This book is kinda cool if you think about it as world building for a fantasy world, but when I think about the fact that people really believe that this is how the world works, it's just disappointing. All of the terms and processes are explained in painfully vague detail. The approach the book has on magic makes it seem that even among witches there is no consistent set of beliefs nor practices. Even so, it was entertaining to read the first section, which covers magic in a broad sense.