The Hidden Grimoire by Karla Brandenburg

Author:Karla Brandenburg [Brandenburg, Karla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: witchcraft, Wiccan, small town
Publisher: Karla Brandenburg
Published: 2020-07-27T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

If I hadn’t considered myself a witch before now, Hannah seemed intent on clearing up any misunderstanding.

“The first thing we should do is cast a spell for positive magical energy,” she said. She crossed to the bookshelf and retrieved a grimoire, except hers had a metal band with a lock. She didn’t, however, use a key to open it. Hannah sent me a sideways glance and a half-grin. “As I’m sure you’re aware, the books don’t require a lock, but my ancestors must have liked the idea as a visual deterrent.”

She set one hand on her hip and turned to face me, narrowing her eyes.

I tucked my hair behind my ears. “Is something wrong?”

“Your aura is green,” she told me.

I pulled up my cell phone for the picture of the chart. Ingenuity. Compassion. Growth. Okay. I also didn’t have a signal.

“I wanted to check before we got started. Make sure we weren’t wasting time. I hope you don’t mind.” She waved a finger toward my phone. “You won’t be able to use that down here.”

I tucked my phone into my pocket. “This place is great. How did you come to own a castle?”

“My family used to be logger barons,” she told me while she flipped through the book. “They put aside a fairly sizable fortune, which makes me a trust fund baby. My contribution was to plant trees—hundreds of them—here, on the grounds, to make amends for what my family stripped away years ago.” She stopped on a page and put a finger on the vellum as if to hold her place while she looked at me. “Found it. I want to create the proper atmosphere before we work on your problem.”

She reached into one of the cubbyholes in the bookshelf. “Rosemary, thyme, cinnamon, and olive oil,” she told me. “We’ll anoint the candle and for as long as it burns, we will work in white light.”

Except she took a black candle. I wasn’t sure I understood.

“The white light comes from inside,” she explained, as if she’d read my thoughts—and she likely had, considering my telepathic greeting.

She mixed the ingredients, then ran her fingers first down the candle and then up again. “Close your eyes and visualize your space being filled with powerful white light.” She closed her eyes and I did as she said. I opened my eyes when I heard her strike a match.

“Let the magical power of light fill this space, for the good of all and harm to none. So let it be.”

My reflex was to say amen, but somehow that didn’t seem appropriate.

“Now,” she said. “Nora tells me this is about the next generation. Tell me about her.”

I explained how young Georgia was, how her gifts were manifesting themselves, the astral projection, the telekinetic temper. “Is it possible she made herself invisible?” I asked.

Hannah tilted her head, looking somewhere beyond the cellar. “I’m inclined to believe she wasn’t invisible, more likely overlooked. At three years old, I doubt invisibility is something she’d be mature enough to comprehend.

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