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this

the most recent known photograph of the Wizard, who is notoriously camera-shy. he enjoys tinkering in his laboratory, alpine skiing, and growing rare orchids.
is is

The Book of Wizard Craft

his first publication.

Six
now.
I

hundred years have gone by, and now I have

found the wizard-in-training destined to

finally

receive
like

my secret wisdom...you! Some wizards

.

my friend Merlin are famous, but I chose to exercise my powers behind the scenes. .until
like

would

you

to have the

knowledge

that

few have

been privileged to possess:

a wizard needs.

how

to

make and use everything

Contained within these pages

creating essential wizard gear,

are

my directions for
decorations, magical

room

concoctions, and spells for

good

luck. Silendy disappear

and

reappear in a hooded cloak as light as butterfly wings. Time the simmering of potions with an hourglass pendant.

Cast

spells

using a

Then

transform

wand made from dragon heartstrings. your room into a mysterious wizard's
objects. .a
. .

chamber brimming with wondrous shows the past, present, and future.
.

photo that
that
.

.a crystal ball

does double-duty as a night-light. .a bejeweled mirror.

shazaam!

Would you

like fairies to visit

your

home

or castle?
Little

Plant a garden that's

irresistible to

them, and once the

People show up, play gende music on a fairy tambourine so they'll dance the night away. To keep (and

keep

secret!) a record

of all your adventures, write

them down

in invisible ink,

of course

in an

ancient- looking journal.

All wizards must

know where

to find a
'

phoenix and

how to battle

a basilisk, wl

why I've

provided you with

my Absolu

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AUTHORS
Janiqe Eaton Kilby

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1955Craft: In

The Book of Wizard

Eaton
Kilby,
p.

Which

the Apprentice Finds Spells,

Deborah. Morgenthal
Terry Taylor
i

Potions, Fantastic Tales, and 50 Enchanting Things to

Make

/Janice

Deborah Morgenthal, and Terry Taylor,

cm.

ILLUSTRATION
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ISBN 1-57990-206-5

Liridy Burnett
10 9

ART DIRECTOR
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The
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Acknowledgments
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It's all

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.

been

wonder and

a marvel to

work with

of our collaborators on The Book of Wizard Craft. Thank you, Rob Pulleyn and Carol

Taylor, for giving even our wildest ideas your

blessing.

Something more than chance brought

us Susan McBride, with her uniquely gifted eye

and

sensitive heart, to art direct this book.

Illustrator
art

Lindy Burnett created her inspired

because she shared a deep understanding of

our intent.

And

finally,

we'd

like to

thank every

writer, artist,

and explorer

for

showing us again

and again that curiosity and open-mindedness

are the true ingredients for

making magic.

I also

want

to give

my love

and thanks

to Tip,

Angela, and Ryan Kilby for sharing wizardly

ideas

and enthusiasms with me.

to

JEK

Thanks

my parents who
things

never discouraged

me from making
weren't quite sure

even when they

I

what

was doing.

TBT

A special thank you to my daughter^ Corrina,

who reminds me
smooth
stone.
to look closely at things

and

find the magic in the flower, the spider,

and the

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4-6

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Pendant

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Magic Carpet

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Wand PAGE

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Magic The Now You

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Fantasy

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Wizard's Staffs

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Giant Snails and Slugs: More

Wizard's Reticule and Coins

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Familiars

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Wizard's Trunk

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and the Ghosts of Famous Headless
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People

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The Absolutely Authoritative Field

to

Guide
Tales of the Celtic Shape-shifters
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Fabulous Beasts

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The Giant Rat of Sumatra, Poison

Toads, and Other Thoroughly
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The Art of

Horticulture
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Wizard's Apothecary

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Monsters of the Deep

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Shrunken Mandrake Heads PAGE

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Mind Your

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Making

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The Book Arts
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The Art
of

Amusement
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Great Horned

Owl Mask PAC

Centerpiece

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113

Creatures of the Night: Werewolves,

Mold Garden
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Bats P/\CE io

Venetian "Glass" Banquet Table

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Settings

Wizard Crackers

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P/4CE 122

Spooky Food Cookbook

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Crunchy Bat Wings P^,CE

Cookies

23

Petrified Tree

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The Art

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Alchemy
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and the Morrighan

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Crystal

Tasseography, the Art of Reading Tea

Runic Alphabet

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Personal Collection of Recipes for

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Leaves P/\CE 132

P/^CE

Chromatrope

Drafts, Potions, Elixirs, and Oozes

The Curse of the Pharoahs

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Dragon's Blood

Fizzing

Phantom Potion
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Spinning Serpent P/^CE^r

Cheering Charms, and
136

A Really

Useful Book ofAll-Good

In Search of King Arthur, the

Grail,

Holy

and the Mysteries of

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Kraken Slime

Magic

Spells,

Ghouly

Divination

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Your Future

Is at

Hand,
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or,

How to

14.

Read Palms

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Banquets Out of Thin Air PAGE 122

Farewell from the

The Art of Astronomy

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Great Alchemists of the Past and

Their Search for the Stone

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14-0

103

Templates PAGE
104

14.1

Constellation Caster

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HOW THIS BOOK CAME TO BE.

6
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you you
to help

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Farewell for the book.

that late one night

foot-long rats and singing beedes

Made

us

Imagine get a phone call from a gentleman who

write a
asks

scampering over everything! But

persevered, and the
talked, the

we

a bit teary-eyed, they did.

him
the

more we read and

book

that shares

all

more

excited

we

got!

A couple of cautions are

in order, so

magical knowledge he's gathered

pay attention!

and by the way,

it

he's

been

working on
years! That's

for the last

600

The Book of Wizard Craft contains the Wizard's own recipes and instructions
for

First

of all, use your

sense! Don't eat

common

exacdy what happened

making more than 50 of his most

and potions, including
robe and hat, a crystal
flying carpets,

or drink any of the potions or project ingredients, and be very

careful

to us.

He

told us that he'd

been

useful tools

compiling a notebook for centuries,

intending to pass
it

real wizard's
ball,

with sharp

tools. If you see this

on

to a deserving
after

magic wands,

spider next to a how-to project, you

young wizard-in-training
retired.

he

high-speed chase brooms, rings of

power, secret journals, apothecary
ingredients, such as

MUST stop and go find an adult

wizard or nonwizard to help you.

When the Wizard realized he

by publishing
call

could reach millions of young wizards

mandrake root
etc.
it,

We mean
Wizard
the very
it

it,

sincerely!

Otherwise, the

and

sorceresses

his note-

and dragon's blood,

the

book, he decided to
could help

us so

we

Wizard

tells

You name you how to make

told us he will

come back and

personally turn you into a toad.

least, you'll

Or

at

him

turn these notes into

in this book.

He

also shared his Spooky

be in really

a first-of-its-kind book. Fine,

we

Foods Cookbook and his Really Useful

big trouble.

thought,

how hard
tell

could that be?

Book ofAll-Good Magic

Spells,

Cheering
us,

Well, we'll

you...

Charms, and Divination with

and

We hope you enjoy reading this book,

and that you have
all

we put
First

those

in, too.

lots

of fun making

of all, during some of our meetIt also

these wonderful, wizardry things!

Wizard completely vanished but kept right on talking. Other times

ings, the

became

clear to us that the

Please don't write to us asking

how

Wizard has known

one in the magical

practically everyarts,

you can contact the Wizard, though.

he turned into a

griffin or

an oak

tree.

and many

We had to promise never to divulge

his

As you can

imagine, this took some

to.

famous nonwizards
centuries.

for the last several

name
is

or his location, never ever.

getting used

And

deciphering his

He

has a great sense

And

in the wizard world, a promise

notes was quite a challenge.

tions

Some

sec-

of humor and had some wonderful

stories to tell, so

made

a promise kept.

were hard to read because of all

the mice footprints; other pages were

write

we asked him them down too. All the

of wizard

to

Janice Eaton Kilby

real

splotched with goo and slime from

important legends and myths, the

stuff of centuries

alchemy experiments gone wild. Not

to

lore, are

Deborah Morgenthal
Terry B. Taylor

mention the hundreds of cobwebs

here for you to read.

And

the

Wizard

covering his lab equipment.

And

the

himself wrote the Foreword and

CB
If.

FOREWORD
After 600 years, the time has

by the Wizard
come
for

me

to share

what

know of wizard

Out of necessity, our schools were kept secret. Too many intolerant and fearful
people were lighting bonfires to burn
the visionary, the gifted, and the different.

of mine, thinking someday

bequeath
it

would
to

to the deserving.
are

craft,

and

it is

in this book.

So young wizards,
inherit

you ready
to learn

My friends and colleagues in the

magical
arts are

my knowledge, and

long gone before me,

For the past 600 years,

have kept

how

and

am

old.

Merlin, Flamel,

notes, recipes, fabulous tales,

to

become what I was? Are your shoulders strong enough to wear the
to
agile

Agrippa... their

names
I

are

known

and discoveries
secret

in this

wizard s robe and your hands

the world.

But

have chosen to remain

book

enough
you

to wield the

magic wand? If
tell

in the shadows, to
exercise

hone

my craft and

are ready, this

book will

you

my powers for the good of

how to
ease,
,.

create

all

these things with

mankind.

Now I am ready to rest.

a time

and how

to use them, because a

arts.

Once upon
I

when

jr+

good wizard knows many

was young

like

Most
1

important, practice the art of

sure

you

making other people laugh. Be

to laugh at yourself, too, because a

great wizard has a great sense of

humor. Think

would be

how dull life if we were serious

all

the time, for goodness' sake!

A wink here and a joke

there has helped

me

live -to

a great old age, and I've

every

enjoyed every minute of

one
looks
s

my 600-plus years,
You
is

will never
It

young to me nowI

know my name.

better that way.

began to

But the next

time something

learn the

wizardry
arts.

happens
that

In the year

1400, the world

seems
mysterious,

was

a dark place

Ignorance and brute

force ruled, while a

magical, or beautiful,

think of

few of us kept the

bright stars of learning,
to

me.
your
alive

And

give credit
to

own powers

hope, and wonder

make

the wonderful happen.

I
I

The Day Put on/ My Pimt Hjdbz, Af thz Happiest Day or My Life.
f

ckd

Wizard Regalia
t's

said that clothes

make

the

man

or

woman, and

that definitely
are

includes wizards.

Here

my

notes on

how

to

make some of

my favorite
find out
staffs,

robes, hats, slippers,

and special adornments. Read on to

how

to

make magic wands and

a

wizard money, and

for
fast!

high-speed

broom
where

when you need

to get some-

To
I

hold

all

your new

wizard gear,
for

also include the design

my Wizards

Trunk.
in

went through

quite a

few of those

my travels

around the world through the ages.

(I

recall

threw

my last

trunk

at a giant

squid that was trying to

in the Pacific

swamp my

ship

Ocean. By the time the

its

monster decided which of

use to catch
it,

arms to

I'd

made

my

escape.)

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Sorcerer >
You You
don't need

Hat
if

WHAT YOU NEED

*

V2 yard (45 cm) fabric or

felt

can almost create this hat out of thin air its that easy.

'

V2 yard (45 cm)

*

fusible interfacing

much

material, and, as

by magic, the

hat

(the stiffest kind)

3

practically sews itself!

Any

color you like will work

fine,

/4-yard-wide (69 cm)

(although

my great

wire-edge ribbon
aunt Cecilia believed that only red
a

was

measuring tape

powerful enough for

proper

hat).

a Arnu)LocicAL new. m couo^ k PlfCEf, An/d my

'

Oil ore

thZ colo^ op

you*-

pencil

calculator (unless

you are

especially adept in arith-

mancy skills)

AfTW)J-occAu couo^, ree

sheet of newspaper
ruler
scissors

PAGEf

Of TO

Of-.

straight pins

fabric glue

sewing

machine or needle and

thread*

iron

For decoration (choose one or

all):

5.

If you wish to decorate your hat,

it.

do

fabric scraps

so before seaming
surface.

Work on

flat

wide ribbon or braid

metallic-colored acrylic paints

Decorate the fabric with

stars,

crescent

moons, alchemical, or

astrological symbols.

You can
symbols on
acrylic

paintbrush
paint
glitter

them

freehand, or you can

trace the alchemical

rubber stamps

page 141. Metallic-colored

paints used with rubber stamps, or

Note.'
te*V THIS

You

don/
IF

t have to

metallic gel

marking pens work,

too.

HAT
Of-

YOU

MAKE

IT

Or

cut out shapes from gold or silver

OUT OF FtLT
ore GLUE

Of- PAPE*-.

ClMPi-Y

scraps of fabric,

and glue them to the

An/ iILON-ON fA&*JC

cutout hat. See figure 2.

ADHenve to make the jeam.

6.

Lay

the decorated fabric

on the
the

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

fusible interfacing.
fabric.

Cut around

Follow the manufacturer's

Measure the circumference of your

a

instructions included with the inter-

head right above the ears with

facing that explains

iron to fuse
it

how

to use an

measuring tape. Multiply that meas-

to the fabric (figure 2).

urement by
ber by 6.28.

4; then, divide that

numstill

(And some of you

it's

7.

Match

the straight sides, right

wonder why
learn math!)

so important to

sides together.

Sew

a V2-inch (1.3

cm) seam along

a line as

this

edge by hand or

with a sewing machine.

2.

Measure and mark

long
8.

as

what you came up with

in step 1

Turn the hat

right sides out.

(on the top edge of the sheet of

newspaper). Measure and mark a
9.

You can

decorate the rim of the

second line
first line.

at a right angle to the

hat by stitching or gluing on a decorative ribbon or braid. If you

Use

a ruler or

measuring

want

tape to
right
a line

mark equal points from the angle. Connect the points with
forming an
arc.

dressi^rT,ook, gather

one end of a

piece of wire-edge ribbon and stitch

it

See figure

1.

to the

back of the

hat.

Gather the and

ribbon about 3 inches (7.5 cm) from

3.

Use

scissors to cut out the quarter-

this end, stitch

it

to the hat,

circle

you

just

drew

(figure 1).

repeat as

many

times as needed
(figure 3).

around the rim of the hat

4.

Place the pattern on your fabric.

fabric,

Pin the pattern to the

a V2-inch (1.3

and add

cm) scam allowance

to the straight edges of the pattern

Cut out the

pattern.

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for

Wizard

Work

turn their heads upside

down! They have

is

rounded head, yellow eyes, and white

eyebrows. Elf owls like to live
desert,
in the

hat

do you think of
picture an
Its

very large ear holes, and one ear

er

high-

when you
owl?
bly.

on

their

head than the other one,

and they're so

tiny,

they nest in
a high-

huge eyes, probapeople think the

allowing

owls to locate the distance

faint noises.

woodpecker holes! They have

pitched, squeaky call.

Some
it

and direction of very

owl's eyes

make
that if

look kind and wise,

Owls

can fly in complete silence

Nearer the middle

in

terms of
It

size,

while others think they're scary. But did

because their feathers are constructed

with special

you'll find the barn owl.

has a round

you know
heads as

humans had eyes

in the

down and

fringed edges
air

head with
a

a heart-shaped,

white face, and

same proportion to the

a great

size of their

that eliminate the

sound of

rushing

mottled rust-gray body. Found almost

it

horned owl, our eyes

and

over them. Their feet have very large,

piercing talons with an opposable back
toe, similar to

everywhere around the world,

meas-

would be the
weigh
five

size of grapefruit

ures 15 to 18 inches (38.1 to 45.7

cm)
g).

pounds

(2.3 kg) each?

how

the

human thumb

long and weighs up to a pound (454

Now,

that's scary!

works.

An
it.

owl's beak doesn't look very

My friend
where without
if

Merlin rarely went anyhis

large, but that's

a lot

because feathers cover they open their beak

The barn owl lives in rural areas, manmade constructions such as bridges, and
natural locations such as
Its call

owl Archimedes, and

are built

of

When

hollow
a series a

trees.

you think about how owls

wide, most owls can swallow small

sounds more like

If

of two-

and what they do, you can imagine

they can be helpful to
a

wizard.

how Owls

mammals whole. The eagle owl {Bubo

largest species of owl. It

second screeches.
bubo), also
is

you have
your

problem

with mice or
solve
it

rats in

castle,

you can

can see in the dark, they can hear very

faint noises,

called the Eurasian eagle owl,

the

with barn owls, because one barn

eat 1.200 rats a

and they're great

at

grabbing

measures up to

owl family can

month.
both

and carrying things.

Owls
at

are perfectly built for hunting

cm) and weighs up to 8 pounds (3.6 kg). The owl has big
2 feet, 4 inches (71.1

Our

beliefs about

owls

reflect

our fear and admiration of them.

The

night and in twilight.

The Greeks
a

orange eyes, and

because
head.
It
it

it's

called a

horned owl
its

Greeks believed the owl could prophesy

the future, and the Little

actually thought

owls carried

magic

has two feather tufts on

Owl
If

{Athene
an owl
a battle,

light inside their eyes that

helped them

roosts in rocky overhangs and

trees.

noctua) was the symbol of Athena, the

see

at night!

Their eyes are four times

hollow
and
of
a

The
to

eagle

owl has been

its

Greek goddess of wisdom.

more sensitive to light than humans'. They have a wide angle of vision, but
their eyes are fixed in their sockets

seen carrying grown foxes in

is

talons,

flew over Greek soldiers before

it

known

go

after

animals the size

was an omen they would win. But to

if

so

small deer!
the other hand, the elf

the Romans,

an owl hooted while

the

owl has to

turn

its

entire

head to
that,

On

owl
than

person was in their sfckbed, death was not

far

look sideways.

To

make'up for

{Micrathene whitney)

is tinier

owls' necks are so flexible they can turn

their

most mammals. Five inches

long,
it

(12.7

cm)
has a

of the
the

Owls predicted the deaths Roman emperor Julius Caesar and

away.

heads 270 degrees to look backtheir shoulders, or they can

weighs only

1-

/2 ounces (42 g).

It

famous magician Agrippa.

ward over

and

is

the world's smallest owl.

12

"WE

Wk

.~Z#&*^

Feather
A wrapping ofgold,
Createyour

6 Jewel
one dazzling jewel,
it's

Turban

a needle and thread, somefabric glue.

own

turban,

simple to do.
I'll

Feather of owl or cockatoo

leave that to you.

WHAT YOU NEED

measuring tape
pencil and paper

newspaper
ruler

V2 yard (46 cm)

straight pins
scissors

fabric of your

choice

iron
fusible

hem tape or fabric glue

sewing needle and thread (that matches fabric)

sewing machine (optional)

costume jewelry pin

large feather

small cardboard circle covered with

foil (optional)

aluminum

colored markers (optional)

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

Ask

a friend to

measure around

your head

right above your ears

with a measuring tape. Write the

measurement down on
paper.
this

a piece of

Add IV2

inches (3.8 cm) to

measurement.
total

2.

Measure and mark the

in step 1

meas-

urement

on the edge of a

sheet of newspaper.

13

Fl<ZOIL

FlGUILZ

p(cu^e 3

3.

Divide the

line in half and

mark

the

needle with a double length of thread,

8.

On

the front of the turban where

it

line at the center point (see figure 1).

and knot the thread

about V4 inch (6

at the end.

Sew

you have fastened

with

stitches,

If the center point

is

12 inches (30.5

mm)

in

from the

attach the costume jewelry pin.

cm), use the ruler to

mark an

arc

curved edge. Try to make your stitch>- es about

(1.3

Behind the

pin, slide in the feather. If

pin, cut out a

from

this center point in several

V2 inch
long.

you don't have a fancy

circle

places.

Connect these marks with

cm)

from

a piece

of

a pencil line to
(see figure 2).

make
This
is

a semicircle

cardboard, as large as
7.

the pattern

Gather the curved edge

fabric towards

you wish your decoration to be.

for your turban.

by pushing the

the knotted end of the thread

4.

Cover

it

with

Place your fabric on a table.

while holding the needle end

aluminum
foil.

Smooth out any wrinkles with your hands. Lay your newspaper pattern
on top of the
to pin
it

of the thread (see figure

5).

You may

Work

slowly and carefully so

color the foil

fabric.

Use

straight pins

you don't break the thread.

with markers,
if you

to the fabric. Carefully cut

fabric.

When you have

stitches to

gathered the

wish.
a

out the pattern and the

curved edge, finish with a few

FlGUtLt f
length of thread, knot

Then, thread
needle with a
it

hold the end of the

5.

Place your fabric right side

a V2-inch (1.3

down

thread. thread.

and fold up

cm) hem
with

Cut off the end of the Turn the turban right

at the end,

and sew
as

it

to the front of the turban a button.

on the

long, straight line of the fabric

side out.

you would

(see figure 3). Press this

hem

your fingers or a hot iron. Use fusible

hem

tape, fabric glue, or a needle

and

thread to finish the hem.

6.

Fold the semicircle in

half, right

sides together (see figure 4).

fabric together in
will

Pin the

two

places.

This
f=/Gu^E
4.

make sewing

easier.

Thread a

14

WHAT YOU NEED

Wizard's Robe
This
is

measuring tape
fabric yardage (see step 1)
pencil, chalk, or other fabric

THE
is

essential

garment if you
if

are truly serious about

your

craft.

marker

This robe
before.

very easy to make, even

can sew
it

you have never sewn anything

a

straight pins
scissors

You

by hand or with

sewing machine. Making your

own

robe also gives you the opportunity to practice basic math skills-

sewing needle and thread to match fabric sewing machine (optional)

fusible

something of utmost importance for every young wizard and sorceress.

Choose wisely

the color

you want for your robe. Certain

colors, such as

hem

tape or fabric glue (optional)

dark blue, symbolize impulsiveness and changeability, which

lize certain spells, if

may

destabi-

bias tape

you

are in a distracted

mood. Light

blue, conversely,

18 inches (46 cm) heavy cording

represents patience and tranquility. Purple, a

favorite color of mine, symbolizes

photocopies of symbols on page 141

tracing paper

ambition and power, but

are feeling frivolous,
attract the attention
it

if

you

water-soluble pen (optional)

dress-maker's carbon paper (optional)
large piece of cardboard
fabric paint in colors of your choice

may

of

troublesome

trolls.

paintbrush
fusible

webbing

iron

decorative trim, cording,

or printed ribbon

INSTRUCTIONS
Making the Robe
1.

2.

Fold the length of fabric in

half,

4.

Divide the total measurement

to wrist, including the

right sides together.

fabric flat
floor,

Lay the folded

from wrist

on a large tabletop or the smoothing out the wrinkles as

hem

allowance, by 2. This measure-

Ask

a fellow

wizard or sorceress

you work. Pin the bottom edges

together in several places.

to

measure you with the tape meas-

ment is the sleeve length. Measure and mark from the folded edge of
the fabric to the sleeve length.

ure so that you can determine

how
3.

much

fabric

you

will need.

Stand
sides.

Fold the fabric in half lengthwise

with your arms

down by your

5.

Determine how wide you wish the

(you will have four layers of fabric).

Have your
then add
1

friend measure you

from

sleeve of the

gown
be

to be; 12 to 15

Secure the open edges with a few

straight pins.

the top of your shoulder to the floor;

inches (30.5 to 38

cm) wide should

inch (2.5 cm) for the

this

fine.

Make

a parallel

See figure

1.

hem. Multiply

measurement by

mark on
open

the unfolded

side

with a pencil

2 to determine the
cut length of fabric

or chalk to the chosen

needed.

Now have

measurement. From
mark, draw a
to the inside

this

your friend measure you from one

line equal

arm length

running
wrist to the other,
across the

parallel to

back of

the top fold.

your shoulders, and

then add 2 inches
(5

See figure

2.

cm)

6.

Draw

a line

from the

for the

sleeve

hems. This
will

FiGOILE I

open edge

at the

bottom

measurement
determine the

of the fabric to the mark for the inside

arm
FtGUILZ
I

length. See figure 3.

width of the

fabric

you

will need.

>.s
cm) wide
are'

7.

For the neckline, divide the neck

6.

Fabrics 45 inches (114

usually wide

measurement by

Measure and
side

enough

for

most wiz-

mark
folds

a point

on the top and

corner.
a

ards under the age of 10. Older wizards (or those with long arms) will

from the folded form an

Connect the marks with

line to
arc.

curved
4.

require wider fabrics or will need to

See figure

sew on extra

fabric for the sleeves.

8.

Now measure

loosely around the

Cut through

all

the layers for the

base of the neck. Lastly, measure

neckline and along the lines marked

for the sleeve

your inside arm length (from wrist

to underarm),

and

sides.

See figure

5.

minus 2 inches

(5
9.

cm). Write

all

these measurements

Open up

the robe and

lay-' it flat.

It

down

will look like a T-shape,

with the

for future reference.

fold at the top.

p/co^e 3
-:%v-"-.-

16

F/GO/LE

13.
4.

To

finish the edges, attach bias

that will clearly

show on your
on

fabric.

tape by machine or hand.

~~skS~
.

Draw,
as a belt

trace, or

photocopy the pata clean, flat

tern. Place the fabric

14.

Use the heavy cording

surface

and tape

it

down with maskit

for the robc\

ing tape. Place the carbon paper face

down on
ballpoint

top and tape

down. Use

pen

to trace carefully over

the pattern.

2.

Use

fabric paint to paint

the symbols.

(Of course,
is

you can choose other

designs

this

your robe.)

Be
10.

sure to place the cardboard

inside the robe before

you paint

Sew the

side

and

sleeve

seams

on the

fabric, or the paint will

with a V2-inch (1.3 cm) seam

allowance, by

seep through both layers. Paint the neckline, sleeve,

hand or by machine.
right side out.

Turn the robe

11.

and bottom of the robe

hems with

strips or swirls

You can

use fusible

hem

tape

of paint that look good with the painted-on symbols. Read

the manufacturer's instructions that

or fabric glue, if you do not wish to

sew the hems of the

bottom of the
12.

sleeves

and the

robe.

Decorating the Robe

cm)
6.
slit

come with
out

the fabric paint to find

heat-set the colors using

how to
this!

Cut

a 4-inch (10.2

from

1.

First

you

will

need to transfer the

hot iron.

Ask an

adult for help

the neckline

down

the center front

alchemical symbols onto the fabric

(the symbols are
are several

with

of the robe. See figure

on page
to

141).

There
3.

ways

do

this:

Enlarge the patterns on a copy

Tracing:

The

easiest

way

is

to trace

machine. Use these patterns to cut

out shapes from contrasting colors

the symbols onto the fabric using a

water-soluable pen or very sharp

pencil.

and textures of fabric. Attach the

fabric shapes to the robe

Simply draw or

trace the

with fusible

symbols onto a piece of tracing paper

webbing.

and tape
tern onto

it

to a

window. Then tape

trace the pat4.

the fabric

on top and
it.

Attach decorative trim, cording, or

printed ribbon to the

hem

edges of

the sleeves, neck, and bottom.

You

Dressmaker's carbon paper: This

can do

this either

by stitching the

special fabric carbon

comes

in differ-

trim in place or with fusible

tape or fabric glue.

hem

ent colors so that you can select one

Hourglass

Pendant
No
It's

wizard or sorceress should

be without this simple pendant.

very useful for timing the

simmering of potions.

WHAT YOU NEED

3 -minute

kitchen timer*

48 inches (1.2 m) of

sturdy cord

scissors

*sold for just a

few
kitchen-supply

bronze coins
stores

at

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

Fold the cord in half and cut

at the fold.

2.

Lay one piece of the cord work surface.

flat

on

3.

Find the center of the cord, and

Use the top and bottom cords to tie a simple knot on each side of the timer. This will secure the timer on
5.

lay your timer

on

it

so that the small

the cord.

center section of the timer crosses the cord.

6.

Hold

the pendant around your

neck and decide where you want the

4.

Lay

the other piece of cord

on

timer to hang on your chest. Knot the

cords together and trim the excess.

top of the timer.

18

a!

with Dragon
Coils of dragon heartstriBgs make
fairies

a pleasant

sound

that

only

can hear

when you

cast spells with this

wand.

WHAT YOU NEED

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

spool of brass

Measure and cut eight lengths of

cm)
long.

or copper wire*

wire, each 18 inches (45.7

ruler

wire cutters
pencil

2.

Tightly wind the wire around a

pencil.

Leave about 2 inches

(see figure 1
this process

(5

cm)
20).

unwound
2-inch (5 cm) polystyrene foam ball*
gold or silver glitter

on page

Repeat

with the other

seven lengths of wire.

white craft glue

disposable plate or meat tray

3.

Lightly press the polystyrene

ball
it

foam
(2.5

onto the end of the stick

sinks

disposable paintbrush

^sa that

down about
stick.

inch

^straight twig or
^J[?out
l

wooden dowel,

cm) onto the

18 inches (45.7 cm) long and

/2 inch (1.3

cm) wide

4.

Pour gold or

silver glitter

onto the

acrylic paint

plate.

Using the disposable paintroll it in

(gold or silver)

brush, coat the ball with the white

glue.

paintbrush

Then,
it

the glitter to

hot glue gun

sticks

coat

well, (see figure 2).

Allow

it

and glue

to dry.

*sold in craft stores

19

5.

Use

a clean paintbrush to paint

the twig or dowel with gold or silver

acrylic paint.

Allow

it

to dry.

Use hot glue the wand.

6. 7.

to attach the ball to

Put

a dot

of hot glue on the

coil,

straight

end of a wire

and
ball

insert the

end into the foam

(see figure 3).

rest

Repeat with the

of the

coils.

8.

Make

additional coils and insert

them

into the ball if desired.

Sorceress

Wand

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

Measure and cut four lengths of

Like a maypole in spring Like butterfly wings

ribbon, each 18 inches (45.7

long,

cm)
aside.

and one length of ribbon 24

inches (61 cm) long. Set

them

Ribbons of bright

color
2.

Set gentle spells a-flutter.

Paint the

wand with
and allow

gold or
it

silver

acrylic paint,

to dry.

WHAT YOU NEED

3.

Use hot glue

to attach

one end

4 yards

(3.7

m) of V4 inch-wide

of the long ribbon to one end of

the wand.

(6

mm)

ribbon in different colors

Wind
it

the ribbon

up the

measuring tape
scissors

wand, gluing
(5 cm).

in place every 2 inches

Cut

off the excess ribbon,

tip

straight twig or wooden dowel,

and glue the

of the ribbon to the

about 18 inches (45.7 cm) long and V2 inch (1.3 cm) wide

other end of the wand.

4.

Center the four lengths of ribbon

tip

acrylic paint (gold or silver)

on the
tip

of the

wand

in a spoke-

paintbrush

like fashion.

Glue each ribbon

to the

hot glue gun and glue sticks

decorative upholstery tack

with a small dot of hot glue.

a

Then, use

hammer

to fix an uphol-

small

hammer

stery tack to the tip of the

wand,

fas-

tening the ribbons securely.

20

GREAT WIZARDS
I

Have^T

ne of the best things about being

wizard has been the

people

have

known over

the past several hundred years,

especially

my friends

in the

magical

arts.

They were

all

memorable, especially Agrippa and

black dog, and Merlin, even
untidy
at
if

his mysterious

he was terribly

times, with

all

those mice and birds

living in his hair and beard.

I

Cherish your friends,

say they'll be gone some

day.

chosen

evil.

Merlin decided to use his

Morgan
or

le

Fay was

either Arthur's sister

sure.

supernatural abilities only for good.

He

half-sister, I

was never

She had
handsome
wasn't
gifted at

could see the

future, cast spells,

and

many

magical powers, but she had a reputa-

perform wonderful

acts of magic.

tion for constantly trying to lure

Merlin was
al

prophet and advisor to sever-

knights into her chambers.

fell

Even Merlin

British rulers including

King Arthur.

It's

under her
all

spell for awhile.

She

said that
Just about every village in Britain and

Merlin helped erect

bad. though.

