Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Deborah Blake, author of several books, including Llewellyn's Little Book of Witchcraft and the new Llewellyn's Little Book of Spellcraft.
If you ask most witches if they use spells, they will probably say, "Of course!" For most of us, it is simply a part of The Craft we learned once we decided to follow that path, whether from books, or other witches, or perhaps a coven leader. But for those people who don't know much about the practice of Witchcraft, casting spells can seem scary or confusing or even silly.
We know that spells aren't any of those, but it can be hard to explain to others exactly what they actually are. Most of us may not