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The Little Book of Curses and Maledictions for Everyday Use

Dawn Rae Downton

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The Little Book of Curses and Maledictions for Everyday Use

Dawn Rae Downton

By: Dawn Rae Downton

Gas prices, traffic. “Fresh” produce, “wholesome” food. Your boss. Your former boss. Your coworkers. Your crush. Doctors. Customer service. Who can you call to get that monkey off your back? You can’t call anyone because they won’t return your calls. Isn’t it time to have a little ammo of your own? Here you go: fifty custom maledictions for situations you run into every day, and for people you know and wish you didn’t. In step-by-step, user-friendly detail, The Little Book of Curses puts the power back in your hands. Learn how to place spells, incantations, hexes, and more. Authentic, ancient curses from around the world are tweaked for easy, contemporary use. The book covers the four essentials to practicing any kind of magic: what to do and say, what materials to use, what frame of mind to be in, and what limits to set. In some cases it even matters where you are when you set your curse, what time of day it is, and who’s around. All that is here, too. It’s foolproof!

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Skyhorse

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1628731370

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9781628731378

Seldom

By: Dawn Rae Downton

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Seldom

By: Dawn Rae Downton

Seldom marks the literary debut of an amazingly talented writer, Dawn Rae Downton, whose mother, Marion, grew up in a tiny Newfoundland outport in the years before the island joined Canada in 1949. In prose that captures the rhythms of Newfoundland speech, Downton tells the mesmerising and heartrending story of her mother's family - and of their neighbours - people so well acquainted with tragedy that for them life was ultimately more mysterious than death. Sidney Wiseman, a prosperous skipper, and his wife, Ethel, a former teacher who now ran the outport's general store, were married in 1922 and went on to have six children; Marion was their third. They lived in Little Bay Islands, a small community, where everybody knew everybody else's private affairs: whose son or father had been lost at sea; whose pregnancy was seen to; whose brother had gone to the hospital in Twillingate for his weak chest, as tuberculosis was called. But none knew - or chose to know - exactly what was going on in Ethel and Sidney's house. None except the children. For long months each year when their father was home from the sea, he lay on a daybed in the kitchen like a serpent, watching, forever watching, his wife and children, waiting for an excuse to strike. Downton does not so much relate the story of the Wisemans as she recreates it, taking readers along the wharves and coves of Little Bay Islands, where the family lived, crafting her powerful narrative from a kaleidoscope of intimate, revealing incidents, from whispers and glances, from the secrets and lies that protected the Wisemans' reputation and blighted their lives. The narrative swirls like a Newfoundland storm as furious as Sidney Wiseman, and at its calm centre is Ethel, his loyal wife and an extraordinary mother. A virtuoso portrait of a close-knit community, at once succoured and brutalized by the cold, capricious ocean, Seldom is also the story of one too-proud family, one indomitable woman. Downton dares much in this riveting book, and succeeds brilliantly. From the Hardcover edition.

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308

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M&S

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077102827X

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9780771028274

The Little Book of Curses and Maledictions for Everyday Use

Dawn Rae Downton

By: Dawn Rae Downton

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Seldom

A Memoir

By: Dawn Rae Downton

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Seldom

A Memoir

By: Dawn Rae Downton

The author recreates the lives of her mother's family in Seldom, a tiny village in a remote area of Newfoundland, populated by proud people accustomed to hardship, where one family's secrets profoundly affected all their lives.

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Arcade Publishing

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1559706651

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Seldom

A Memoir

By: Dawn Rae Downton

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Seldom

A Memoir

By: Dawn Rae Downton

Dawn Rae Downton recreates the story of her mother's family in the tiny fishing village of Seldom, a remote outport on the northeasternmost tip of Canada. In this isolated, weather-beaten community, at the mercy of the sea, the inhabitants were united in shared hardship and tragedy. But no-one apart from the Wiseman children knew, or chose to know, what was going on in Sidney Skipper Wiseman and his wife Ethel's house. For long months each year when their father was home from sea, his children saw at first hand his moods and rages, as violent and unpredictable as the weather.

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0755311981

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9780755311989

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