 Hello people! My name is Ginny Medderel and I'm a fourth generation witch and I'm here today to tell you about how to start your own book of shadows or grimoire. I thought this would be a good video for you because I've just come to the end of my own book of shadows, I think I've got a page or so to go, and I thought it'd be great if I could give you a little tour of this book and then show you what I'm going to do with my new book and how I'm going to start it. I hope you enjoy this video and if you do please give me a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe and here's a short message from the really rather marvellous Sir David Attenborough. Here is the magnificent Ginny Medderel, one of the few witches left in the wild. Subscribe to her channel and protect her future habitat. Isn't he great? A grimoire or a book of shadows as the Wiccans call it is simply a book of spells filled with instructions, rituals, incantations, invocations and it's been used ever since the dawn of time before we could write we were using book of spells but using the oral tradition and as soon as they could write they put them down in clay tablets and as they found them in Mesopotamia in ancient Egypt. So it's a really old tradition to have a book of spells. Now there are many many different forms of grimoires and many very famous grimoires with the foremost amongst them being, I don't know if you knew this, the Bible. Yes the Bible is a grimoire. It has rituals, rules, magic, incantations i.e prayers and so I know it really is a proper old-fashioned do-as-you-like grimoire. Sadly it was just that the Christians thought that their grimoire was better than any of the witch's grimoires in the 14th century and so burnt everyone else at the stake who had one. Oops. Grimoires are very sought after. There was a hand-written spiral-bound grimoire written in the 1960s by an arch-priestess of the Wiccan religion and this fetched over 15,000 pounds. Now it also had a curse attached to it saying that if you read this you're going to have great trouble and strife. Oh possibly just get married. Book of Shadows are very very personal items. They're very individual to each witch and whoever is associated with writing them. Mine for example is not a beautiful, if I can show you here I don't have beautiful handwriting or beautiful pictures. I have a fairly illegible scroll, occasionally some pictures, lots of different currants and lots of coffee stains. So there are many many traditions associated with a book of shadows and what you should do and how you should have them. And the oldest one is probably that you put a protective charm over it to a protect you and make sure that it doesn't fall into the wrong hands and then it's used as a prosecuting burn at the stake kind of book or as a curse. So you know the witch, the hind-priestess of the Wiccan religion she put a curse on the book so that it gave terrible bad situations to people who read her book of shadows. So the only way to end a curse if you do ever come across a book of shadows with a curse on it is to wait for the witch to die and then to burn the book which is why it is a tradition that all books of shadows and grimoires must be burnt on the death of the witch who wrote them because this will ensure that no evil passes through into your possession. Well I don't have any evil on my book so it doesn't need to be burnt so you can all read it should you wish to. So let's have a quick look what's inside. Let's start at the beginning in this book and as you can see I have got a lovely pentacle layout here. How to lay out a pentacle when you're casting one in a circle. It then goes straight in to demon exorcism. Now I did a lot of demon exorcism in these days, the early days when I started writing this book. That is because the house I lived in was a slight magnet for demons it was on a ley line cross and that was this highway for bad jujus and so there's an awful lot of casting out of demons etc and imps and so a lot of the first part of this book is considerably about the spell to remove a demon spell to remove an imp the spell to contain your demon. There's other spells too there's oh look here we go then I start looking at protection spells because I move house so at this point I move house and come and we come to live here and this is when I realized that the bad jujus have followed me for my previous house and I need to protect myself and my family and the other spirits who are here so one of the first spells in this book is I don't know if you can see it a sprite protection spell. What else we got here more demon banishment more demon banishment more demon banishment oh to remove and ward off any hitchhikers coming into our property on people now this was a spell to stop anybody who'd picked up a bad spirit a bad juju so as soon as they crossed the border into our property it would have been pushed off them so every person who came to our house was then free and cleansed as they walked in yeah that's I mean I will do that for every single property I ever live in now because it's a brilliant one it means as well that if I go outside and pick up something that's not really what I want as soon as I walk back into my house it's going to be pushed off me by my wards and these ward spells will last until I die oh yeah it's half dedication spell this is a nice spell I did this spell this half dedication spell because we had a terribly smoky chimney and the smoky chimney had caused a lot of problems within the household and it was freezing because we couldn't light a fire etc etc so once we'd sorted out everything then the sprites who live in the hearth were like well you know this is our home can you make sure that we're not kicked out of it so I dedicated the hearth to the sprites and there are quite a few spells in here but um I think everyone should too oh no this was a good spell this is a healing spell for my back so for many many years I suffered from a terrible I had to slipped a disc and then it slipped and oh I don't know what it is I had back problems and so for years I was an urgamy and I was bored of that I never thought what kind of spell and I did it well this must be three years ago I suppose this spell and I haven't had a single problem since so you know what oh this is a good thing to do um so I have written down a list here if you can see key dates in the autumn this is really good um as a quick reference guide when you're searching up because I'm essentially writing an index into my book of shadows so it's a it's a really good idea to do that uh I did a couple of times oh a spell to help contain emotions firstly we need to choose some essential orders do not douse for them but feel their choice lots to do with auras here so this is a me working out how to do auras a bat queen so there are animal spirit guides for the animals themselves so the bats of this area are helped by their spirit bat queen and I had a conversation with her she hadn't spoken to a human before so she can speak to me I was very very honored this is my soul support spell I suggest that you don't do it unless you have prana to spare out of the time I seem to remember it was utterly utterly exhausting calling a demon to do one's bidding so I've written down how to get a demon to do what you would like them to do um this is because as an exorcist I needed to know how to summon a demon and get them to do what you wanted to do so I can work against it whenever a demon comes and gives you what you're asking for it's always with a slump on it it's never feels quite right or feels you know happy so I don't recommend having a demon now this is a nice one this is a spell to heal the soul let's see what it says oh this is a great spell to calm the spirit after attacks dreams demon attacks when you've been battling with other people or beings it is for when you are completely fine but just off kilter need to do settle back into your body and be at peace you know there's times when you just I don't know what's wrong I'm feeling a bit it's for that dows for your smudge stick mine is beach this means that you have to make up your own smudge stick and you have to find out what is the tree or the plant that you're going to use to make into that smudge stick then you smudge your body set your chakras straight so you work on your chakras oh voila spirit animals oh that's a nice thing to do is to find out who your spirit animals are most people have at least one some people have more that's my current book of shadows I want to show you this which is my new book of shadows good old amazon prime and I've got this book which looks like this it's rather beautiful gold and blue it's actually got really really smart pages in it really smart lovely big big card I love it so when you first open your new book of shadows or your new grimoire it's a really good idea to dedicate it so I'm going to dedicate this and write a dedication in the front of speed of it to possibly my children to give them health and happiness throughout the years I'm then going to write my name I'm going to write the date and I'm going to ask all those who find the book to treat it with respect that it deserves now the interesting thing about writing your book of shadows and your grimoire is that if you write it down it makes it a spell it's because you'll put your intent in the writing you know the pen is mightier and then the sword and all that sort of business you must write things down because it helps you set your spells and that's why new book of shadows is so important I hope you enjoyed this video I've got many other videos to show you so do have a look at my channel pages and see what you can find there and I will see you in my next video