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The old magic people used for money, work, and luck, gathered from the sources and written out so you can use it at home.

Most books on magic are shy about money, but this one isn't. From Tobias A. Calder, author of Warded and The Servitor Manual, Increase brings together the West's old prosperity practices: coins turned at the new moon in English and Scottish folklore, the loom and harvest blessings of the Scottish Highlands from Carmina Gadelica, the pentacles of Jupiter from The Key of Solomon, a psalm an old American charm book recommends for success "in all your business transactions," and the New Thought teachers who first taught the law of attraction.

Inside you'll find:

• The luck coin, and why the old custom says to keep it unspent
• Talismans of Jupiter, the planet the old magicians linked with wealth and good fortune, from the classic pentacles to a seal made from your own words
• Highland blessings for work, tools, and new ventures, with the old words first and plain English beside them
• The household spirits of luck, the brownie and the nis, and the portion families once set out for them at the hearth
• The law of attraction as its first teachers practiced it, before the habits that make it go wrong
• The old calendar's fresh starts, from New Year's Day to moving day
• What the old books suggest for a month when nothing seems to come

One chapter goes the other way, into the grimoires' treasure spirits and the devil who pays in advance, and shows why every one of those stories ends with a price. This book takes the road that leaves you owing nothing. Calder tells you where each practice comes from and says so when a method is his own.

The rites follow the moon through a single month, and none of them asks for more than a notebook, a pen, and a few coins. Keep that month for a season, and you may be surprised by what starts coming in.