Morgan was

Stonehenge and used magic to bring

together Arthur's parents, Uther

D/D YOU Kn/CW

healing with herbs, and

when
in his last

Europe used to have

its

own

wizard

who

THE iVOW) vVi^AtD

COMEf F*-OM TH

Arthur was wounded

battle,

told fortunes, found lost objects and treasure, interpreted

and

Igraine,

so that Arthur would

she helped get

him

dreams,

made

love potions,
fairies.

be born to them. Merlin tutored

the young Arthur, and arranged for

safely to

Avalon and used her

life.

and drove away troublesome

days, wizards are

These

powers to save his

more

hidden, but they

him

to pull the famous sword

can

still

be found.
a

from

a stone,

which legend

MfAWIWC

Agrippa was the most famous

kV/CG
z

said

magician of the Renaissance and

served in the courts of five kings.

Circe was

powerful Greek sorceress

would remain embedded

removed by
I

until it

was

who. according to the poet Homer, controlled fate

man

virtuous

enough to be

His

full

name was Heinrich Cornelius

a

by braiding knots
a great

in her hair.

king.

Merlin was also behind the idea of

his advice helped

Agrippa von Nettesheim. and he wrote

very popular, three-volume

thought she had

myself.

sense of humor,

the

Round Table, and

book about
a diplo-

As Homer

told the story. Circe

Arthur to govern Camelot and defend his

magic. Agrippa was also a doctor,

mat, and a war hero, but

was

quite enchanting, and lured the wander-

kingdom
It's

against invading

Saxons.

when he champi-

ing hero
island.

Odysseus and
did she

his sailors

onto her
the

said that

Merlin went with Arthur

oned causes for

social justice such as land

What

do then? Turned

to the magical Isle of Avalon after Arthur

reform for peasants, he was thrown out of

several different countries. Agrippa

men

into pigs!

Odysseus made her change

men. but he was so taken

was wounded

in his final battle.

Others

was

fre-

them back

into

believe that Merlin s downfall

came when
persuaded

quently poor and paid innkeepers with

with her. he dallied there for a year.

he

fell in

love with Nimue.

all

who

money
with
a

that later turned that

into seashells.

Whether you know him

as Merlinus,

Merlin to teach her

imprisoned him
in a

his arts

and then
tree.

Legend says

Agrippa always travelled

a

Myrddin. or Merlin, you know

talking about.

who

I'm

hawthorn

But do

mysterious black dog that wore

He

was one of our

greatest
sto-

you

really believe a wizard as

powerful as

collar engraved with

magic symbols.

As

wizards, and the

ries

most famous. Some

a royal princess

Merlin would remain trapped forever?

the magician lay dying, he off the

depart.
river,

took the

collar

say Merlin was a Druid, and that he

in

Some

say that Merlin waits in a crystal

dog and commanded the animal to

was born

Wales to

and a

cave, guarding the

True Throne of the

sit

The dog

ran away,

dove

into a

supernatural father.

Though he could have

realm, where Arthur will

again

one day.

and was never seen again.

21

Magic Amulet
This clay amulet
Before you put
is

Repeat

this action several times until

is

the clay

soft

and warm.

designed for directing magical energy.

it

3.

Roll the clay into a ball in your

it

it

around your neck, hold

between both your hands,

hands. Put

on

smooth, clean

close your eyes, and repeat the following incantation:

work surface and flatten it out with the palm of your hand. Use the
rolling pin or a straight-sided jar to
roll

Round my
Guiding

neck a circle goes

hot pads
colored pencils (optional)

out the clay until

it is

about Vs

my

inch (3

mm)
a

thick.

magic as

it

grows.

By

all the

might of moon and sun

black pencil
4.

Make

photocopy of the scarab

the image

18 inches (45.7 cm) of cor^ in

rayon, leather, or

silk,

As I do

will, it shall be done.

hemp

design.

You can make

larger or smaller, if necessary.

Keep

in

mind

that the transferred

image

WHAT YOU NEED

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

will
nal.

be a mirror image of the origi-

Use the

table knife to cut the

The

toner used in copy

is

2-ounce (56 g) block of white or light- colored polymer clay

table knife

2-ounce (56 g) block of polymer clay in half. Place one half in the resealable

machines

what

will transfer to the

clay; inkjet printer

ink will not work.

sandwich bag and

set

it

aside:

Use your photocopied image right away

to

resealable sandwich

bag

2.
it

Knead

the clay in your hai$s, Rdi

it

make
well.

sure the transfer

rolling pin or straight-sided

into a ball, then stretch

oi

works

jar for flattening the clay

photocopy of scarab

beetle design

scissors

metal spoo
knitting

^needle or

chopstick

cookie

sheet covered

with aluminum

foil
1"

oven

WZ&

Cut out your photocopied scarab. You will need to

5.

9.

Preheat the oven according to

to

do

it.

Use

several layers of color to

the manufacturer's instructions the package of polymer

clay.

on

darken the
cil

color.

Use the black penfrom the pho-

shape and trim the clay so

that the design will look

to darken the lines

transfer.

When

the oven

is

ready, put the

tocopy

good on
and
size.

it.

Use the

table knife

cookie sheet in the oven.

leave the paper

Be

sure

you
12.

to cut the clay to the correct shape

on the

clay!

To complete
little

the amulet you need

to use a
10.

knot magic. Measure

of cord so the amulet
to the

Bake the

clay for 10 to 15

min-

and cut
will

a piece

6.

Place the photocopied scarab face

the clay.

down on

To

transfer the

design onto the

clay,

gently rub the

Use the hot pads to remove the cookie sheet from the oven. While the clay is still warm, carefully
utes.

hang around your neck

desired length. If you

in the amulet,

made one

hole

double the cord and

back of the paper with the spoon.

Don't rub too hard or you will

remove the paper to reveal your

transferred image. Let the clay
until
it is

thread the fold through the hole.

sit

Then, pass the

loop and pull
it

free

ends through the

change the shape. Let the clay and

paper
sit

completely cool.

for 10 minutes. 11. If you

want

to color the clay with

7.

Use the

tip

of the knitting needle

the colored pencils,

now

is

the time

Knot the two free ends. If you made two holes in the amulet, make a double or triple knot at one end of the cord. Thread
tight.

or chopstick to

make one

the unknotted end through

or two holes in the

clay through

one hole, pull the knot

to the amulet,

and

which
cord.

later

you
your

then thread

will thread

through the
opposite hole

and knot that

8.

Gently and

end

as well.
tie

carefully

move

As you

your clay to the

cookie sheet.

each knot,

imagine

it is

holding positive,

healing

energy which
is

released

when

you wear the

amulet.

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A M^mcAi-

C^fATO/LE An/D

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fYM&OL TO TH

A/s/CffN/T EcYPTiAN/f.

23

The

NOW YOU SEE ME, no* 1

The magic power
of this cloak
is

ou
the

dot,

%ak

strengthened

when

fabric is lightweight, the color

shimmery, and the texture

like silk.

Think

butterfly wings.

Cumulus

cloud.

Shadow

WHAT YOU NEED

on the

wall. Waterfall. Imagine yourself disappearing

INSTRUCTIONS
Making the Cloak
1.

measuring tape
fabric of your choice

and reappearing

silently.

Decide

how long you

cloak.

(see step 1)

want your

Use

straight pins

measuring tape to measure

calculator

from the base of your neck

across your shoulders.

pencil or chalk
ruler
scissors

Then measure from your

shoulder to your ankles.

You
matching thread
sewing needle or sewing machine

will

need to buy

enough

fabric to

make

square the same dimension as this measurement.

1 yard (.9

m) of

The
from

cloak

itself is

made

decorative ribbon

a circle cut

from a
need a

folded square of fabric.

Optional
Materials
for

^For example, if you

cloak 36 inches
long,
(.9

m)
at

Decoration

you

will

need to buy

2 yards (1.8
fabric scraps for
least

m) of fabric 72 inches (1.8 m)

decorative appliques
wide. If necessary, you can

fusible

hem tape and

sew together two widths

of yardage. Purchase an
extra /2 yard (45.7
l

webbing

fabric paints

cm) of

the fabric for the hood.

rubber stamps

24

F/GUfLE

FtGUfLZ Z

F/GUJLE

1
/
*

>

2.

Fold the square of fabric in half

ment by
by
2.

3.14; then divide the result

will give

4.

Mark an

arc for the

bottom edge of

lengthwise, then crosswise.

Use

This

you the correct

the cloak, measuring from the center

fold a distance equal to the length of

straight pins to pin the four layers

measurement

to create the neckline.

the,

together.

Mark
measuring tape to measure

an arc on the fabric from

the cape (see figure 2).

folded center using a ruler and pencil

3.

Use

or chalk (see figure

1).

5.

Cut on

the

marked
3).

lines

through

all

around the base of the neck. Use a

calculator to divide this measure-

layers.

(See figure

Cut one of the

folded edges for the center front

opening

P/GO/lE

4.

Making the Hood

1.

Measure from the base of your neck

will

measurement. This

determine the

Add 6 inches (15 cm) to this height of your hood. Mark a rectangle on the fabric, using
to the top of your head.

the neck to the top of head

measurement and the measurement around the base of the neck, plus

6 inches as the two sides of the rectangle.

2.

On the long side of the

the edge.

rectangle,
this line

sew

a straight line

of V2-inch (1.3 cm)

stitches

about
fit

V2 inch from
Stitch the

Use

of stitching to gather the edge of the rectangle to

the

neckline (see figure 4). Pin together the right sides of the gathered edge and the cape neckline.

two

layers together

with a V2-inch seam by hand or machine. Finish the raw edge by

trimming close to the seam.

3.

Turn the attached hood

right sides together.

5). Stitch

Match

the free corners, and use straight pins to

pin the top edges together (see figure

the raw edges close to the seam.
4.

together using a V2-inch (1.3 cm) seam.

Trim

Hem
Cut

the

bottom edge and opening edges of the cape and hood,

two equal
as desired.

if desired.

5.

the ribbon into

lengths.

Use

a needle

and thread

to stitch a length to each side at the

neck opening.

6.

Decorate the cloak

25

^S OF THE
L>ELTIC
Shape-shifters
jient Celts, there
listinct

the vessel to

simmer for

year and a

him. but

Gwion

turned into

a fish

and

bound-

day, planning to use the

all

brew to pass on

dove into

a river.

Cerridwen changed

jarating the Celtic

>ple.

her knowledge to her son.

She

put

into an otter, but once again, just before

and am-

young boy named Gwion

stirring the cauldron.

in charge

of

she caught the

a bird

fish,

ley believed their

When

the brew was

and flew

Gwion changed into into the sky. The goda giant

'could shape
lange into
there

shift,

to

finished,

Morfran would

taste three
all

dess changed into

fall

hawk, ready to

human or am

drops and he would receive

of

on the smaller
in a field

bird.

But

Gwion saw

were people with

Cerridwen's knowledge and power.

wheat

below, and changed

supernatural

powers

who

could change

But

Gwion

did not let this happen.

himself into

a tiny grain to hide. a

into animals, and that enchanted animals

existed which were once human.

The night before the official tasting, Gwion stuck his thumb into the hot
cauldron and sucked on his finger to

Cerridwen spotted him. changed into

hen, and pecked
at

the grain, eating

The most famous myths

shape-shifters.

are full of

Gwion.
But the tiny grain of wheat that was

cool
birth

it,

drinking three drops of the

Celtic legend says that the goddess

magic mixture. The cauldron shook

and cracked, waking up Cerridwen.
Realizing what had happened,

Gwion grew

into a

baby over the next

Cerridwen gave

both to the wizard

nine months. Cerridwen realized she

Merlin and to the great sixth-century

Celtic bard, or poet,

couldn't bring herself to kill the new-

named

Taliesin.

Cerridwen chased the

his

thief.

Gwion
a

used

born child, but instead tied

leather sack and threw

Gwion

in a

Cerridwen was the goddess of wisdom,

magic, and divination. Here
story of
is

new powers

to change into

hare

him

in a river.

the

and run away. Cerridwen shape-shifted

into a

Legend says
the

how

she became Taliesin's

greyhound and almost caught

someone fished sack from the river on All

that

birth mother.

Hallow's Eve (called

Long ago. Cerridwen had a son named Morfran the Dark. Some
people said he was ugly and without talent.

Samhain by the
Celts) and that the

reborn

Gwion

To

help her son,

a

became the
Celts' greatest

Cerridwen created
cauldron.

magic

She put

poet and
storyteller,

herbs, roots,

and sacred
water in

Taliesin.

V %\V\WS

26

Fingerless
Chant a
spell

Gloves
WHAT YOU NEED

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

Only time will tell

Slip on this pair

pair of old cotton gloves

Slip

on the

gloves.

Use the pencil

pencil
scissors

to

Wave your wand in

the

air.

mark where you want the fingers and thumb of the gloves to be trimmed off. Remove the gloves.
Place the gloves on your

Gloves like this bring magic

close.

2.

work

sur-

Be

careful

what you wish for most!

face,

and

carefully cut off the fingers

and thumbs where you marked.

WW
\
>*
27

Wizard's Staffs
I

have quite a collection of staffs

252 of them, to be exact.

My wife was
its

very

good

sport about the clutter, but she never got used to the
staff

Anubis-headed
full

because of

habit of howling at every

moon. (According

to the ancient Egyptians. Anubis was

powerful god with

a jackal's

head.) With simple paper mache.

you can make

if

a staff like that one.

a

although there's no telling

basic staff.

yours will be
it

howler.

Or

you can make the

and decorate

with animal designs that are meaningful to you.

-V

WHAT YOU NEED

(FOIL

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

TH

&Af(C fTAppj

The

length of a wizard's staff

in

other end of the

staff,

stop winding

should be

proportion to the wizit is

is

wooden

and gluing. Make sure you have

about 10 inches (25 cm) of loose
rope
left.

closet rod, broomstick,

large fallen branch

from a tree (don't cut a branch, use one that has fallen)

ard for
rule

whom

made.

A good
the staff 6

of thumb

to

make

measuring tape
pencil

inches (15 cm) shorter than the wizard or sorceress. Measure and

mark

5.

Paint the
it

staff,

including the rope,

handsaw
8 feet (2.5

the staff material you have chosen.

and allow
last

to dry.
(5

Do

not paint the

m) of small
2.

2 inches

cm)

at the top

of the

diameter rope*

Use

handsaw

to cut off

any

staff.

hot glue gun and glue sticks

acrylic paint in color

extra length.
^6.

of your choice
3.

Use hot glue

to attach

one end of
staff.

paintbrush
craft knife or scissors

the rope to the

bottom of the

Use hot glue to attach the ornament to the top of the staff. Wind and glue the last bit of rope around the bottom of the staff ornament. If
necessary, cut off the excess rope.
this section

4.

Wind

the rope up the staff at an

*Wander down the

aisles

of your local
store; this is

angle, gluing the rope to the staff

Touch up

of the

staff

hardware/home improvement

about every 2 inches (5 cm).

(See figure
1

with paint.

where modern-day wizards can find many

of their supplies.

on page

30).

When you

are about 2 inches (5

cm) from the

28

m*-

INSTRUCTIONS
Viiw

1.

Photocopy and enlarge the

out. Place the
floral
it

side

NEED
(Vo*.
1

view template of the Anubis head,

THE /Wufr/f H^AD.

and cut
plate trace

it

head tem-

on the
around

foam block, and

Anubis Head template on page 31

pencil
scissors

with the marker.

2. Position the

head on the top of

black marker
1

the staff and gently push the block

about
block of floral foam*
table knife

inch (2.5 cm) onto the

staff.

foam egg*

3.

Remove

the

foam

polystyrene

hot glue gun and glue stick

toothpicks

block. Set the block

down on

a table with

the traced shape

facing up.
table knife

newspaper or tissue paper

plastic sheeting

Use

and a

sawing motion to
cut

away the foam

white craft glue

small bowl
plastic

around the shape you

have traced on the
block. fee pigukz

wrap

gesso or acrylic primer

acrylic paint in gold

on pace 30J

or other colors

paintbrushes

Then,
use the
knife to

*sold in craft stores

round the
sharp edges

of the head
shape and to

narrow the
snout end.

5.

Tear newspaper or tissue paper

!

into /2-inch (1.3

cm)

strips. If

you want evenly torn

strips, tear

the paper by pulling a strip

against a ruler held

down on

the paper. You'll need a

couple of good handfuls of

strips.

Set the strips aside.

6.

Make

a mixture of three parts

white glue and one part water in

a small bowl. Stir the mixture to
4.

Use, the knife to cut the

iivlialf

foam
3).

an even consistency.

egg

lengthwise (figure

Cut one
again.

half in half lengthwise

slices will

These skinny

form
9.

Begin applying

strips to the

the ears. Insert a toothpick in the

head form, overlapping the

rounded end of each

the ears in position

ear.

Put
strips as

on the
to trim

you cover

it

head.

You may wish

(figure 4).

Cover the
layer

form with one

strips,

of

the sharp edges further

smoothing the

with a knife. Secure the

strips as

you work; then

to dry.

toothpicks

iii

the ears with

set the

head aside

hot glue, and secure the ears

Cover your bowl with

to the

head with hot

glue.
plastic

wrap

to prevent the

glue mixture from drying out.

Cover your working area

messy work,
it.

with plastic sheeting or newspaper. This

is

but

quite like

8.

Dip one

strip

of paper at

Run the paper between your thumb

a time in the bowl.

and forefinger
excess liquid

to

wring

from

the

strip.

30

10.

Put

at least three layers

of paper
layer to

strips

on the form. Allow each

r^
M
k

ftA

*
Cp is

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

dry overnight before adding the next

layer.

Center the polystyrene foam

staff

ball
it

The head form

will

be smoother
layers.

on the

and gently push on

in the ball;

to

and stronger with additional

make an indentation
then remove the
ball.

Use the

table

11.

When

the final layer

is

dry,

knife to hollow out a hole 1 inch

(2.5

brush a coat of gesso or acrylic

cm) deep and

slightly smaller

primer on the head, and

let it dry.

than the indentation.

12. Paint the

head gold or another

staff.

2.
it

Pour

glitter

on the disposable

color that matches the

to dry.

Allow

plate.

WHAT YOU NEED

(FOIL

TH jEvVE^ED Ol&

3.

Paint the foam ball with a thin

it

draw the eye of Horus, the ancient Egyptian Sky God, on the head. Use a dark color
13.

Use

a pencil to

coat of white craft glue. Roll

in

6-inch (15 cm) polystyrene

ball*

the

glitter,

and allow

it

to dry for a

foam

few minutes.

to paint the eye, as

5.

shown

in figure

table knife

Allow

it

to dry.

newspaper to cover work surface

disposable plate or
glitter

4.

Use hot glue

to attach the jewels

foam meat

tray

to the ball.

14.

Use

a generous

amount of hot

glue to attach the head to the top

white craft glue

disposable paintbrush

5. Fill

the hole with hot glue,

ball

of the

staff.

and gently push the

basic
staff.

onto the

hot glue gun and glue sticks

large plastic

gems

in a variety of

shapes and colors

basic staff (page 28)

*sold in craft stores

Emla^ge TH/f Ano*i{ Head

Ttv\PLi^T
(f

iq-f'o
10

fO IT

A&OCT

/N/CHEf

(ic;

cm) long.

Wizard Reticule and Coins

Wizards and sorceresses never go anywhere without
to the belt of their robe. This leather pouch
coins, magical herbs, or a divining ring.
square, rectangular, oval, or triangular.
is

handy

reticule tied

WHAT YOU NEED

(FOIL THf K.GTiC!JLE)

perfect for holding wizard

Wizard coins can be any shape:

plenty of silver magical
is

Have

moola on hand

the price of dragon eggs these days

outrageous!

piece of chamois, about 18 inches

(45.7

cm) square*

(optional fabrics include any type of

cloth, felt, or scrap leather)

circular template

(dinner plate,
bucket, or large lid

of plastic food container)

pencil
scissors

paper punch or

large, sharp nail

1 yard (.9

m)

twine, heavy string,

or leather thong
*found in
auto-supply stores
I

Make
32

yooil fLTicoL

la^ge Gn/ough to hold a king

/^Ankom in V\//Au>

Coin/;.

INSTRUCTIONS
Smooth out
a tabletop.

WHAT YOU NEED

(Vofc.

coins)
3.

1.

the chamois cloth

a pencil to trace

on

Use

2-ounce (56 g) blocks of metaUiccolored polymer clay in gold, bronze,

Roll the clay

into a ball

and

around the template you have

chosen.

and

silver

then flatten

it

with the

A template that
pouch
that

is

at least

table knife resealable

palm of your hand. Use

the rolling pin or straightsided jar to flatten the ball into
a thin sheet about
(6

12 inches (30.5 cm) in diameter

creates a

sandwich bags

works well

for

rolling pin or straight-sided jar

most purposes.
2.

shaping and texturing tools: fork,

silver

V4 inch

fancy

spoons, Phillips head

mm)

thick.

Cut out the

circle

with

scissors.

screws,

embossed metal beads, bottle

4.

caps, jar lids, coins, toothpicks

3.

For round coins, use a bottle cap

Punch evenly spaced

holes around

colored pencils (optional)

to cut circles

from the

sheet.

For larger For

the circumference of the circle. Put the edge of the chamois as far as
will
it

photocopies of images (optional)

cookie sheet covered
foil

round

coins, use a small jar lid.

more unusual
with aluminium

shapes, see

what kind

go

in your paper

punch. Try to
all

of cookie cutters you have around the

house, or use the table knife to cut

maintain this distance

the circle.

around

oven

triangles, squares, etc.

hot pads

Thread your cord through one hole, then weave the cord in and
4.

Decorating Ideas

out of the holes around the

circle.

INSTRUCTIONS
5.

There

are

many ways you can

Leave a

tail

of cord hanging from

(Vo*. coins)
decorate the coins:
1.

where you

started.

For each color that you are using,

clay.

use half a block of polymer

5.
all

The

tines

of a fork and the fancy

silver

When you
the holes,
tie

have woven through

Cut

the clay with the table knife.

handles of old

spoons can create

match the ends of the

Store the other half in a resealable

interesting looking indentations

cord and

them with an overhand

sandwich bag to use another time.

2.
it

around the edge of the coin.

knot. Pull the cord to gather the

material.

Knead

the clay in your hands. Roll

Phillips

head screws and embossed

into a ball

and

stretch

it

metal beads make attractive

paterns, too.

out.

Repeat

this action
is

until the clay

warm
CON/TiN/uSD

and

soft.

om pace

34.

33

COsfTiNUZD

FtOM PAGE 33

&
to carve

Use the end of a toothpick

on the
coin.

patterns

^0^ ^% Un^le
Th0

You can

also roll small balls or coils

of a second color of clay and add them

to the surface of the coins.

WIZARDS FAMILIARS

After the coins are baked, you can

use colored pencils to decorate

them,

too.
carrying

them around
a rat

in its

cheek pouch-

If you're feeling full of energy,

you

can make photocopies of signs or symbols

you would

like

on your coins

(for

instance, the alchemical symbols for

gold,

silver,

and copper). Cut out the

fit

photocopied designs to

the face of

A
ards prefer the

rat

the size of a large cat?

es. If

A toad
brick?

you get

with one pink eye

as

heavy

as a

and one black or dark ruby eye, name

Would you choose

your familiar,

either to be

your animal companion

and helpmate?

Some

wiz-

him Odd Eye. For centuries, toads and hunchbacks were thought to ward off the power of the evil eye, soaking up its venomous
rays,

your coin, and follow steps 4 and 6

described in the

common
rat.

garden toad or
is

while frogs symbolized abundance.

as

handy pocket-sized

But the choice

after,

Magic Amulet on

And
it's

everyone knows,

many

frogs are

yours.
try the

And

if

big

is

what you're

pages 22 and 23.

actually princes in disguise!

that

Or maybe

white Sprague-Dawley or darkrats:

you have to
me.

kiss a lot of frogs

on-white Wistar
6.

they grow to about

a lot

Carefully place the coins

on the

to get

a prince,

or so

my

sister sorcer-

8 inches (20.3 cm). That's

If

of

rat!

esses tell

cookie sheet. Bake your coins for 10

your

taste is

more

exotic, consider

Toads may be more your cup of

tea.

minutes according to the manufacturer's

Rhizomys sumatrensis,
Sumatran bamboo
rat.

the great
friend,

but even wizards should beware the poi-

instructions
clay.

on the package of
to

My good

sonous giant toad (Bufo marinus). also

polymer

Use the hot pads

the famous English detective Sherlock

known

as the cane toad.

This warty
can swallow,
It

remove the cookie sheet from the

oven.
carry

Holmes,

called his horrible

memory

of

monster

eats anything

it

When the
them

coins have cooled,

the giant rat of Sumatra "a story for

including small

mammals.
(1

weighs

in the reticule (page 33).

which the world

with
a

is

not yet prepared."

a

more than

pounds
of
a

kg) and measures

its

Even the young Hardy Boys had

it

brush

almost 18 inches (45.7 cm) including

legs. Nastiest
its
all,

in

one of

their adventures.

With
rat
rat.

bulging sacs behind

it seri-

body some
a tail

19 inches (48.3

cm) long

eyes carry

poison so toxic

and

of equal length, this giant

ously harms humans and kills dogs or

cats

dwarfs your average black or brown

who

try to eat the toad. If size

Imagine

it

loose in

dark room!

interests

you the most, consider instead

Cricetomys gambianus, the giant

African pouched
rat, is

the foot-long (30 cm), nonpoisonous

goliath frog of
est frog in the

almost

as big as a

West

Africa, or the tini-

and

is

kept by

many non-wizards

world, the Psyllophryne

gentle house pet. This rat loves to collect baubles,

didactyla of Brazil, measuring only a

hair over

such as buttons and coins.

v3

inch (8

mm).

34

High-Speed Chase Broom

Don't despair!
converting
it

You

won't ruin

a perfectly

good broom by

into a supersonic

broom

for high-altitude chases.

After you've angled the broomcorn. the

shape
is

also

perfect for

capturing dust

bunnies behind your

desk and underneath

the couch.

But JUST TO
fUJLE

6E- ON/

J~H TAPE ODE, &E

TO AfK An/

ADUi-T iA/i^AW> IN

THE HOUSE (f (T f OKAY TO TfLAN/fPO/^M

THEifL f=AvO*JTE

To-tswooPeiL.

*'<*

-A
:^^>

Jl

rr

WHAT YOU NEED

'

INSTRUCTIONS
photocopy of wing on page 36

broom with wooden handle

black marker

stabilizer

newspaper or

plastic sheeting to

masking tape
craft knife

Lay the broom on the floor. Use the marker to draw an angled line from one side of the top of the broomcorn
1.

cover

work surface

at the stitching line to the opposite

large scissors
acrylic paints in gold, silver,

hammer
small tacks

corner at the bottom of the broom-

corn (figure

on page

36).

copper, or the colors of your choice

hot glue gun and glue sticks

bicycle reflectors

2.

paintbrush

Cut the broomcorn on the marked Cut one

is

line.

layer at a time until the

reflective tape
plastic

milk jug (emptied

& cleaned)

broomcorn

angled as pictured.

You

35

F/GUfLE 1

can trim the edge flush with the

scissors

Trace around the pattern with a

marker. Use a craft knife to cut out the
shape.

when you have

all

cut

through

the layers (figure 2).

Then make
shown

straight

slits

on the

shape, as
I

in figure 4.

3.

Cover a

flat

work

surface
7.

>

with newspaper or plastic sheet!

Paint the winged stabilizer with

Lay the broom down and paint one side of the wooden
ing.

acrylic paint,

and allow

it

to dry.

Then, thread the end of the broom

.

handle in the color you have

handle through the

slits

you have

cut.

chosen. Allow to dry. Turn the

Position the winged stabilizer

on the

broom over and paint the other side of the broom handle.
Allow
to dry. Paint each side

handle and secure

small tacks.

it

with one or two

with a second coat

if desired.

8.

Glue on the small

bicycle reflectors.

4.

Use the broom-

corn stitching as a

guide to paint
stripes or a flame

design (see figure 3) on

the broomcorn. This

design can match the

color of the handle or

you can use

FJGU/LE

a different

color altogether.

You

could also paint the

name of the broom on the handle (my last chase broom was called
Thundercloud).
Secure the end of a

5.

roll

of reflec

tive tape at the

bottom of the broom

handle and wind the tape diagonally

up the handle. Cut off the tape when

you reach the
top.

Use a copy machine to enlarge the winged stabilizer pattern to fit your
6.

broom

(figure 4).

Then

cut

it

out.

Tape the pattern to the milk jug, wrapping it around the corner.
FlGUILE

36

Sorcerer Slipovers N
These
fanciful slipover shoes are easy to
felt,

make with

needle and thread, and

few measurements. Decorate them with

glitter paint, glue

on colorful

designs, or leave

them

plain for

workaday wizard chores.

WHAT YOU NEED

cm) of felt or four 9 x 12-inch (22.9 x 30.5 cm)

(22.9

V4 yard

rectangles of craft felt

measuring tape
pencil and paper
piece of copier paper,

11 x 17 inches (27.9 x 43.2 cm)

ruler
scissors

straight pins

sewing needle sewing thread or metallic

embroidery floss

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

self-adhesive hook-and-loop tape

Use

measuring tape to measure

3.

felt

scraps

around the bottom of your shoe.

fusible

With your

foot

still flat

on the

webbing or

fabric glue

Write

glitter puffy paint

2 plastic grocery bags

measurement down on a piece of paper. Label it A. As you make the measurements in steps 2 through 4, write them down on a
this

floor,

measure the distance from the

floor over the widest part of the

shoe at the base of the toes. Label

this

measurement C.
floor to the top
this

sheet of paper.
4.

Measure from the

2.

With your

foot

flat

on the

floor,

of the back of your shoe. Label

measure the distance from the floor

over the arch of your shoe at the
highest point. Label this measure-

measurement D.
5.

Take measurement A, add

and divide by
2.

inch

ment

B.

(2.5 cm),

Measure

37

and draw a
line

P'GOMF

10.

Cut out the

15.

Put the hook side of the hookat the

along

pattern. Pin the

and-loop tape on the outside back

the long

pattern to a piece

of the slipover
in step 13.

mark you made

oppo-

edge of
your paper.

Ca +

INCH fz.r cm] j

-^ V

of felt. Carefully
cut out the felt

Put the loop side of the

inside edge of the

LEN/CTH op THIS L/n/E

tape

on the

This

is

along the edge

site side.

the bottom

of the pattern.

of the shoe.

Repeat until you have four pieces

cut out.

16.

Repeat steps 14 and 15 for the

other shoe.

6.

Mark

a point equal to measure11.

ment

D perpendicular to the line in

become the back of
1).

Match

the edges of two pieces

a

17.

Decorate the sides of the shoes

step 5. This will

and pin them together. Use

stitch to

whip-

your shoe (see figure

sew the two pieces together

from point
7.

X to Y (see figure 3).

You can copy and transfer some of the designs in this book onto felt scraps; then cut them out,
as desired.

Find the halfway point of the

line

and use iron-on

12.

fusible

webbing or

in step 5.

Make

perpendicular line

Sew

the other shoe.

fabric glue to attach

equal to measurement
point.

at this

shoes.
13.

Try on the

slipover over your

fit,

these
ter

You can also designs on the shoes with

them to the paint some of

glit-

shoe. Adjust to
8.

and use a pencil

puffy paint.

Draw

a line halfway

between the

to

mark where

the backs overlap.

18. Stuff the curled point

line in step 7

and the end of

of each

the
slipover.

IV
I
I I I

p/Cu^E 2

14.

Measure
lengths

shoe with a wadded-up plastic grocery bag. This will help

their shape.

and cut two

of hookI

them keep

Make

this

line equal

to measure-

and-loop
tape the

ment C.
.JLi'

".,m-HL --''

-**4 P5S3**"

same length
as

9.

Connect

measure-

the lines you have marked, as

in figure 2.

shown
like a

ment D.

Draw

the curved toe as

shown, or create a toe shaped

the horn of a

unicorn's horn (mine are shaped like

young

rhinoceros).

This becomes your slipover pattern.

