--- product_id: 512390248 title: "The Book of Ancestors: A Guide to Magic, Rituals, and Your Family History" price: "R910" currency: ZAR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/512390248-the-book-of-ancestors-a-guide-to-magic-rituals-your store_origin: ZA region: South Africa --- # The Book of Ancestors: A Guide to Magic, Rituals, and Your Family History **Price:** R910 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Book of Ancestors: A Guide to Magic, Rituals, and Your Family History - **How much does it cost?** R910 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.za](https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/512390248-the-book-of-ancestors-a-guide-to-magic-rituals-your) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Find spiritual healing and everyday magic in this beautifully mysterious guide to communing with your ancestors. Picking up where The Book of Séances left off, artist, author, and witch Claire Goodchild delivers a guide that is truly the first of its kind: The Book of Ancestors, a map for seekers looking to develop a relationship with their ancestors. Through a combination of text and illustration, The Book of Ancestors explores the history of traditional genealogy topics, such as “how to research and build a family tree” and “the history of cemeteries.” Alongside these practical measures, Claire provides rituals, spells, and crafts from her own personal practice, drawing on the British and Slavic traditions of her heritage, alongside contributions from fellow witches including Codi Popovich and Marjorie from The Punk Priestess for a broader, more enriched lens. As the text progresses, Claire guides her readers through the creation their own “Book of Ancestors,” a family grimoire of sorts, blending together their own ancestral legacies with witchcraft that can be passed down to future family. Visually, The Book of Ancestors pairs with The Book of Seances, containing witchy, esoteric, and funerary images in a Victorian style with lots of floral embellishments and classic colors. Whether a seasoned witch, or a newcomer to the spirit world, readers will walk away from The Book of Ancestors feeling empowered to perform their own rituals and spells, research family history, and form a lasting relationship with those who came before. Review: A beautiful journey through death and ancestor veneration - I was delighted to finally get my copy of author and artist Claire Goodchild’s comprehensive book, The Book of Ancestors, and I can confidently say that Goodchild has outdone herself with her latest work. Goodchild takes readers on a beautiful journey through death and ancestor veneration. As The Book of Ancestors illustrates, this path is immensely personal and may include traumas, both personal and ancestral, known and unknown. However, the reader is never meant to feel frightened or alone, but empowered. Goodchild guides readers through creating their own family history grimoire or book of ancestors (BOA). Not only does she provide information on how to establish a BOA, from the pros and cons of different formats to creating a ritual ink, but she advises readers on how to continually add to their BOA as a perpetual work-in-progress. To help readers create a BOA, Goodchild outlines working with three types of ancestors (blood, community, and archetype). Each ancestor class is thoroughly explained, with information on how to identify and honor them. Not only does she detail more complex actions, like building an ancestor altar, but she includes simpler but no less important methods of ancestor veneration, such as inviting them into one’s daily activities, lighting candles to recognize their birth and death dates, and just living well. In addition, Goodchild explains how to create a family tree to incorporate in a BOA. She includes ample information on both scientific and metaphysical methods, from genetic testing and researching family histories with records available from a variety of sources to rituals and divination (which she goes more in depth with in her first book, The Book of Séances). Goodchild never presumes to know any reader’s experience or situation in The Book of Ancestors. She provides resources for beginners, but also for advanced practitioners. In addition, she offers information for the LGBTQ+, adopted, and BIPOC communities. No one is excluded from recognizing and honoring their ancestors. Finally, I would be remiss to not mention the artwork in The Book of Ancestors. It’s hauntingly breathtaking, and each image is created with care. In short, this unique resource is essential reading for anyone interested in genealogy, death, history, and establishing a working relationship with their ancestors. I can’t recommend it more strongly, and it’s an essential asset in my collection. Review: A Book any type of witch needs. - Beautiful book, I really loved the cover of this book! Gorgeously put together. She always has the highest quality with her books. This will definitely help you with your practice. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #130,307 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #141 in Ghosts & Hauntings #144 in Reincarnation (Books) #171 in New Age Channeling (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 118 Reviews | ## Images ![The Book of Ancestors: A Guide to Magic, Rituals, and Your Family History - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81sjvup2IkL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A beautiful journey through death and ancestor veneration *by C***N on October 3, 2023* I was delighted to finally get my copy of author and artist Claire Goodchild’s comprehensive book, The Book of Ancestors, and I can confidently say that Goodchild has outdone herself with her latest work. Goodchild takes readers on a beautiful journey through death and ancestor veneration. As The Book of Ancestors illustrates, this path is immensely personal and may include traumas, both personal and ancestral, known and unknown. However, the reader is never meant to feel frightened or alone, but empowered. Goodchild guides readers through creating their own family history grimoire or book of ancestors (BOA). Not only does she provide information on how to establish a BOA, from the pros and cons of different formats to creating a ritual ink, but she advises readers on how to continually add to their BOA as a perpetual work-in-progress. To help readers create a BOA, Goodchild outlines working with three types of ancestors (blood, community, and archetype). Each ancestor class is thoroughly explained, with information on how to identify and honor them. Not only does she detail more complex actions, like building an ancestor altar, but she includes simpler but no less important methods of ancestor veneration, such as inviting them into one’s daily activities, lighting candles to recognize their birth and death dates, and just living well. In addition, Goodchild explains how to create a family tree to incorporate in a BOA. She includes ample information on both scientific and metaphysical methods, from genetic testing and researching family histories with records available from a variety of sources to rituals and divination (which she goes more in depth with in her first book, The Book of Séances). Goodchild never presumes to know any reader’s experience or situation in The Book of Ancestors. She provides resources for beginners, but also for advanced practitioners. In addition, she offers information for the LGBTQ+, adopted, and BIPOC communities. No one is excluded from recognizing and honoring their ancestors. Finally, I would be remiss to not mention the artwork in The Book of Ancestors. It’s hauntingly breathtaking, and each image is created with care. In short, this unique resource is essential reading for anyone interested in genealogy, death, history, and establishing a working relationship with their ancestors. I can’t recommend it more strongly, and it’s an essential asset in my collection. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Book any type of witch needs. *by L***M on June 4, 2026* Beautiful book, I really loved the cover of this book! Gorgeously put together. She always has the highest quality with her books. This will definitely help you with your practice. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ancestor work is important. *by R***S on December 11, 2025* Another amazing book this author. 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