This detailed account of traditional Scandinavian folk magic offers in-depth historical background, divination methods, and descriptions of practical spell-craft, and includes hundreds of collected Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish trolldom workings for love, money, protection, healing, and cursing.

Johannes Bjorn Gardback is a respected healer, teacher, and spiritual worker of Swedish folk-magic. A practitioner of hoodoo and conjure, he is a founding member of AIRR, the Association of Independent Readers and Rootworkers, and a board member of YIPPIE! He brings solid, firsthand knowledge of Norse, Scandinavian, and African-American folklore to his international practice. He currently lives in Goeteborg, Sweden.

While the Norse folk magic tradition called Trolldom has much in common with the practices of African-American, German, Scottish, and English folk magic, it is a unique cultural tradition. This book is a detailed account of traditional Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian folk magic and provides spells to cast for love, prosperity, protection, and good luck; as well as a look at the history of Trolldom in Scandinavia and among immigrants to the United States, including descriptions of the basics of Trolldom practice as performed by professionals for their clients.