38

Solomon's

Magic Ring
Glea m ing glass jewel
shiny golden string.
Justice

and kindness
hand
this ring.

should rule the

of he who wears

In

A.M00 to

400

there lived an

extraordinary wizard

named King

Solomon. There
about his

are

many

stories

wisdom and power. He

a

possfcpcd

magic

ring with

which

he commanded

spirits,

called the

djinn, to do his bidding.

I

The

ring
it

describe here

is a

beauty but

has fairly

low

wattage,

which

makes

it

suitable for novice wiz-

ards and sorceresses. But

who

WHAT YOU NEED

18-gauge or finer brass or copper wire*

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

can tell? Try

commanding your
To make your
ring,

younger brother to do your

Saturday chores.
the ring
If that

you

will size
it

and shape the wire by wrapping

around a mandrel

works,
ruler

wooden dowel

may

be more powerful
wire cutters*

or stick that's as wide as the finger

you'll

than

remember.
dowel or stick 6 inches (15 cm) long and about the width of the finger you want to wear the ring on

wear the ring on.

2.

flat-nose pliers*

Measure and cut off 24 inches (61 cm) of wire. Tightly and closely coil
the wire six times around the

man-

large glass marble or

drel (figure 1

flat

marble jewel

on page

40). Slide the

wire off the mandrel.

transparent or masking tape

*sold in qraft stores

39

Use the

flat- nose pliers to pull

the

wire tightly (figure

2).

Continue

wrapping the wire around the ring

until

you reach the point where

you began.

4.

Place your marble or glass jewel

ring.

on the

Wrap

the long end of

the wire over the marble and down.

3.

Starting at the point where the

6.

Wind

the wire

down through
tightly

the

coil begins,

wrap the long end of

(figure 2).

ring again.

Then,

wrap the

the wire around the coils holding

wire around and around the base of

the marble to secure
(figure 5).
it

them together

in place

Cut

off any excess wire.

Hold

the wire to the marble tem-

porarily with a 1-inch (2.5

cm) piece

of tape

(figure 3).

5.

Bring the wire through the

it

ring,

then bring
marble.

up again

to cross the

You may continue

crossing

the wire over the marble as

many

times as you wish (figure. 4).

*
40

#.

Wizards Trunk
A simple
store
is

cardboard storage box purchased from

discount or hardware

WHAT YOU NEED

easily transformed into a trunk for storing

it.

your wizard regalia

a

when

you're not using

You

can buy cardboard storage boxes in

corrugated cardboard storage

lid

variety of colors,

wood

grains,

and patterns. The choice

box with removable

is

yours.

heavy aluminum
scissors

foil

oven

liner

pencil
ruler

white craft glue

scrap paper
acrylic paints

paintbrushes
ballpoint pen

marking pens

P0- PEfLfON/A_fjN/G

s
I

-^ >7

VA

i r

u a

1.

Use

scissors to cut eight rectangles

Astrological Designs
t^ATE*- BEA*-E*-

measuring

2x6

inches (5 x 15 cm)
foil

from an aluminum

oven

liner.
1.

Round each end of a

Use the ballpoint pen
rectangle; these

Each

astrological sign has a lucky

foil rectangle.

color, metal,

and stone associated

to create sev-

with
ends of each
"nail
P/fCEf,

it.

eral small circles at the

TH

Personalize your trunk with

FifH

a pattern

become the

made from

astrological

heads."

Emboss

symbols. Paint wide vertical stripes

the circles following

on the trunk. Then, paint your

astrological

the general directions for embossing

symbol

in several spots

on page 130. Glue two embossed

rectangles around each corner of

on the
THE HAM

stripe.

Use your metal

I

color

for the symbols, see pages

105 to

the trunk.
fy

107. (I'm a Pisces:

for the stripes

used purple

and

silver for

my

2.

Create a personalized label for the

sign.)

trunk by cutting a shape of your

choice from the oven
liner.

Then add

other symbols

Copy
TAuJUT, THE
i^JLL

between the

stripes,

painted in a

your name onto a scrap of paper

using the runic alphabet on page 94.

color of your choice.

your closest friends

Only you and will know whose

Hold

trunk has the copper-colored

the piece of paper against a
side

window, with the writing

pressed against the glass.

symbols on violet
2.

stripes.

Then

trace

Enlarge your astrological symbol

fit

the reversed letters with a pencil.

to
INI,

the top of the trunk. Trace

it,

Use

this pattern to

emboss your
TH
TkV(N/f

around

then paint

it

on the

top.

name on

the label. Glue the label on

to the trunk.

3. If you are feeling particularly

CAn/CE*.,

industrious, try

making

mock lock
TH
C/JAvfc

from the scraps of the

foil liner.

VlH-GO,

TH VIRGIN
Leo,
Li&fLA

th^ lion

TH fCALEf

^COfcPlO,
f AGiTTA/L/Uf,

THE AtCHE*.

PILiCOILn,

TH GOAT

42

.>

-tfvtew That??,,,

4?

tf

POLTERGEISTS 6 THEIR MISCHIEF

Q^OlVo
OP
>i

^0^0^ Windows, open

drawers
turn

-V'/

^o ^re.

doors, and

and shut

In 1817, a poltergeist started bothering

by themselves. Lights on and

off.

the Bell family of Robertson County.

and bad

Tennessee.
stones
at

It

used to throw sticks and

smells or loud noises

erupt for

the children

on

their

way

to

no reason. Stones,

dirt,

or

school: in a strange kind of game, the

children and the poltergeist threw the
missiles back and forth at each other!

small objects rain

down on you

out of

the blue, or your granny s wig flies

from

her head and across the room.

Your

1973 report from Paraguay

piano or refrigerator suddenly decides to

take a walk across the floor, and the
turns itself on.

describes
a

how
a

a poltergeist

removed

TV
One
of the earliest reports dates

baby carriage (with the baby sleeping

Your computer
there.

starts dis-

inside)

from

house and deposited

it

playing strange messages, and

you have

from A.D. 355 and describes sleeping

people being thrown out of their beds in

under

a tree outside,

baby

still

safely

no idea how they got

sleeping!
In 1977 at an ordinary house in north

What on
probably got

earth

is

happening? You've
the house,

Bingen-am-Rhein, Germany.
In 1661, in the

a poltergeist in

famous case of the

London, the Enfield

the

poltergeist tormented

and you have

my

sympathy.

Drummer
justice

of Tedworth. an English
a

Hodgson

family,

moving around

furni-

Frequently mischievous and sometimes mean, poltergeists have been causing a ruckus since ancient times.

of the peace ordered

drummer
the

ture,

throwing hairbrushes, and writing

It

to stop playing his

drum because

messages on walls.
a half later.

finally left a year

and

noise annoyed village residents. After

Poltergeists are different

from ghosts.

Their name comes from the

poltern (to knock) and geist

German
(spirit).

drum was taken to a house in the nearby village of Tedworth for safekeepthe
ing,

In 1981.

slamming doors, weird

noises,

and coins flying across rooms

convinced
their
a

finally

drumming, storms, panting, foul

young couple to move out of

in

They usually show up at night, and can come and go in a matter of minutes, or stay around for months or years. They
seem to be
particularly attracted to

odors, scratchings, and other disturbances

erupted inside the house, lasting for

house
is a

Kent. England.

So
visitor,

poltergeist truly an unseen

two

years.

or the projected mental energies

1715 letter

from the mother of

of

teenager? Scientists don't know, and

homes where

teenage girls

live.

Some

researchers think the physical events

John Wesley, founder of the Methodist church, describes groans and other signs

they continue to study the matter.

advice?
If a

My

poltergeist

comes
it

to visit

might actually be caused by the mental

energies of a person living in the house.

from

a poltergeist at their
at

home, the

your house, remember that

forever, and
it

won't stay
if a

Rectory

Epworth. England.

Old

can be friendly. But

There
ries

are
all

hundreds of poltergeist
around the world.

sto-

Jeffrey, as the

family nicknamed the pres-

hairbrush

comes

sailing at you. don't

from

ence, finally went

away

after

two months.

forget to duck!

43

The Decorative

Arts

o
the crystal ball
useful, and,

ur

home

is

our

castle,

and you'll want to

make

sure your
a
I

room

looks like
lives there.

wizard

found

on page 53 to be most
you're not gazing
it

when

into
a

it

to see what's to come,

light. I

makes

handy bedside

picked up
I

my

first

flying carpet

when

was

in Arabia,

and Ali Baba the rug merchant kindly

told
I

me how

to

make another

one.

pass his instructions

on to you.

Of

course

we

all

need

magic looking
if

glass for our chamber, and

you

really

want to impress your wizard

friends,

you can make

photograph that shows

the past, present, and future, depending

on how you look

secrets for

at it.

You'll find

my

making these things and

more

in this chapter.

44

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Magic Carpet
If

you

can't travel to Istanbul to

after a

buy

magic carpet from

trip

Suff master,

you can make your own

stores. Just

quick
fun
it

to your local discount and craft

fly over the minarets

imagine

how much

would be to
this carpet

(or your local wizard supply store)

if

was

truly magical.

Or perhaps

you wont have to

imagine...

#
If your rug
is

WHAT YOU NEED

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

small, washable

throw rug*

washable, wash

it

5.

Paint the minarets with your

photocopy of minaret template, page 142

before you begin painting and

choice of color.

adding the

fringe.
6.

scissors

Paint curlicues freehand around

pencil
sheets of newspaper
ruler
fabric paints in colors of

2.

Enlarge the minaret design (page

the minarets; paint

large, the choice
is

142) on a photocopy machine so

that

them small up to you.

or

you can

fit

two or more on
7.

your rug.

Measure and cut lengths of fringe

the width of your rug. Attach a

3.

your choice

Cut out the

Repeat

design. Place
it

it

on

length of fringe with fabric glue,

paintbrushes, 1 inch (2.5 cm) wide

the rug, and trace around

pencil.
this until

with a
like the

weight the fringe with heavy books,

2 yards (1.8 m) upholstery

you

and allow

it

to dry.

Repeat for the

or drapery fringe

arrangement of minarets on your

rug.

opposite side. If you want, you can

fabric glue

sew the fringe

to the rug.

needle and thread (optional)

4.

Cover your work surface with

*Notes about rugs:

Look

for flat pile or

newspaper.

woven rugs made

If

for the kitchen

it

your rug has

a pattern, turn

and bath. over and

craft

decorate the back side.

stores sell

You can
pile.

also use

carpet remnants with low

Some

pre-hemmed canvas

floorcloths

which you can also use; you'll just have to paint a background color on the canvas.

If)

Mirror of Fantasy
Hephaestus (the famous ancient Greek metalworker) created

my

-\ y

original

magic mirror framed

in silver

and studded with precious

jewels.

You

can create a replica that mimics metalwork without

having to use an anvil or forge.

WHAT YOU NEED

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

small mirror

Copy and

enlarge the patterns

fit

or a craft knife to cut out

all

(square or rectangular)*

on page 48
mirror.

to

the corner of your

four shapes.

photocopy of pattern on page 48

corrugated cardboard (recycle a box)

Cut out

the pattern copies.

3.

Position the four shapes on the

2.

Lay the pattern on

a sheet

of card-

corners of the mirror.

Use

a ruler to

pencil

board. Trace around the pattern with

scissors or craft knife

measure the length and width of the

area your mirror

a pencil.

Repeat until you have four

and shapes

cover.

ruler

separate shapes.

Use

scissors

aluminum foil
hot glue gun and glue sticks
black, brown, or dark blue

acrylic paint

paintbrush

paper towels or rag

felt

or cardboard to

cover the mirror back

self-adhesive pic-

ture hanger

glass or

j4|

plastic

jewels

Buy
inex-

pensive
mirrors in

drugstores or

hardware stores Have an adult help you remove any

existing

frame.

47

have glued the shapes,

in place to

set the

mirror

check the position of the

the mirror.

shapes.

Remove

7.

Roll out a length of

aluminum
flat

foil

slightly longer

than the

piece of
foil

cardboard. Gently crumple the

4.

Measure and mark

shape to

in your
flatten

hands and then carefully

it

10.

Hot

glue the mirror to the frame.

the measurements in step 3.

this

Cut

out on a

flat surface.

shape out with scissors or a

8.

11.

Measure and cut

a piece

of felt

craft knife.

Lay

the slightly crumpled foil

on

or cardboard large

enough

to cover

the cardboard.
5.

Use your

fingers to

the back of the frame.

to the

Hot

glue this

Roll out a sheet of

aluminum
flat

foil

make

the foil conform to the shapes.

slowly: if you

back of the frame. Attach the

long enough to wrap completely

Work

work too

fast or

self-adhesive picture hanger to the

around both sides of the

gle of cardboard.

rectan-

press too hard,

you

will tear the foil.

back of the frame.

Smooth

the foil

Fold the excess

the frame.

foil to

the back of
12.

around the cardboard.

Hot

glue the jewels to the front

as desired.

of the frame
6.

Use hot glue

to attach the four

9.

Pour

a little acrylic paint

onto a

template shapes to the corners of the

foil-covered cardboard. After

scrap of cardboard. Brush paint

on

you

small section of the frame, then wipe

off the excess with a paper towel or

rag to antique the surface. Antique

the surface of the entire frame until

you

like the
it

way

that

it

looks.

Allow

to dry.

Photocopy rnefE PArrepjvf to

CREATE DECO^T/VE COJUV/EW
PO*- YOOfL

M/MX>^.

48

Floating
or two! This candle
the

Magic Candle
2. Fill the jar

with water to

inch

Every self-respecting wizard's chamber needs to have

is

a floating

candle

(2.5

cm) below the brim.

If you

particularly magical because

still

it

will burn all

want, you can add a few drops of

way

to the end while

floating in the water!

BEFORE
IF

YOU

food coloring to turn the water your favorite

color.

START. ASK THE

ADULT WIZARD OF YOUR HOUSE

burn the candle,

YOU CAN
3.

MAKE

IT.

When you

make

sure

it's

in a safe place

and never leave the flame unattended.

Holding the candle by the wick,

it

slowly lower

into the water, screw

end

first.

The

candle should float

WHAT YOU NEED

INSTRUCTIONS
1
.

freely
slightly

without touching the bottom

jar, its

candle, 5 inches (13

/4 inch (1.9

cm) long,

Screw the wood screw

of the

wick end above the

cm) wide*
1

into the flat

end of the candle,

surface of the water.

Loosen your

wood screw,
glass

inch (2.5 cm) long

making sure the screw is straight and not bending toward one side
or the other.

grip on the wick slightly to check

that the top won't tip over into the
water. If the candle starts to tip over,
try a heavier screw in the

canning jar, 1-quart (.95 L) size

water

bottom.

food coloring

4.

Light the candle with

a match.

(optional)

matches

L A

^hese are often sold as

candles, and they

emergency
in

come

packs of

four.

49

5.

Make

three

more of these

cross-

Crossbones Board
Every wizard needs
a

bone shapes.
Carefully place the crossbones on

6.

handy place to

jot

down

notes, reminders, or

the cookie sheet.

Bake the bones

for

messages. Otherwise, he could forget to pick up an ounce of bat hairs

the next time
he's in the village.

about 15 minutes according to the

manufacturer's instructions on the

of this chalkboard will

little

The crossbones that decorate the frame make the "DO NOT ENTER"message for your

package of polymer

clay.

Use hot

brother

more

threatening.

pads to remove the cookie sheet from

the oven. Let the bones cool

com-

WHAT YOU NEED

slighdy.

Smooth

together the edges

pletely.

where the

coils cross

with your
bits

fingers.
7.

framed

slate

board*
g) block

Use white glue

to attach the cross-

2-ounce (56

of white

4.

Pinch off very small

of clay and

bones to each corner of the frame.

or ivory-colored polymery clay

roll

eight small balls. Put

two on the
bonelike

flat

work surface
foil

end of each
shape.

coil to create a

cookie sheet covered

Smooth

the edges where

with aluminum

they meet the

coil so that

oven
hot pads

they look like they

are a part

of

the

coil.

white craft glue

*Framed
slate

boards are sold in most

craft stores.

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

Knead

the block of clay in your

it

r
it
is

hands. Roll
out.

into a ball

and

stretch

Repeat

this action until the clay

warm and
2. Pull a

soft.

small ball of clay from the

it

block of clay. Roll

between the
until

palms of your hands

coil

you have a
little ringer.

about the

size

of your

Add more clay to the coil if needed Make a second coil the same size as)
the
first.

3.

Put the

coils

on a
the

flat surface.

Cross them to make X-shapes. Lighdjr

flatten

them on

flat surface.

You
1

want the tops of the

coils

rounded
!'

5o

v&

0f|, er
the

Draco
A

Dragon was the

sky 4.000

***
arose

preventing

mightiest constellation
in the night

e Skies
Tiamat battled
horrible

new heads from forming. Even though a giant crab came out of the swamp to help Hydra. Hercules
finally

won by

cutting off the

snakes

to bring order to the world, and

one special head that could

live forever.

years ago.

Another old legend says

that his pet raven

that

Hydra

group of

stars

shaped

them with the help of other

was formed by the god Apollo, angry was delayed

in bring-

like a long serpent with a triangular

sea monsters, poisonous serpents, and

head. Draco was the pole star of

ancient times, the center point of the

men shaped like scorpions. Marduk, a hero who was given magical powers by
the gods, fought Tiamat with the help

ing

him

cup of water.
fruit,
its

The

raven had

stopped to eat
water snake to

then brought back a

evening sky.

The Egyptians

called
it

it

master, claiming the

Thuban: the Persians called

a

Ashdeha.

of winds from heaven. Tiamat was torn

to shreds, and

snake caused the delay. Apollo saw

man-eating serpent: and the Hindus

it

Marduk

the

Dragon

through the

lie,

and threw bird, cup, and

called

Shishu-mara.

a giant alligator.

Slayer built heaven, earth, and the

constellations.

snake into the skies. Crater (The Cup)

But

in ancient times, to the

people

who

and Corvus (the Raven) can be seen

part of the legend of the

watched the sky night

after night as the

Hercules

is

perched on the serpent's back

in the sky.

seasons changed, the planets and stars

serpent constellation Hydra, the

ManyIts

Ophiuchus

is

the constellation

seemed to revolve around Draco.

In

Headed Monster. The

ed water snake lived

huge, nine-head-

known

as the
Its

Serpent-Holder and the

the story

Egypt 3,000 years ago, the great pyra-

in a

swamp.
its

Serpent.

name comes from

mid of Khufu at Gizeh was built so that Draco could always be seen from the bottom of the air shafts that traveled deep into the mysterious heart of
the pyramid.

blood was poisonous, and

could
kill instantly. kill the

breath
tried to

of Aesculapius,
healing

who

discovered the
a

The hero

power of herbs when he saw

a sprig

monster, but every time he cut

its

snake give

of herb to another

off

one of

heads, another one

would

snake that seemed dead, and the dead

The

stars

have shifted,

grow back
the

in its place! Finally. a

snake recovered. Aesculapius studied

herbs and used his knowledge to cure
sick people. Hades,

and today the pole

star is Polaris.
still glitters.

Hercules used

flaming torch to seal

But mighty Draco

wounds

as

he cut off the heads.

god of the underwas curing so

The Greeks
fixed in the sky

said that

Draco was

world, complained to his brother god

when

the goddess

Zeus

that since the doctor

Athena fought
10-year battle.

evil giants in a

many people and

bringing

them back

giant threw a

from the dead, fewer were coming to

the underworld. Zeus agreed, and

dragon
tossed

at
it it

Athena, and she

into the

North
rest.

sky.

he killed Aesculapius with

thun-

where
earlier

came to

Even
tell

derbolt. But because he admired the

Babylonian stories

doctor

s talents.

Zeus made

of an evil sea serpent

him

into a constellation, along

named Tiamat, which was

responsible for the dark

with the snake that taught him

the healing

power of

herbs.

Today,
with

chaos that

made up

the world

our best-known symbol for

before the earth and heavens

medicine
serpents

is still a staff
it.

were created.

New

gods

wound around

51

Bats and Stars

Twinkle twinkle soaring bat

INSTRUCTIONS
./"

4.

Cover your work surface with

wood

or acrylic cutting board. Place

1.

Photocopy and enlarge the bat and

and then cut them out
'

the poster>&oard on that surface, and

carefylly cut out the bate

star patterns,

and

stars

How I wonder where you're at.

Up above you're
Atfirst you
quite a sight.

with the

scissors-

with the

craft knife:

2.

Place the bat shape on the black

5.
it.

caused

me

quite a fright!

Cut 30 lengths of fishing

line,

each

poster board and trace around

12 to 15 inches (30.5 to 38 cm).

Twinkle twinkle

little star.

Repeat until you have traced 30 bat

shapes.
6.

What'ya doing up

so far?

Glue one/earo of the

fishing

From where I lie

here in

my room
3.

line to the 'middle

of one or\
glue

Place the star shap on the silver pr gold poster board

could I reach you on

my broom?

the bat shapes.

Dot

around the^edge of the bat

shape and lay another bat shape on\top. Repeat this
ith the other bat
v

and

trace

around

WHAT YOU NEED

it.

Repeat until
have traced 30
stars.
I

photocopies of bat and star

or.

)u

shapes

patterns (page 141)

more

until you.

have glued 15 bat

star pattern

sandwiches.

tracing paper
7.

pencil
scissors

NW glue 15

star

sandwiches.

8.

With

help from

poster board, black and metallic

a ladder

and an

silver or

gold
or acrylic

adult sorceress,

wooden

climb up and tack

the loose end of the fish-

cutting

board

ing line to the ceiling (or use

craft knife

masking
stats

tape).

Hang

the bats and

fishing line

over your bed.

(monofilament
wire)

white craft glue

thumbtacks

masking tape
;
?

(optional)

Glowing Crystal
Most of the materials for home improvement store,
with the electrical
reasonable cost.
arts, a

Ball
be found
If at a

this project can

hardware or
comfortable
a

or a local lamp shop.

you

are not

lamp shop can put together the lamp for

parts

Or

you can leave out the lamp

and with

help from

the magic available to us all let your imagination illuminate the ball.

WHAT YOU NEED

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

clear glass globe (used for lighting

Clean the globe with

glass cleaner

and

set

it

aside.

fixtures, see step 1

on page 54)
2.

glass cleaner

Trace the patterns on page 142, or use other

like,

paper towels
patterns

designs you

such as crescent moons or

designs, as

on page 142

dragons.
figure 2.

Cut out your

shown

in

tracing paper

pencil
scissors

clear adhesive shelf paper

interior glass frosting spray

OR glass etching gel or liquid*

newspaper to cover work area

lamp

kit (candelabra size)

small, low-wattage light bulb

wooden lamp base

the same size as

the open end of the globe

*sold in

most

craft stores

3.

Transfer these cutout designs to

covered with the adhesive

shapes will
still

the clear adhesive shelf paper by

tracing around them.

be clear

glass,

Then

cut out
5.

but

all

the rest of the glass

these shapes. See figure 3.

Whenever you

use etching

will be etched or frosted.

gel or frosting spray,

you

should work in a room

that gets plenty of fresh
air.

Better yet,

move

this

part of the project outdoors! In either case,

be sure to cover

your work
surface with

newspaper.

4.

Peel the backing from the clear

7.

Have

a trained professional

adhesive shelf paper, and put the

sticky cutout design

wire the base for you with a

small, candelabra fixture:
is

on the

glass-

This

globe. If you don't like the position,

not something a young wiz-

you can carefully peel

it.

it

up and move

ard should play around with!

Repeat

this

with

all

the shapes

Screw
fixture

a small light bulb in the

(figure 4).

and then

set the

globe

on the wired

base.

Carefully read the instructions

that

come with

the etching gel

or frosting spray you bought.

Apply the product to the globe as described on the package.

See figure
5.

6.

After the globe

is

frosted

or etched, carefully remove the

clear adhesive designs.

The
were

areas of the globe that

54

The

HAND OF GLORY, people A, Uab

r$upid
l

o*

never, ever approved of this practice,

but back in the dark time of

a

the

Middle Ages,

few people

recipe

created candleholders
cut

from hands
purself-

from hanged men. The

evil

pose was

magic, and no

respecting

have anything to

good wizard would do with it.

its fat,

After

it

was rendered of

then

Spiced, pickled, and dried, the so-called

Hand oFGIory resembled a mummy's hand. The fat from the hand was used to make a candle (forget about getting a
from

Amazing

me

for this.

told

you

how

these beliefs hang on.

don't approve).
fixed in

With
the

the lighted candle

s light

In 1831. in

its grip,

Hand

was
it.

some

thieves

County Neath, Ireland, actually woke up an out-

believed to paralyze anyone

who saw
making

raged squire and his entire family,

who

The Hand could

a spell

also be used to cast

caught the burglars red-handed, so to

speak, trying to rob the house
light of a

over

sleeping person,

by the
ran

him
ing.

sleep for a

whole day without wakit

Hand

of Glory.

They

Either way,

was very handy for

away, leaving the

Hand

behind, and the

in

thieves and cowards

who

didn't

want to

whole
jail.

lot of

get caught at whatever they

were doing.

Just

them probably ended up remember that sometimes it

well-timed word to the

doesn't take magic to correct wrongdoing,

only

police. But don't tell

that,

anybody

said

and no.

don't

remember

if I

hap/

pened to be

in that part

of Ireland that

particular night.

55

Past. Present,

and Future Picture

Amaze your
future can be

Show
The
past, present,

friends with this three-way picture.

and

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

shown with

baby

picture, a current snapshot,

and

photo

Lay

the three snapshots

on top of

of yourself in wizard regalia.

Any

three images cut to the

same

size can

the sheet of construction paper and

trace

be used.

If

you

like a challenge,

you can choose

pictures that

show

around them

(figure 1). If your

movement or time

passing.

pictures are big,

you may need to

glue on additional paper to

make

the

WHAT YOU NEED

piece long enough. Put the photos

aside.

3 snapshots of the same size that

scissors
2.

you don't mind cutting up*

Mark the

length of paper in V2-inch

glue stick
(1.3

cm) increments along the top and

straight

18 x 25-inch (45.7x63.5 cm)

wax paper
heavy books
poster board

bottom edges. Use the

marks

edge

sheet of construction paper

of the ruler and a pencil to connect the

(figure 2).

ruler

pencil
3.

Fold up the

strip

of paper along

the
*If you
It costs

marked

lines like a fan,

with

need

to,

only a

you can enlarge your snapshots on a color photocopier. few wizard coins to use these copiers.

every third strip remaining

56

the others are

Refold the

strip

pushed together
(figure 3).
6.

Q
Determine which
is

with the glued-on

/.-

the "past" pic-

ture.

Begin to cut V2-inch

//
strips

pictures as
in step 3.

you did

from

that picture.

Use the glue

strip

///

stick gener-

ously to glue a picture

onto the spaces

1.

mo
j

H/

numbered with

4.

Number

10. Spread a coat

of glue on the poster

the V2-inch (1.3

1, 2,

cm)

board and place the folded picture on

top.

increments

and

3.

Repeat across
Squeeze together
strip 3 flat
strips 1

and

2.

the entire strip (figure 4).

Glue
incre-

on the poster board.

picture,

5.

Measure and mark V2-inch

Repeat along the length of the

ments on the top and

You'll be
all

Trim any
tempted
strips,

excess poster
at

to

go ahead and cut

it's

j o board
i

of the

but don't;

easy to

the end.

mix up the
7.

strips (figure 5).

Repeat step 6 with the "present"

picture,

and glue
3.

it

to the strips

marked
strips

Repeat step 6 with the

"future" picture,

and glue

it

to the

marked
all

2.

8.

When

the strips are glued,

cover the papers with

wax

paper,

and weight them with heavy books.

Allow the
9.

strips to

dry for one hour.

Measure and mark

a piece

of

bottom edges of each

picture.

poster board to the width of one of

Connect the marks,

as before.

your pictures.

57

Magic Lantern
Time
to shine

some

light

as signs of day take flight.

Stars arefilling up the sky.

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

On

this

lamp I can

rely.

Paint the inside of the lamp

let dry.

4.

Paint the non-sticky side of the

New
in

moon, full moon

nigh time room.

shade and

adhesive shelf paper the same color

as the inside

of the lamp shade.

my

2.

Trace the patterns that you want

Let

dry.

to use.

Or you

can use other designs

out.
5.

WHAT YOU NEED

you

like.

Cut them

Peel off the backing layer of the

adhesive shelf paper, and stick the

3.

lamp with white paper

acrylic paint in color

Tape the shapes onto the adhesive

patterns in place inside the shade.

or fabric shade

shelf paper, trace around them,

During the
switched
patterns.

day,

when

the light

is

of your choice

and cut them out of the adhesive

shelf paper.

off,

you

will not see the

But come nightime when

light, the patterns

paintbrush
patterns
pencil

you turn on the

to 142

on pages 141

will suddenly, magically appear.

tracing paper
scissors

adhesive shelf paper

tape
I

t-.

VV
58

WHO'S THERE?!!!
&*>
^viog Skulls

***<&

05S*

Many
abbeys.

perfectly ordinary

for

many

Q<
one
it,

J**
*
J

houses are haunted, and

years.

When

the people

who

live in

owner

tried to bury

*<JJ
vio-

U>
at

them

report visits

from

lent storms

broke out.
a

When

it

was

the supernatural even in

thrown into
the Hall.

pond,

it

reappeared again

Hidlest
s

People

broad daylight. But our really well-

known ghosts tend

to be associated with

ancient British manors, castles and

The screaming skull of Bettiscombe Manor in Dorset, England, did much the
same, and more. In legend, the skull

a trapped rat,"

according
account. Scientific exam-

to one youth

Many of them are the ghosts of men and women who lost their heads to
the executioner's axe.

ination found the skull to be prehistoric

in origin,

belonged to the West Indian slave of an

heir of the manor.

perhaps the relic of an ancient

Most

unfortunate.

The

slave's

owner

burial

where the manor now stands.

Then

there are the tales of the heads that

promised

that the slave's

lost their bodies, the

skulls...

infamous screaming

returned to Africa for

body would be burial when he

Slave or not, the manor owners

refuse to

now

remove the

skull

from the

died, but he broke his promise and

house.

Who

can blame them?

Some
that
a

homes possess skulls simply refuse to leave. The skull of

ancient
at

buried

it

in a local

churchyard instead.

For sheer quantity of ghosts of the

After mysterious groans and shrieks kept

the family awake for weeks, they the

Catholic priest executed for treason in

moved

1641 resides

Wardley Hall near

priest's

Manchester, England. The

head

was displayed

as a

warning after his exe-

body back to the loft of the manor. After many years, only the skull remained. Whenever it was taken from
crops and cattle died. Buried nine feet

Tower of London in England, which was an infamous site of imprisonment and execubeheaded, you can't beat the
tion for hundreds of years.

Many

of the

victims were like young

the second wife

cution, then taken to the Hall

where

it

the manor, thunderstorms destroyed

Anne Boleyn, of King Henry VIII,

for treason. Anne's

remained on view

who was beheaded

deep

in the

ground, the skull worked

pale figure wanders the

its

Tower

grounds,

way

to the surface the next day, waiting to be taken

with and without her head, and guards

spotted her in the

home.

Tower

chapel where

Taken to the
attic,

she

is

buried. Margaret,

Countess of

the skull

Salisbury, was beheaded at the

1541.

Tower

in

"screamed like

Her shrieking ghost still runs around Tower Green, as the living
Margaret did before they forced her

head to the block.

59

Celestial Sheets
There's no reason that
a

wizard or sorceress can't have

well-decorated
a

WHAT YOU NEED

bedroom. Even

if

you haven't yet learned to conjure up

bed of roses

sheets and pillowcases in white or

to sleep on, at least

you can dream up

a set

of celestial sheets and pillow-

solid color

cases and then

go make them.

