A Handbook of Invocations, Blessings, Protections, Healing Spells, Love Spells, Binding and Bidding. The author sets out to prove that spell-making is a skill and can be learned by anyone with sufficient psychic energy and powers of concentration. Learn the ancient craft of common magic, which has no connection to witchcraft or the black arts. Verbal magic, a form of wishing or transmittal of intuitive messages, is as old as language itself and as powerful as the deepest forces of the human psyche. Skelton's intelligent, informative commentary will fascinate those reading out of curiosity and those seeking knowledge.