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Wicca in the Kitchen