Or

if

you're drawn to creatures that

go

rubber stamps with large, bold

flap flap in the night,

If

you can have

bevy of bats on your bed

linens.

designs*

you'd like to have wizardly wall hangings in your chamber, these

bat, star,

and moon templates

will also

do

nicely.

tracing paper

carbon paper
pencil

rubber stamping material** 2-3 plastic foam meat trays

scissors

foam brushes with 1-inch

acrylic fabric paints

(2.5

cm)

tips

-newspapers
iron (optional)

available

in a

variety

of shapes,
patterns,

and

sizes at

craft stores

**thin

sheets of

rubber with
peel-off backing; available at
craft stores

INSTRUCTIONS
I

1.

You can buy rubber stamps

but
it's

in

per.

When you know how much

hard to press to get the image

craft stores,

fun and easy to

or
all

paint to brush on the stamp and

make your own. Trace one

of

how

the patterns. Transfer the designs

you wish, you're ready to decorate

your sheets.

onto carbon paper. Place the carbon

paper on top of the rubber stamping
material,

and pencil over the design

6. Start

with a pillowcase. Place a

again, so that the

image appears on

few sheets of folded newspaper

inside the pillowcase to prevent the

the rubber stamping material. Peel off the backing and stick the stamps

paint from bleeding through.

onto the plastic foam meat

tray.

Cut

out the shapes. Presto! You've just

made your own

2.

stamps!

Smooth the fabric with your hands. Stamp your image on the pillowcase. Allow it to dry. Stamp another pillowcase if you want to.
7.

Decide

how you want

your sheets
the edges

to look.

Do you want just

Spread the top sheet on the

table.

of the pillowcase stamped? Does the

idea of a simple
bats)

newspaper-covered

Stamp

the

band of stars

(or

image along the top edge or however

on the top edge of the sheets

say, a

you wish. If you

like,

you can comLet each

appeal to you more than,

com-

bine the star and circle stamps, as

plete galaxy over the entire sheet?

shown

in the drawing.

Once

you've decided on the pattern

sheets, get

stamp dry before stamping on top

of it. Let the paint
dry.

and color of your

ready to work on.

them

8.

Follow the paint manufacturer's

won't wash out.

3. Start

with clean sheets. This

if you

is

instructions for "setting" the paint so

important
sheets

have purchased

new
of

it

the paint won't

wash the

stick well

unless you

"sizing" out

3.

New, CO MAKE
I

uP

the sheets.

YOOIL &FD i-/KE YOOIL

4.

Cover

a flat

work

surface (the

MOTHER AfKED

kitchen table works well) with several layers

of newspaper.

5.

Pour a small amount of paint into

foam

tray

and use

foam brush

to

spread paint on your stamp. Practice

your stamping on a sheet of newspa-

-.

l.

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ra

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62

Etwcoun/te/umg THE \JnKNQ\NN.

fll

The Art of Horticulture

The
a

mandrake

is

probably

wizards most essential

ingredient for magic

potions, and this chapter

has

my

no-fail recipe for

making

as

much

of the magical root as

you
a

like. Ill also tell

you how to

plant

good magic

garden, which includes

several items to help

you

attract fairies

to your
Little

home

or castle.

And once

the

People show

up, they can relax in

their

own

fairy pavilion

and dance
a fairy

in a

fairy circle to the

music of

tambourine,

all built

by you from
all,

instructions in this chapter. After

how

can you have magic without fairies?

63

WHAT
YOU NEED

Shrunken

large, firm apple

(Golden Delicious

or

Granny Smith work well)

Mandrake Heads
Along with dragon's blood
recipe), the

vegetable peeler

paring knife

V2 cup

6 g)

salt

(see page 112 for the

2 teaspoons (30 g) alum; sold in the spice section of the supermarket

mandrake

is a

wizard's

most important
personality, and

warm water
measuring cup
mixing bowl, in quart or liter
saucer (optional)
large paper clip or length
size

magical ingredient for spells and potions. Each

shrunken mandrake head has

it's

its

own
If

spooky how human

it

it

looks!

you

store

it

in an
If

airy place,

should darken with age but not spoil.

you're worried about exposure to the mandrake's

of stiff wire

deathly shriek, you can always wear earmuffs while

pliers

you work.

2 feet (60 cm) of string

64

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

Remove

the peel with the veg-

3.

In the mixing bowl, dissolve the

6.

Run

the string through the small

it.

etable peeler, leaving a bit of peel at

salt

and alum and

in 6 cups

of warm
in the

loop and knot

Hang

the apple

the top and bottom of the apple.

water.

Put the carved apple

let it

from the string

will stay

in a place

where

it

See figure

1.

solution,

soak overnight.

dry and out of direct sun-

You may need

2.

to place the saucer

it

light. It will take

two or three weeks

depending on
the dry-

Use the

peeler or paring knife to

features

on the apple
4.

to keep

submerged.

for the apple to dry,

carve the
(figure 2).

mandrake

the humidity.

You can speed

Use the

tip

of the knife to

Remove

the apple from the

ing process a bit by placing the apple

outline the eyes, nose,

and mouth.

solution.

(without the wire or string) on the

center rack of a

Carve out wedge-shaped pieces

warm (200F
dry.

or

from each side of the nose, and

scoop out two shallow hollows for
eyes. Slice a shallow slit for the

5.

Straighten out the paper clip or

93C) oven until

six to eight

This can take

wire,

and use the

tips

of the

pliers to

hours or more, depend-

form
wire.

a small loop at

one end of the

ing on the size and the water content

mouth. Use the

tip

of the knife to

Push the

straight

end of the

of the apple. As always,

if you

want

outline semicircle "ears"

on

each side

wire through the top of the apple

to use the oven, ask an adult to help you.

wizard

of the head, and cut parts of the

apple from around the ears to

and down through the bottom. Bend

the clip or wire at the

make

bottom

to

them stand out

carve,

in relief.

As you

hold

it

in place. See figure 3.

be sure to make the features

well-defined to allow for shrinkage

as the apple dries.

<l

a&i

^jL&-

~^SiK

man^ v gN
4?

As
ophy.

Hamlet

said,

"There

are

more

things in heaven and earth...

than are dreamt of in your philos-

known as Mandragora officinarum or Atropa mandragora. Used

as an anesthetic

*epy
its

Where do you

think

my
all

GRti&
in

dear
that
fairies

and in ancient love

Borgia family

friend Billy Shakespeare got

potions, the mandrake was also thought

Venice,

Italy,
its

used the
enemies.

inside information

on magic and

to have magic powers because

forked

mandrake to slowly poison

and spells for the plays he wrote, such

root resembles

human body.

In

Anyone
would be
the plant as

trying to harvest a

mandrake

The Tempest and A Midsummer Nights Dream? From yours truly,

as

Germany
little

in the 1500s. forest

magicians
like

killed
it

by the horrible shriek of

earth,

actually dressed their

mandrakes

was pulled from the

thank you very much! But as

to say, training to

was about

people, bathed

them

in milk.

so people had to be careful to cover

their ears, or devise other

become

wizard

and "fed" them.

In the ancient

ways to

har-

means developing your

see
all

ability to truly

Middle

East, people
spirits.

vest the plant without hearing

its cry.

the things that

make

the world

believed the root drove away evil

Believers have always thought the

around us so special. Children and

artists are naturally

Some

early craftsmen

blew

blood of

dragon was the most potent

good

at this.

They
at a

glass containers around

ngredient you could put in a magical

understand the value of looking

the root to capture

its

mixture

(my

personal recipe
is

flower for half an hour, for example.

power, like
a bottle!

genie in

for dragon's blood

112). Several

on page

There

are so

many

green, growing
I

mandrake

hundred years

things in the world, that even

don't

root could answer

ago, the

"blood" came from

know
ers,

all

their

names and

uses.

But you

any question you

asked
it,

the legendary dragon's blood

tree

should

know

about

some

plants, flowin

and

if

you

{Dracena draco). The

grows
in

tree

and trees that pop up frequently

put gold coins

Spain and on the

wizard work.
tions,

Some

have magical reputa-

beside the root

overnight, the

nearby island of Tenerife.

and some are interesting because

and other varieties are found

in

they're so bizarre.

And some

are leg-

gold doubled by
morning.
dark side,

East Africa and South

It

endary plants known by word of mouth:

but remember,

On
it's

the

Arabia.

has

huge, hollow

we

wizards are sworn to

secret.

trunk, with swordlike leaves

keep their location

said that the

and branches like fleshy

gers pointing straight up.

fin-

Probably the most famous magical

plant is the poisonous

powerful and

When

mandrake

root.

murderous

66

A
the

rare

and famously creepy flower

is

Herbalists wrote about the Barnacle

Corpse Flower or Devil's Tongue

largest
in the

Tree on the

Isle

of

Man

in Britain that

{Amorphophallus titanum), the

opens up to release

live geese!

known flower
Sumatran

world, and probably

in the

Many

travelers

claimed they saw a giant

the worst-smelling.

Found

tree at the site

of

Sodom

and Gomorrah,

rain forest, the

flower blooms

the cities written about in the Bible.

residents were destroyed
their sinful ways.

The

only once every 12 to 37 years.

flower (really
a

single

by

God
tree

for

collection of thousands

The huge

bore

of tiny flowers) grows more than 6 feet

(1.8

giant "apples of
turn to

Sodom

'

which would

m)
it

tall

and 12 feet (3.7m) around.

a thick, fleshy

smoke and

ashes in the hands

\\^M^^0^ \^^^^^^^^
1

When

does bloom,

of anyone

who

tried to pick

them,

spike shoots up from the

horrible smell
is

center,

and the

reminder of God's lasting judgment.

like a

combination of
I

rotten fish and burning sugar.

couldn
a

V,

<a

v\

vv

\v

vv

vxl

stand the foul odor for

more

than

few

minutes, myself. After only one or two

days, the flower collapses and dies, pos-

the trunk

is

gashed or wounded,

dark

sibly never to

bloom

again.

red resin oozes out. Craftsmen

molded

Through the
toxicaria.

ages, voyagers have

the hardened resin into "dragon's eggs,

reported seeing fantastic trees. Antiaris

or carved
stance

little

dragons from

it.

was so

treasured, there

The subwere many

The Tree

of Poisons, grows
is

on islands near China, and

to emit vapors that kill
plants and animals for

reputed

fakes
find

on the market! Today, you can

grass (Poaceae gramineae),
iresine),

blood

bloodleaf

{Amaranthaceae

miles around.

Anyone
fall

bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis),

and the "bloody butcher
prairie trillium

unlucky enough to
asleep in
its

shade

flower in our forests and gardens.

never wakes up.

Shakespeare also wrote.

rose by

any other name would smell as sweet,

but

would you believe

there's a flower
It's

that smells like

dead meat?

called

the Carrion

Flower \Asclepiadaceae

stapelia). It's a fleshy plant with five-

pointed, star-shaped flowers spotted with

dark purple and brown.

You
I

can grow

it

in pots in the full sun, but

wouldn

t sit

m.-:.

too close!

.J&
TV\

0f-

HWCP/tf//^

Making
Did you know
eat live insects

Terrarium with Plants that Eat Things

plants
It

that

some

has hinged jaws that snap shut on

and even raw meat?

anything that crawls inside

ing your finger

They're called carnivorous plants,

three
flies at

and

includ-

WHAT YOU NEED

it

can eat up to

5-gallon (19 L) glass or clear

a time.

The sundew
to grab
it

plastic container

and you can buy them

in the

bog

(Drosera) has dozens of slim, sticky

tentacles that

small gravel

garden section of your local plant

store. It's easy to

move

and glue

bucket
distilled

make

an indoor

an insect seconds after

touches one

water or rainwater

terrarium where

you can grow

tentacle. Pitcher plants (Sarracenia)

live in

collected in a bucket

these plants, watch their remarkable actifipes, and feed

like pets.

swamps. They're shaped and purple

like

peat moss

them

beautiful green

vases.
lovely,

But

sand
kitchen spoon

once a bug goes inside the

curved
lips, it

Carnivorous plants can't absorb

nutrients from the air

never comes out!

and

soil

the

Trapped by
the bottom,

hairs that point

thfe

down

to

Venus

flytrap {Dionaea)

way

regular plants do, so they're

victim slips deeper

sundew {Drosera)
pitcher plant {Sarracenia)

designed to trap and eat insects and

other creatures.
for the

and deeper,
of fluid

finally

landing in ^pool
it's
*""

The
it's

scientific
is

name

at the

bottom where

cup or watering can

Venus

flytrap

Dionaea and
after the

slowly digested. Nasty.

Or

cool,

wood block or other weight

electric light

named

depending on your point of view.

with20-watt fluores-

goddess of

cent bulb (option^

and position the plants

around the plants with
their root systems.

in the holes,
fill

one

light, position

it

at

one end of the

it

plant in each hole. Gently

in the holes

terrarium, keeping
until

turned on
to

dirt,

covering

you go
at

bed

5.

Use the cup or watering can

to

gently sprinkle 1 or 2 cups (240 or 480

mL)

of distilled water or rainwater inside

3).

the terrarium (figure

Don't use tap

water or

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

Make
dry,

sure your container

is

clean

and

and

lay

it

on

its side.

Spread

a V2-inch (1.3

cm)

layer of gravel

on

7.

Now comes

the fun part!

You can
with

the bottom.

actually feed your

Venus

flytrap

small bits of raw steak by putting a

2.

Holding

clump of the peat moss

it

piece

on the end of a toothpick and

it

in

your hand, submerge

in the

buck-

rainwater that

gently touching

inside the plant's

flies

etful

of distilled water or rainwater,

all

ran off a roof

jaws. Or, you can catch live

and

and squeeze
1).

the air out of it (figure

because they contain

minerals harmful to the plants.

other insects. (Try making a "bait"

This helps the peat absorb and

by putting

a sugar

cube inside

ajar.)

retain water.

Carnivorous plants

like air

with a high

Release the captives inside your terrarium, and watch nature take
course.
its

humidity
3.

level,

so always keep the soil

Mix

together the wet peat and sand

ratio, that
is,

moist but not soupy. Don't close up

the jar with a cap or top; leave
to prevent fungus.
plants,
it

in a

2 to 1

2 cups of peat 2 to 3-inch

open
8.

to 1 cup of sand. Spread a

(5 to 7.6

Keep an eye on the

add more water.

Some

carnivorous plants go
year.

cm)

layer

of mix over the

and

if

they appear to lose some

dormant each
ground
like the

Their above-

gravel.
live in

In the wild, carnivorous plants

of their

stickiness,

parts die back,

and

it

looks

bogs in extremely poor

fertilizer

soil,

so
6.

whole plant

is

dead. Just cut

don't

add

or you'll

kill

the

Keep your terrarium on

is

a
best)

back on the watering and be

patient

plants.

windowsill (facing south

they'll

grow back.
little

If your

where
4.

it

will get bright light.

Use the
it

plants flower, add a

ic fertilizer,

mild organ-

Use the spoon

to carefully dig holes

2),

wooden block

or weight to keep

such

as fish

emulsion,

in the layer

of peat and sand (figure

from moving. If you use an

electric

bone meal, or blood meal.

69

^ "^ G^
G

IE...OR.

Ly TOl3cHED

My Uncomfortable
Encounter
with the

World's Biggest

SPIDERS
Great wizards
We
treat

are great naturalists.

Its

name

is

the Goliath

always befriend our animal

at least

birdeater tarantula

and insect neighbors, or

(Theraphosa blondi).

them with
you'll

the respect you'd give

all.

Worshipped by the
hard to forget,
ever

natives
is

an equal. After

you never know

I

of the jungle, Goliath

if

when

need their help! But

I

have

million spiders per acre.

you've

to admit even

find
I

some

species stom-

met

it.

Why?
know
a
it's

But never

kill a

spider it's said

ach-churning, as

discovered

went to Brazil to consult

local sorcerers.

when I with some

v2-inch
(7.6

to be bad luck and cuts you off

Because you
Goliath
is

from money.

If

you meet

a spiis

not

der that looks dangerous or

nightmare
fur.

Imagine
(1.3

spider with

real.

And

bigger than you are.

there are

my

recom-

cm)

fangs, a

body 3 inches
is

mendation

is

that

you

just fly

countless

more

cm)

long, and a leg span of almost 13

aggres-

away or run

as fast as

you can

like Goliath,
in the opposite direction.

inches (33 cm). This spider

sive and powerful

waiting quietly
(

enough to

eat frogs,

in the forest...

toads, lizards,

mice even
It

the lethal

We used to
They

call tarantulas

wolf spiders.

tiluly iv/re

Fer-de-Lance snake.

lives

deep

in the

live in deserts as well as jungles.

perpetual night of the Brazilian rain forest

A few South
long-lived:
It's

American

varieties build

W/A/U>
PLIGHT

KNOWS

where you can hear

it

whistling and
in the forest

huge webs and eat

live birds!

Some
30

are

clicking.

Burrowing deep

one

tarantula lived

years.

floor, this arachnid doesn't like to be

claimed you can

I

train tarantulas to

TO FIGHT,
j

disturbed.

If

you bother

it. it

bites. If

it

be pets.

never have, would you?

can't reach you,

watch out for the eight

As you walk
doors,

through
it

a field out-

AMD

tVHE/V \T

legs throwing clouds of stinging hairs.

remember

probably holds 2.5

BTTfL

TO AvOfD

Natty/
7o

COMf^ON/TAT/ ON.

Fairy Circle
Create
a

magic place
it

in

your garden that will

a little noisy.
at night,

attract fairies.

Be warned,

however, that

might get

The

Little

People like to use

sing, dance,

fairy circles as

meeting places

where they

and make merry.

WHAT YOU NEED

rake
piece of rope or string, 6 to 10 feet

grass seed*

straw

(1.8 to 3

m) long

water hose with spray nozzle or

small shovel or garden trowel

sprinkler
*Ryegrass {Lolium) grows quickly, but fescue {Festuca) grows well in shade. If you'd
like a longer-lasting grass,

red and white flowers to plant

around the circle {Impatiens wallerana is a particularly good choice. If you plant them in full sun, you'll need to water them every day.)

ask for recom-

mendations

at

your local garden center.

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

Choose

semi-shady spot
fairy circle,

in

your

big across as the potted sections of the

flowers so the roots will have
spread.

7.

Immediately

after planting, give the

garden for the

rake to clear

and use the

room
at

to

flowers and the seeded area a good,

away

leaves

and brush.

Put a

little

mound

of dirt

long drink of water from a hose with a

spray attachment, or set up a sprinkler
to

the
2.

bottom of each

hole, too.

Use the piece of rope

to create the

wet the area

well.

Keep the
so.

area

shape of a

circle inside the

raked area.

5.

Gendy remove
fill

the flowers from

moist for the next week or

When
it

You can make your

or as small as you

fairy circle as big

their pots

and place them on the

in the holes

you

start to see

green sprouts,
little

won't

like.

mounds. Then
loose
soil.

with

take long for the

people to be

Fairies love the colors red

enjoying their

new

circle!

Continue to

3.

With

the shovel, dig

up any

grass

and white, so

try alternating the red

water frequently enough to keep the

flowers

or weeds inside the rope outline, and

and white blooms, or put them

in

and

grass in your fairy circle

put them in your compost heap.

another pattern that pleases you.

looking happy.

Break up any large chunks of dirt, and

rake the area smooth.
6.

Following the package directions,

sprinkle the grass seed over the rest of

4.

Use the shovel or trowel

to dig as

the dug-up, raked soil inside the circle.

many

holes as you need around the

circle for the flowers.

Sprinkle a thin layer of the straw

perimeter of the

over the seeded area.

The

holes should be at least twice as

GIANT SNAILS and SLUGS:

^ !^
OI
The banana
Failing that,
if

m/>

VippP
f

iiate

*w, f>*
trails

you spend time

I've

in a

garden or park, I'm sure you'll spot the shiny

a

of snails
but
I

and slugs.

never heard of

wizard with

a snail

or slug for

a familiar,

sup-

pose there could always be

snail

a first time. If size interests

It's a

you, the giant African land

is

grows to 8 inches (20 cm) long.

big eater, though, and

quite a pest

in tropical countries.

slug

comes from

the Pacific Northwest, and this creature can

grow to
it

10 inches long (25.4

it

cm) and
quickly.

quarter-pound (112 g) in weight.

Of
at

course, you'd have to put a speed

charm on

to get

to

do anything

you

re ever in a tight

spot and you need to get away

fast,

you can use your

slug as a

handy escape device.

Just lob the gelatinous

monster

your opponent, and by the time they finish cleaning off the goo, you'll be long gone!

72

GOOD MAGIC
Container Garden
If

you'd like to grow

garden that's fairy-friendly and discourages evil

trolls,

here are the herbs and flowers to help you.

pots,

By

planting

them

in

their

own

you can move them around

as

you

like.

Some
grow

of these

may

already be growing in your backyard, so ask your parents or

a little

go out

and see for yourself. Planting

life is a

seed and helping

all, isn't it a

it

into
a

new

very wizardly thing to do. After

a tiny

miracle that

huge oak tree can grow out of

acorn?

WHAT YOU NEED

empty, clean flowerpots

small rocks, gravel, or small pieces

Seed packets of the following

angelica

of broken crockery

common thyme
garlic*

potting

soil

dill

hand

file

trowel or kitchen spoon

lesser periwinkle

watering can

filled

with water

marigold

moonflower**

*Instead of seeds, buy a head of garlic,

break

it

apart into individual garlic cloves,

flat

rosemary
rue
St. John's

and plant each clove with the

deep and 3 inches (8
harvest
it

end

pointing down, 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5 cm)

cm

apart.

You can

wort

when

the tops

fall

over and turn

sweet marjoram
thistle

brown.

**This vine loves to climb, so put the pot

verbena

next to a fence or

trellis.

INSTRUCTIONS
1.
el,

Put

a shallow layer

of rocks, grav-

the plants, planting only one kind of plant in each pot.

\

^Pttt^he pots

in'

sunny spot and

or crockery in the

bottom of each
1).

keep the "dirt moist, and soon your

seeds willVart to grow! Your magic

pot to help drainage (figure

4.

Sprinkle a thin layer of dirt on top

garden plants will grow happily in

thejr containers. Or,

2.

Using the trowel or spoon,

soil to

fill

of the seeds, following the package

directions

when your
you

each pot with potting

(5

2 inches

on how deep the top

layer

plants are several inches high,

cm) below the rim

(figure 2).

should be.

can remove them from their pot and

plant

them

in a

sunny spot in your

39

Open one

seed packet anchthinly

5.

Gently pat the

soil in place

with

backyard.

sprinkle the seeds orj^the topj'of the

dirt,

your hand, then water the seeds with

the watering can (figure 3).

being carenil not tcKcrefwd

this process for all

them. Repeat

C*
<c<~

P1

>MT

.A,

Yo

^ gq0

Macic Co

M<

m ev
vulgaris)

/Weft-/ c A {Angelica archangelica)

Angelica
is

Common/ Thy m {Thymus

against
evil,

the single most powerful

especiallyjhe root. Its

Bees love thyme,

as

do

fairies. It's a

plant against evildoing and bad

leaf stalks smell good,

and they can

perennial herb and has tiny, fragrant

leaves
pl^e

magic.

The

plant

is

said to

bloom
tradi-

be candied and eaten. Angelica/ can

and masse/ofjittle

light pur-

on the

May feast

day of Saint

grow up

to 4 feet (1.2

m)

tall

and

flowers.

Thyme

is

great as a

Michael the Archangel, and

tion says every part of
it

likes a partially

shaded spot. Keep

cooking

sgiee, too.

protects

the soil in

its

pot moist.

74

DiLL (Anethum graveolens)

growing vine has big heart-shaped

leaves

the Isle of Wight in Great Britain, if

Another

delicious kitchen herb, dill

and gorgeous white flowers

you walk on the herb

at night,

it is

was based on the old Saxon word

that close during the day.

At

night

believed that a fairy horse will

meaning
times,
its

"to comfort." Since ancient

the blossoms open up as big as salad

plates

feathery fronds have been

and give off a heavenly clove-

come and carry you off! Another member of the wort family is known as
springwort, or blasting root.
to have the
It's

used to protect children from any

like smell.

Soak the seeds overnight

file

said

bad ghosts roaming around

at night.

in water, then use a

to

roughen

power

to to

undo

locks and
treas-

up

Gaw_/c

(Liliaceae)
evil

to

on the outside of the seeds make it easier for them to sprout.

a spot

open the entrance

ure,

hidden

but

if

you

try to pick the wild

it

We

all

know vampires and

Be

sure to put your

moonflowers
or fence they

plant in the woods,

will

run from

ghosts hate garlic. People have

eaten
it

next to a pole,

trellis,

you and hide!

<i\MET

through the centuries to stay

can climb.

healthy.

The Egyptians used

it

it

when
Rjo r E

Marjoram
Bad witches

(Origanum
hate marjoram,

they took an oath, and

soldiers ate

Roman
and

m A KY

(Rosmarin us

officinalis)

majorana)

for courage

The

Italians say that if you

watch

so plant lots of this fragrant herb in

strength.

It's

not

as strong-tasting

rosemary bush long enough

will creep out

a fairy

your garden to keep them away.

It's

when

it's

cooked.

from underneath.
growing in
pots.

also a delicious spice to use in cooking.

Rosemary
LEffER. PeriiV/n/KLE (Vinca minor)
It

likes

has small evergreen needles, can

to 3 or

Th f TL E
i

(Cn icus ben edictus)

This

lovely,

low-growing flower
it

is

grow

4 feet

(.9 to 1.2

m)
it

perennial,

meaning
It

will

come back

high, and has tiny, lavender-colored

flowers. If you brush against

year after year.

leaves,

has dark green

or
its

and white, deep purple, or

pinwheel shape. Evil

rub the tiny leaves, you'll unleash

blue blossoms, with five petals that

powerful aroma. Cooks use rose-

grow
its

in a

spir-

mary

leaves as a spice, too.

can't stand periwinkle, especially

Hundreds of years ago, the French king Charlemagne prayed that God would help him relieve victims of the plague that was ravaging France. Legend says that God told Charlemagne to shoot an arrow into the air, and it would land on an herb
to aid him.

when you
lit

cut

some of it on

moon-

R-^E (Ruta graveolens)

When

the arrow

fell

to

night.

Also known
(

as

Herb-of-Grace,

this

earth,

it

found

a thistle.

MA

r./

c o Lt>

Tagetes)

gray-green plant has fernlike leaves

at night

Evil spirits that

come out

and small yellow

flowers. In olden

V E R.& E n A
Verbena
is

( Verbena officinalis)

also hate light, so this gold-colored

times, villagers used rue to sprinkle

also called vervain,

and

flower

is

excellent to keep

them

water on themselves, to protect

against evil brought by strangers.

the Greeks
It

named

it

"Sacred Herb."

away. If you have tomato plants,

plant marigolds nearby to help drive

was

a holy plant to the

Druids
to

Maybe

they thought the smell

visitors!

and they used a

gather
it.

special

ceremony
A,

away bugs,

too.

Pick off the old

would discourage
>

They waited

until the rise

flowers to keep the plant blooming.

St.

of the Great

Dog

Star, Sirius

John

Wort

(Hypericum per-

when both

the sun and

moon were

Moon/plo^Er. (Ipomoea
Calonyction aculeatum)

alba,

foratum)

St. John's

Wort

is

a lowyel-

below the horizon. Pouring honey

around the herb
lifted
it

growing herb with red-spotted,

as

an offering, they
it

The moon

plays such an important

low

flowers. Its scientific

name
its

from the earth and waved

part in ancient
fitting for a

myth and legend, it's good magic garden to

This
fast-

comes from the Greek, meaning

"over a phantom," because
is

in the air using only their left hand.

smell

Hanging some verbena around your

neck
is

feature moonflowers.

said to drive

away

evil spirits.

On

also

supposed to

attract love!

75

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Create
a

'J

4?^<\

'

"S

H
INSTRUCTIONS
1.

Fairy Pavilion
charming outdoor pavilion for the
fairies that live in

First

you must gather

a lot

of

twigs.

A walk in the woods or

will
all

your garden or backyard. The directions that follow describe

around your neighborhood

provide

iow to construct

basic frame for the pavilion.

The

the twigs you need.

that have fallen to

leaves and

Choose those

flowers in your garden and the time of year you build the pavilion will determine

how

it is

decorated. Don't be surprised

if

you

wake up one morning and

find the pavilion in pieces

on the

them from living trees. This makes fairies really angry. You need tQ gather at
the ground; don't cut
least four

ground some

fairy parties can get quite wild.

Y-shaped twigs

to

create the posts.

These twigs
Then, gather

should have a diameter of at least

WHAT YOU NEED

V2 inch
several

(1.3 cm).

good handfuls of thinner,

garden clippers or shears

straight twigs.

Z>

You can always

pocket knife
several feet (meters)

trim long twigs into shorter twigs

with your clippers or knife.

of raffia or twine

&

A
3.

Use

a pocket knife to sharpen the

in

end of each twig you trimmed

step 2.

Holdthe twig
in,

in

one hand

and the knife

Carve away
a dull point

the other hand.

bits

of the twig, turning

the twig as you

work

until

you have

on the end. Carve points

(figure 2).

on the other three twigs

4.

Push the point of a twig into the ground. Use a second twig to create
an eave crossing the angled arms.

Decide where the arms

will cross,
7.

and push the point of the second

Carpet

Cut off one arm of a Y-shaped twig with clippers or knife, as shown in figure 1. Leave a small nub to stack your roof materials on. Trim the other arm 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 crn) long. Cut the other three Yshaped twigs in the same way. Then,
2.

twig into the ground. Bind the

crossed point with raffia or twine.

the floor of the

pavilion with leaves

This

is

the front of the pavilion.

or bark.

You could

also use small

Create the back of the pavilion 8 to

stones to pave the floor, or use

a large flat stone to create a

12 inches (20.3 to 30.5 cm) away

from the

front.

front porch.

5.

Trim the smaller

straight twigs to

8.

A good host provides a few extras:

if
for a bed,

use clippers to trim the long, straight

part of the four twigs to the

the length of your pavilion. Stack

acorn caps for cups, a piece of soft

same

them along

the eaves, using the

first

moss

and a small stack of

nearby.

length. This will determine the

small nubs to hold the

twig as

twig firewood stacked

height of your pavilion.

you stack the twigs

to the

peak of

the roof. This will prqyide a base for

you to shingle the roof (figure

3).

6.

Shingle the roof of the house with

leaves, ferns,

and decorative

flowers.

Tuck

the stems of the leaves

lay fern fronds

between the twigs;

on the roof lengthwise. You could

also use sheets of bark gathered

from

fallen trees to shingle the

4).

house (figure

\f^^

^#Y

Pr

^
Ives, pixies,

V
disappear
at

brownies, goblins,

the slightest disturbance.

after
at

gnomes, leprechauns, dwarfs,

and even ugjy old
trolls are all

Perhaps they're afraid that you're

the

famous pots of gold they bury

If

the

magical beings that only the

ends of rainbows.
start

lockets or rings

most

gifted of

humans can

see.

disappearing
a

from your room, you

and they love

Though most of them are some are human-sized and

Whatever
fairies.

Little People,

others giant.

may have known to

gems and
it's

dwarf close by: they're

steal things,

their size, they're all called

fairies live in

gold.

If

you hear the sound of

at their favorite

Some

Fairyland
fairies

digging and tunneling under your house,

and stay young forever. Other

live

probably gnomes

among

us.

including solitary fairies

pastime, searching for buried treasure.

Plus, they like the dark.

like the brownie, and the trooping

fairies,

who

like to gather together for

There

are a

few places you might

fairies. Ireland,

feasting and having a

good

time.

have good luck seeing

To

see fairies,

you have to be born

Wales, and Cornwall,

are absolutely

in

Great Britain.

with second sight (the ability to predict

the future), or the fairies have to decide
to

crammed with them,

a

along with Brittany, in France. Carry

four-leaf clover and

show themselves

to you. Otherwise,

watch for the

hawthorn. Stay

they're invisible.

You

can only see them

official fairy tree, the

between one eye-blink and the next, and

if

off the fairy paths called leys at

you

try not to blink, you're trying

too

Halloween, though, or the

kidnap you. Fairyland time
natural,

fairies
is

may

hard and that won't work, either.

