{"id":50,"date":"2026-04-09T00:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tnf.ola.mybluehost.me\/coreopsis\/spring-2026-issue\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2026-05-05T20:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:02:16","slug":"italian-american-folk-magic-sounded-really-interesting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/societyforritualarts.com\/coreopsis\/spring-2026-issue\/italian-american-folk-magic-sounded-really-interesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian-American folk magic sounded really interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>\n  .bookBox {\n    margin: 48px 0;\n  }\n  .bookBox img {\n    float: right;\n    margin: 0 0 16px 16px;\n  }\n  .bookBox h3 {\n    font-size: 24px;\n  }\n  .bookBox h4 {\n    font-size: 21px;\n  }\n  .bookBox p {\n    margin-block-start: .5em;\n    margin-block-end: .5em;\n  }\n  h2 {\n    font-size: 28px;\n  }\n  h1, h2 {\n    text-align: center;\n  }\n  h1, h3 {\n    font-weight: 800;\n    margin-block-end: .35em;\n  }\n  h2, .bookBox h4 {\n    margin-block-start: .5em\n  }\n@media (max-width: 640px) {\n  .bookBox img {\n    display: block;\n    float: unset;\n    margin: 0 auto;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"container\">\n\t<h4 class=\"category\">Book Review<\/h4>\n\t<main class=\"content\">\n\t\t<h1>Italian-American folk magic sounded really interesting<\/h1>\n\t\t<h2>By Dana Corby<\/h2>\n\t\t<div class=\"bookBox\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/coreopsis\/spring-2026-issue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LivingMagic.jpg\"\/>\n\t\t\t<h3>Living Folk Magic: Crafting Your Own Magical Life<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<h4>Mary-Grace Fahrun<\/h4>\n\t\t\t<p>RedWheel\/Weiser, 2025<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>$18.95 USD<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<p><b>Disclaimer:<\/b> I was given a copy of this book in exchange for reviewing it.<\/p>\n\t\t<p>I thought a book about Italian-American folk magic sounded really interesting so I happily agreed to review it. I found myself, instead, confused and irritated. Here\u2019s why:<\/p>\n\t\t<p>I\u2019ll start with something that doesn\u2019t get mentioned much in book reviews but probably should \u2013 the actual book. Not the cover; it\u2019s lovely. The interior. The body text of this book was printed in a heavily-serifed font called Adobe Mrs. Eaves at only 10-point size. My old eyes struggled with it. Which may be part of why I had so much trouble making heads or tails of what author Fahrun was trying to say. Maybe Weiser was trying to save money on paper by printing it in such a small font? It\u2019s 208 pages even at this size, so\u2026<\/p>\n\t\t<p>But that\u2019s not the only reason I had trouble understanding the book. It\u2019s poorly organized, rambling, and inconsistent. Most of it is in a sort of stream-of-consciousness style that sometimes fitted the heading it was under but more often didn\u2019t. The heading styles themselves didn\u2019t seem to follow consistent levels. Most of the time information was in paragraph style with information on the topic tangled among personal anecdotes, making it hard for me to get the author\u2019s point. But once in a while there\u2019d be a list. Sometimes the list was numbered, sometimes each item started with capitalized keywords, sometimes only the fact that each \u201cparagraph\u201d was only a sentence or two indicated that this was a list, and sometimes the list was bulleted. The bullets weren\u2019t always the same style and I couldn\u2019t figure out what that meant. All this made it impossible for me to follow a train of thought.<\/p>\n\t\t<p>Not that there was nothing of value here; there is. I was brought up short by a deeply insightful list on page 96 of things magical practitioners should ask themselves about what they really believe about themselves and their practice. Chapter 8,<i> Common Folk Magic Spells from Around the World<\/i>, which I have to assume was the \u201cBook of Shadows\u201d the author mentioned in her <i>Introduction<\/i> as being included in the book, was interesting and broken out in a way that made it possible for me to understand it. I only wish the author had done this with the topic the book was supposed to be about, Italian-American folk-magic. All that was just buried in chatter.<\/p>\n\t\t<p>I think <i>Living Folk Magic<\/i> is a solid third draft of what could have been a fascinating book. If it had been properly edited a lot of rambling and repetition would have been eliminated and then it could have been typeset at a readable size.<\/p>\n\t<\/main>\n\t<section class=\"authorBio\">\n\t  <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/coreopsis\/spring-2026-issue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Corby.jpg\"\/>\n<div>\n\t  <p>Probably best known in the Pagan community for her performance on Gwydion Penderwen&#8217;s 1975 LP, &#8220;Songs for the Old Religion,&#8221; Dana considers her writing and Community outreach to be her most important work. Author and publisher of &#8220;The Witches Runes,&#8221; \u201cRoyal Roads: Pilgrimages Through the Four Elements and Beyond,\u201d and \u201cSimple Robes For Crafty Witches,\u201d she chose to self-publish on Amazon so her work would appear exactly as she envisioned and not like some marketing department thought it ought to look. A fourth title, \u201cA Handbook of Magical Self-Defense,\u201d is in the works. She has also contributed to many anthologies and Pagan history books, and last year was interviewed for the Pagan History Project. She still sings.<\/p>\n<p>Dana is also a maker-of-tchatchkes, all designed for a target market she calls the Peripatetic Pagan.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Dana, her husband\/HP and their cat reside on Anderson Island in South Puget Sound, trying desperately to keep the deer out of the garden.<\/p>\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dana.corby\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dana.corby<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/danacorbywitchesrunes\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/danacorbywitchesrunes<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\t<section class=\"donate\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/rwfiction\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.societyforritualarts.org\/coreopsis\/autumn-2025-issue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/buy-us-a-cuppa1-lo-res.jpg\"\/>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<p>Like what we do? &nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/rwfiction\">Buy us a Cup of Coffee!<\/a><\/p>\n\t<\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"sfsi_widget sfsi_shortcode_container\"><div class=\"norm_row sfsi_wDiv \"  style=\"width:225px;text-align:left;\"><div style='width:40px; 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