Witch Spelling by A. Woodley
An Indie Book Review by Joseph Poopinski
A Treatise on Modern Magic
3 stars
This is a humorous, light-hearted commentary & explanation of magic, its practitioners & the repercussions of its misuse. Ultimately magic must be hidden from mundane people for their benefit & to prevent ill will or conflict. Witches & warlocks rely on magic to ease their daily trials & tribulations. However many casters have mischievous bents & then some of them violate secrecy or stray from white magic which incurs punishment. Much of the material describes both punitive realms: One for severe offenders who rehabilitate as yetis without any magic or amenities whatsoever. In the other, lesser offenders retain their shape, minimal magic & have villages while repenting.
Witch Spelling had fun puns & jokes. It approached predicaments or extenuating situations, ironically: “Real magicians could create the illusion that they were creating illusions of magic, but they would really be performing actual witchy magic.” As Nicodemus from Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH (one of my favorite books) described how vacuum cleaners, by mechanically replacing brooms for sweeping, made that chore easier, but, by using electricity—which produced soot from burning dirty coal—inadvertently, substantially increased the amount of debris needing swept up, so too, did our magical narrator illustrate how sorcery often necessitates more sorcery & this cyclic rat race theme.
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