A fairy

super-

won't show

itself if it

thinks
it

it

will be

and two hours there could equal

doubted or mocked, and

might even

200 years among humans.

Fairies love

be peeved enough to play tricks on you.

human

babies, and they

Sometimes you can

gift

bribe fairies, with a

sometimes swap

a fairy

baby for

and

a little

sweetened milk, to be
likes you.
it

human baby

to raise as their own.

The
it

nice to you.

If a fairy

can

substitute is called a changeling, and

help you with problems, or even give

tends to be ugly, with a big, hairy head.

you money or
and when
a

gifts

of

its

own. Dwarfs

A changeling has
stop. If

huge appetite but

it

give presents that turn to gold,

a

never grows any bigger, and

cries non-

brownie chooses
it

you think your baby brother or

to look

host family in Scotland,

sister fits this description, wait a while.

If

will live in their

their

house and do
at night!

your sibling grows, or

starts

housework
are

better (and he or she probably will),

Here

some

tips for spot-

you don't have

just a regular

changeling

at

home,

ting the Little People. First,

be

human.

very quiet! Leprechauns will

78

Fairy Tambourine
The
gentle music and sweet fragrance of this tambourine
is

said to be

WHAT YOU NEED

2 feet (61 cm) of grapevine; honeysuckle, or other woody vine

irresistible to

even the shiest

fairies.

Use

it

with a kind heart to lure

them from

their hiding places.

floral

wire

INSTRUCTIONS
You can buy small grapevine wreaths at craft stores. But most
1.

liter-sized

soda bottle

4 yards

5.

Measure and cut

a 36-inch (92

(3

m) of V4-inch-wide mm) ribbon in one or more colors

(3.7

cm) length of ribbon. Tie one end

with a small knot to the wreath.

fairies

can

tell

homemade from
you make

measuring tape
scissors

store-bought, and they tend to be

Wind

the ribbon

all

around the

more

receptive to things

wreath form.
Decorate the wreath with fresh or

4 jingle

bells

yourself.

Simply wind grapevine,

various fresh herbs and flowers

honeysuckle, or a similar

woody

vine
6.

around the soda

bottle.
it

Avoid any
could be

dried herbs, leaves, berry sprigs, or

vines that look hairy:

dried or fresh flowers.

poison

ivy!

Wind

the vine around

the bottle several times, occasionally

threading

it

through the inner part

of the wreath and back out again.

Secure the circles of vine to each
other by tying small lengths of floral

wire in four or five places around

the wreath.

2.

Measure and cut four 24-inch

cm) lengths of ribbon.
a length

(61

3.

Double

of cut ribbon.

Thread the folded end through the

top loop of a jingle bell and pull

through enough ribbon to loop

around the
of the

wreath-.-

Add the -rest

bells in this

same way.

4.

Thread the ends of the ribbon

through the loop and tighten, pulling

the bell close to the wreath. Tie a

simple knot in the ribbon to secure

the bell.

THE ART
apothecary.
I

of
own
ask
a

mal husbandry
very wizard needs his

mean,

"^^^^^
hard to

you,

how

can you cast

decent spell without eye of

newt?

If

you're finding

it

come by

newt, unicorn horn,

dragon's scales, or other essential ingredients, here are

my most

cherished

recipes for

making them, along with handy apothecary

instructions for a
carry-all kit.

wise wizard will also

learn as
ural

much

as possible about the nat-

and fabulous worlds, so he or she

fearful, fiery

won't mistakenly slay a

dragon when
to
JU..\

all

the poor beast wanted

do was

toast

some marshmallows!
to

The Absolutely Authoritative Field Guide

Fabulous Beasts in this section will help

you avoid such mistakes by describing

the appearance, behavior, and habitats of
the best-known

uncommon

blasts.

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THE ABSOLUTELY AUTHORITATIVE

Field Guide to Fabulous Beasts,

with a Guide
Wizards need
in case

to

Pro-NUN-ci-a-tion
them
dangerous?

specific information to help

a

they encounter
like?

fabulous beast.
it

What does

it

look

Where does

live? Is

it

<o <-V

QL >P{

op

so^

^T^^'^r,^^'^
Griffin

Amphisbaena (am-fis-BEE-nuh)
This
is

(GRIFF-un)
lion's

Kraken (KRAHK-un)

a reptile with

two dragonlike
its

The

offspring of an eagle and a lion,

The most fearsome

all,

sea monster of
is

heads, one
tail,

on

its

neck and one on

the griffin has a

powerful body,
tail,

the flesh-eating kraken

relative

the

which operate independendy.

can sleep while the other

two back

legs,

and tufted

com-

mighty

of the giant squid.

is

One head

bined with the feathered head, huge

wings, and clawed front legs of the
eagle. It attacks large prey,

Its horrible,

beaked head
its

a terrify-

keeps watch.

Has two clawed

legs but,

ing sight, and

eight huge arms

instead of running, the creature puts

such as ele-

and two tremendous tentacles with

barbed suckers are big enough to
crush sailing ships.

one head

in the

mouth of the other

phants, tigers, and rhinos. Royal

and

rolls

along like a hoop. Tends to

European
huge

families frequentiy include

The kraken
thousand
to the

be found in flatlands and lowlands,

the griffin in their coats of arms. Its

nests,

sometimes sleeps

for a

where

it

can pursue prey more

easily.

made from

small trees, are

years at a time before

coming

found in mountains,
Basilisk

especially in the

ocean surface to wreak havoc. In the

past,

Russian Caucasus.

kraken were frequently sighted

(BASS-uh-lisk)

off Norway, and today they are

A monster whose
glance can
kill, it

Hippocampus (hip-uh-KAMP-us)

found miles beneath the ocean surface, in the world's

A wild horse, green in color,

in herds

it

lives

deepest trenches

has a serpentlike

on the

sea floor, grazing

on

and

crevasses.

It's

best to avoid

them

body with two clawed

feet,

sea

weeds and

grasses.

With
it

the head

altogether.

leathery wings, and

and upper body of a horse,

full,

has a

a beaked, birdlike

head

flowing mane, clawed,

webbed
fishlike
tail.

Manticore (MAN-tih-kore) With

Produced when a toad or

serpent hatches an egg laid
safest
its

front feet, fins,

and a long,

human

face

on

a lion's body, the

The
it is

creature

is

hard to spot because

manticore has

triple

rows of razor-

way

to kill

it is

to

very shy. Herds are found off

like teeth. Its tail is like a scorpion's,

own

reflection in a

the coastlines of Europe, from

with poison darts the

mirror.
deserts,

Tends

to be

found

Brittany in France,
to

all

the

way north

creature can shoot at prey.

dungeons, and other dry

is

Norway.

Tends

to

hang around old

places

where there

no water

to

ruins in the

Middle
it's

create a reflection.

East, though

82

SI


also

fond of sleeping

A newly created phoenix springs into

life

will

change color

if poison is

put in

it.

on

carpets. If you're sightseeing

piles

from the cooling ashes almost

The animal cannot be tamed, but

all

if a

and you see

of bones lying

immediately.

The phoenix
hope.

is

found
is

young

girl sits in
its

the forest,
in her lap

it

will

around, or you hear a strange voice

that sounds like a pipe or small

around the world, wherever there

come
sleep.

lay

head

and go to
forests
all

new life and

Unicorns are found in

trumpet, run! That's the

manticore.

over the world.

Questing Beast, The

(KWEST-ing BEEST)
Merhorse (MER-horss)
King Arthur
Beast.
is

the

most famous perfor a

Wyvern (WHY-vurn) The wyvern looks a lot

but
tail
it

like a

dragon,

A sea creature 40 to 100 feet

(12 to 30

son ever to encounter the Questing

has only two legs and a barbed

it

m)

long, with a horse's

He

had stopped

nap by a

that

uses as a weapon. It has

head. Cousin to the hippocampus,

it

spring, but heard a noise as loud as

30

large leathery

wings that

it

uses to

fly,

has smooth skin, big,

barking hounds.

An

animal leaped in

and a fanged, snakelike head. Wyverns

like to

beautiful eyes,

and

a flowing

front of Arthur. It

had the body of a

It

have a good fight with a knight

mane.
its

It

moves
size,

quickly, despite

leopard, the back legs of a lion, the

or two, so they can be found in populated areas attacking people

huge

and frequently has

hooves of a deer, and a snake's head.

and
up!

cities,

organized races with other merhorses in clearings

floor.

took

off,

with another king named

hoping a defender
Yale

will

show

on the ocean
amuse-

Pellinore in hot pursuit.

He
and
it.

never
nature.
desire
it,

Found near

caught
seaside

it,

because that

is its

(YALE)
^

You may

see the Beast

ment parks and

betting parlors.

Found near
sacred

but you will never catch

Found

Ortus (OAR-tuhs)

near castles and hedgerows.

temples in
India, the vale
"""

^
x.

A four-legged cousin of the

phoenix, the ortus
is

"\-

Triton (TRY-tun)

was
fishlike tails,

originally bred to
places.

a red-

^w
it

Half-human and
have scaly torsos,

half-fish, tritons

guard holy

A four-foot
has dan
its

headed bird with

a white face,

ed animal with hooves,

black eyes, streaks of gold on

its

and a human upper body with

claws and sharp teeth.

gerous curved tusks, and can point

neck, white forepaws, and

It periodically
is

They like
and
rid-

two

spiral
it

horns in any direction. You

pictured in coats of arms.

black hind paws.

having fun, blowing trumpets

can see

bursts into flame, but

reborn
j>

made from conch

change their
they can
tails

shells,

immediately. Usually found

roosting in alchemists'
laboratories.

ing the waves. Sometimes they'll

into legs so

These days it can be found near any place you think of as holy, but it's hard
to see.

Most

mysteries are.

live

among humans.
Ziphius (ZIFF-ee-us)

They're found wherever the

Phoenix (FEE-nicks)

waves
is

are good, so try Australia

Also known
chance

as the water-owl, the at sea every

A symbol of rebirth and

regeneration, the phoenix
a

or Hawaii if you'd like to see the

true inventors of bodysurfing.

huge ziphius attacks ships

it

gets. Its

huge head has

and
is

medium-sized bird with beautiful red

sharp, snapping beak

lidless eyes.

and gold feathers and

Unicorn (YOU-nuh-korn)

The

fishlike

monster
it

larger than
a

an

lovely song.

As

it

ages and
it

A snow-white creature that looks

like a horse, the

average whale, and

can splinter our

comes near the end of its life, builds a nest. At dawn, it

and
closes
its

unicorn has a sin-

boat in seconds.

It lives in all

gle, beautifully spiraled

horn grow-

major oceans, but the oceans

big themselves, the chance
is

arc so

sings to the rising sun, opens

-.

ing from

its

forehead.
will cure

Powder made
any poison,

actually

wings, and

from the horn

pretty small that you'll encounter the

bursts into flame.

and

a drinking

cup made of the horn

monster. Frankly, you don't want

to.

83
_

T
t

MoasltfS
you
re a

of the
spend
it's

Deep

Wizard's
wizard

who

likes to
at

60 or 70

feet (18 to 21

m)

long,

-*rs^V

iimc

me

b eacri or

longer than a city bus! There have even

on the

water,

been reports of 100-foot (30

m)

squid.

you're probably
already familiar

With

cone-shaped head and eyes the

Apothecary
Every good wizard needs
a

size of a

human

head, the creature has a

with sea monsters, or. as I

powerful, snapping, parrotlike beak strong

wide

enough to cut

steel cable,

and two powerhoses, with

range of apothecary items to

make

understand

it's

ful tentacles the size

of

fire

potions and jump-start spells.

more

correct to call

them these

days.

horrible, barbed suckers as big as dinner

plates. Scientists suspect the creatures

Physically Gifted Marine Presences.

Here

are directions for

making

Whatever we
there. In these

call

them, they're

still

(named Architeuthis
live in

for "chief squid")

variety of hard-to-find supplies, in

modern

times, however,
see.

one of the

earth's deepest

ocean

case your local stores are out of

fewer people

trust

what they

blaming

floor trenches, in the South Pacific

eye of newt or other essentials.

hallucination, indigestion, or atmospheric

effects.

Ocean
ing for

off

New

Zealand. They're search-

To

store them, start saving clean,

But some

scientists, called cryp-

them
let's

in mini-subs at depths

tozoologists, suspect there's truth to the

approaching 1.000 meters (3.280 feet).

empty

spice bottles,

jars,

and other

old

stories,

and investigate the existence

But

not forget the

Loch Ness
fondly

interesting glass bottles.

bottles,

To

seal the

of mythical creatures.

We wizards could
they'd just asked.

Monster, or Nessie.

as she's

you can buy corks

in

have told them so,

if

known. There
monsters

are

many

legends about

different sizes at a local craft store.

It's

The
wrote
a

ancient

Greek poet Homer

tale

in northern Scotland's lakes,

first

my opinion,

however, that

famous

of sea journeys that

and Nessie
accounts.

appears in sixth-century

describes a nightmarish, squidlike creature with fangs. I've

Loch Ness
It's

dragon scales quickly lose their

is Britain's largest

found

it

most

freshwater lake.

cold, murky, and

sizzle,

so be sure to use them

informative to read accounts from the

plunges to almost 1,000 feet (308

m)

within one week.

The Apothecary
is

days of sailing ships,

actually believed in
I

when seafarers these monsters um.

deep, with a huge underwater cavern near

Carry- All on page 87

great for

the bottom.

If

you were
a

a sea

monster,

storing small, dry items.

easily tuck the

You

can

mean

presences.

wouldn't that be

good

place to hide?
a long,

When

they came

home from

their

Eyewitnesses say that Nessie has

tapering neck that rises at least
(1.8

box under your arm

to fly somewhere
fast.

ocean explorations,
loved to hoist
a

my Viking
most

friends

feet

when you need

a

few tankards and

the
stirring

m) above

the water, topped

by

compete to
tale

tell

small, serpentlike head, with a huge

of their encounters with the

hump. She's about 30 to 40

(9 to 12

feet

Kraken, the legendary sea monsters

said to live off the coast of

m)

long, with flippers,

resembling the Plesiosaurus aquatic

dinosaur, thought to be extinct.

Norway.
monster

In 1753 the

Bishop of

Bergen. Norway, described a

"full

Or

is it?

So

far.

Nessie's evaded
explorers.
I

of arms" big
a

modern mini-sub

Good

enough to crush
man-of-war

for her.

say!

EvEm

sailing

MON/fTF*.

ship.The ten-

N/PeDf

LlTTl-t

armed

giant

squid does
exist,

and

PJUVACY Ff-OM Tim TO TlMf.

84

Narwhal Breath
(or

Baby Unicorn Horns

Take

Mermaid Gas Bubbles)

narwhal
is a rare

my word

for

it:

Not

a single, living

The
ing

Arctic sea ani-

unicorn was harmed in the preparation of this

recipe.

mal with

a long, straight tusk

its

grow-

As you know, baby

month
horn grows

unicorns shed

from

head.

Did you
your

their horns every

for a few years

in.

also
until their adult

know
water?

that

mermaids make bubbles

in

But

it is

\^Jf

just like

you do

Whether they

own bath come from

a satisfying

getting extremely hard to find these precious

items in the wild. This version

is a

\n

animal or mermaid, these potent

worthy

substitute.

potion additions

make

pop when added to your cauldron.

Gathering these seaborne
treasures is a lost
art,

WHAT YOU NEED

2-ounce (56 g) block of silver-colored polymer

Wr.
clay

but

vyou can make them for

:/

\ J
i

cookie sheet covered

foil

your

own

use

if

you

with aluminum

^aave a steady hand

oven

si
-J

and patience

hot pads

-^

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

Knead
it

the block of clay in your hands.^s

Roll

into a ball

and

stretch

it

out.
is

^
_

WHAT YOU NEED

Repeat

this action until the clay

soft.

warm and
i

of clay the size of a

it

bubble wrap with

large bubbles

2.

Pinch off a

ball

scissors (sharp

embroidery

mall marble. Roll

into a skinny coil

scissors

work best)

etween the palms of your hands. Repeat

this process until

you have made three

coils.

Instructions
3.
1.

Hold

the three coils together at one end, and gently push the end against

row of bubbles on the bubble wrap. Cut an

Carefully cut between a

a flat surface.

Then

twist the coils into a spiral, pulling

them out

to

taper the end into a horn shape.

entire row.

2.

Once you have

row separated

4.

Make

as

many

unicorn horns as you can from the block of clay.

from the main

sheet, carefully cut

5.

Carefully place the horns on the cookie sheet. Bake

them

for about

20

around each bubble. Try to control

yourself and not pinch every bubble
as

minutes, according to the manufacturer's instructions on the package of

polymer

clay.

Use hot pads

to

remove the cookie sheet from the oven. Let

you go.

the horns cool completely.

85

Red-Eyes of Newt
Eye of Newt
of
is

many

potions, but

who

needs
3.
all

Dragon

eyeballs rolling around and

Pinch off a

bit

of red

clay.

Store

^^
A
mainstay of

Heartstrings
in

over the place? Thread them on

string to store

what you
a

don't pinch off in a reseal-

able

bag

for another project.

Knead
1.

them: that way you

at a

the red clay as described in step

can just pull off one eye

time,
4.

key ingredient

many

potions

or you can wear them as

bracelet.

power

Make

tiny

little balls

of red clay by

related to courage, strength, and

rolling the clay

between your thumb

loyalty, dragon heartstrings are a

a wizard's supplies.

WHAT YOU NEED

2-ounce (56 g) block o red polymer clay

and

forefinger. Set

them

aside.

5.

Place a tiny red ball on a pea-sized

ball.

WHAT YOU NEED

white

Roll

it

between your

soft brass, copper,

2-ounce (56 g) block of white polymer clay

thumb and

forefinger just

enough

to

flatten the red ball

onto the white.

or other colored thin wire

table knife
I

This makes one red-eye of newt.

pencil

Repeat with the other white

balls.

2 resealable sandwich bags f(aj

tapestry needle
6.
yjflj

wire cutters or scissors

Use

a tapestry needle to pierce a

oven
cookie sheet covered with

hole in the red-eye of newt.

Make

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

hole in one side, then pierce from the

aluminum foil
Measure and cut eight lengths

opposite side.

hot pads

of wire, each 18 inches (45.7 cm)

long.

beading thread

7.

Carefully place the eyes

on the

>)

cookie sheet and bake them for about

2.

Tightly wind the wire around a

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

i\

15 minutes according to the manufacturer's instructions

pencil.

Leave about V2 inch

(1.3

cm)

Cut

the white block of clay

on the package of
to

unwound. Repeat
of wire.

this process

in half. Store

one half in a

polymer

clay.

Use hot pads

remove

the cookie sheet from the oven.

with the other seven lengths

resealable
ect.

bag

for another proj-

Let the eyes cool completely.

Knead
and

the white block of

it

clay in your hands. Roll

ball

into a

8.

Cut

a length of thread, thread

it

stretch

it

out.

Repeat

through the eye of the needle, and

this action until the clay is

knot one end of the thread. Thread

the eyes

warm and
2.

soft.

on the

thread. Repeat until

string

you have a long

Pinch off small
bits

of red-eyes of

newt. If you want to wear the eyes

as a bracelet, string the eyes

of clay

and

roll

them them
aside.

on

into pea-sized balls. Set

elastic

bead thread.

86

^
(

Dragon Scales
Dragons
are beasts of great

^ Apothecary Carry-All
Just the right size for

dragon eggs. This shimmery box

is

perfect for

magic

and power, which makes

storing the essential dry ingredients

this

you need for making potions and

other magic recipes.

ingredient one of the rarest and

most powerful you can add to

your apothecary. Sometimes
dragons shed their skins, scale

WHAT YOU NEED

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

by

scale, to

grow

new

one.

J empty paper egg carton

m

Paint the egg carton inside

colors.

acrylic paint in bright

and out with two or more

Let
dry.

metallic colors

WHAT YOU NEED

O'

paintbrush
glass beads

dry,

open pine cones

and

flat

marbles

2.

Glue on the beads and/or

dry.

flat

marbles for decoration.

garden shears

white craft glue

Let

or scissors

metallic-colored

acrylic paint

small paintbrush

newspaper

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

Harvest dried pine cones that

tree.

have fallen from the

2.

Use garden shears or scissors cut the scales from the cones.
3.

to

Work on

a flat surface covered

with newspaper. Use a small paintbrush to paint one side of a dragon

scale.

Let

it

dry,

then paint the

other side of the scale. Try painting

the thick

end of the

scale a different

color to indicate different kinds of

dragon

scales.

*f r

*
7

INSTRUCTIONS

Toad Garden Castle

If

1.

Wash and
them

dry the flowerpots and

set

aside.

you have

toad as
for
it

wizards companion, here's an easy way to make

to call
its

a
2.

nice

little castle

own. Garden toads

a

eat lots of pests,

so

Make

photocopies of the patterns

show your

appreciation

by giving them

place to hide

from the hot

sun.

you'd like to transfer to your toad

castle.

Place a piece of carbon paper,

with the carbon side down, on the

WHAT YOU NEED

outside of the large pot where you

want
medium-sized clay flowerpot
6 miniature clay flowerpots, 1 to 2

a design to be.

Lay the photo-

acrylic paint in white

and

copied pattern on top of the carbon

paper,

other colors of your choice

and use the pen or chopstick

need to

inches (2.5 to 5 cm) in diameter, with

paintbrush
trowel or large spoon
small piece of heavyweight red

to trace the design. You'll

drainage holes in the bottom

apply enough pressure so the carbon

transfers the design to the flowerpot.

2 twigs or wooden dowels, about 15

inches (38
to

cm)

long,

and thin enough

or green plastic sheeting or vinyl

Do
on

this as
all

many

times as you'd like

fit

through drainage holes in pots

fine-tip
scissors

permanent marker

the pots.

photocopies of patterns on page 142

carbon paper

3. First,

paint the designs white and

dry.

glue

jj

dried-up ballpoint pen

let

them

Then, paint over the

or chopstick

designs with the colored paint. This

technique helps you get clear colors.

4.

Find

shady spot under a bush in

your yard or garden. Bury the big

pot on
its side,

sinking

it

halfway in
is

the dirt.

Make

sure the dirt inside

a

wet and crumbly, and put

leaves

few dead

and twigs

inside.

5.

Now you'll make

the "towers"

flanking the entrance to the castle.

/ ^\JB

Sink the twigs or dowels 4 inches

(10 cm) into the ground at the

entrance to the pot, one on the right

and one on the

left.

Holding one of

the small flowerpots upside

down

over the dowel, thread the dowel

through the drainage hole and lower

the pot
all

the

way down

to the

ground. Thread a second small pot

over the dowel, but right side up,

88

It
so

NEV

when

it

meets the

first

pot, they

have bottom-to-bottom contact.

Thread
until

a third small pot over the

dowel, with the pot upside down,

it

has rim-to-rim contact with

the pot underneath.

still

There should

be about 2 inches (5 cm) of

dowel protruding from the drainage

hole of the third pot.

4 MIDN1

6.

Repeat

this process

with the secthree

Ravens, Cats, and Other Familiars

ond dowel and the remaining

pots.

Do
beliefs

you think black

cats are

familiars,
is a

or helpers to

a witch.

To

this
a

unlucky?

Or that

the raven

day,

Americans and Canadians think

is

7.

Now you'll

symbol of bad

tidings?

Then you
in

black cat crossing your path

unlucky,

make pennants

to fly

need to read more about what people

other ages and places thought. Their

but British and Japanese people believe

exactly the opposite.

from the
tic

castle towers.

On

the plas-

And how

unlucky
to have

sheet or vinyl, use the marker to

isoceles triangles (which,

were very different and often much

can

a cat be. after all, if it's said

draw two

more

positive.
cat has always

nine lives?

as every sorceress

worth her hat

The

been viewed

as the

If

modern people continue

to think

knows, has one short side and two

that are longer

most magical of
Worshipped by
was sacred to
Bast.

animals, for

good or

bad.

ravens are only scavengers or bringers of

and of equal length).

triangles

ancient Egyptians

who

bad news, maybe

fault.

it's

Edgar Allen Poe's

stories

Cut out

the

two

with the

carried images of cats for luck, the animal

their cat-headed

He's the famous writer of

scissors. If

you

like,

you can draw

goddess

about the supernatural. His

poem The
I

wizard symbols on the pennants

Cats also symbolized freedom to

Raven

has the depressing creature contin-

the

Romans, and the Greek goddess

a cat.

ually croaking.

"Nevermore!"

warned

with the marker.

Hecate sometimes turned into

Freyja, an important

Edgar about the impression

in the

this

would

Norse goddess

leave

on

readers, but he wouldn't listen

all

8.

Apply

a line

of glue along the

days before Christianity, was said to ride

a chariot pulled

to me. After
his research...

the help

gave

him with

shortest side of one of the triangles.

by black

cats.

Wrap

the gluey

end around one of

As

belief in evil witchcraft grew, peo-

The
to
its

raven, or crow, is a devoted parent

it

the dowels sticking out of a flower-

ple also thought evil spirits could take the

young, and

symbolized
It

happy

pot tower. Repeat the process to glue

the second pennant to the other

form of small animals.

marriage in Egypt.

was also sacred to

Such

animals, toads or

messenger gods of the Celts and Greeks,

and to Athena, the Greek goddess of wis-

dowel.

especially cats, could

become
9.

the

dom. That's probably how

and transformation.

the bird

came

Keep an eye on the

looking worn, you'll

castle.

When
that a

to be associated with prophecy, shapeshifting.

you see that the

is

dirt at the entrance

know

toad has

moved

in.

At

twilight,

you

Maybe we've stumbled onto the clue to why some people don t like this bird. They may think that "the only good
news
is

might catch a glimpse of Sir Toad

waiting for an appetizing insect to
fly by.

no news." or
All
I

that "ignorance
is.
I

is bliss."

can say

never
to

Shazaam! Gulp!

knew

a true

wizard

who wanted

remain ignorant!

89

The

BoOk ARTS
eading books, writing books,
actually

R
taught

making books I've

to be great fun.
I

found

it all

(Good

thing

remembered

what the ancient Chinese

I

me

about printing books;

passed

it

on

several

hundred years

later to

my

German

friend Johann Gutenberg, but

all

then he very unfairly got

for making the
well,
c est la

the glory

first

printed books!
are

Ah

vie)

Anyway, here

my

instructions for creating a giant wizard's

journal, a portable belt
a scroll,

pouch notebook,

and

a quill

and ink to record

your

own

wizardly thoughts and obser-

vations. If
secret, I've

you want to keep your notes

thrown
in a

few recipes for

invisible inks, plus a

Runic alphabet that

no one but another wizard can decipher.

Or

you can
safe.

just

hide everything in

book
it

My instructions for making

100.

are

on page

90

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Secret Journal
This simple book has the look of
an old treasure, even though
just

you

made

it.

The

journal can be as

large or as small as
size of the paper

you wish. The

determines the
in half a

size of the

book. Fold

sheet of whatever kind of paper

you want to

use.

This will make

group, or folio, of four pages.

The book shown

here

is

made

with 12 sheets of 18 x 24-inch

(46 x 61 cm) paper because

like having large

pages ideal for

sketching pictures of dragons

m
INSTRUCTIONS
2 yards (1.8 m) imitation leather cord, heavy thread, or string

if

YOU

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WHAT YOU NEED

12 sheets of 18 x 24-inch

1.

Fold the 18 x 24-inch (46 x 61

(46 x 61 cm) paper*

cm) paper so the short edges meet,

one sheet
at a time.

2 pieces of corrugated cardboard,

markers (optional)
tracing paper

Sharply crease

12V4 x I8V4 inches (31 x 46 cm); recycled boxes work well

each fold with the handle of your

table knife (figure 1). Stack the fold-

2 scraps of cardboard
ed sheets and
set

table knife

them

aside.

aluminum
craft glue
1

foil 2.

ruler or yardstick

pencil

Measure, mark, and cut two pieces

inches (31 x 46 cm).

yard

(.9

m)

thin ribbon in color

of cardboard, each measuring

scissors or craft knife

of your choice
*

12V4X I8V4

awl or sharp nail

large-eyed needle
copy paper and construction paper

work, well

92

3.

Measure and mark

(3.2

f/GuilE

through the pages, to the

front (figure 3). Leave a
tail

10.

Photocopy and enlarge the

it

a light pencil line

hinge design on page 140. Cut

IV4 inches
in

cm)

about 6 inches (15 cm) long

out and transfer that pattern to the

on the long

hanging from the center

hole.

two pieces of scrap cardboard by

tracing around
FiGU*-E
it.

left-hand side of

Take your

Then

one cardboard
sheet (figure 2). This
will

needle up to the top hole and sew

cut out the hinges, cover

become your

front cover.

down through
(figure 4).

the pages

them with aluminum foil, and glue them to

the front cover at the
stitching points.

Use the handle of your table knife

to score along the

Now take

your needle around

the spine and insert
it

Put

pencil line. Score

lightly

something heavy on
each hinge until the
glue dries.

you don't

through the hole

5).

want

to tear the

again (figure

cardboard.

Then,

insert the

needle up through the center

4.

11.
a

In the

hole and

down

to the

bottom

Use an awl or sharp nail small hole centered on the

FlGUR-E

to

make

right-

lV4-inch-wide
(3.2

hole (figure 6). Insert the needle

hand
edge of
the front
cover.

,
fa

cm)

area of

through the pages, around the

spine,

the front cover,

and back down through

7). Lastly,

measure and mark

three centered points.
3, 9,

the pages (figure

take

Mark points
23, 38

the needle and cord back to the center hole

Thread
ribbon

and 15 inches

(7.6,

and

tie it

length of

cm) from the top

5.

(figure 2).

tightly to the tail

with a knot.

through
this hole.

Put your stack of folded

sheets
covers.

between the cardboard

9.

Decorate the

Repeat

The

folded edges
left side.

cover of the book as

on the back

cover.

should be on the

you wish. Use the

runic alphabet

Tie the ribbons securely to keep

the journal's contents away from

on
title

6.

Use an awl or

a large, sharp

page 94
FIGURE

as a

guide to

prying eyes.

nail to

make

a hole through

write your

book

the cardboard covers and pages.

and your name on the

cover. If you

Work

slowly and carefully. Don't

will get

wish, you can use the markers to

push too hard or the pages

out of line.

draw

a design

on

the front.

Or you

can photocopy one

7.

Thread your needle with

of the many
designs in this

36 inches (0.9 m) of thread

or cord.

book and glue

to the front of

it

FiGo*.e

8.

Insert the needle

from the

the book.

back of the center hole, up

93

Celts, Druids,

and the Morrighan

Many
far

wizards and sorceresses will

and to appear as
fields, her cry as

black crow on battle-

think they built Stonehenge in England,

a

find Celts and Druids in their

loud as the shouts of

huge group of stones that line up pre-

family

tree, if

they look back

10.000 warriors.

cisely with the sun and constellations at

enough. Although they disapI

The oak

tree

was also sacred to the

peared long before even

was born

Celts, and their priests and sages were

called Druids, or "people of the oak."

and I'm an old, old

man

their reputation for magical

Druid

rituals

were performed

in sacred

summer solstice, the day of the year when the light of the sun lasts the longest. The Celts may also have constructed the many other huge
the time of the

power and wisdom endures

to this day.
In ancient England, Ireland.

groves of trees and secret forest clearings.

standing stones and stone circles that can

Mistletoe was the Druids most

be found in Europe.

sacred herb, and today

ally kiss

we
at

still

tradition-

Emperor

Julius

Caesar wrote about

Scotland, and Wales, the tribes

under the mistletoe that

we

use

the Celts, and the

known
wise

as the

Celts honored their

to decorate our

homes
in

Christmas.

