Bibiomancy & Divination with Fiction: Book Club Week Two
Welcome to the Book Club. Throughout August, the Literary Coven is reading V. E. Schwab’s Bury Her Bones in the Midnight Soil, an enchanting, sapphic novel about three women and a hunger uniting them across distant timelines. Read on for a collection of bewitching prompts and spells to begin your literary quest.
If you’re new to August’s Book Club, start with week 1, Hunger is a Garden.
Here at Pointy Hat Press and Little Witch Books, we're tapping into magical worlds through books, scripted spells, and literary spellcraft. Perhaps you call it word witchery or intuitive writing, but literary spells are vehicles built from your words. Poetry, storytelling, dream journaling, bibliomancy, or putting pen to paper for ten minutes a day can be a spell when paired with an intention. Sometimes, literary magick involves naming our spectral muses and crafting odes from their memory. Word spells can be solo endeavors, but also collaborative.
Magickal practitioners have relied on bibliomancy (divination with books) for thousands of years. In the ancient Roman world, they called it ‘sortes,’ and although the art has evolved, much of the practice remains the same:
In place of tarot cards, pendulums, or a scrying mirror, a book is your oracle.
Book Club Week 1
If you're a writer, use the following prompts as writing warm-ups or as inspiration for your next channeled writing session. If you're a painter or artist, ritualize these prompts through intuitive artmaking. Use them as guided meditations, cast them as dream spells, or include them in your magical or creative practice however you see fit.
Welcome to the Book Club!
During the month of August, the Literary Coven will be reading V. E. Schwab’s Bury Her Bones in the Midnight Soil, an enchanting, sapphic novel about three women and a hunger that unites them across distant timelines.
