# :grimoires: WITCH CHALLENGE - A Witch's Library **URL:** \ **Category:** Activities\ **Tags:** challenge, books\ **Created:** [November 19, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.spells8.com/t/witch-challenge-a-witchs-library/65354 "2025-11-19T14:40:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 29
**Author:** ![DerBraucher](https://spells8.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.spells8.com/derbraucher/32/7606_2.png) [@DerBraucher](https://forum.spells8.com/u/DerBraucher)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.spells8.com/t/witch-challenge-a-witchs-library/65354/29 "2025-11-29T19:39:54Z")
Howdy, everyone! I hope you’re all well! I adore books (as I’m sure all of us do lol), so I just HAD to jump in for this challenge! For my entry for this challenge, I wanted to do a bit of a show and tell of two of my new (to me) prized possessions. As I mentioned in [one of my previous posts, I’ve been exploring the path of Braucherei](https://forum.spells8.com/t/braucherei-a-very-quick-intro/61375), so I’ve been trying to focus on books relating to that topic. I mentioned to my Braucherei teacher that I would love to collect old copies of the important texts to the traditions, and then the most recent time I met up with him, he gifted me these two treasures. The first one is an old undated copy of [John George Hohman’s _Long Lost Friend_](https://www.sacred-texts.com/ame/pow/index.htm). I’m sure I can find out when this copy is from, but with life craziness, I haven’t gotten a good chance to sit down and dig into estimating the date. It’s definitely a relatively modern edition of it. It’s not in the best shape, but that just means it’s been well-used and well-loved. I would love to find a professional bookbinder or book restoration expert to remove the tape so that if the tape isn’t acid-free, it doesn’t become too terribly damaged, and to re-bind it – probably in some sort of hard cover. We’ll see! ![image](https://spells8s3.b-cdn.net/original/3X/f/6/f66512d4c645b3fa3d83c4c544b256caf2de45bd.jpeg) ![image](https://spells8s3.b-cdn.net/original/3X/c/6/c6e6fbdff769852049e97aaf3eb077fb36cef6dd.jpeg) ![image](https://spells8s3.b-cdn.net/original/3X/4/a/4a24eb77a6fa0ec31669d3de36368b773c686a3d.jpeg) ![image](https://spells8s3.b-cdn.net/original/3X/0/4/04d9237cab420ec3a0b7848ca5fecf05c8fa34b8.jpeg) The second book he gifted me was an _old_ copy of _[The Egyptian Secrets of Albertus Magnus](https://www.esotericarchives.com/moses/egyptian.htm)_. Someone wrote an inscription in the front and dated it 1885, and a note in the back from a bookstore at which it was for sale dated it to approximately 1845. Clearly, it’s also not in the best condition, but it’s still a beauty in my eyes! I definitely want to get this one repaired and/or rebound as well at some point to help preserve it. It’s written in German and printed in Fraktur script. ![image](https://spells8s3.b-cdn.net/original/3X/c/d/cdc70c0f8de6719c05882295816b89c9c3e0b609.jpeg) ![image](https://spells8s3.b-cdn.net/original/3X/7/2/723b79297ad4466065f1ae858a9a0ee3ac4f34f6.jpeg) ![image](https://spells8s3.b-cdn.net/original/3X/9/e/9eaf9e981eb66c613600e21139d5b67ae0556237.jpeg) ![image](https://spells8s3.b-cdn.net/original/3X/6/4/64913559e24aaa3955b67531cde7a9314fa8f008.jpeg) ![image](https://spells8s3.b-cdn.net/original/3X/1/4/14fa16acad287fcfa7aa73064abe0422f537b451.jpeg) I’ve been meaning to write some posts about Braucherei as well as the books and writings that influenced it, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet because of life… Hopefully things will calm down over the winter so that I can have time to put my thoughts together and share information about this practice with y’all! \<3 I can’t wait to read through the posts on this thread and check out your suggestions as well! +++ --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.spells8.com/t/witch-challenge-a-witchs-library/65354)._