Tacitus describes
alyzing spell
battle of
it

Roman historian how Druids cast a

at

par-

men

and women, their seers and

calling

The

plant

grows

oak

trees,

and was

on invading Romans
in the year

the

knowing ones, by
witches.

them

wicce, or
revered,

harvested by Druid priests with golden

sickles,
fell. It

Anglesey

55 B.C.

Female goddesses were

and caught on

white sheet as
a sprig

Who

knows, perhaps the defending

especially the Morrighan. a Sovereign

was good luck to carry

Celts had

some
I

help from the

battle cry

Goddess and Warrior Witch. Morrighan means "Great Queen," and she was

with you.

Morrighan and her fearsome

that day. too.

A few clues hint at the body of

knowledge the Celts had.

like to think so.

known

to always travel fully

armed

Some

people

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RUNIC
The word
future.

Alphabet
means "mystery" or
"secret" in ancient northern European languages. Runes were angular markings
in the

rune

made by
foretell the

early English,

German, and Scandinavian people beginning

a different letter

second or third centuries. The marks, carved

in stone,

metal, and

wood, were used to record important information on monuments, to commemorate the dead, and to
of the alphabet and symbolized
a

Each rune represented

magical concept.
at

In

Germanic
on

tribes, the leader

of the clan would pick three rune-carved sticks

He

would then
it

interpret the matter at

hand based on which runes

random and throw them onto a white cloth. he had chosen. For the Vikings, to speak the name of a rune or
spirit

carve

sword was believed to

call

up the power of the god or nature

who commanded

that rune.

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Black
From olden
I

days to this very day, people

I

who know how

I

to write are

THE CURSE OF 1H

often thought to have magical powers.

write,

like to think about that

when

and

like to

make

my own
first

ink so that

can imagine that power

PHAROAHS
In
den

going into the ink

quill

itself.

The

time you write on paper using your

pen and

this ink,

you may

feel a curious tingle in

your arm and

hand. Wizards call this "writers unblock."

November 1922. British explorer Howard Carter, and George

Herbert. Earl of Carnarvon,

uncovered the tomb of King

MATERIALS AND TOOLS

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

Tutankhamen, which had

in the

lain hid-

Valley of the Kings near

small bowl

Pour Va cup (60 mL) of dish soap

Luxor. Egypt, for thousands of years. In

addition to the pharoah's
solid gold coffin, the
riches

measuring cup
liquid dish soap

in the

bowl and add 2 cups (473

mummy in

mL)
for

of water.

Mix

well. in the

Soak the
soapy water

tomb contained

10 nails or 2 pads of steel wool

plastic

nails or steel

wool

beyond

belief: jewels, chariots,

30 minutes.

and other treasures.

food storage container

2.

American
Place the clean nails or steel wool
wrote to the

novelist

Marie Corelli

white vinegar

New York

Times

in

March

4 tea bags (black

tea)

medium saucepan
glass jar with lid

^^

in a plastic food storage container

and pour

in

enough vinegar

to cover

them. Soak for 48 hours.

white glue

^P
3.

owned an old Arabic book that stated, "Death comes on wings to he who enters the tomb of a pharoah." She predicted the deaths of the tomb's discoverers. Only days after
1923, claiming she

wooden spoon

Pour

cup (237

mL)

of water in

Corelli

s letter

appeared. Carnavaron

the saucepan and add the four tea

bags. Bring to a boil and let the tea
boil for 10 minutes. Let the water
cool.

died from pneumonia caused by an

infected mosquito bite, and bad luck

plagued people associated with

artifacts

from the tomb. Only coincidence,

or something creepier?

4.

Pour Vi cup (118

water and V2
nail/steel
jar.
is

mL) of the tea cup (118 mL) of the

liquid into the glass

wool

Mix

in a little glue until the ink

thick

enough
on

to write with.

ink will turn black with age

The when

you use

it

paper.

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i~-J

w
some

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l.

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Scroll
Early Egyptians and

INSTRUCTIONS
.

Glue

the

wooden bead to each end of two wooden dowels.

a
2.

Native Americans used scrolls to

record

Bring the water to a boil and

tea bag.

many

types of important

add the and

let

Turn off the heat

events. Scrolls are an interesting

the tea steep for 10 minutes.

way
or

to capture

a story, a
is

process,

You

will use this tea to "age"

a recipe.

There

something

the paper.

magic about unrolling the paper

and discovering what has been
written there.
3.

Use

a dry paintbrush to paint a thin

line

of white glue

down

the 8-V2-inch

(21.6

cm)

side

of a sheet of paper.

Overlap the edge of a second sheet of

paper by V4 inch (6

mm)

or

less.

Press

MATERIALS AND TOOLS

the seam firmly with your finger.

wooden

dowels, V2 inch (1.3 cm)

Repeat until you have glued the four

sheets together

wide and 9 inches (22.9 cm) long

end to end.

4 wooden beads, V2 inch

small saucepan
1

(1.3

cm)
4.

in diameter

Place the glued papers on a length

of wax paper. Then, use the other

paintbrush to "paint" the long edges

cup of water

of the paper with the steeped

tea.

1 tea

bag

Let the paper

too

dry. If the
it

paper curls

4 sheets of white paper, each 8V2 x 11 inches (21.6 x 27.9 cm)

much when
it

has dried, you can

flatten

with a hot iron.

wax paper
white craft glue
5.

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to apply

2 small paintbrushes
iron (optional)

a line of glue about I-V2 inches

(3.8

one end of the paper

strip.

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this

end around one of

it

8 inches (20.3

cm) of ribbon

the dowels and press

firmly with

your ringers. Let

it

dry a bit and

then repeat the process with the

other end of the paper strip and the

second dowel.

6.

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are dry, roll the

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dowels toward one another. Tie the

scroll

together with a length of ribbon

for easy storage

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in

of

Glasroj^
still

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as

King Arthur

a real

and his queen ruled from Camelot.

appear in the sky above.

person? Hundreds of

which could have been the ancient

According to legend. Joseph of

Arimathea.

years ago, historians often

facts to suit

Cadbury Castle

in

Somerset,

who was

either a disciple or

WW

embroidered the
taste,

England. Archaeologists have

kinsman of

Jesus, visited

popular

and storytellers

found the same type of expensive pottery (fit for a king!) at

Glastonbury.

He planted
it

his staff in

gave heroes

more magical powers with

But we wizards

the ground, where

still-living

grew into the

each

retelling.

know

that

both Cadbury and Tintagel.

Arthur's very
his existence.
It's

Glastonbury Thorn
at

many myths have kernels of truth at their centers, and we also have the advantage of
inside information!

name
the

is a

clue to

which blooms only

the

Christmas.
Grail.
at

Welsh form of

Joseph also brought the

Holy

Roman name
few tankards of

ArtOrius. In the fifth century,

still

Legend says the Grail

lies

hidden

the

Late
,

at night, after a

the British were

giving their children

bottom of Chalice Well,

ral

a radioactive natu-

mead,

my good

friend Merlin

would

loosen up and

tell

days with Arthur.

for Arthur's birth,

me stories about his He was even responsible

you know.
I

Roman names. In the sixth century, several men called Arthur suddenly appear in written history.

spring said to have healing properties.

In 1191, the

monks of Glastonbury
they had found Arthur's
clues

Remember, people often name

Abbey announced
grave.

loved

their children after great heroes.

Guided by
a

from

poem, they

Merlin, but he always was a bit of a wind-

Arthur assembled an order of knights,

inspiring poets' stories of the

dug up
said.

stone slab with Latin words that

bag and emphasized his importance in stories

Knights of

of Arthur. But he was one of our

gifted wizards,

the

Round Table and

their search for the

most

no doubt about

that.

Holy

Grail.the miraculous cup used at the

HIC JACET SEPULTUS INCLYTUS REX ARTURIUS IN INSULA AVALONIA. or. "Here lies
buried the renowned King Arthur in the
Isle

Heroic, good, and wise, Arthur was

Last Supper. Arthur led his army to fight

the Gauls in France, and disappeared
sight.

one of

Britain's greatest kings.

father.

Merlin used

from

of Avalon." Underneath, a coffin held

tall

magic to help Arthur's

Pendragon,
Igraine.
tle

King Uther

Legend says he returned to

fight his

the bones of a

man who
a

appeared to
the skull,

attract Arthur's

mother,

traitorous

nephew Mordred

in a battle at

have been killed by

blow to

Arthur was born

ruins
still

at Tintagel. a cas-

Cornwall. Badly wounded, Arthur was

taken to Avalon, the enchanted Isle of the

along with smaller, possibly female bones.

whose

stand

on the wild

They

reburied the remains. In 1278.

I

King

coast of Cornwall in England.

Apples, where he
cave.

lies sleeping in a secret

Edward

Longshanks opened the tomb,

Arthur came to the kingship in the 5th

century A.D.. a dark time for Britain.

One

day, he will

awaken and return

and an eyewitness described finding two

painted caskets, one with bones of "great
size."

to lead Britain to another golden age.

Saxon

raiders,

who came

to England as

The

mystical English town of

The

relics

disappeared in 1539,
the

mercenaries for earlier British kings, were

Glastonbury

may

actually be the site of

when King Henry VIII sacked

monasteries.

now

taking territory for themselves, sack-

Avalon. Sacred to the Druids. Glastonbury

also has the oldest Christian
in the British Isles.

ing every village in their path. Cities and

community
is

Were
call?

the bones really Arthur's, or

in

towns emptied

as

people took to the

hills

Glastonbury
a terraced,

does he sleep

Avalon waiting

for our

to hide. In 12 glorious battles, including

the Battle of

crowned by the Tor.

volcanic

Whatever you
still

believe, the stories of

Mount Badon. where he

960 men. Arthur

sin-

rock formation 522 feet (159

church ruins
believed the
at

m)

high with

his greatness

inspire us.

gle-handedly killed

over-

the top.

The Celts

came

rebels and invaders, and brought

Tor was

the

home

of the

peace and stability to the country. Arthur

Fairy King, and mysterious bright lights

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Quill Pen
In

WHAT YOU NEED

1.

Remove

the barb
large flight feather with a stur-

from the
lower end of
FlCUKt
I

many

different cultures, feathers

have long been used during

mystical ceremonies. In
fact,

dy barrel (the hollow, stemlike main shaft of the feather)

cutting board
small, sharp knife
2.

the feather.

the ancient Greeks developed

Place the feather on the cutting

board, with the tip of
the barrel pointing away

an elaborate system of divination based

black ink (see page 95)

on

feathers they

from you. Use the knife

found: the color, type of bird, and

location of the found feather were
all

INSTRUCTIONS
The
best feathers to use are the
first

to cut off the tip at a 45

angle (figure

1).

factors in interpreting the

future.
a

Since the

quill

was used

as

flight feathers

of swans and geese.

3.

Cut

slit

in the center
2).

pen

in

Europe for many centuries

the

These

birds lose feathers every

if

sum-

of the barrel (figure

(in fact,

word "pen" comes

mer, so

you look

carefully along

Stop cutting

when

the

from the Latin penna, meaning

feather),
it

the shores of lakes where these birds

live,

crack appears.

makes good magic

you may find one

that's just right for

sense to use a

handmade

quill

pen
J

a quill pen. Flight

4.

for recording recipes for potions,

writing

feathers have one

Turn the pen over and cut away

a piece

down

spells,

and sending

/narrow and one

from the

important messages to other

wizards and sorceresses.

/wide barb, whereas on other feathers the two sides are about the
same. Place the feather
in your

side opposite the

slit

(figure 3).
FlGOILE 5

hand

as if you are
it,

going to write with

and

Wt

see

how

it feels.

It

should
slightly.

curve over your hand

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/
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p?> HAVC T
or
os
1

err

&

fT
r^ 0,
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INK.

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5.

Now shape

Invisible
There
are several

the "shoulders" of the

ways

that

you can make ink

that

goes on paper without

is

pen on
side

either

a trace, but reappears

when

treated a certain way. Invisible ink

perfect

of
for sending secret messages.
slit

the

(figure 4).

f=iGU*-E

4.

4.

Once
1

dry,

sponge the paper with a

solution of iodine
6.

and water (10 drops

will

Gently scrape away

at the

under-

lemon juice
toothpick
iron

in /4

cup of water). Your writing

side
flat

of the nib to make the surface

appear in a dark blue, and the paper

will

and smooth.

be a lighter blue.

7.

With

the

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

underside of the
nib

downward

Write on a piece of a paper with

a toothpick.

teaspoon (5g) of a laundry detergent containing the ingredient that

and the nib pointing away from

you,

lemon juice, applied with

Let the juice
2.

makes clothes "bright"

dry.

fine-tipped paintbrush

move

the

To

read the message, press the paper

iron.

dark paper
black light (one that emits longradiation)

knife blade for-

FiGote c

with a medium-hot

The paper

ward

at a shallow

may get

little

smoky, but the message

angle to cut a small piece from the

tip (figure 5).

wave

should appear

fairly quickly.

INSTRUCTIONS
Laundry detergents
that claim to

8.

Dip the nib in ink and begin

teaspoon (5 g) cornstarch

brighten clothes contain a chemical

that
is

writing!

V4 cup (60 mL) water

small saucepan

activated

by the

sun's ultravio-

let rays.

In this recipe,

we make an

wooden spoon
iodine

ink that shows up only under black

light.

sponge

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

1.

Mix

teaspoon (4

mL)

of the

detergent with V2 teaspoon (2

water.

mL)

In the saucepan, mix the cornstarch

Too much water

little

will

weaken

with the water.

the effect; too

that
is

makes
paper.

a paste

visible

on the

2.

Cook

the mixture for two minutes,

stirring a

few times.

2.

Using

a clean paintbrush, write

your message on dark paper. Turn

3.

Let

it

cool, then use the liquid to

on the black

light.

Your message
will

will

write your message on paper.

appear on the paper. This

not

work on white paper

regular light bulb.

or under a

99

Book

Safe
WHAT YOU NEED
used hardback book from a thrift store or garage sale {Reader's Digest

Stow your wizard coins, ceremonial jewelry, or other valuables in this cutout book where it will be safe from prying eyes and sticky fingers. This clever book safe will fool the most devious criminal (or your little sister)! Choose a used book that will fit in with other books on your
bookshelf. Don't choose
a

Condensed Books have nice bindings)

-

volume from an encyclopedia

attention of a

set: a single

ruler with metal edge

volume on the bookshelf might draw the

would-be

burglar.

pencil

piece of cardboard approximately

the size of your

book

craft knife

paper plate
white craft glue
small paintbrush

wax paper
heavy weight

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

Measure the width and height of

from the book you
are using. to

a page

Use these measurements

mark
1).

the piece of cardboard (figure

2.

Use the

craft knife to trim the

tip:

cardboard as needed. Safety

Work

slowly and carefully

when yo^
s

use a craft knife. Keep your fingers

out of the
blade.

way of the You may want

knife

sharp

to ask for adult

help with this project.

3.

Mark

a rectangle or square in the

center of the cardboard.

The
all

size

is

up

to you, but be sure

you leave

at

least

lV2 inches

(3.8

cm)

around

the edge of the page. This will

become your template

pages of the book.

for cutting the

100
"H.IJ

10.
4.

Open

the

book

to the cut

Use the

craft knife to carefully cut

pages, press open the uncut pages

out the rectangle or square you have

and the

cover,

being careful not

drawn.

The

rectangle

you cut out

is

to let the cut pages

come

apart.

the template you will use to

cut the pages of the

mark and
11.

book

(figure 2).

Brush a thick coat of white

three exposed

glue along the outer edges of

5.

Open

your book. Count 20 or 30

cut pages along

sides.

all

pages and leave those pages un'cut to

hide the cut portion.

Brush a coat of glue on the four

Put a sheet

inner edges as well.

clear.

The glue will dry of wax paper

it,

6.

Put your template on a right-hand

between the cut and uncut pages,

close the book,
(figure 4)

page.
plate.

Use

a pencil to trace the

temcraft

weight
it

Then, use
few pages

a ruler

and the

and allow

to dry.

knife to cut out this area (figure 3).

Cut

at a time.

Do

not try

12.

Hide your

valuables in the

open and

to cut too deeply.

Remove

the cut

areaj

put the book on the

shelf,

part of the pages. Repeat until

you

rest assured that, as if

by magic,

have cut

all

the pages.
/

your important wizard stuff is

now

invisible!

f=i

GUILE 4.

7.

Pour a small amount of white glue

plate.

onto the paper

Brush the glue

on the

inside

back cover of the book.

Close the book to flatten the page.

8.

Work with

groups of about

five

pages: spread glue

on the

last

page

and press the group toward the back

cover.

Repeat until you have glued

all

of the cut pages together. of wax paper between

9.

Put

a sheet

the cut and uncut pages, close the

book, and put a heavy weight on top.

Allow the book

(figure 4).
PlG<Jt-

to dry overnight

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the Art of
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A.

Astronomy
eople have long believed that the
positions and relationships of the sun, the

moon,

the stars, and the planets

influ-

determine our characters and

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'

ence the course of our

\

lives.

(Many

/
/

,"'

astrologers have enjoyed profitable careers as a

result!)
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Twelve of the best-known

stars,

constellations.

or groups of
carry

form the zodiac, and they

in ancient times.
is

names given to them

Astrologers believe that your personality

determined by which zodiac zone the sun was in

at

the time

you were born. Once you've matched

its

your birth date with

zodiac sign, its fun to

compare

astrological descriptions with

what you

know
more

of yourself and your friends.

than one person
to

(I've

known

who chose

believe the flattering parts, and dis-

V
mm

regarded the

rest!)

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Constellation Caster
A well-educated wizard should be able to identify the constellations in the
night sky,
light

To

help you learn them, you can

make

these covers for your flash-

and illuminate the walls of your darkened chamber with the 12 zodiac

constellations.

WHAT YOU NEED

2.

Use the

scissors to cut

around the

larger circles.

To make

tabs, cut the

flashlight

paper

circles

from the outside of the

oudine of the
spaced about V2 inch
all

black construction paper

pencil
ruler

larger circle to the

smaller
(1.3

circle,

cm)
this

apart

around the

circle.

compass
scissors

Do

on

all

the circles you have

traced.

Then

fold

down

the tabs.

needle or push pins

3.

Use the

constellation patterns

on

5 to 6 rubber bands
constellation patterns
to

pages 143 and 144 as a guide to prick

holes in the circle with the needle or

on pages 143

144

push

pin.

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

4.

Place the paper circle on the flash-

light, fold

down

the tabs, and secure

Position your flashlight so that

is

the paper circle with the rubber band.

the lens

pressing

on the black
5. If you're

construction paper, and trace

using the flashlight out-

around the lens with the

pencil.
side,

Put the

flashlight aside.

Then
larger

turn

it

on and shine

it

against a

wall of your house so you can match

use the compass to draw

the constellation pattern to the stars
a circle

V2 inch
this as

(1.3

cm)

in the heavens. In a darkened room,

around the one you have just traced.

Repeat

many times

you can shine the constellation onto

the ceiling.

as

you

can on the sheet of paper.

104

Aries the

Ram

*SS*/A

are

good
and

at

focusing on getting the

What's

March 21
through April 20
Aries people are

job done. Pastel colors (especially

blue)
soft

music make them

is

feel

serene.

Taurus

most compatible
Friday,

Your Sign?
When
our ancient cousins studied
the circular (ecliptic)

friendly,

but also

with Virgo and Capricorn.

Blue, Venus, sapphire,
6,

very determined and

fearless,

lily

of

and they

like

the valley, apple tree, bull, dove, copper.

to be the leader in activities

and
under-

movement of

games. Sometimes they

stand
all

can't

Gemini the Twins

the planets, they noticed the

why

their friends don't share

May 22 through June 21

Geminis
are the original free spirits

unmoving or fixed
background.

stars in the

their interests.

They

are generous

They used

this back-

about sharing their belongings with

friends, but

of the zodiac, and sometimes

it

ground of fixed

stars to identify

have an explosive temlast

seems

like

the position of the planets.

They

per (which fortunately doesn't

f>

they can be in two

places at once!

divided the ecliptic path into 12

equal sectors. Each sector was

too long). Arians tend to have broad

shoulders, to walk fast, and to be

They

usually have sensitive,

accident-prone.

They

usually love to

named

after the fixed-star

group

expressive
fin-

read, but can be a bit lazy about

seen in that sector, such as

"the lion."

Leo

hands with slim

gers.
lot

schoolwork.
ers

They tend
is

to be explor-

They make

The

ancients called

and pioneers
Aries

in their

chosen

of noise, have

these sectors the zodiac, which in

fields.

most compatible with

ram
(or

boundless physical energy, and are

frequently late for appointments.

Greek means

"little

zoo."

Leo
7,

or Sagittarius. Red, Mars, ruby,

rose, holly,

Some
day you

people believe that the

Tuesday, wild

Geminis
clever,

are friendly, inquisitive,

planets and their position

are

on the

tiger or leopard), magpie, iron

have vivid imaginations, and

born represent certain

they usually love to read and share

"energies" that explain

how you
dis-

Taurus the Bull

April 21

ideas with others. Foreign languages

look and
likes,

act,

your likes and

come
up on

easily to

them, but they need

through

to learn to be patient
difficult tasks
is

and not give

even what type of job you'd

at.

May 21
Taureans tend to
have strong bodies

too quickly.

be good and see

Read the

chart

below

Gemini

most compatible with

Wednesday,
parrot,

if

the description that

Aquarius and Libra. White and silver,

Mercury, diamond,
snapdragon,
quicksilver.
5,

goes with your sign of the zodiac

and dark, wavy

hair.

sounds like

description of you.
best friend's
fit?

They

are

calm and

elder, dog,

Then check out your

sign... are

pleasant people, but

you two

good

The

sometimes very stubborn about getting their way. People born under
this sign

chart also features the lucky colors, planets,

Cancer the Crab

June 22 through July 23
Cancers are emotional, sentimental,

have a strong sense of fair

gems, numbers, days

ani-

play,

of the week, flowers, trees,

more common sense than most, and good judgment. They

athletically

are

and very

sensitive people, gentle

and

mals, birds, and metals that are

said to
Is

and musically

talented,

patient with
others.

go along with each

sign.

and

are

good

in school because they

today your lucky day?

105

They someimes
nary playmates.

feel lonely,

and

Virgo the Virgin

debates and arguments, and often

young Cancers often have imagi-

August 24 through September 23

Virgos are dependable, sincere, and
able to

become

scientists.

Libras can be so

They have very

powers of

active imaginations, great

work

charming with people, they may be in danger of getting their own way a
bit too

empathy

for other people,

and

are

hard for long

periods of time,
so they're often

much! They often have dimlike

frequently artists and creators.

They
good

ples in their chins, love the color

blue,

can be good mimics, and they love a

and don't

watching violent
at

good joke. Cancers tend

at

to be

the teacher's
pet.

movies or videos. Their rooms

earning and saving money. In

is

They

appre-

home

are usually neat

lots

and clean, and

girl-

school, history

often one of their

is

ciate elegant

they have

of boyfriends and
is

best subjects. Cancer

patible with Pisces

most com-

things and have

beautiful, intel-

friends. Libra

most compatible
Friday, violet,

and Scorpio.
emerald, 2,
otter or seal,

with Aquarius and Gemini. Blue and

violet, Venus, opal, 8,

Emerald green, Moon,

seagull or owl, silver.

ligent eyes.

Monday, poppy, willow,

Some

Virgos

almond, hare, dove, copper.

are perfectionists

and worrywarts, but

Scorpio the Scorpion

Leo the Lion

July 24 through August 23

their inborn critical abilities can

October 24 through

bring them success in the

arts,

phi-

November 22
Scorpios have powerful bodies, penetrat-

Leos

are natural leaders

and
and
lots

losophy, or literature. Virgos love to

read,

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extroverts,

remember almost

everything,
talent.
eat,

^^

they can be

and often have hidden acting

ing eyes, and a

self-

fM

^^^ of fun as long

as

They're choosy about what they

assured, magnetic

they get
their

and value

their privacy.

Virgo

is

quality that
attracts

own

most compatible with Taurus and

Capricorn. Pale gold and yellow,
Mercury, jade, 10, Wednesday, valerian,
hazel, squirrel, parrot or magpie,

people and

way!
Dignified,
regal,

inspires their loyalty.

This

is

important, because some

Scorpios can drive people away unless

and courageous,
proud of their
abili-

they're
ties.

platinum.

they control their temper tantrums

Sometimes Leos show off or

little

and bluntness.
Libra the Scales

When crossed, they

to find out

act a

too exuberant for their

won't rest until they've had their

revenge.

own good. They have generous, warm hearts, and they like to show others how to do things. Leos are
smart but they tend to rely on

September 24 through October 23

Kind-hearted Librans love
fairness,

They like
tick

what

makes people
their

without giving up

and they hate to make decisions or

own
and

privacy. They're

good

at

judgments about
people for fear they

solving mysteries and finding lost

items,
they're often attracted to

charm

to get

what they want, and

usually have boyfriends or girlfriends before anyone else!

might make
is

the mystical or forbidden.

Even young

Leo

mistake or

Scorpios have lots of boyfriends and

girlfriends.

most compatible with Aries and

Sagittarius. Gold, the Sun,

hurt some-

Scorpio

is

most compatible

amber and

one s
ings.

feel-

with Pisces and Cancer. Red, Mars,

ruby, 9, Tuesday, heather

topaz, 4, Sunday, marigold or sun-

and chrysaneagle

flower,

palm

or laurel, lion, eagle, gold.

They're

themum,

holly,

wolfand panther,

good

in

and vulture,

iron.

106

Sagittarius the

and

to stick to set routines.

Rather

Saturday, snowdrop
tree,

andfoxglove, pine

Archer

than being part of a large group,

they tend to have a few special
friends.

dog, cuckoo, platinum.

November 23
through

December 21
Sagittarians usually

You can depend on them to do their homework when they get

Pisces the Fish

February 20 through

home from
sex.

school. Capricorns tend

March 20
Pisceans combine the best points of
the other 11 signs of the zodiac, but

have open, cheerful

faces with high,

to be bashful

around the opposite

is

broad

Capricorn

most compatible

foreheads, and they can

with Taurus and Virgo. Black,

Saturn, onyx, 3, Saturday, nightshade

have their

own

special qualities, too.

be dramatic and clumsy

time.

at the

same

They
cal,

are creative, artistic, impracti-

They

are idealistic, restless,

and rue, pine and cypress, dog and elephant, owl,

lead.

love books

and poetry, and don't

money.

curious,
ple.

and love to be around peothis sign

care about getting or having

Those born under

it

may
Aquarius the

They
and
*

enjoy living in a fantasy world,

find

hard to be

tactful, to lie, or to

are often interested in astrology

tell a

joke properly.

They

enjoy

Water Bearer
January 21 through February 19
Aquarians are one of
the dreamiest signs

and magic. Pisceans tend

hands and

to have

school, but can be spendthrifts

feet that are either small

unless they're careful.

Many have

and

dainty, or absolutely huge.

They

strong spiritual yearnings, and find

careers in religious or charitable

dislike routines,

and

are frequently

most
sleep.

active at night while others

work. Sagittarius

is

most compatible
mul-

of the zodiac, often

having their heads
lost in the clouds as

They

are very

compassionate
chil-

with Aries and Leo. Orange, Jupiter,

sapphire, 4, Thursday, carnation,

to the needy,

and animals and

is

dren trust them. Pisces

compatible

most

berry

tree, horse, eagle, tin.

they fanta-

size

about the

with Cancer
to be taller than

Capricorn the Goat

future.

They tend

and Scorpio.
Purple, Jupiter

December 22
through January 20
Capricorns mature
earlier

average, have straight, silky hair,

and

often droop their heads as if they are

lost in thought.

and Neptune,

6,

They

are very curi-

Thursday, heliotrope

than the other

ous about other people and

and carnation,
willow and
elm, sheep
ox,

signs,

and they value

have

lots

of friends. Quick

the

wisdom and

thinkers, Aquarians also have excellent intuition about people,

achievements of
their elders.

and swan and stork,

tin

They

but they sometimes have bad

respect authority

memories about
and usually

practical things,

and
get

success,
it

such as dates and times.

They

love

want
it

for themselves,

being in nature, relish having their

after a steady,

determined
diplomats and

own

freedom, and are quick to rebel

climb.

Many become

against rules. Aquarians often

Young Capricorns enjoy spending time at home. They like to

negotiators.

become

scientists or musicians.
is

Aquarius

most compatible with

Libra. Electric blue

organize their toys and belongings

Gemini and
green, Saturn

and

and Uranus,

garnet, 2,

107

CREATURES OF THE NIGHT!

.^olves,
now

Jaiif

will

tell

some dark
all evil,

tales.

My
it

Q*>ogs.andV^
draw together around the dim
campfire or candle.
I'll

purpose

is

to warn

you to be on your
whether

light of

guard against

say the frightening

giant phan-

comes from
the

outside or from within

names out loud: werewolves,

eyes and an icy cold breath. Leaving no

footprints,

human
you

heart.

But don't believe

tom

dogs, and vampire bats.

a

phantom dogs haunted

grave-

everything
I've

hear, either.

Quite

frankly.

A wolf is
desires

magnificent creature, but a

a

yards and churchyards, and sometimes

tried to break

heard

some

rather silly stories in

my

wolf combined with

man's cunning and

down

the doors of houses.

travels

over the past several hundred years!

would be

truly fearsome.

The

When my
the

friend, the great detective

You

be the judge.
earliest days,

ancient

Greeks believed

that skilled sor-

Sherlock Holmes, investigated the case of

Since our
afraid

man

has been

cerers could shape-shift into

werewolves

Hound
a

of the Baskervilles. the

fright-

of the dark.

When

night

comes and

by wearing

magic

belt, using certain

ened

villagers at first believed the beast

legends say terrible

creatures arise,

potions, or drinking water

from

wolfs
not to be

was

hound of

hell!

But as you consider

paw

print.

These were black by good wizards.

are

arts,

this legend, think

about your

own

dog's

we

instinc-

practiced

special gifts.

How many times

Could
it

has your
invisi-

tively

There

many old
bitten

stories of people
a

dog

clearly sensed things that

were
a

who were

by

werewolf,
at

ble to you?

have seen

ghost?

condemning them

each

full

Too

bad dogs

can't talk,

or

rather, that

we

moon

to change to half-man.

all can't

speak their language.

bat
is

half-animal, tormented

by the

The

our third well-known night

mistaken to fear
is a
it.

knowledge of what they had

creature, but we're

become. Villagers discovered

werewolves
in their

Gypsies think the bat

ture,

benevolent crea-

midst

in house-

and carry bat bones

in a small

bag for

holds which always, mysteriously, had

luck. Yes, vampire bats

(Des modus
Central

meat to

eat.

rotundus) do

exist, originating in

How to protect against the

can stop
a

monster?

and South America. No. they don't attack

Believers say that silver buttons or bullets

humans. They have bodies the

adult's

size of an

werewolf.

If

you throw
its

piece

thumb, and 8-inch (20.3 cm)

of iron or steel over the beast,

self will appear

human
are in

wingspans.

Making

tiny cuts in the skin of

immediately, bursting out

sleeping animals, one bat drinks about

two
Its

of the

pelt.

Remember, people who

tablespoons (30

mL)

of blood a day.

the grip of a curse are to be pitied.

Be

saliva contains an anti clotting ingredient

compassionate, but be careful!

In Britain long ago,

that

may

eventually be useful to doctors

bad luck and death

who

treat stroke victims.

a surprise.

But

this

should
all

was believed to follow the appearance of

giant black ghost dogs. In the countryside

not be

As we

wizards know,

things in the world have a reason for their

existence, and
it's

of East Anglia. England, night travelers

feared meeting Black Shuck, a supernatural

up to us to be smart

enough to

figure out the gift they have to

dog

as big as a calf,

with gleaming red

give. Including the gift

of a

little bat.

4&&*e.

GREAT ALCHEMISTS OF THE PAST

\otvc

Egypt, he found the Emerald Tablet

clutched in the hands of

Hermes

mummy in
Legend

the Great

Pyramid of Gizeh.

