Spells of Magic positions itself as an online information network on subjects such as the occult, paganism and witchcraft. It hosts what used to be a fairly well-sized witchcraft/magical community, but has seen a decline in recent years, and also a store selling things like cheaply produced tumbled crystals and Nag Champa joss sticks that you can purchase in any New Age shop.

I haven't used the store, they don't sell anything original or handmade, so my review is solely on the quality of the content and of the community.

Content - Spells and rituals can be added by members of the SoM community, with nothing in the way of quality control being exercised by the site admin. Spells are added instantly. This mean that the vast majority of the material is plagiarised from other authors. Anything that is original is usually very poor quality, and in some cases dangerous (such as spells requiring blood-letting). There are a large number of "fantasy spells", such as spells to turn someone into a vampire, werewolf, mermaid, or whatever is most popular at the time. While these aren't inherently harmful, they do give the impression that magical practitioners are a bunch of morons who believe in such tripe.

Community - SoM has seen a drop in numbers over the years, probably due to the decline in popularity of Wicca and witchcraft in teenagers. There is a forum, though posts to it aren't as regular and mostly consist of newer members asking for help with some aspect of their lives. Many members are under 18, SoM having an age limit of 13 and older, and the lack of good manners and common sense shows. A lot of members demand answers to their questions, give nothing in return and are extremely boorish.

The site is rife with con-artists plying their "phenomenal cosmic powers", for a hefty fee. However the most disturbing thing are the perverts and predators that contact random members with sexually suggestive or explicit messages. I reiterate that most of the site's members are under 18 years or age. There is a system to report inappropriate messages, however nothing is really done to prevent these sickos from contacting vulnerable young people.

The site is supposedly moderated by an administration team. In reality, this is a group of folks in their 20s on an ego trip. Members can be banned for even disagreeing with the moderators on subjects of magic, making debate impossible. They do nothing to actually moderate the website at all, except from removing members who don't parrot them or who make them look bad, which isn't difficult to do. The most common response to any question asked is "Meditate on it", which is shorthand for "I don't know, but I'm not going to let anyone think I'm stupid so i'll say something that sounds vague and wise".

On the whole, avoid. There are many, many decent books out there on paganism, witchcraft and magic and it would be nice to see actual authors get some of the revenue for their work instead of it being ripped off and uploaded to dross like SoM.

