Book Review – Baba Yaga’s Book of Witchcraft by Madame Pamita
I recently read “Baba Yaga's Book of Witchcraft: Slavic Magic from the Witch of the Woods” by Madame Pamita and I am so very glad that I did. Baba Yaga's Book of Witchcraft is a delightful blend of slavic folklore, practice and wisdom which captured my imagination.
Madame Pamita has done an excellent job of compiling the information in a way that is engaging, and uses storytelling to illustrate a point. Personally I loved the crafting elements inherent in slavic witchcraft, and it spoke to me on a deep level as an artist myself.
Check out my interview with Madame Pamita on the Witch Talks Podcast
What I liked
I LOVED the formatting of this book. It is beautifully done in both presentation and readability. Having the 3 sections to each chapter beginning with the tale of Vasylyna, then the words of wisdom from Baba Yaga and finally the wisdom of Madame Pamita herself was easy to understand, and very well done.
The chapter topics wove in perfectly with the story, and encompassed such a broad variety of magick. I personally used the garlic spell for bad neighbours and the next day my neighbours were evicted! There is definitely true magick within these pages.
As a Witch with a penchant for divination I adored the many different ways shown in the book that people have created for divination purposes. It has been a wonderful resource for me to recommend to my students of ‘The Art of Psychic Divination - Level 1’.
The book is rich with footnotes and bibliography for further reading too showing the depth of research done by the author.
What I disliked
There isn’t much at all that I didn’t like in this book, except maybe the size of the book itself made it difficult to read. It's thin but large and floppy so reading in bed became difficult unless I folded back the page. This is minor though.
I would have loved the addition of graph paper with some of the designs blown up in the back for crafting purposes, and perhaps a more extensive index or way of finding the contents. When I was looking for the bad neighbour spell it took a lot of flicking through and I would have loved to be able to search the word neighbour at the back and find the spell that way.
Do I recommend it?
Yes absolutely. I give it 5 witches hats.
My witches’ hats rating system:
0 - Problematic, this book should be burned.
1 - Did not like this book, do not read
2 - It was ok, wouldn’t recommend it though.
3 - I liked it but it might not be for everyone
4 - I really liked it and think most people will like it
5 - AMAZING, I loved it and everyone should read it
Meet Hana
Hana O’Neill, the Suburban Witch is a professional Tarot & Astrology reader, Intuitive Coach and the host of the Witch Talks podcast.
