Elwynn Green2026Weiser Books
A Book of Liminal Witchcraft
Elwynn Green's craft of the in-between: thresholds, and the places and times that belong to neither side.
The core idea
Between the Horns is a book of witchcraft built around one idea: liminality. As an October 2026 review by The Atlantean Book Initiative reads it, the theme runs right through the book: thresholds, and the places and times that sit between one state and another. Weiser describes the approach as heuristic, taking in black, green and red magic and shadow work.
Green writes from his own practice. His publisher describes him as a fourth-generation witch from England and a former archaeologist who specialised in Northern European prehistory. He co-hosts The Antlered Crown podcast with his wife, and lived in Chicago before moving to Northern Ireland. A 2025 CNN profile called him a hedge witch who practises animism, not Wicca.
HourLife presents the book's practices the way the book does: as one practitioner's spiritual craft. We make no claim about whether any of it works. What a reader of any belief can take from it is its attention to edges, the doorways and turning points most of us cross without noticing.
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Liminality is the thread: the doorway, the edge and the hour that belong to neither side.
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The publisher calls the approach heuristic: practice to learn by, rather than a fixed rulebook.
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The publisher names three colours of magic in the book, along with shadow work.
Interactive · the threshold journal
Pick a threshold you met today, or one you are about to cross. Take the prompt, or ask for another, and write a single honest line.
HourLife's reflection exercise. The prompts are ours, not the book's, and your lines stay in this browser.
Dusk
What did today ask of you that you did not expect?
No lines kept for this threshold yet.
Concept anatomy
Two poles, and a path that belongs to neither. Along it sit the areas of practice the book covers, as an independent review lays them out.
Station i
A tools chapter, and among the tools, the skull.
Station ii
A chapter on influence, ingredients and their associations, with ingredient poems.
Station iii
An aura exercise called Psychic Fire, which uses a violet flame.
Station iv
A section on types of spirit, such as brownies, hobs, duendes and tomtes.
Station v
A chapter on scrying and divination, including an exercise that involves contemplating death.
Station vi
A chapter of its own, and one readers mention in their accounts.
HourLife's map of the areas The Atlantean Book Initiative's review names, and the poles are our framing. The order is ours, not the book's. The book also holds a prologue, an introduction, a section called The Nieves and an afterword. The book presents these as spiritual practices; HourLife makes no claim about whether they work.
Community insights
No. 01HourLife takeaway
Liminality is not one chapter of the book but its thread. The Atlantean Book Initiative's review reads it as the theme that runs throughout: thresholds, and the in-between places and times where one state turns into another.
No. 02HourLife takeaway
Weiser describes Green's approach as heuristic. Read that way, the exercises are starting points to work with and test against your own experience, rather than a system to accept whole.
No. 03HourLife takeaway
His publisher calls him a fourth-generation witch from England and a former archaeologist of Northern European prehistory. A 2025 CNN profile described him as a hedge witch who practises animism, not Wicca. One Goodreads reader noted the book has no citations or bibliography, so treat it as a practitioner's account, not a work of scholarship.
No. 04HourLife takeaway
The review singles out the skull among the tools Green discusses. It is a pointed choice for a book about thresholds, since few objects stand so plainly for the line between living and dead.
No. 05HourLife takeaway
One chapter covers influence, ingredients and associations. The review notes that it includes ingredient poems. HourLife reads them partly as a memory aid: a verse is easier to carry than a table.
No. 06HourLife takeaway
A section on types of spirit names figures from several folk traditions: brownies and hobs from Britain, duendes from Spanish-speaking folklore, tomtes from Scandinavia.
No. 07HourLife takeaway
The review describes it as an aura exercise that uses a violet flame. HourLife does not reproduce the exercise here; it belongs to the book's practice and is best read there in full.
No. 08HourLife takeaway
Alongside scrying and divination, the chapter includes an exercise that involves contemplating death. It is a reminder that the book's in-between places include the hardest one, and that it asks for a steady reader.
No. 09HourLife takeaway
The review lists a chapter on spirit flight, and Goodreads readers mention it in their accounts along with the book's compass work and the Witches' Devil.
Action steps
HourLife's everyday suggestions, inspired by the book's attention to edges. They ask for no belief, and the book does not prescribe them.
Pick one in-between moment you meet every day: dusk, a front door, the minute after waking. That is the one you will pay attention to this week.
Give a small notebook one job: noting thresholds as you cross them. Date each line and say where you were.
Choose a short walk you know well. Walk it once early and once late in the same week, and write down three things that changed between the two.
Find out which spirits, customs and stories belong to your own area, from a local library, museum or older neighbour. Note any that attach to a boundary, a crossing or a time of year.
The book names brownies, hobs, duendes and tomtes. Pick one and read how an older folklore collection describes it, so you can set Green's practice beside the tradition.
When you reach your chosen threshold, stop for one minute. Notice the light, the sound and how you feel before you carry on.
On the day a season turns, step outside and write one line about what is ending and what is beginning.
Use the journal on this page or your notebook. One prompt, one honest line, no more than a few minutes.
Since a reader noted the book has no bibliography, keep a margin of claims you would like to check elsewhere, and look one up each week.
Stay in the doorway a moment longer. The in-between is a place too, and it repays attention.HourLife note after Elwynn Green
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Elwynn Green is, by his publisher's account, a fourth-generation witch from England and a former archaeologist who specialised in Northern European prehistory. He co-hosts The Antlered Crown podcast with his wife, lived in Chicago and now lives in Northern Ireland, and a 2025 CNN profile described him as a hedge witch who practises animism rather than Wicca. Between the Horns, published by Weiser Books in...
HourLife’s key takeaways include: Green's witchcraft lives in the in-between: at thresholds, and in the places and times that belong to neither side. The book is offered as a heuristic craft, something to learn by practising, not a fixed rulebook. Green writes as a practitioner, and the book reads best as one person's practice rather than a survey of witchcraft.
It's a strong pick for readers exploring Spiritual Growth. HourLife distills its core idea into key insights and practical actions worth trying.
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