I might bring your attention to "Truth" by Michael the practitioner of the arcane practices. You are implying that if someone writes a just, truthful and fitting review (only in opposition to your stance) then your otherworldly powers will be used against us? Haha I have been studying the Kabbalah, Hebrew, Torah for years and hold a phd in all but the later most of Kabbalah. I have vast experience and expertise in the studies of the occult and its practices and application. I find your threat to be immature, lacking in wisdom and especially without knowledge. I have seen real magic used abroad and you I'm sure could not even imagine or conceive such. It is a lie, it is complete and total deception that this site sells to unsuspecting, naive people. It is wrong, wrong and wrong. To take people's money, knowing your deceiving is deplorable and karmic payback will come. These people and their Archaic black magic tyrant are mere bull$#*!. I called and will continue to call it for what it is. This site is a joke, they don't know simple numerology/astrology and so then "do you think they know magic? NO The only true source of magic comes through God and by God. The numerologist and or the astrologist knows where their practices originate and that is the Jewish Kabbalah period. When they can't even calculate the correct 5 core numbers of person, then they know nothing of which they claim to practice. Don't be fooled friends, there are plenty of good quality numerologists and astrologists out there and they do it because they truly want to leave people in a better place in their life. Even if they charge money, they provide you with accurate and precise information to the best of their ability. NOT this website, it's a joke and I find it completely offensive and laughable they have their magic practitioner to basically threaten anyone who voices and opposing opinion. You sir "Michael C." should watch who you threaten, unless you practice the dark arts ( which I highly doubt) you should be wary of karmic justice and retribution from the divine. Praying to the "Lord in heaven" will bring you people searching for spells and magic way more results, then investing your money in this site, with these people. I can tell you that if you are searching for true magic, true divine awe inspiring magic, look to the Jewish God. I have been studying Jewish mysticism, religion, occultism for over twenty two years. I have traveled to fifteen countries and studied and learned with the wisest, most knowledgeable philosophers, theologians, priests, mystics, historians, occultists, practitioners and I have written many of peer reviewed papers and a number of books. True magical practices like that of the Torah, Old Testament, New Testamemt, Kabbalah are taught only to worthy people on a one to one basis. Exceptions are made to priests as they are taught some of these magical practices, more and more information and knowledge to the higher levels of priesthood. With the exception of an exorcist priest as they are pure of heart, picked because of their pious and good nature. A personal character that is of the highest quality, they are given the keys to Kabbalah. The Rabbi's that hold this earthshaking secret knowledge, have a responsibility as G-ds chosen people to protect and guard it against people like Michael and the people of spellsofmagic.com. No real practitioner or keeper of the secrets of G-d would EVER share that knowledge with everyone. My advice to any and all people looking to buy spells or change something in their life would be to start with a good accurate numerology report. Our destinies are written in the fabric of the universe, nothing was left to chance. I inevitability started my journey out of high school, wanting to research and study my passion as my career. I was a skeptic when I began my quest for knowledge, understanding, wisdom, and over the years, many hundreds of hours of research and study, I have seen holy men do things you could never conceive of. I have been present for over fifty exorcisms performed in Israel, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, Africa and up until 1997 the Middle East. I might add these were all done by Roman Catholic priests with the exception of Israel and those were done by Rabbi's. I have been in the company of medicine men, Shamen, mystics and sages. The reality we are in is made by intelligent design and I am not a holy person or mystic or any of the like. I am an educator, a researcher, analytical and logical composition. Thinking you know something and actually spending your life researching, learning, witnessing and gaining true insight and wisdom is a hell of a lot different than reading a couple books and practicing on a superficial level.

It is crap

I heard some pretty nasty things about the site for a few years now and for a long time avoided the site. Finally curiosity peaked and I joined. I was not on the site for more than 5 hours when crap went down. I joined the site and filled out my profile. In a matter of 3 minutes, I got bombarded with like 5 so-called members, asking me to cast love spells for them and 1 asking if I could turn her into a werewolf. I laughed and figured it had to be a joke. I brushed them off most politely and headed over to the lists of spells, seeing you can not do anything else till you start submitting stuff, and you can not do that till you joined their array of groups. That was a laugh. I never seen so many Korra and Air-Bender wanna-bes. It was like stepping into a fantasy cartoon. Yes there are some remote true wiccan spells and a few pages that seemed to be cut&pastes from others sites but most are just fantasy movie and TV junk. But I heard tales about this and chose not to say a word, play it cool and scope the site out further. I joined one of their generic groups and posted a few spells I have casted in the past from my BOS. Then the lurkers came out again and as before, they were asking me to cast love and shape-shifting spells. Now I was getting annoyed. I discovered a feature to block them from harassing me and went back to posting spells... real spells. Spells that real witches and wiccans would work. I think maybe 10 spells total. I forget. I drifted away from the site for a couple of hours and came back. When I logged back in I discovered was locked out of posting anything. All I could do is change my profile. I was confused, and frankly pissed. I went to the list of moderators to the site, to ask if there was a technical glitch going on but I was locked from even asking moderators what was wrong. I was getting messages from new lurkers, private messages, but I could not even respond to them. Had I actually done anything wrong, I would have understood blocking me from making any more public posts. But they blocked me from making private messages. And to boot it all, but say a word why nor be able to ask someone in charge what I did so wrong. Okay, now I was beyond pissed and I scrolled all the way down to the site bottom and found the host of the site. My plan was to find out who owned the site. Checking that out lead me to a series of web-pages till I found the name of the site owner and other sites he has on the web. Apparently the owner of Spellsofmagic.com is a Mayor of Alberta Canada. A mayor! I could not believe it. A government official running a site that operates like this? It had to be wrong but whatever searches I did brought me back to the same man. Further more one of the other sites this man owns on the site-host was a gay PORN site. I literally stood out, totally blown away. Then things started to make sense to me. No reason to pursue this matter further. The site is a total scam, supported by children dreaming of being superheroes and people stealing notes on witchcraft from other sites.