^ Their Search fot^

VC

said the tablet contained the

magical secrets of the universe, and

many

alchemists hung

copy on

their

laboratory walls.

\
ur

In the third century A.D..

Maria

money

or your

life!" I

heard that

equipment

in an

alchemist

workplace:

Prophetissa wrote

at

length about the

alchemist, she

lift in a gangster

movie

and. in

my

furnaces, beakers, and glass phials that

Emerald Tablet.

A gifted

experience, whether they're kings or

capture condensation

from

liquids.

also invented several useful vessels for

distilling chemicals, including the glass

commoners, many people want more

gold and more time on this
earth.

Other alchemical equipment was

filings, seawater,

quite

inventive, including baths of sand, iron

beaker with

a long,

curved neck called

Centuries ago. alchemists searched

for ways to

dew, and even dung

the pelican retort, and the double boiler,

make

gold, or for sublive forever.

jail,

which provided heat from the decompofew

sition of

which the French

in her

still call a

bain-marie

stances to help

them

you-know-what.
per-

memory.

of them ended up in

imprisoned by
their secrets.

Alchemists believed they had to

matter within God's kingdom.

Nicholas Flamel was the most

greedy kings
Unhappily,
a

who wanted

fect their souls in order to create perfect

famous alchemist of the mid-1300s.

Flamel made
elixir

few blew themselves up

very rich and

They

from the Stone,

rich,

with experiments gone wrong. But there

believed that the final product of their

became fabulously
fortune to charity.

and gave his

were

few

who became

work would be
a

the Philosopher's Stone,

He

wisely fled

who've been seen hundreds of years

after

magical substance that

made any

sub-

France after King Charles

VI had him

they supposedly died.

My dear
I've

stance perfect and turned any metal into

questioned about his sudden fortune. In

1761 a dozen people claimed they saw
the 400-year-old alchemist and his wife
at

reader, didn't

you ever wonder how

years myself?

gold.

The

stone would cure disease and

life,

lived

more than 600 Think about it.

give eternal

and

it

symbolized the

soul's perfection.

the Paris Opera, and to this day.

still

The

alchemists were our earliest

King Edward
and mystic
gold.

III

hired the alchemist

there are

Flamel sightings around

chemists.

The

Egyptians studied metals

Raymond

Lully to

make

the world.

and gold refining, and the word alchemy

When

Lully learned that the gold

for spiritual purposes,
jailed.

The Swiss Hohenheim

Philippus Aureolus

may come from al-khem,

the Arabic

would not be used

Theophrastus Bombastus von

(1493-1541) renamed him-

translation of Egyptian hieroglyphics

that stood for "Egypt" and "black
earth."

he refused to continue and was

King James VI of Scotland hired an

alchemist to

self Paracelsus,

and he became the great-

These alchemical ideas spread

make

gold, but the experi-

est alchemist-physician of his time.

through Europe.

Alchemy was
its

greatly

ment

failed:

and the same unlucky and broke his leg when he

to fly
castle.

Trained

in

medicine, he studied alche-

respected during the

the Renaissance, and
tice required

Middle Ages and

successful prac-

alchemist

fell

my

in

Arabia and Egypt. Paracelsus was

tried to use

homemade wings

smelly, often rude, and his middle

inspired the

name

much

study and the mas-

from the battlements of James's

Legend says the
master was

word bombastic, which

tery of difficult arts. Alchemists deliberately wrote in hard-tounderstand lan-

greatest alchemical

means pompous.

He

said physicians

Hermes

Trismegistus. an

should help patients use their natural

healing powers to get well, but he was

guage. the

The word gibberish comes from name of Jabir ibn Hayyan, an

Egyptian king
(!).

who

reigned 3.226 years

One

of the great founders of the

arts,

so unpopular with other doctors that he

alchemist whose writings were impossible to understand!

If

magical

he was named

after

had to flee town! After his death, he

*
A
109

Hermes, god of alchemy. Trismegistus

a

was seen
said he'd

in

you've ever visited

ratory,

modern laboyou'd recognize some of the

means "three times

that

great."

Legend says

many places, and legend made himself immortal with \JT*

when Alexander

the Great invaded

the Stone.

Cmfrtw

the Art of
Even
in
if

you never succeed

making your own

Philosopher's Stone, concocting things that ooze,

bubble, smoke, or just
plain smell

bad

is part

of the fun of

alchemy. But beware.

Many

a careless

wizard has blasted himself clean out of his laboratory, so be careful to stick
to the instructions in

my Magic

Potion Cookbook and don't add any

extra ingredients. I've also included

my

recipe for all-important dragon's

blood, in case you run short of local

dragon donors.

r
13*

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no

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V

alchemy
*\

Af U)N/G
\

AuvArr pun/ po^ Af NOTHING &LEW Up.

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O^

^Oa

These potions and

slimes are to be

Sw*
a'*A nr
f/

used by sorceresses
and wizards to
.

Potion^/

jrlake

magic and have

%n. NEVER EVER

eat or drink these con-

Dragons Blood
Aside from mandrake root (which blood has very powerful magical
I

coctions.

If

you want to make

write about

on page 66), dragons

anything that involves fire or uses

the kitchen stove, go find an adult

qualities.

wizard to help you (an adult nonwizard

that
is

WHAT YOU NEED

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

also acceptable).
start saving

suggest

mixing bowl
large
1 1

Put the peanut butter and cocoa

runny,

in

you

clean jars

spoon or spatula

the mixing bowl and add the corn

and bottles with interesting shapes.

"

cup (224 g) creamy peanut butter*

tablespoon (7g) powdered cocoa

syrup until the concoction

is

You

can use them to

in,

mix your

mixing everything well with the

spoon.

potions

or to temporarily store

1 quart (1

L) light corn syrup*

2.

them. Keep the original caps and

lids to seal the bottles, or

V2 cup (120 mL) non-sudsing soap

1

Add

the soap and food coloring,

well.

ounce (30

mL)

red food coloring

and mix

you can buy

15 to 17 drops blue food coloring

corks in

dif

V8

to /A cup (30 to

60

mL)

3.

Add

the rest of the corn syrup and

ferent sizes
at a craft

rubbing alcohol

the alcohol, and

mix
jar,

well.

Pour the

large jar or container

mixture into the

top,

screw on the

store.

with screw-on lid

*For thinner blood, use a bottle of dark

and shake

well.

corn syrup and 2 to 4 tablespoons (28 to 56 g) of peanut butter, plus the food colorings, soap,

and alcohol.

IP I

112

Kraken Slime
The
giant,

Fizzing
monThis
is

Phantom Potion
my
favorite potions because

many-tentacled sea

one of

ster called the

kraken

is

tough to

anyone watching will be amazed that you

can

wrestle

if

you want to

collect

some
and

make

plain water bubble.

of

its

slime.

The

recipe

below

makes

a very

good

substitute,

WHAT YOU NEED

you can avoid the

risk of being

drowned

at sea.

glass jar or drinking glass

WHAT YOU NEED

bottle of white vinegar

large platter or tray

17 ounces (510

mL) warm water

food coloring of your choice

clean quart jar with screw-on lid

x

/8 cup (28 g) borax laundry

1 tablespoon (14 g) baking soda in a bowl

booster

or jar

small mixing bowl or cup

water

tablespoon

white craft glue

green food coloring
plastic

food storage bag

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

Put the warm water and shake

in the jar,

and

add the borax laundry booster. Screw

on the

lid,

until the borax

dissolves.

Allow

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Fill

to cool.

the jar or glass half full with the vinegar. (If anyone asks,

tell

him

it's

2.

Measure 2 tablespoons (30 mL) of

it

just water). Place the jar

on the

platter.

the white glue, putting

into the

bowl.
water,

Add
and

3 tablespoons (45
stir.

mL)

of

2.

With

a dramatic flourish,
"I

add some drops of the food coloring to the

you, phantom, to

glass

while you intone,

command

make my potion

bubble!"

3.

Add two

or three drops of the green

3.
stir.

food coloring, and

Pour the mix-

Pass your hands over the baking soda, pronouncing the same

command,

while secretly sprinkling the soda into the vinegar. Shazaam!

ture into the plastic food storage bag.
will erupt.
4.

A cascade of fizz
when

Measure

tablespoon (15

mL)

of
4. If you

the cooled borax solution into the bag,

want
it

to further mystify your audience,

empty

the jar

it's

finished

then knead the bag with your hands

to

fizzing, refill

with

real water,

then invite your friend to try to duplicate

mix

its

contents.

You now have

your magic.

authentic kraken slime.

ii3

Smoking Phoenix Ashes

The magical
then
is

Ghouly Green

bird called the phoenix bursts into flame, turns to ash, and

QUICKSAND
The most
quicksand
it's a

reborn from the ashes. Here's

it.

how

to

make

a special

ash that

still

smokes and glows when you touch

unique thing about

is

YOU MUST GET AN ADULT WIZARD TO HELP YOU WITH THIS RECIPE!!!

that

it

cant decide

if

liquid or a solid.

Here

how

to

make your own

stuff.

version of the
if

WHAT YOU NEED

deadly
fall

And

you happen to

into quicksand during an adven-

book of paper matches

metal pan
scorchproof work surface
extra

ture (and

you don't have your

with cardboard cover

broom

to

secret is

make an escape), the to swim toward solid land

using very, very slow movements.

match or lighter

WHAT YOU NEED

newspaper
mixing bowl
2 cups (448 g) dry cornstarch
small cup or jar

INSTRUCTIONS
1

Go find a grown-up wizard or non-wizard to help you make the Phoenix

I

yellow and blue food coloring

Ashes.
with

don't care if you're a wizard in training, don't

you dare go any further

I

spoon
1

this recipe until there's this

an adult standing there with you.

mean

it.

If

you ignore

warning,

I'll

come back and turn you

from the matchbook
it).

into a toad.

cup (237
with

mL) water
(optional)

jar

lid (optional)

2.

Tear off the scratchy

strip

(the spot

where you nor-

plastic

wrap

mally strike a match to light

3.

Open

the

matchbook and place

it

match

side

down
is

in the metal pan, with

a surface that won't

the cardboard cover facing up.

scorch.

Make

sure the

pan

on

4.

Carefully light the

it

matchbook with the

extra

match or

lighter,

and

let it

burn until

burns

itself out.

5.

After the pan has cooled, rub your fingertip and

residue that's left

you'll see

on the pan. Rub your

fingertip

thumb on the burned and thumb together, and

your fingers smoking!

(If you're in a

dark room, they'll glow.)

114
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INSTRUCTIONS
1.

Spread the newspaper over your

surface

work

and

set the

bowl on

it.

Chameleon Water
You'll cast a spell while pouring

Put the cornstarch

in the bowl.

2.

Use the spoon

to

mix the yellow

your magical Chameleon Water

into a glass, then watch
it

and blue food coloring in the cup

until

turn

you have an acid-looking

(it

dark blue/black. Pour

of
the

it

into

chartreuse color

will take lots

blue).

another glass, and

it's

water again

yellow and very

little

Mix

color into the cornstarch.

It

mAg/c:
2.
.. -k

Put the fresh cornstarch solution

one of the
glasses.

3.

Slowly add the water to the

WHAT YOU NEED

in

Add

the V2 cup

colored cornstarch, using your hands

to

(120

mL)

of hydrogen peroxide and

mix

it

thoroughly.

When

it

feels

2V2 cups (600 mL) water

small saucepan
1 teaspoon (5 g) cornstarch

liquid while you're mixing, but feels

solid

V2 cup (120 mL) of water, and use the eyedropper to add a few drops
of the vinegar.

when you
it

tap or press

it,

you've

got quicksand!
ing
out, seal
it.

To keep

it

from dry-

mixing spoon
large jar with a lid
3.

in a jar or put plastic

With

the eyedropper, put a few

wrap over

V2 cup (120 mL)

1

3% hydrogen
mL) white vinegar

drops of the iodine on the bottom

of glass number two.

Wash

the
it

peroxide*

eyedropper thoroughly, then use

tablespoon (15

to put

two drops of hypo on the

three.

iodine

bottom of glass number

eyedropper

photographic

fixer (also called

hypo

4.

When you're

ready to perform

or sodium thiosulfate)**

your magic, shout "Presto, Change-

3 clear drinking glasses with

O!" and pour the contents of glass

thick bottoms

number one
(the

spoon or magic wand

number two one with iodine). The more

into glass
are, the better the spell

dramatic you
*available at drugstores
**available at

photography supply stores

is.

The

contents of glass

number two

will turn a bluish black.

INSTRUCTIONS
mL) of the water in the saucepan. Add the cornstarch, and heat on a stove over medium
1.

5.

Shout "Presto, Change-O!" again,

Put

cup (240

and pour the contents of glass number two into glass

stir

number

three,

and

with the spoon or magic wand.

liquid will

heat, stirring with the spoon, until

the cornstarch dissolves.- Add a sec-

The
in

become

clear,

but

ond cup (240 mL) of water. Transfer

the solution to the
jar.

then will change back to bluish black

about 15 seconds.

115

ckaprir-

the Art of

Amusement
izards really

W
party games.

know

how

to throw a party,

and here are some of

recipes,

my favorite

table decorations, and

My Spooky Food
how
to

Cookbook

tells

make

everything

from Crystal Candy to Crunchy Bat

Wings, and you can serve
feast platters or in
I'll

it

up on gilded

my special
to

dragon box.
toys,

also reveal

how

make wizard
favorite, the

including

my personal
You

revolving snake!
will also enjoy

and your friends

my Really

Useful Book

ofAll-Good-Magic

Spells,

Cheering
It s full

Charms, and Divination.

ways to
tell

of

fortunes and to attract

good
rib-

luck (would you believe tying a red

bon to your underwear?).

mk
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Great Horned

Owl

MASK
INSTRUCTIONS
1.

Use

a photocopier to enlarge the

mask and beak templates on page 142

to
fit

your

face. Staple or tape the

pattern to thin card stock.

2.

Use

scissors to cut

out the

patterns.

You can

use scissors

or a craft knife to cut out the

eye holes.

When
}

Study your owl, and

select colors to
as

was

in

match

its

coloring.

Color the mask

wizard school,
all

we
party.

desired. Don't forget to color the

beak

loved

good

Sometimes

pattern!

we would
you'll
rats.

dress up as our

own

or

a
4.

friend's familiar.

Try
a

this yourself

and
cats,

Fold the beak in half down the

line.

dotted

Then,

fold the tabs along

wind up with

houseful of

the sides.

Glue the

tabs to the

back of

owls, and more.

the mask.

My faithful
familiar Athena,
a great

WHAT YOU NEED

^Nr

5.

Make

small holes on either side of

horned owl,

was the inspiration for

this

^-^

photocopy of mask and beak templates on page 142

(file

the mask, just about level with the

eye holes.

mask.
can

thin card stock

folder, poster

6.

Cut the ribbon

into

two equal
half, slip

You

make

this

mask mask

to

board)

pieces.

Fold a length in

the

represent any owl; just cut off the

stapler or tape
scissors

folded end through one of the small

holes,

"horns" and color the

to match

and bring the ends through the

carefully so
tear the

your owl.

Use

an encyclopedia (or

craft knife (optional)

loop.

Tighten the loop

look on the

Internet) for drawings

If

coloring materials of choice

you don't

mask. Repeat on

of different owls.
cat

your familiar

is a

(crayon, pencil, paint, markers)

the other side.

If you have small feathers, glue
to the

or

rat,

simply change the ear

white" craft glue

7.

shapes and add whiskers instead

2 yards (1.8 m) ribbon

small feathers (optional)

them

mask

as desired,

and

of al>eak.

let dry.

n8

I
v..-

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\i&

m
."

Mold Garden

CENTERPIECE
Goblin Fingers, Troll Toenails, Ghost Toast, Eyeballs of Giant Blind
Newt...if
creating a

you want to

delight (or gross out) your friends at a party, try

in a jar

mold garden

with these "ghoulish" ingredients.

They
a
its

can take turns guessing which

is

which. Assemble your centerpiece

it

couple of weeks before your special event so

has time to reach

*-*

maximum mold

magnificence!

WHAT YOU NEED

Any

combination of thefollowing

peeled baby carrots

ingredients:

(for

Goblin Fingers)
of Giant Blind Newt)

5 -gallon (19 L) glass jar with

white sandwich bread

green grapes

screw-on top, thoroughly

(for

Ghost Toast)

(for Eyeballs

washed and dried

unpeeled baking potatoes

kitchen scissors

(for Troll Toenails)

paring knife
toothpicks

apples, oranges,
(for

and lemons

Exploding Fruit)

bookends or two other weights

cheese (for

Moon Chunks)
Brains)

pineapple chunks

paper or cardboard
fine-tip

(for

Bogeyman

permanent marker

cooked spaghetti

(for

Dragon Innards)

f^
no

INSTRUCTIONS
1.
it

Lay the

glass jar

on

its side,

or keep

For Troll Toenails, use the paring

knife to cut the potato in half. Put

inside the

jar.

Once

they mold, they

upright if you want your

to look

Mold

look very brainlike!

Garden
2.

more up-and-down.

the potato half flat side down, and cut

For Dragon Innards, arrange

piles

from the top down, making

half-

or coils of cooked spaghetti inside the

jar.

Now you'll prepare the Mold

ingredients. See figure 1.

moon

slices

that

still
it

have the peel on

Consult an adult wizard about

if you

Garden

the edge. See

how

forms a

flat,

cooking the spaghetti

3.

need help.

For Ghost Toast, trim the crust

wide toenail shape? Arrange the toenails as

from the sandwich bread with the

scissors,

you

like in the jar.

Carefully place the jar in a

place,

warm,

then cut the pieces of bread

For Exploding
apples, oranges, or

Fruit, cut the

sunny

without disturbing the

diagonally to

make

triangle shapes.

lemons

contents,
in slices

and brace the jar with the

it

Stack the triangles in two or three

crossways, working from top to bot-

bookends or other weights to keep

columns

as

high as you

like,

piercing

tom. Use toothpicks to stick the

from moving. Keep the jar open

slices

for a

them with the toothpicks, to keep them upright.

rots against

if necessary,

back together again, leaving a

space between

week
little

or two to help the molds grow,

lid

them

so

it

looks like

then screw on the

when

things start

For Goblin Fingers, lean the

car-

the fruit has "exploded." Gently place the fruit assembly inside the
jar.

to get a bit smelly (figure 2).

each other tepee-style, or

Mold

Eventually, your

Mold Garden will

lay

them

across each other log-cabin-

should also grow nicely over the

toothpicks, given

have an amazing variety of colors and

textures.

style to build a little tower.

enough time.
use the knife

For the Eyeballs of Giant Blind

For

Moon Chunks,

4.

Use the marker

in

to write the

names

Newt, peel the

and make
the
jar.

skins off the grapes

to cut the cheese into cubes,

and

pile

of all the items

your

Mold Garden
3).

piles

of the grapes inside

them

inside the jar.

We've often heard

on the piece of paper or cardboard,

and display
it

(You know the Giant Blind

blind because the eyes have

that the

moon
.

is

made of cheese, and

next to the jar (figure

Newt
no

is

here's proof1

After two or three weeks, the garden

will

pupils, right? It

must

live in

dark

For Bogeyman Brains, make a

stack of drained pineapple chunks

be past

its

prime, and you can put

pile.

underground caves

all its life.)

the ingredients in your compost

120

VENETIAN "GLASS"
Banquet Table Settings
The
creation of Venetian glass

will

be painting the back side of the

plates,

you need to have the symbols

reversed.

You can
as a

use the reversed

symbols

guide by placing them

under the

plastic plates

when
as

you work or by using them

was

a closely guarded secret for

many

years.

a reference.

Delicately blown glass shapes of

many

colors flecked with gold were treas2.

ured by kings and queens.

I

My own collection was small, but magical: when

symbol and color appeared

Cover your work surface with the

sheet of newspaper.
uttered a certain spell, each guests astrological
in the glass.

Use

a gold or
guest's

sil-

You

can create your

own

versions of

my table

ver paint
settings with
at

pen
of a

to

draw each

astrological

symbol centered on the

plate.

paint and clear plastic party ware.

You wont

even need place cards

your

back

side

Then, draw

next party just ask your guests to find their astrological signs and then
sit

other astrological symbols around

the edge of each plate. Allow the

down!

symbols to
3.

dry.

WHAT YOU NEED

Dampen

a sea

sponge with water

excess.

and squeeze out the

4.

10-inch (25 cm) clear plastic plates

Pour about

tablespoon (15

mL)

clear plastic

stemmed goblets

of paint onto a paper plate or foam

clear plastic bowls (optional)

meat

tray.

Dip your sponge

plate.

into the

photocopies of astrological

paint and then begin sponging color

symbols on page 42

onto the back of the

most, but not
all

Cover

pencil

of the surface.
of the
a
plates.

sheet of newspaper

Repeat for the

5.

rest

gold and silver paint pens

Repeat step 4 with

second color

sea sponge (or other type of

of paint. Try to cover

face this time.

all
it

of the sur-

sponge)

Allow

to dry.

paper plates or foam meat trays

acrylic paint in

two

bright,

6.

Use these

directions to create
as well.

vibrant colors

bowls and goblets

Decorate

the foot of the goblets as you

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

would

a plate.

Add

stripes,

squiggles, or symbols of gold

Photocopy the

astro-

or silver up the stem and cup

logical

symbols on page
the sheets up

of the goblet. Leave

at least

42.
to a

Hold

V2 inch
on the

(1.3

cm) undecorated

sunny window and

symbols onto the

lip

of the goblet.

trace the

back of the sheet. Since you

121

Wizard Crackers
An
English Christmas tradition, colorful paper "crackers" are filled with
paper hats and messages of
trinkets,

good

cheer. In other countries, crack-

MB t* J* OUT
There ate certain mystics and holy
men
in the

Banquets

ers are stuffed

with candy, party favors, and money.

at

You

have probably

enjoyed them

birthday parties pulling on both sides

say, these crackers
I

at

once to make

them pop. I'm sorry to

do not

snap, crackle, or pop,

but they are delightful just the same.

have even used small ones to hold

world who

are

famous

important messages, carried in the trusty talons of

my owl,

Athena.

for being able to produce solid

objects out of thin

air.

These objects

are

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

called apports. and they include coins,

candy, and gemstones.

Some

apports are

Paint the rippled side of the

much
and

larger, including

books, flowers,

corrugated cardboard the color you

live animals.

AL
So

want, and

let it dry.

Some

practitioners of Sufism. a phi2.

losophy with Eastern roots, are famous

for the apports they can produce.
are

Use the rubber stamps and the

and gold paint to decorate
it

Hindu swamis and holy men. Without

apparent effort
ry,

silver

on

their part, food, jewel-

the cardboard, and let

dry.

and religious objects appear from

it

nothing. Is
sters

likely that there are trick^

3.

Place the cardboard on your

work

among them, who

cheat to create

surface with the painted side facing

the illusion of magic? Yes. But there are

also

down. Place both sheets of colored

paper on top of the cardboard, with

some

mystics

proven to be

who have never been frauds. The Indian gentle-

WHAT
YOU NEED

the cardboard centered underneath.

man named Sai Baba can produce enormous quantities of apports. From sand
on the ground or
his closed
fist,

Trim the

sheets of paper along the

11 -inch sides.
1 piece

he can

make

entire banquets of

food appear you

5x7

of corrugated cardboard, inches (13 x 18 cm)

4.

Staple the paper to the cardboard

before you in serving dishes, plus

desserts and candy.

paintbrush
acrylic paint in color

Very handy
I

at the four corners.

if

happen to be hungry, but

if

you can place

know your order with him

don't

of your choice
5.

acrylic paint in metallic gold

silver

Place your gift or secret message in

roll

beforehand!

and

the center of the paper and

up the

Like most creative people, wizards

have always been famous for being able
to create something out of nothing.
all

rubber stamps in star and

moon

cardboard/paper sandwich. Glue

along the edge of the cardboard.

shapes

We

2 pieces of 8V2 x 11-inch (22 x 28

in different colors

have

some methods

that

we

like bet-

ter than others.

Some

cm) colored paper

of us don't mind
scissors

Cut the colored paper at both ends into V4 inch (6 mm) strips to the
6.

sharing, but

some of
tell

us like keeping our

I

edge of the cardboard. Carefully use

trade secrets to ourselves.

never could

stapler

and

staples

the edge of the scissors to curl the

get Sai

Baba to

me how

he does

it.

craft glue

paper ends.

122

spooky food

COOKBOOK

WHAT YOU NEED

2.

Place the bat or chicken wings in

Bat Wings
Although
for mafl^,
first 1Q||

Yield: 16 wings

the plastic bag and pour in the mix*

hire. Seal the

bag and turn over

few

medium-size mixing bowl

1

times to coat the wings in the marinade, making sure

all

have been

a vegetarian

cup (240 mL)water

liquid

the pieces are

many
I

years, during the

V3 cup (80 mL)

smoke

covered with the mixture.

years

heartily

enjoyed

2 tablespoons (30 mL) Worcestershire Sauce

3.

Place the bag of wings in the

refrigerator

and marinate the wings

chic ken, buffalo, turkey, and fish

3 tablespoons (45 g) dried parsley

for 1 to

2 hours, turning the bag

flakes

of

all

lands. Less appreciated as a

once.
(7 g) teaspoons paprika

IV2

delicacy

is

our friend the

bat.

The

(3 g) teaspoon garlic

powder

4.

Remove

the wings from the bag

in the

wings o| this strange-looking

mam-

3/4 (3 g) 3/4

teaspoon

salt

and place them

baking dish.

mal

are slightly sweet, with just

(3 g)

teaspoon pepper

Throw
5.

the marinade awav.

16 bat or chicken wings

a hint

of height and speed.

in

If bats

large resealable plastic

bag

Bake the wings

(204

in a preheated 400'

C) oven

for

30 to 35 minutes.

are

nof available

your patt of the

shallow baking dish

When
broiler

they are cooked, turn on the

country, cfucken wjngs are an adxeptable substitute.

and brown the wings 3

to 5

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

minutes.

Watch them

carefully to

make
6.

s^ire

In the mixing bowl, combine the

they don't burn!

A
the oven with

v
N

water, liquid smoke, VVprce^fershirc

sauce, parsley flakes, jiaprika/garlic

Remove them from

hot pads, and set them aside to cool

to roanj/jtemperaiure.

powder,

salt,

and

fjepper.

(They
this

are

unlikely to

ll\

.may

at

time

I2>

Petrified

Tree

COOKIES
It

goes without saying, you should never experiment with spells that could
it

cause any living thing to turn to stone be

an annoying friend, a barking

dog, or

sneeze-making flower.

If

the urge to petrify

comes over you, go

ahead and make these tasty cookies instead.

dients,

Add

your favorite sweet ingre-

and see

how

spell-binding these treats can be.

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

Preheat the oven to 325

(163

C)

for a glass

pan or 350

(177

C)

WHAT YOU NEED

Yield: 1

for an

aluminum pan.
it

dozen square cookies

2.

Place the butter or margarine in the pan, and put

in the

oven for a few

minutes to melt. Use the hot pad to remove the pan from the oven.

V4 cup (60
1

g) butter or

margarine

3.

Sprinkle the cookie or

butter.

graham cracker crumbs

(or

some of both) on top

several cookie or graa

V2 cups (215 cracker crumbs

g) cookie or

graham

of the melted

(To make your

own crumbs, place

6 ounces (180

mL)
g)

sweetened

ham

crackes between

two

large sheets of wax paper

and crush them with

condensed milk

rolling pin).

4 ounces (110

semisweet

chocolate chips
4.

Pour the condensed milk evenly over the crumbs, trying not

to disturb

them.

(or butterscotch, or

mint chocolate)

3 V2 ounces (99 g) chopped raisins

5.

Sprinkle on a layer of each of the following ingredients in this order:

raisins

chopped

chopped nuts

chocolate chips

granola

4 bunces (110 g) shelled and chopped nuts or unsalted sunflower

seeds
6.

Place a piece of wax paper on top of the mixture, and press

down

all

over

3 V2 ounces (99 g) granola

with either the palm of your hand or the bottom of the measuring cup.

oven
glass or

7.

Peel off the

wax

aluminum baking dish,

paper.

Put the pan

is

in the

oven and bake the cookies for

browned. Remove them from

25 to 30 minutes
the oven.

until the top layer

lightly

about 9x6x2 inches (23 x 15 x 5 cm)

hot pad

8.

Let the pan of cookies cool for 15 minutes, and then

refrigerate for

one hour.

measuring cup

wax paper
rolling pin (optional) dull knife

9. Slice

the chilled cookies into bars with the knife.

I

Use the
But

spatula to

lift

them out of the pan.

doubt there

will be leftovers.

if there are,

keep them

loosely covered in the refrigerator.

spatula

124

KJ

CRYSTAL Candy
Crystals are one of natures best bits of magic.
crystal that

looks

real,

but tastes good, too!

You can grow You will have to

this recipe,

exercise considerable patience

when you use

but that's

a quality

well worth practicing!

.

WHAT YOU NEED

cup (200 g) granulated sugar

5.

Cover the containers. Let them

(I

sit

Pumpkin
Ice

^y

V2 cup (120 mL) water

undisturbed for two weeks.

told

medium saucepan
food coloring
2 heatproof glass jars or small

you that patience was

required!)

Cream Shake

Slowly, as the water evaporates from

the sugar mixture, crystals will begin

WHAT YOU NEED

cup (340 g) chilled alreadycooked pumpkin

bowls with covers

dull table knife

to form.
day.

Observe the candy every

see a crust
it

When you

forming

on the

surface, tap

with a dinner

3 cups (600 g) vanilla ice cream

1

knife to break the crust so that the

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

water can continue to evaporate.

not,

Do

cup (100 g) crushed

ice

under any circumstance, shake,

or roll the containers.

V4 cup (100 g) honey

v4 teaspoon
V4 teaspoon
(2 g)
(2 g) (2

Put the sugar into the

pot.
stir

rattle,

ground

allspice

Add

the water, but do not

yet.

the
6.

cinnamon

mixture

When

the crystals are the size you

V4 teaspoon
blender

mL) vanilla extract

want, use the dinner knife to sepa2.

Let the mixture come to a boil

let it boil for 1
it.

rate the

candy from the container.

and

minute,

still

Then, reward your long suffering by

eating a large piece before dinner.

8-ounce (240 mL) glasses (stored in freezer for 1 hour)

chilled

without stirring

3.

While

INSTRUCTIONS
the mixture boils,

add a few drops of food coloring.

Carefully pour the mixture

1.

In a blender, combine the

ice

pumpkin,

cream, crushed
until

ice,

4.

and honey, and blend

smooth.

into one or

two

glass jars or
2.

small bowls.

Add

the allspice, cinnamon, and

vanilla extract,

and blend

for 1 minute.

3.

Pour the shake into the

frosty glasses,

and drink

right away!

All Flavors

GUMDROPS
Raspberry, sour apple,

A
salt.

Dead Sea

Marshmallow, anchovy,
Cook up
flavors.
six

chocolate malt.

INSTRUCTIONS
dozen in all kinds of
1.

attentively,

being careful not to get

syrup.

You may find several you

For those of you

who
.

like

mucking

splattered

by the molten sugar

really will savor.

about with anything

is

sticky, this recipe

5.

Add

the

lemon juice and the orange

and
boil for five

Here's

what you need to make

dream come

true. .there's a reason

zest to the syrup

lemon gumdrops, though

favorite
is

my personal

why these
batch
is

candies are called gumdrops!

secret to a successful

more minutes. Add the food

6. Slip

coloring.

gingered raindrops.

However, the
a

baking pan to which the

absolutely cannot stick.

on the oven mitt and very

care-

WHAT YOU NEED

(Vo*.
Yield:

gumdrops
start

So

fully

pour the mixture into the butit

LEMON/ GCMD^OPfj
About 70 gumdrops

out by buttering the baking pan

tered baking dish; then set

aside to

really well.

Then

set

it

aside.

harden for about three hours.

tablespoon butter

2.

