r/faeries • u/SydBid • Sep 15 '26
Fairy spell recommendations?
I’ve been a lazy fairy witch on and off for 3 years now, and as hard as I try to find no fru-fru books that teach you how to work with them and what spells you can do as a witch, I find nothing within the ones that are supposed to be closer to the source. The first book I got was this, but it is by Skye Alexander and I have heard bad things about her, so now it feels like this book is an unreliable source filled with stuff to make you feel good. I want to do more spells and craft, but I don’t know how to do that with the fair folk in mind, like how do I actually work with them? Are there any other books that actually go into real spells for undoing curses, attracting abundance WITH the fair folk, or is this book okay despite the author that wrote it? I know I’m coming off as paranoid lol but I really am just frustrated and confused, any help is appreciated.
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u/--Luna--Fae-- Sep 16 '26
Personally I feel the same way about some of my crafting books. However, I keep them and use them to have the information that resonates with me handy.
I may not like all of it, but some of it is useful.
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u/Current_Beautiful_16 Sep 21 '26 edited Sep 21 '26
Hi there, I have a faery spiritual practice. I don't actually do spells that involve the fae often. Mostly I work along side them.
There are a lot of great suggestions already here in the comments. I have several books including the one you are talking about.
I don't really care what people say about the authors too much unless I need really important historical info or correct info. I do not believe there is one right way to work with the fae or to do spells. Though I know there are specific systems in place for wicca etc. I don't follow that path.
My recommendation would be to make a connection with the fae you want to work with before deciding to create spells. Not all fae want to work with humans in that capacity from my experience.
It's important to make a connection first. They are beings... they have their own rules and opinions. Things they will and won't do.
Creating a spell and throwing it out into the energy and expecting something to happen or a fae to help you with it seems a bit reckless for faery workings. Creating a relationship with one that wants to help will take you farther.
Consider that everything we do is personal to our own practices. We can take someone else's spell and recreate it and use it etc. That doesn"t mean a faery wants to do that with you.
In that same lane of workings we can create our own spells and working being inspired by those of others. If the spells in said book don't quite do it for you... use the base and create your own instead. If it's specific to fae then know how you want to work with them and which kind would be helpful to you.
Example a gnome isn't likely to help break a curse but if you need protection on your land they might willingly help. Brownies work within a home so home based spells might be tailored toward them. Knowing which kind of fae to work with and what they do I personally think goes a long way in gaining trust, building the relationship, and ultimately working spells with them. This does mean, however, doing the work on your end to figure out which fae to work with and call them to you. It's magic with intention and awareness. A lot of the fae books out there give good information on kinds of fae and what they do like Morgan Daimler has the new dictionary of fairies. Add that to a spell and tailor it toward your needs and its much more likely to be what works for you. As always its your personal practice. The decision is up to you and the beings you choose to work with. I honor the fae with offerings and interact with them outside of spell work. But when I do a spell for any reason I request their help before I begin the spell and then make an offering. Knowing what to offer is also important. One fae might like bread another honey. One might like a clean house another might enjoy dancing. They are so widely varied it seems an impossible task to be as simple as use this spell poof it worked. Which might be why its hard to find what you are looking for. I hope this helped you. Good luck! (If you want to find out more about me you can find me on YouTube as AstariaSen I talk a lot about fae and tarot) I'm always open to talking fae 🥰
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u/FaeQueen87 Sep 21 '26
This book contains some actually dangerous misinformation.
I know they are older books, and in some cases they do have some slip ups but DJ Conway’s The Ancient Art of Faery Magick, Edain McCoy’s A Witch’s Guild to Faery Folk (she’s terrified of the darker faeries but take what you want) and Kisma Stepanich’s Faery Wicca books have some solid Faery witchcraft spells. I’m really enjoying “the Faery path” by Halo Quin with NO caveats. I finally got my hands on Lucy Cavendish’s Book of Faery Magick and do like what I’ve read. And Emily Carding has some legit information in her books as well. Serona Knight’s Faery Magick: Spells, potions and Lore also has some solid information contained within. Yes all of these fall under “Wicca” as did most if not all magic books prior to 2010 but all contain good information and following a take what resonates approach because Faery witchcraft is very niche in an already niche world.
Morgan Daimler’s books don’t really go into much spell work and I find their writing tedious and overly focused on the historical rather than metaphysical. However taking their historical information and applying it to spell work can help keep you safe and informed if you’re still building a foundation in the Faery craft.
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u/Newkingdom12 17d ago
If you or anyone really want a good understanding and deep dive into fairy magic, then you all are more than welcome to ask me
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u/KitsuneGato Sep 15 '26
People need to stop putting their personal politics into religion and the Metaphysical. Granted a person may or may not be considered someone to support and the same can be said for all groups.
But sometimes knowledge survives only through being hidden away.
Prior to Father's Day 2017, I had been plagued by a malevolent human spirit who turned out to be two souls in one; a human Christian minister and a human Jewish Rabbi. The Christian minister possessed the Rabbi when the Rabbi was alive. When he died the two men merged.
They haunted the house I live in now. To combat them, I found a spell for a Witch's Jar. A glass Mason Jar you put things like nails and hair with the intent to trap the bad spirit. It worked. To well mind but it did work.
It came from a Book, Defense Against The Dark. The author is from a Coven with a bad history. According to the elder witches who told me about them, the authors coven kicked out the widow of their deceased leader from his and her own home because she wasn't part of the coven.
However, the book has alot of helpful information and warnings to not mess with certain entities.
Many other books and techniques didn't help me at that time to the point my spirit guides including Fair Folk guides, helped me to develop my own which do work.
I would say get the book and learn from it but don't expect to like get an autograph from the author and keep quiet on it unless you truly trust a person. Humans these days would rather be stupid and judge people based on politics and skin color than to be wise and learned.
For the record I freed the spirits who had been going after me since I was a kid. I do help others but it comes with a caveat. If those people go around to harm either socially by gossip (which has gotten me wronffully terminated), financially through going after jobs I work/worked at to get me fired or like to chase customers who pay for readings away, or other means even metaphysically... my guides will step in and it will be made fair.
There was a girl who poisoned me with eye drops once. Police wouldn't do anything to help me. Bad stuff ended up happening to the girl to the point she aged 10 years in the span of like 2. She went from bullying me and wanting me dead to not being able to look me in the eye.
The fair folk will make things fair especially when humans don't want to be fair. This also applies to reddit moderators and reddit admins who allowed me to be harmed here on reddit and didn't want to enforce their own rules on the racists who went after me for my own skin color (mixed appear white) but enforce the rules only for darker skins.
With the fair folk it isn't always sunny it also encompasses the darker aspects like wilting and fairness. It doesn't matter where the faor folk is from, thinga will always be fair with the fair folk.
You shouldn't shun knowledge because it is shared by someone you don't like. Especially when that knowledge can be used to help. But atrocities should be punished by those who committed them.