The Book of Ancestors: A Guide to Magic, Rituals, and Your Family History [Hardcover]

Find spiritual healing and everyday magic in this beautifully mysterious guide to communing with your ancestors.

Picking up whereThe Book of Séancesleft off, artist, author, and witch Claire Goodchild delivers a guide that is truly the first of its kind:The Book of Ancestors, a map for seekers looking to develop a relationship with their ancestors.
 
Through a combination of text and illustration, The Book of Ancestorsexplores the history of traditional genealogy topics, such as “how to research and build a family tree” and “the history of cemeteries.” Alongside these practical measures, Claire provides rituals, spells, and crafts from her own personal practice, drawing on the British and Slavic traditions of her heritage, alongside contributions from fellow witches including Codi Popovich and Marjorie from The Punk Priestess for a broader, more enriched lens.

As the text progresses, Claire guides her readers through the creation their own “Book of Ancestors,” a family grimoire of sorts, blending together their own ancestral legacies with witchcraft that can be passed down to future family. Visually,The Book of Ancestorspairs withTheBook of Seances, containing witchy, esoteric, and funerary images in a Victorian style with lots of floral embellishments and classic colors. Whether a seasoned witch, or a newcomer to the spirit world, readers will walk away fromThe Book of Ancestorsfeeling empowered to perform their own rituals and spells, research family history, and form a lasting relationship with those who came before.Claire Goodchild is an award-winning artist, photographer, designer and writer from Toronto, Canada. She created the wildly popular tarot deck, The Antique Anatomy Tarot, published in 2019 by Quarto UK and Abrams Books, that features antique medical images, and she was the first person l³,