Combine

the sugar and /2 cup

2 cups (400 g) granulated sugar

l

(120

mL)

of water in the

medium

While you wait, do something useful: Help your mother clean the
7.

/i

cup (120

mL) water mL) water

saucepan. Bring the mixture to a boil

house; read two chapters from a

'

1
!

box (4 packets) plain gelatin

cup (120

over
is

medium

heat.

Imagine the spoon

stir, stir, stir!

book on astronomy; observe

flight;

a bird in

/2

your magic wand, and

or play with your younger

sister.

for dissolving gelatin

Every few minutes, wet the pastry

brush in cold water and wash

brother or

juice of 1

lemon

down
8.

Time's up! Butter the knife, the

outermost part (zest) of the rind of 1 orange

the sides of the saucepan to prevent

scissors,

and your
is

fingers thoroughly

the sugar from crystallizing.

(no licking
3.

allowed

yet).

Use the

2 to 4 drops yellow food coloring

In the small mixing bowl, dissolve

knife and/or the scissors to cut the

cup (100 g) super-fine sugar baking pan, 8x8 inches

/2
'

gummy candy into

and then
sugar.
roll

pieces. Roll

them

the gelatin in

V2 cup (120 mL) of

minutes.

into balls about the size of marbles,

(20x20 cm)

water for

five

J)
4.

the balls in super-fine

medium saucepan
wooden spoon
pastry brush

The
as

balls will flatten

settle.

out some-

Add the

dissolved gelatin to the

what

they

If you keep the

sugar mixture in the saucepan, and

gumdrops
they will

in an airtight container,

continue to boil for 15 minutes, stirring

last for

weeks.

small mixing
Note: If you don't want to make 70 gumdrops of one
at
flavor, you can make several flavors one time. Cut a piece of cardboard into four strips as wide as the baking pan, and slide them into the pan to create dividers. When you get to step 5, divide the sugar syrup into three other small saucepans; add one quarter of the lemon juice and orange zest to one saucepan, and three different flavorings and food colorings to the others. Let the mixtures boil for five minutes. Then pour a different flavor into each of the divided areas.

bowl

oven

mitt

knife
scissors

'

N--^-

Throwing
If you

want

to create a lot of

different flavors, such as root beer,

banana, or bubble gum, you will need

to

WIZARD'S PARTY
izards are a fun-loving bunch, and will use just about any

buy

extracts or oil flavorings.

at the

You

can find extracts

oils are sold at

supermarket;

some
suppliers. Oils

supermarkets and pharmacies, and

occasion to have

a party!

Holidays,
all

doggy

familar's birth-

from mail-order candy

day, a decent report

d gather.

card they're

good reasons

for friends

are twice as strong as extracts.

Flavorings weaken with age, so don't

buy too much

at

one time. For some

For a special party decoration,

why

not put up

Wizard's Tree? Buy a

unforgettable taste sensations, experi-

tabletop-sized tree or small, potted bush at your local garden center. Spray on

ment with

the following:

canned

"frost"

and add twinkly

lights.

Have your

guests

blow up balloons

in

their personal astrological colors (see

page 105), and supply them with pentree decorations (see patterns flashlights,

V4 teaspoon
/2 teaspoon

(2 g)

cayenne pepper

cils,

colored paper, and scissors to

make

on page

42).

Light carved mini-pumpkins with tiny

and get your parents'

far

(lmL) anchovy oil

permission for Floating Magic Candles (page 49). Put the candles

away

/2 teaspoon (2 g) garlic or

from guests or anything that might catch

fire.

onion powder

Drape your banquet

table

with a Celestial Sheet (page 60).

Add

extra

V4 teaspoon

(.5

/2 teaspoon (2

mL) citric acid mL) oil of cinnamon,

tables set

up

for fortune-tellers with crystal balls, tasseography supplies,

and

palm reading

instructions.
glitter.

peppermint, anise, or cloves

Brush or spray adhesive on netting, then sprinkle on

tack the fabric up around the
light (available at

When
guests!

it's

dry,

room

for extra sparkle. If you have an ultraviolet

hardware

stores),

you can have ghostly party and

Blow
regular

up black balloons, paint on happy or scary ghost

paint,

faces using glow-in-the dark

tape.

and attach

to the ceiling with fishing line

Turn off the

lights, turn

on the UV, and your phantoms

will appear!

Embossed Dragon Box

Whether you use
it

to store gems, wizard money, or candy, this Dragon

Box

will

be

magnificent addition to your chambers.

A winged,

fire-breathing dragon

on the

lid helps

guard the treasures inside.

WHAT YOU NEED

3 cigar box, 9*/2 x 6 x l /4 inches

(24x15x4.4 cm)*

large piece of cardboard

scissors

pencil

white paper

transfer paper or carbon paper

photocopies of dragon patterns

on page 143

medium-point ballpoint pen

ruler

2 disposable aluminum
liners

foil

oven

masking tape

wooden chopstick
thick craft glue
silicone glue

paper towels

wooden

clothespins

heavy cardboard to line box, 16 x 20 inches (41 x 51 cm)

"

V4 yard

(23

cm) of thin,

decorative fabric

cans or books for weights

3

/l6 inch (4.8

mm) polystyrene

board, 9 x 12 inches (23 x 30 cm)

flat glass

marbles

extra-fine sandpaper

paintbrush, 1 inch (2.5 cm) wide

dark acrylic stain

128

INSTRUCTIONS
Transferring the Patterns
1.

8.

Tape the edges of the aluminum

surface.

panels onto the cardboard-covered

work

Cover your work area with the

of cardboard.

large piece

^
^)

9.

Center the traced paper

patterns

on top of their matching

panels,

2.

Use the

scissors to cut the top

aluminum
in place.

and tape them

from the

cigar

box along the hinge.

3.

With

the pencil and white paper,

side
1).

10. Pressing firmly

through the

trace

the outlines of the top and

paper, use the ballpoint

pen

to

comthe

panels of the cigar box (see figure

pletely inscribe the pattern

on each

aluminum
4.

foil panel.

Remove

When you go to

copy shop to

paper and inscribe the outlines of the

patterns even

photocopy the patterns, bring along

the

more deeply with the

marked white paper so you can

fit

pen, but be careful not to tear the

copy and enlarge the patterns to

the traced outlines.

aluminum.

5.

Use

transfer or carbon paper to

trace the
line

dragon pattern onto the out-

of the box top, and the other pat-

terns onto the outline of the

front, back,

box
cut out

and

sides.

Then

the paper panels.

6.

Using the

cigar

box

as a template,

trace the outline in ballpoint

pen of

the box top, bottom, sides, and front

and back panels onto the aluminum

foil

oven

liners (see figure 2).

Allow

at

least a

1-inch (2.5 cm) margin

between the shapes.

7.

Use the

ruler

and pen

to

draw

V2-inch (1.3 cm) border around each

shape, (see figure
3).

Press firmly.

Cut out
Repeat

the shapes with the scissors,

being careful of the sharp edges.

this for

each panel, except

the bottom panel.

129

Embossing the Patterns

1.

Now you'll

emboss the patterns

5.

Trim the corners from the two

side

to

give

them depth. Use the chopstick

background sections

panels and the front and back panels.

Fold back the bottom and side flaps

to rub the

around the dragon and landscapes,

jewel insets, and the areas inside the

on

all

the panels. Leave the top flap

sticking up.

diamond and trapezoid shapes (see figure 4). Use the big end for the
larger areas,

6.

Working with one

all

side panel at a
sili-

and the small end

time, quickly apply a bead of the

for

more

detailed areas.

The more

cone glue around

firmly

the edges, and in

the center of the reverse side of the

you press the chopstick, the deeper

the background will be.
panel. Attach the panel to the
side,
2.

box

and fold the top

flap over into

To

raise the

dragon figure above

the box. Press the panel and flap

firmly into place, then use the

the surface of the

aluminum even more, turn over the aluminum panel

and
lightly rub
its

clothespins to hold

them

until the

between the dragon's

glue

sets.

Repeat

this process for the

body and

wings, staying inside

Attaching the Foil to the Box

Trim the corners from the bottom panel of aluminum foil, outside the outline of the tracing, as shown in
1.

other three sides.

the lines of the pattern.

7.

Use the chopstick

to burnish, or

3.

When you've

firmly stroke, the corners so that the

sides

finished embossing,

fill

the reverse side of the embossed

of the box look continuous.

figure 5.

areas with the

heavy

craft glue

and
2.

let it

dry overnight.
will

Apply the

silicone glue to the foil,

This
i\
I

keep the

using a thin bead on the edges

panels from being

)

around the bottom, and a heavier

easily dented.

bead of glue inside the outline of the

bottom

(see figure 6).

3.

Center the bottom of the cigar box

fold

on the aluminum panel and

the edges, as

up

shown in figure 7. Smooth the aluminum onto the box, and wipe away any excess glue with a
paper towel.

4.

Trim the corners from the top

panel with the dragon image, as you

did in step one. Repeat the gluing

and folding procedure to cover the

cigar

box

lid

with the dragon panel.

Lining the Box

1.

the edge of the liner and the top

Finishing the
1.

Box

Use the

ruler, pencil,

and

edge of the box.

scissors

Use the

silicone glue to attach the

to

measure and cut a piece of the

6.
fit

flat

marbles to their places on the

heavy cardboard big enough to

the

Measure and cut out

a piece

of
sides

of the embossed box.

polystyrene

bottom of the box, but not too

foam

that's

V2 inch
top.

(1.3
2.

snugly.

cm) smaller than the box

2.

For

Gently sand the box (except the

Measure an<4cut

a piece of the
larger than the

example,

if

the box top measures 8 x

will

bottom) with the sandpaper to give

the

fabric 1 inch (2:5

cm)

10 inch* (20 x 25 cm), the foam

be 7V2 x

aluminum

"tooth,"

and sand

cardboard. For example, if the card-

9Vf inches

(19 x 24 cm).

down any rough

3.

seams.
side

board measures 8 x 10 inches (20 x

25 cm), the

fabric should

measure

7.

Measure and cut

a piece of fabric

Working on one

of the box

at

9x11

inches (23

^28

cm). Cut the

inch (2.5 cm) larger than the foam

a time, use the paintbrush to apply

corners from the

piece.
fat^jfcc.

Cut

the corners
for the

on

a diagonal

the acrylic stain, making sure you get

stain in all the outlines. (See figure

as
3.

you did

box bottom. Apply

center
it

Quickly cover one side of the cardcraft

glue to the
the

foam

jpiece,

over

8).Wipe off the excess

paper towels while

stain

with

board with a thin layer of the

glue.

Center the wrong side of the of the card-

wrong side of the fabric, and press them together. Glue down the
fabr

it's still

wet, and

wipe down the

glass jewels so they're

shiny.

Allow that

side to

fabric over the gluey side

board, and press

them

together. Flip

and

dry before you work on

the next side. Use

more

the piece over, and glue the edges of the fabric to the back of the card-

coats of stain if you'd

like

your dragon box to

board.
all

Run

a thick bead of the glue

look even older.

over the

wrong

side of the fabricit

covered cardboard, and set

glue side

down

into the
it

bottom of the box.

the cans or

Weight

down with
let dry.

books and
.A
4.

Cut

pieces of cardboard that will

fit

inside the front

and back of the box.

(6

Allow

VVinch

mm)

clearance
j

between the top of the cardboard

pieces and the top edge of the box.

Cut
ing

pieces of fabric,

and glue them

to

the cardboard as you did above, hold-

them

against the inside of the box

dries.

with clothespins until the glue

5.

Make and
box
3

attach side liner pieces

for the

in the

same way, but allow

clearance between

a /8-inch (9

mm)

TASSEOGRAPHY
A
cup of tea
it

is a

soothing drink, and

a

it's

even better
left

when

comes with

V
*v

.scs
WHAT YOU NEED
teapot

cookie. But its the tea leaves

over in the empty cup that interest fortune-tellers.

By looking

at

the shapes the leaves

form

in the cup.

loose tea leaves

you can

try predicting the future.

Do

this

with

(you can use herbal mixes, too)

a friend,
/

so you can take turns telling each

2 tea cups and saucers*

cookies of your choice

others fortunes.
It's a

good time

**
to eat

cookies, too.
i

<

*The cups should be wide at the rim, small at the base, and plain inside.

%
S*

J
INSTRUCTIONS
1.

Preheat the teapot by

tap.

filling it

with

hot water from the

Put some

water on the stove to boil (get your

mom or dad's help with this). Pour

out the tap water and put 2 table-

spoons (28 g) of loose tea in the

teapot. Don't use a "tea ball"; put the

loose tea in the

it

bottom of the pot so

Fill

can float around.

the teapot

with boiling water. Allow the tea to

steep for 5 to 10 minutes.

You can

both eat cookies while you're waiting.

2.

Carefully pour your friend a cup

leaves.

of tea without straining the

She should
v.

let it cool,

then drink the

tea.

She must be

careful to leave a

little

liquid in the

bottom so she can

swirl the leaves

around the inside of

friend swirl the

the cup.

Have your

J*

I
y
leftover tea clockwise in the cup,

Balloon = troubles
Bell

are ending

Garden = prosperity
Gate = an opportunity
Heart = love

three times. (If she's right-handed,

she should use her

this. If she's

left

hand

to

do
She

= good news

left-handed, she should

this.)

Bird = good or bad riews

use her right hand to do

should then carefully turn the cup

upside
saucer.

Boat =

traVeJ

Horseshoe = good luck

/

down and

place

it

on the

Book = wisdom r
Castle = money!

Key =

an opportunity,
a secret

or discovery of

3.

Turn the cup

right side

up and

Cat =

a girlfriend is

involved

Knife =

misunderstanding
a visitor
at

study the forms and locations of the

tea leaves.

The

handle of the cup

Chair Circle

guest

Man =
Scissors

represents your friend,

and any
pres-

frustration

an argument

home

shapes close to the handle affect her

directly.

The rim of the cup

is

Cloud = doubt

Snake = an enemy
Square = protection
Star

ent time, and as you look deeper into

the cup, you're looking further into

Clover - good luck!\

her future.

Cross = bad

luck!

=
a

success

4.

In general,

Dog =
if

good

friend

Tree =

goal will be

the shapes the tea

leaves

form

are clear,

your friend

is

Elephant =
Flag

a friend's advice a

successfully achieved

lucky. If the shapes are unclear, she

may

experience obstacles. Straight

warnihe

Triangle

= good luck

lines also

mean

definite plans, while

Flower = love and honor

Wheel = money

a rippled line

means

uncertainty.

Numbers
in the

in the top half of the

cup

represent hours or days, and numbers

bottom half stand

for longer

periods of time, up to years.

ters are the initials

Any letof people who

her.

will

be important to

There

are

many

other symbols, and

some

are

listed here.

5.

When you've
now
it's

finished reading

leaves,

your
sees

what your friend

in your future!

Chromatropi
Years before motion pictures became widely
about (but weren't sharing) the scientific
of Vision.
available, wizards

knew

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

phenomenon

called Persistence

The wizard of Menlo

Park,

New

Jersey Thomas Edison

Photocopy two of the designs

on page 143.
2.

and his associates

let slip the secret,

and motion pictures soon became

standard entertainment for everyone.

Though you cant

you

replicate inter-

Cut them

out,

and glue the two

galactic battle scenes with this simple toy,

will see an
disc.

amazing

circles to the

cardboard or manilla
out,

combination of the two patterns you place on your

folder.

Cut them

and glue them

together,

back to back. Color the

designs as desired.

3.

Make two
cm)

marks, 3/4 inches

(2

apart, in the center a sharp pencil to

of the

disc.

Use

make

small holes in the disc where you

have made your marks.

4.

Thread the thin

string

through

the two holes. Tie the ends together

in a knot.

WHAT YOU NEE

photocopy of designs on page 143

4.

Wind

up the toy by swinging

it

over and over in

the middle of the two

loops with your hands,

scissors

holding the ends of

thin,

cardboard

N,

the string with

or manilla folder

your fingers.

craft glue

Make

sure that
is

pencil

the disc

colored pencils,

centered on the
string.

markers, crayons*

When you

40 inches

(1.1

m) of thin,

pull your

hands

strong string

apart, the disc will spin

back and rewind

itself.

You

should be able to see the patterns

*Note: Don't use more than four colors to color the designs: too

and colors on both

sides as the

many

colors
just

phenomenon difficult to see. You can draw your own designs them too complex. Simple shapes and colors work well.

as well

make the don't make

disc spins.

134

Spinning Serpent
Not everyone knows
the ages have the simple fact that heat rises. Wizards through
uninitiated with this simple,
still,

amazed and confounded the

spinning serpent.

Be

sure to hold your

hand exceptionally

mutter
ever

the appropriate spell, and you'll have your friends asking:

"How

does he do that?"

WHAT YOU NEED

photocopy of snake template on page 142

construction paper

stapler

scissors

colored pencils, markers, crayons (optional)

sewing needle
sewing thread
table

lamp with

electric light

bulb (remove the lamp shade

if you

wish)

INSTRUCTIONS
1.

Photocopy the pattern on page 142.

pattern you have photocopied pattern onto construction paper.

2. Staple the

3.

Use

scissors to cut the spiral pattern.

Work

slowly and carefully, and cut

the spiral smoothly.

4.

Color the snake pattern

if

you wish. Create a coral snake brightly banded

rattler.

in red, yellow,

and black, or a diamond-back

5.

Thread the needle with

and

12-inch (30.5 cm) length of thread, and knot the

to

end of the thread. Use the needle

tail,

poke

a hole in the

end of the

serpent's

pull the thread through.

6.

Suspend the serpent by the thread

few inches above an

electric light

bulb.

When you

turn on the light, the serpent will slowly rotate as the heat

from the bulb

rises.

135

-s

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Book of All-GOOD-Magic c^s. Cheering Cli

*HMs,

and Drvfr^<\0^

^^^
^L
*

pells

and charms can be

little

burning incense and

gifts

of

here, to encourage the fever to shrink in the

words (Abracadabra!),
honey, butter, dates, garlic, wool, or
things (a four-leaf clover),

same way. You can

also write

it

^^^^

W^^J
Divination

precious stones (the last item

or a special ritual, such as

is still

with the point up, to encourage something to grow.

welcome

today).

always wearing your lucky

red underwear the day of a ball game.
is

another word for

What are some good charms?

Iron from a meteor
is

considered a
it

fortune-telling,

and there

are

dozens

powerful charm because

also

comes

of ways to try to see into the future,

from the heavens. So, the next time

including palmistry and reading

one
tea leaves.

falls

in your backyard, let

it

it

cool,

then dig

up with a shovel and make

says keys can attract
evil.

When is a good time for a spell, and

how do you cast a spell?
The
first

a wish

on

it.

ABRACADABRA ABRACADABR ABRACADAB ABRACADA ABRACAD ABRACA ABRAC

ABRA ABR
AB
A
Word charms
are built

Legend

magic

day of the month

spells,

and protect against

is

Find one you

store, take
it

good
like at a flea
it

market or junk
clean
it,

time for

because
start.

it

represents

hope and a fresh

For good luck

also say the

home and

and keep

in

on that

day,

some people

your room. If you find several keys

word
thing

you
"rabbits" before they say anyelse!

like, string

Or when

they wake up,

hanger to

them from a bent coat make a lucky wind chime.

Spells

often have words that

up

to increase their power, or

shrunk to reduce the power of some-

they say "hares" three times before they get out of bed.

Changing
Presto,

and Word Charms

thing
ness.

else,

such as an enemy or an

ill-

Times change. Depending on what century it was, wizards used

to

Shazaam! Alakazam! Open, Sesame!

Try making up some names of

power
yourself!

Change-O! Abracadabra!
is

increasing

"Ray

Raymond Raymondo Raymondotondo"

Abracadabra

accompany

their spells

one of a wizard's

for example, or "Al All Alice Alicia

Allegria."

with a

most important words of power. In

A.D. 208, the doctor

to the

Roman emperor
used
as a

Septimius

Tying the Knot with

Severus wrote that the word was

Counting

Spells

charm

to cure fever. It

was written

in the

form shown

Did you know that the Russian and Hebrew words for magician translate

"knot tier} In the

with

it

under your pillow to bind that

spiders in the house are

too,

good

luck,

ancient Aramaic lan-

person to you. If you want to undo the

attraction, untie the knot.

and never

kill

a ladybug that flies

guage, the same

inside or you'll bring

bad

luck.

word

is

used for

Want
letters

to

know

the

name of your
Write the
Spells for

knot and charm.

future romantic partner?

Making

You can

use count-

of the alphabet on squares of

Wishes

Come True

ing spells to either

attract or get rid

cardboard, one letter per piece. Float

If you see a falling star at night, say

of

them

face

down

in a

bowl of water

your wish three times very quickly

before the star fades from view.

something. Take a string, a

scarf (green
is

overnight.

When you wake up, the

have turned face up will be

good
tie,

color), or

any-

letters that

Your birthday

is

a very

good day

to

thing else you can

it

and

tie

knots in
If

the

initials

of the special person in

make
lit-

a wish.
a

to represent what's

on your mind.
you

your future!
If you and a friend both carry a
tle

Write
small,

wish on a bay leaf (write

a fine-point pen).
leaf,

there's a

boy

in

your

class

like, tie

and use

a knot or
full

two one night when

there's a

bag with some whole cloves sewn

be
friends.

Carefully bury the

for your

and wait

moon, and he may grow

tie

to like

inside, you'll always

wish to come

you, too. If you're worried about a

marigold blossom
Spells

Add a from your Good

true.

problem,

knot to represent your

printed on
you.
It's

For Luck and carry

with

worry, and bury the string in the

If you find a coin with your birth year

it,

Magic Container Garden (page for more power.

73)

backyard to get rid of it. (Better not

keep

it

it

A sprig of lavender put under your

pillow at night will help your dreams

do

this spell

with one of your mother's

good

luck. It's also lucky to

loafers, if

good

scarves!)

put a penny in your penny

come
ways,

true.

(This could

work two
it.

you have a
Spells for

pair.

when you

think about

Healing
in
is

If you find a horseshoe,

good luck
in the

Hopefully, you'll have only good

This

spell

was used by the Teutons

coming

to you,

and you get a year of

is still

dreams!)
There's a reason genies traditionally

the tenth century to ask the

god
injury.

luck for each nail that

Woden's help

in healing

an

shoe. Nail the shoe over the door with

come from

a bottle!

Write a wish on a
in a bottle

the points up to "catch" and hold

good

piece of paper, seal

it

Then charmed Woden

with a

luck in the house.

As well he knew how

For bone sprain For blood sprain

cork or stopper, and float the bottle

out to
sea.
nails, inside a

To

get rid of bad luck, put sharp or

pointed things, such as

bottle, filling
tle, it

halfway.
it

Bury the botup.

Bone

Spells for Protection

to

bone

and don't ever dig

Have you
stem

ever

felt like

somebody was

Blood to blood

Four-leaf clovers are very lucky.

Limb
As though
Spells

giving you the "evil eye"?

to limbs

The

first

leaf to the left of the

Try carrying an eye yourself

(see the

they were glued.

attracts

fame, the second money, the

Red-Eyes of Newt
86).

instrucbells,

third love,

and the fourth

tions

For Love and Friendship

fairies

on page

Carrying

The Romany Gypsies thought

sometimes
willow
tied knots in the
trees,

good health. Bugs are good!

your house.
It

something made of brass,

It's

garlic

boughs of

(phew!),

lucky to have a bee in

and that the knots had

like

brings^

or tying a red ribbon to

powerful love magic. If you

some-

wisdom, happiness,
and
prosperity. Small

your underwear are also

one and you find such a knot, sleep

recommended.

*37

Your Future

is

at Hand, or.

1^0*

to

Read P

One
may
It's

of our oldest
divination

methods of

How is
it

have begun in ancient China

done?
shape of

or India as early as 3,000 B.C.

the

A reader looks
at the

art

of

palmistry,

V ^ <^
C^ \ T.
(TV

the hands and fingers,

and

at the

lines, digits,

and

<"V,<^

and its
based on

mA^a c .
^ ^

c
'Va,

mounds of the palms. They all correspond to

zodiac signs and to the sun,

</
the belief
that

'U

moon, and
said that

planets. I've heard

it

<^

you can

how

long you'll
are,

live,

how

lucky you

and the

state

interpret the

lines in a person's

or

vFn/uj-

of your health, wealth, and mental stealth all

can be read in your

hands to read his

character and predict his
future.

>
o

palm. But this doesn't

sit

mean you

The Greeks and Romans used it, and it was

especially popular during the

<
LL

back and do nothing! Wizards

and other professional palm readers

say that

up

to

80 percent of what a
"says" can be

palm reading
by your own

changed
choices

Middle Ages when Gypsies and

village

ability to

make

wisewomen were
as

its

main

and change your behavior.

Study the drawing and then look
at

practitioners. In the I9th century,

it

became known
after a

chiromancy,

your hands or a

friend's. If you're
left

named

famous palm reader

as

right-handed, the

hand shows

of the age

known

the future you were born with, and

Cheiro.

138

The

psychic

hamd

The AfL-nmc hawd

the right

The
Life Line
first
is

urepuj,

hamd

hand shows how

successful

near the

Head

Line, the

person should be careful in choosing

the right goals for the best use of his
talents.

you've been in realizing your destiny.

If you're left-handed, your right

third represents the

life,

first

25
the

years of your

the next third the

last third

A prominent Heart Line

that,

hand shows the future you were born to, and the left hand shows
your success in realizing your
destiny.

next 25 years, and the

final

means
he

when

that person feels,

span of your

life.

feels

very deeply.

A short Heart
lots

If you see another line closer to

Line means you'll have

of

Deep,

clear lines
lives

belong
life

the
lel

Mount

of Venus that runs paral-

boyfriends or girlfriends.

to

someone who

her

with

to the Life Line,

you have good

gusto, feeling great happiness

and

luck and lots of energy in your favor.

You're ambitious if the Life Line
rides high

*A full and deeply marked Fate Line means success and popularity. If
it

sometimes sadness. Faint

a person should

lines

mean

stops at the

Head

Line, that per-

Get

a Life!

on your hand, and generyour palm.There

son needs to overcome a tendency to

think too long about an opportunity

Smooth
energetic,
fingers

skin indicates a refined,

flexible nature.

ous

if it circles into

and

Long
fin-

are tiny lines that connect the Life

without taking action. If the Fate

and hands and pointed

and Head Lines. They indicate

you'll reach

Line breaks

at the

Heart Line, the

gertips

show

artistic talent

and a

important goals
life,

at cer-

person allows emotion to get in the

thoughtful nature.

A broad, square

tain times of your

depending on

hand

indicates a strong, practical

where they reach the Life Line.

triangle created

person

who

enjoys activity. Gentle,

by the Life Line and

a spe-

idealistic

people have long fingers.

is

two tiny

lines

means you have

it

Tapering fingers mean a person

cial talent that will

be very satisfy-

way of good fortune. The Marriage Line or lines don't mean how many times you'll get married. It shows how many times we will care so deeply for someone
that the

inclined to extremes, and round or

ing, if you discover

and pursue

it.

mean they're the outdoorsy type. Look at the thumb.

flat

fingers

Compare
each other
If one line

the

Lines, because

Head and Heart the way they relate

the rest
to

memory will stay with us for of our lives. The Mount of

and warm, means

Venus,
this

if it's full

A long center bone

is

means

a person

tells a lot
is

about a person.

person can be a good, kind

very rational, but a short top bone

doesn't have

longer than the other,

friend.

means he

much
most impor-

that indicates whether the person

A well-developed Mount of the

Moon means
native
a person
is

willpower!

tends to be intellectual, or emotional

is

both imagifinally, if

The
divide

Life Line

the

and

intuitive
is

about things. If the

long and deep, the
powerful

and

practical.

And

tant line in your palm.

it

You can

Head Line
person
is

there are lines forming a triangle

on

into approximate time perilife.

really smart! If a

the

Mount

of the

Moon,

that person

ods of your

Starting where the

Head Line

slants

downward, the

could be psychic!

139

FAREWELL from

the

Wizard

Well,
You must

you've stayed the course and reached the

this

end of

book of mine. You've

read about

wizards and

much

else that

came before you.

and you're busily making most of the things

you need to become

wizard yourself.

be wondering, what else could this old

man

possibly have to say?

I

hope

my Book of Wizard Craft has

feel

delighted you.

*** I

hope you

proud of the

crafts

you've learned and the things

I

you've

made with your own

a
I

hands.

hope

my

insider's tales

about being
laugh.

wizard have been helpful or

at least

good

for a

And

hope

that you've gotten a delicious shiver or

two

from some of the

things I've written in these pages. Life's good-

ness always feels sweeter and

more

precious to us

when we're

aware of

its

dark and mysterious paths.

If there's

one

last

thought
It

want to leave with you,

a

it is

"Use Your Powers!"

would be

grave mistake

if

you never

used the special talents inside you that are

out. Everyone's got them.

just bursting to get

So

pay attention to the things that

make you

curious and give

you happiness. They're clues to your

true wizard's nature.

I

will enjoy watching

your progress, even though

I'll

soon be

in a place

and time not accessible to mortals. But you never

for a visit

know,

may come back

now and

again out of sheer

curiosity.
street.

Someday, you might

that a

pass a cloaked stranger

on the

Was

wink you
it

just

saw? Don't stop. Just smile to

of saying hello. P^o/^ q

yourself, and think of

as

my way

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Alchemy,
art of: ashes,

Farewell from the Wizard, 140

Foreword by the Wizard, 7

Giant
rat

of Sumatra, poison toads, and other

familiars,

34
their search for

phoenix, 114; Magic

Great alchemists of the past and

the Stone, 109

Potion Cook Book, 112; blood, dragon's, 112;

potion, phantom, 113; quicksand, 114; slime,

kraken, 113; water, chameleon, 115

Great wizards, 21
Horticulture:

Alphabet, runic, 94

circle, fairy, 71;

container garden,

73; mandrakes, 64; pavilion, fairy, 76;

tam-

Amusement,

art of: centerpiece, 119;

chromat-

bourine,fairy, 79; terrarium,

68

rope, 134; crackers, 122; dragon box, 128; owl

mask, 118; palmistry, 138; party, wizard's, 127;

Really Useful Book ofAll-Good Magic
Spells,

How this book came to be,

with
it,

and what you can do

Cheering Charms, and Divination, 136; serpent,

spinning, 135; settings, table, 121;

King Arthur,

the

Holy

Grail,

and Glastonbury, 97

Spooky Food
Mandrakes, magical, 66 Monsters of the deep, 84
Pharoahs, curse
95

Cookbook, 123; tasseography, 132

Animal husbandry:
carry-all, 87; Field

apothecary, 84; apothecary

to

Guide

Fabulous Beasts, 82;

of,

toad garden

castle,

88

Astronomy, Art
zodiac signs, 105

of: caster, constellation,

104;

Picking the right owl for wizard work, 12

Poltergeists,

43

Banquets out of thin

air,

122

Ravens,

cats,

and other

familiars,

89

Book arts:

ink, black, 95; inks, invisible, 99;

Regalia, wizard: broom, 35; cloak, 24; gloves, fingerless, 27; hat, 10; pendant, hourglass, 18;

journal, 92; pen, quill, 98; safe, book,100;

scroll,

96

amulet, 22; reticule and coins, 32; ring, 39; robe,

Celtic shape-shifters,

26

15; slipovers, 37; staffs, 28; turban, 13;

wand, 19;

wand,
Celts, Druids,

sorceress, 20; trunk,

41

and the Morrighan 94

Screaming
Creatures of the night, 408
people, 59

skulls

and ghosts of famous headless

\
Decorative
arts: bats

uru
and
stars, 52;

board, cross-

Snails

and

slugs, giant,

72

bones, 50; candle, floating magic, 49; carpet,

magic, 46; crystal

ball, 53; lantern,

magic, 58;

Spiders, world's biggest, 70

mirror, 47; picture show, 56; sheets,

60

The hand of glory, 55

Draco and other

Fairy primer, 78

serpents of the skies, 51

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144

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