Glamour Magic: The Witchcraft Revolution to Get What You Want

179 Pages·2017·1.16 MB·English

by  Deborah Castellano

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
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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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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
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AIR IN
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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
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A GUNSHOT OUR GLAMOUR OUR
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WHISPER OT INTO THE DEEPEST WELL IN
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THE FOREST BUT INTO THE RIGHT EAR OU

MUST TUG ON THE HEARTSTRINGS OF
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MODERN DAY QUEENS AND WARLORDS WHO

HAVE POWER OVER YOU SO THAT YOU CAN
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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)