In conclusion - Spellsofmagic.com is a scam, lie and destructive falsehood. While I am sure there are some real witches somewhere on the site, they are severely dwarfed out by an endless populace of roleplayers and character wanna-bes. Lurkers abound on the site and the site management is a joke and borders on being almost criminal. I am not sure what the true intent of the site is but its hardly a learning tool. More like a cut and paste haven of "Charmed" wanna-bes.

As for the owner of the site, Mister Sadlon, I highly doubt he is a mayor of anything, short of his own delusional mind on some Sim game. If he is a mayor and this site is any reflection of how he runs his town, I fear for the locals of that town.

If anyone is interested in real witchcraft and magick, you will not find it here. Move along there is no intelligent life on this site.

I had a horrible set of experiences. One's first red flag is that the owner claims to be WICCAN but oddly can not even spell "Magick" correctly, the way Wiccans and most witches spell it. That being with a 'K' on the end. They claim to get rid of Lurkers instantly if reported but I discovered they have created a series of fake profiles to harass new people that join; asking if they can cast loves spells for them. One profile seems to have been there for a few years. A minor from India asking for a love spell for a girl. When I asked who the girl was, he gave me the name. Googling it, I discovered it was some hot female Bollywood actress.

Going into the group itself, I found a lot of spells, lists and information stolen not just from various web sites but also from famed wiccan and pagan author's books. I did post a few spells to my profile page. Then, searching through groups multitude list of spells I found many of the spells posted belong in Roleplaying books; Vampire, Werewolf & Mermaid spells, Dungeons & Dragons. Spells dealing with Pokémon and Airbender cartoons and online role playing games or even from movies like Harry Potter and such. This disturbed me in that this site and its owners is allowing kids to post claims like "This spell is guaranteed to make you fly." GREAT! All we need to heard is that some kid leapt off a building and died or stab himself thinking he was immortal or a vampire. I sent a message of concern to a couple of the moderators saying I was worried some kids are going to try these spells and get seriously hurt, or worse. At first I got no response. Then I tried again to a couple of other moderators. But instead of getting back to me, they "Gagged" me. Meaning they made it so I could not post or anything on the site. I could not even delete my own profile. When I complained further to the site owner, I was bumped off the site. Angry, I posted a warning to other REAL Witch and Wiccan friends about the site on a blog page and the members of the blog who saw it said they were shocked and said things like "They are not real witches. Or they said that they heard of Spellsofmagic.com and are not shocked. So I just rubbed it off and moved on. But I did find it funny that while they wipe out your profile, the spells you post they keep, claiming the spells are now theirs. Okay, totally childish on their part. Either way I moved on and I was done with Spellsofmagic.com... I THOUGHT.

The next day when I woke, I got set of threatening emails from the owner falsely accusing me of using the site to post porn and stuff to a minor and they planned to take me to court unless I retracted what I said on the blog. I did some deep investigating and found the site belonged to a lawyer/mayor in Canada who owns several sites on line, including a GAY cowboy group. Hmmmm. Makes you wonder.

I also discovered that Spellsofmagic claims to have a 100% success rating as a site. This claim makes sense if they scare everyone with a negative comment about them with false threats of pornography. I have heard from many others that they get bumped from the site and the site never even tells you why. As a company they fail.

So there you go. A site that's is doing more harm to true witches of the world than good. For all the fighting that pagans and witches have done for decades, spellsofmagic.com is destroying. Spellsofmagic.com is a destructive and demeaning site to anyone that is of a pagan faith or practices real magick. They take no blame if someone gets hurt from the content posted BUT claim all content posted belongs to the site and its owner.