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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. Excellently produced, as one should expect, and a comprehensive guide to the workings of the Frankfurt Book Fair. In fine order throughout. Clean, crisp and bright internally. Smart pictorial boards. Overprinted onion-skin wraps. Black card slip case. 4to. 80pp.…

Condición: Sehr gut. Zweites Buch Fischer-Art. 160 S. : überw. Ill. ; 31 cm. Seitenwerk vollständig und textsauber, lediglich altersgemäß nachgedunkelt und Seiten etwas aneinanderheftend. Schnitt nachgedunkelt und Kopfschnitt etwas altersfleckig/angeschmutzt. Einband minimalst lichtgerandet und kantenberieben. SU leicht berieben und etwas angestaubt, sowie leicht lagerspurig mit kleinem Einriss und kleinen Stauchungen. ISBN: 9783896021212 Der Versand ins Ausland ist gegen Zahlung der Portokosten möglich. Bitte nehmen Sie Kontakt mit uns auf. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1450 Gebundene Ausgabe, Hardcover mit SU.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Weather Witching: The Ancient Art of Weather Magic Across Cultures, Traditions, and TimeBefore science gave the storm a name, humanity gave it a face. A temper. A demand. And a ritual to answer it.For as long as people have planted crops, sailed seas, and watched the sky determine whether their children would eat, they have reached toward the weather with intention. Not passively. Not in ignorance. With systems, with ceremony, with accumulated knowledge passed hand to hand across generations who understood that the sky was not a backdrop to human life but its governing force.Weather Witching traces that reaching across the ancient world. From the storm gods of Mesopotamia whose thunder was divine judgment, to the Norse seeresses who read the coming winter in the quality of autumn light. From the sacred wells of Ireland where rain was called through ritual older than Christianity, to the Appalachian grandmothers who buried bread knives in the earth to cut approaching hail. From the coastal witches of Cornwall and Brittany who sold winds to sailors in knotted cord, to the Hopi ceremonial communities of the American Southwest maintaining their relationship with the forces that governed rain across centuries of drought and abundance.This is not a single tradition. It is a universal one. Every inhabited continent, every agricultural people, every community that ever depended on the sky for survival developed its own serious engagement with weather as something to be read, negotiated with, and actively met. Weather Witching examines that engagement across cultures and across time, grounding it in the atmospheric reality that made it necessary, the folklore record that preserved it, and the historical record that documented both its power and its danger.The tradition has teeth. People were killed for allegedly raising storms. Droughts were blamed on individuals. The authority to call rain was political power in the most literal sense, and this book does not look away from that history.It also does not dismiss the knowledge embedded in these traditions. The folk meteorologist reading animal behavior before a storm. The ritual calendar timed to genuine atmospheric transitions. The accumulated observational wisdom of communities who watched the same sky across hundreds of generations and encoded what they learned in ceremony, in song, in the precise timing of a fire lit on a particular hill at a particular point in the year.The sky has never been empty. The people who looked up and gave it names, demands, and rituals to answer were not wrong to do so. They were paying a kind of attention that the modern world has largely forgotten how to practice.This book is for those who want to remember. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. dj. First Edition. 8 1/2" x 11" hardcover in English. 80 pp.; with color photos, illustrations and graphics, some on parchment paper. With parchment dust jacket and in a carboard slipcase. Very nice production. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Slip cover is a bit edge worn.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Weather Witching: The Ancient Art of Weather Magic Across Cultures, Traditions, and TimeBefore science gave the storm a name, humanity gave it a face. A temper. A demand. And a ritual to answer it.For as long as people have planted crops, sailed seas, and watched the sky determine whether their children would eat, they have reached toward the weather with intention. Not passively. Not in ignorance. With systems, with ceremony, with accumulated knowledge passed hand to hand across generations who understood that the sky was not a backdrop to human life but its governing force.Weather Witching traces that reaching across the ancient world. From the storm gods of Mesopotamia whose thunder was divine judgment, to the Norse seeresses who read the coming winter in the quality of autumn light. From the sacred wells of Ireland where rain was called through ritual older than Christianity, to the Appalachian grandmothers who buried bread knives in the earth to cut approaching hail. From the coastal witches of Cornwall and Brittany who sold winds to sailors in knotted cord, to the Hopi ceremonial communities of the American Southwest maintaining their relationship with the forces that governed rain across centuries of drought and abundance.This is not a single tradition. It is a universal one. Every inhabited continent, every agricultural people, every community that ever depended on the sky for survival developed its own serious engagement with weather as something to be read, negotiated with, and actively met. Weather Witching examines that engagement across cultures and across time, grounding it in the atmospheric reality that made it necessary, the folklore record that preserved it, and the historical record that documented both its power and its danger.The tradition has teeth. People were killed for allegedly raising storms. Droughts were blamed on individuals. The authority to call rain was political power in the most literal sense, and this book does not look away from that history.It also does not dismiss the knowledge embedded in these traditions. The folk meteorologist reading animal behavior before a storm. The ritual calendar timed to genuine atmospheric transitions. The accumulated observational wisdom of communities who watched the same sky across hundreds of generations and encoded what they learned in ceremony, in song, in the precise timing of a fire lit on a particular hill at a particular point in the year.The sky has never been empty. The people who looked up and gave it names, demands, and rituals to answer were not wrong to do so. They were paying a kind of attention that the modern world has largely forgotten how to practice.This book is for those who want to remember. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…