Cressida Stone, author of Secrets of Santa Muerte, is an English writer. The author leads a double life as a British doctor of anthropology trained in classic methods at the University of Oxford, while also moving in occult circles as Cressida Stone, publishing grimoires on Santa Muerte, practicing witchcraft, and reading tarot cards for the wealthy elite, the disenfranchised, and sicarios alike. She has apprenticed in Mexico with brujos (witches) and shamans of Santa Muerte at temples to the Saint of Death, learning their ways of working with the folk saint. She embraces a non-dualistic philosophy of life and death.
"VERDICT Readers of occult practices, Mexican culture, and goddess
studies will find this title to be a comprehensive and respectful
guide to all aspects of the folk saint." --Library Journal
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"A thorough and illuminating introduction to Santa Muerte, the
'Mexican female folk saint of death.' Stone covers the practices
and concepts central to the Santa Muerte folk faith and asserts
that the figure has the 'key to all life and creation" with the
power to 'infuse life and luck into all your creations.' The author
describes how to connect with Santa Muerte by setting up an altar
that features a statue of her, a glass of water, incense, liquor,
flowers, and such foods as bread, fruit, or candy to represent the
delights of the world. Drawing from Mexican prayer books and the
wisdom of curanderos (Mexican folk healers), Stone shares prayers
for protection and thanks, as well as spells for healing, love, and
warding off one's enemies. An invaluable primer [that] is nearly
one to die for." --Publishers Weekly
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"Secrets of Santa Muerte is the most complete workbook I have found
in English on the subject. After reading it, you will be well
equipped to navigate the botanica for supplies, and have a solid
understanding of how to use those supplies in your spells and
witchcraft. Stone goes beyond the well-known color systems and
reveals the secrets of lesser-known powders, oils, and candles and
how they are used. Anyone interested in the fastest growing
religious movement in the world should have this book on their
shelf." --Jason Miller, author of Consorting with Spirits
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"Cressida Stone is an incredible writer who is very intelligent and
knows a lot about Santa Muerte; she goes into the fine details very
well. I admire her as a woman and as a writer who is dedicated to
explaining with great clarity and without hiding anything, the
themes pertaining to Santa Muerte. Her words transmit light,
darkness, healing, power, happiness and gratitude." --Soraya
Arredondo Hernandez, bruja, curandera. founder, and leaderof Templo
Altar Angel de Alas Negras (Angel of Black Wings Temple Altar),
Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico-- "Reviews"
"Cressida Stone's Secrets of Santa Muerte is the Santa Muerte book
we've all been waiting for: a brave, blood and guts master class in
how best to bond with the Queen of Death. Part personal journey and
part history, it focuses mainly on how to work with the Bony Lady.
If you are curious about Santa Muerte or want to deepen your
devotion to her, then you need this book." --Aliza Einhorn, author
of The Little Book of Saturn and A Mystical Practical Guide to
Magic: Instructions for Seekers, Witches, & Other Spiritual
Misfits
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"I am pleased to endorse the publication of The Secrets of Santa
Muerte: A Guide to the Prayers, Spells, Rituals, and Hexes by
Cressida Stone. This publication is a well-written book about a
belief system that is found in Mexico, as well as many parts of the
U.S. The history, prayers, rituals, etc. of la Santa Muerte are
well-written and offers information that many will enjoy." --Dr.
Eliseo Torres, Professor of Traditional Medicine courses at the
University of New Mexico
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"I confirm and attest that Cressida Stone has deep knowledge of the
spirituality of Santa Muerte. She has traveled across Mexico where
the roots of devotion to the Saint of Death truly originate. She
honors our faith and shares the teachings of Santa Muerte clearly,
aiding people to respectfully venerate and learn correctly about
Santisima Muerte. This is because Cressida has been to those
special places where devotion to Holy Death is deep and true."
--Yuri Mendez, Bruja of the Three Virtues and Spiritual Guide of
Santa Muerte, leader of the Templo y Recinto de Sanación Dulce
Madre, Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico-- "Reviews"
"I really appreciate Cressida's point of view on Santa Muerte and I
like the way she writes about our spirituality. I hope everyone
will like this book whose content derives from the writer's lived
experiences sharing so much with our people and learning of our
rich traditions. I wish Cressida Stone every success." --Arely
Vázquez, leader of Santa Muerte, Queens, New York-- "Reviews"
"Secrets of Santa Muerte offers a positive look at a culture -- one
that many outsiders do not understand or know about, yet feel a
great attraction toward. In this culture, magic is powerful, raw
and real, just like Santa Muerte. This book reveals a series of
mysteries, secrets, traditions, beliefs, magic, and spells deeply
linked to this ideological current. We know that, just as light is
born in darkness, death gives way to life. Living is arriving;
dying is returning; and returning is continuing. This is the
eternal lesson of the Santa Muerte." --Martha Ileana Moran
Gonzalez, founder and director of WITCHMART, high priestess and
proud bruja-- "Reviews"
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