Spell-casting

Here are all the perfect ingredients—battles, spell-castings of both black and white varieties, old wishing wells, gypsy funerals, mysterious lovers who are not what they seem—woven into a plausible and entertaining tale.

The scholars were arguing about “Grimms’ Fairy Tales,” but they paid little attention to Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel or the rest of that band. They were concerned with spell-casting, proverb-injecting, sexual metaphors, submerged voices and bourgeois tendencies.

Apart from her domestic duties, the Witch taught her which herbs and berries to pick for spell-casting.

I suspect that this assumption of chaos — the sense that institutions have failed and no one is in charge — helps explain the well-documented resurgence of occultism among millennials. Attempts at spell-casting are obviously not unique to today’s young people; […]

Before we can properly begin, there are, thankfully, myriad workshops to attend, including the art of spell-casting and how to cope with “emotional overload” during the game.