Ancestral Slavic Magic

Ancestral Slavic Magic is a guide to harnessing ancestral power in the Slavic Pagan tradition. This comprehensive resource offers traditional rituals and spells to help you connect with your ancestors, see your family’s ancestral patterns, and change your destiny.

The book examines the history of ancestor worship in the Slavic tradition and delves into ancient Slavic burial and funeral customs, many of which are still practised today in remote pockets of Russia. It also explores the similarities between ancestral beliefs in Haitian Vodou and the Slavic tradition.

Raised in the Soviet Union and steeped in ancient Slavic magical traditions, occultist and hereditary witch Natasha Helvin reveals how you are continually and powerfully influenced by your ancestors. She shows how you can open the door to your ancestral connections to truly understand who you are and how to change the course of your destiny.

Helvin examines ancestor worship in southeastern Europe and western Russia and its influence on indigenous magical and spiritual practices. She explains how energy flows within families and how strengths and dysfunctions are passed down through generations. The book provides time-honoured rituals and spells to help you recognise ancestral patterns, make necessary changes, and harness familial strengths to direct your destiny.

Covering both Slavic Pagan and Eastern Orthodox traditions concerning the dead, Helvin discusses ancient Slavic burial and funeral customs. She reveals how these rites became incorporated into rural witchcraft practices and explains traditional Slavic ideas on death, the afterlife, the soul, the spiritual power of colours, and magical objects.

As an initiate in Haitian Vodou, Helvin also highlights the many parallels between Vodou and the folk magic and ancestor worship of the Slavic tradition, showing that in both traditions, forging a stronger connection to your ancestors can lead to increased power and understanding in life.