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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 133.43
EAN num: 9780738711041
ISBN number: 0738711047
Label: Llewellyn Publications
Manufacturer: Llewellyn Publications
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 316
Printing Date: September 01, 2007
Publishing house: Llewellyn Publications
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'Goth Craft is a sexy and serious A-Z of dark culture's collective tribal identity. More than just a demented 'Preppy Handbook' for a different era, Goth Craft goes beyond mere fashion, taking readers deep into the magical currents of this emerging subculture. Fascinating.'
—Richard Metzger, host of Disinformation and editor of Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide To Magick & The Occult
Darkly Magickally Goth
When Paganism and Goth culture collide, prepare for a powerful blend of independent thought and magickal tranformation.
Learn how to channel dark emotions, express yourself magickally through the dark arts of clothing, hair, makeup, body modifications, and choose appropriate Goth music for ritual. Try some spellcasting on the dance floor. Discover the workings of shadow magick, death energy, and blood magick.
Find out what draws us to the dark side.
'Don't let your assumptions fool you — Goth Craft is a lovingly written and carefully researched piece of work. It covers the intersection of Gothic subculture and Pagan spirituality from every conceivable angle, and manages to be both fun and eye-catching along
the way.'
—Michelle Belanger, author of The Psychic Vampire Codex and editor of Vampires In Their Own Words
'An insightful, honest, and spiritual exploration of the intersection of Witchcraft and Goth.'
—Christopher Penczak, author of the Temple of Witchcraft series
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The younger generation is really on an upswing. I saw Raven on MTV and thought it was wonderful. I feel confident that with people like Raven Digitalis and Jade Sol Luna on the upswing that we may be in the mist of a younger generation, spiritual movement. I like this book but it is my daughter that will benefit from it. She has pictures of Raven and Jade stuck on her walls. Keep up the great work!
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Sorry, but this book is just gimmicky and of little or no use to an actual witch. Perhaps useful if you just want to learn about goth culture?
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This book confuses me. At first, it seems to want to explain how some goths are pagan. Fine and good, but then, like other reviewers have said, the very first 80 pages read like a field guide for those wanting to be goth. First, pick a type of goth you want to be and maybe you will even get one with the required music, so you don't have to think for yourself. Next, pick a religion or magic system. You picked GlamGoth Asatru. Congrats! Then again I am one of those older goths, oh-no. I'd be smack inbetween many catagories of goth: Faerie goth (because I like neofolk and I guess that's fairy), Romantigoth, Victorian Goth, Trad Goth, Casual goth and Sophistigoth, but wait I like industrial music too. That's the problem with these young whippersnapper gothlings...they all want to put you in a box. Why can't goth just be goth? I mean when I was in high school in the late 80's, we had punks and new wavers or ha ha, New Romantics. They were doing it to be anti-fashion, now it's a fashion, ta-duh. So now, you have to classify yourself under 100s of goth groups or subgroups, along with the music therein.
So what does paganism have to do with this? Yeah colour me confused and I run my own Dark Paganism blog. I tend to use words like dark or goth to draw people in from the millions of hits on the internet they could get from just typing in pagan or goth. It gets you there faster and covers two bases. I am not sure if the people illustrated in this book are pagan. It seems so, but I am not really told.
I mean, the author being a bit young himself, has the huge task of merging a whole subculture into another one and trying to come out with an unified philosophy of sorts. A philosophy he constantly has to put "some but not all" into, which is nice because then I can't dislike him. Even his name is sort of funny, but he justifies it proudly. Moxie. He gets one of the stars explaining how to take angry emotions and make them positive. Some goths have had bad childhoods, some but not all. It is nice to have someone explain this in a way that is transformative. So there's a star for that. Do you want a silver or grey star?
Not to Nickpick, but I do think it is so funny when the author puts down people who think Siouxsie and the Banshees are "Sushi and The Banshees" (a totally made up and not that funny joke) only to spell Siouxsie's name wrong a few pages later. Now that's funny! And then, the author says NotGoths listen to Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson, yet point out goths listen to them too. I know the goth clubs in Southern California play both. This probably mattered more to me when I was in my 20's or was less into neofolk, maybe neofolk's balancing me out.
Anyway, on to Gothic Makeup styles. No, no, don't come up with your own style, this book will tell you how to do it so you don't have to! I do disagree with other's comments on here that the piercing chart is silly because I have read gemstone books which tell you that piercing your ears and wearing certain stones will help you with this or that. I won't be on him for that.
I'll give him the other star for the elemental part where he lists music along with the other traits of the element. Amusing. I am not sure how much I believe it, but it's an original idea. The sex, drugs and rock and roll chapter is funny to me. I guess if you are goth, you gotta be into SM too. Ok, I know a lot of people like this and have been to their parties, so count me in as well, I guess. The author is probably smart enough to know if people are open minded enough to be gothic or pagan, or both, then sexual openness isn't that far behind.
Oh yeah, what's up with this naming Gothic, Gothick? It's a bit much. As far as I can see, only about 50 pages or so of this volume can be used as Gothic Magick, which is a hell of a lot more than other Gothic Wicca books I have read. There are some pages on death work and blood work, the author seems to know what is going on in history for the most part. It really isn't anything you couldn't get if you read something by Leilah Wendell as far as the death work goes. But then the tool section is just the same Wiccan tools with no gothick-ness added. Raven does pick out a lot of magick from different sources, like the lemon magic part of the Aradia. I'd rather see him do his own thing though, since his original ideas, like the element music stuff, is rather good. Not great, but good.
I guess if you were 21 and just getting into a club scene and wanted to have a style guide to goth coupled with a spiritual guide to your religion if you happened to be pagan or a magician, this would be the only book you would need. It covers everything, almost too much. It is too cut and dried, this is Ubergoth, this is Babydoll, etc. But to me, it's a hard subject to write about without getting criticized for it. I don't think people ... Read More
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Goth Craft is a wonderful book; insightful and funny, providing a great window on a world I knew little to nothing about. It is not just for Goths, either. Raven Digitalis has wise and unique way of looking at the world. I eagerly await his subsequent book.
Deborah Blake, Author of Circle, Coven & Grove: A Year of Magickal Practice (Llewellyn, 2007)
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I myself am not goth, but I am a Neo-Pagan witch.
Essentially this book successfully fulfills the following goals:
1) To effectively describe, define, explain, and provide a window into Goth and Goth culture.
2)To effectively describe, explain, define, and provide a window into various branches of Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft as well as their cultures.
3) To dispel the common misconception that all goths are pagans/witches or that all witches/pagans are goth. Digitalis also dispels misconceptions that exist about each camp individually.
4) Effectively explain and provide a window into the population that truly does exemplify the intersection of these two cultures and important information regarding the integration of the two.
Digitalis has garnered much unfounded criticism from 'old schoolers' and 'traditionalists' for his cutting edge approaches and willingness to write about controversial topics. However, I think a person should retain an open mind and read this book for themselves. Digitalis is one of the minds that will carry on the Craft for future generations, assuring it's growth and continuance. The subsequent generation is upon us. I must say I myself am proud to be a part of it as well!
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