This author has demonstrated magic powers such as time travel, catching paper in the air, calling birds, balancing a knife on its point with telekinesis, making pants stand mostly upright with permanent enchantment, creating small earthquakes, and healing sore feet. The book includes samples of ancient magic useful for repairing fishing nets, attracting an animal familiar, summoning wind, casting lightning when it is barely raining, re-animating one's own body, and attempting immortality and raise dead. While the effects do not come automatically, readers aspiring to be wizards and witches will be pleased with the range of spells ('Words of Power') present in this book, and its level of instruction on all areas of magic. This edition features numerous updates, including an improved section on Eastern magic.