Beltane: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for May Day (Llewellyn's Sabbat Essentials, 2)

This is a good book if you know nothing of Beltane, otherwise it's very generic and rather boring. All the lore covered in the book could have been done with a quick google search. There wasn't anything really unique about it. I also felt the recipes were very lacking. They were very simple dishes that I didn't feel really connected to Beltane at all. I expected more traditional recipes, but I assume they were going for a "modern" approach?I also didn't like the correspondence section. It is towards the back of the book, and it just felt rushed. Some parts were interesting, for example where they list other holidays that also occur around Beltane, however other parts are very lacking. The food correspondences list "honey, light cakes" and that is all, and there are several other topics that this happens with.The spells were actually very nice though. They were written in paragraph form the whole way, which I found difficult to read. Usually it's nice to have the materials listed separately from the directions. Even though it was hard to read, I thought the spells section was well done.They had more than just "romance" spells, which was nice.Like I said before, if you've never heard of Beltane, this is probably a very nice book. However, I've been celebrating Beltane for years and it just felt like I'd read all the information before.

These cute sabbat books are fun and a great introduction to them when beginning. The sabbats can be confusing and overwhelming to a baby witch so this is an easy fun book to hep with that.

I am a huge fan of these books. I have used them mostly as a guides for my alter set up, and recipes. I like that there is an ample amount of information given on each Sabbat.

Very informative on tradition as well as modern practice. Has great info and ideas on how to celebrate for every level of practitioner as well as coven, group, or solitary practitioner. Great recipes as well as meditations and spells.

I absolutely love this book and all the others, very informative and easy for a beginner but in depth enough to understand and retain information. Recipes are amazing also.

Great books. I own them all. Well worth it. Each books sort of goes over a lot of the same stuff in the beginning but I see that as reinforcing memory as I have a horrible memory :D

I have all eight in the series now. I love these little books. They are filled with information and ideas for putting together a Sabbat celebration.

This entire series is great. There is endless amounts of information from the history of Beltane, foods, crafts, recipes, colors, etc. I highly recommend purchasing every book in this series.

Very interesting, very good quality of information, lots of lovely ideas to put in practice - definitely worth it!

Best for a beginner. For someone who's new to the realm and stretching their wings. Very basic information but clearly explained and easily understood.

Beautiful book tells all you need to know and more on subject

Expensive for such a simple and repetitive book, but ok I guess.

Full of interesting ideas and information