Quimbanda

Quimbanda is a fierce and beautiful spiritual current that arose in Brazil, shaped by the meeting of Central and Southern African traditions with the realities of the New World. It is deeply rooted in Bantu traditions and shares ancestral kinship with paths such as Palo Mayombe and Palo Monte in Cuba. At its heart is the direct relationship with the spirits known as Exús and Pomba Giras, guardians of the crossroads, the cemeteries, and the thresholds between the seen and unseen. It is a tradition of power, transformation, and protection, calling upon forces that walk in both light and shadow.

Quimbanda’s rites are most often held at night, when the veil between worlds thins and the spirits are most ready to hear and act. The work may be as simple as a candle, a cigar, and a glass of cachaça offered at the crossroads, or as intricate as a full ceremonial calling upon the entire spiritual court. These spirits are not distant deities but active allies who work alongside the devotee to open paths, remove obstacles, and deliver justice where it is needed.

Unlike some other Afro-Atlantic traditions, Quimbanda does not require the constant expense of large public festivals or the upkeep of an extensive temple community. It is generally more intimate and personal, focused on the sacred pact between the initiate and their spirits. While animal sacrifice can form part of certain rites, it is never a casual act and is carried out only within the boundaries of tradition and necessity.

Quimbanda is a living path that demands responsibility, self-knowledge, and respect for the forces it calls. It offers the freedom to walk in direct contact with its spirits, and the strength to face the challenges of life with courage. To enter Quimbanda is to stand at the crossroads with the guardians of the gates, ready to take each step in partnership with the powers that walk beside you.

Born from the fire of Quimbanda, The Red Book of Pomba Gira: A Grimoire of Witchcraft, Passion, and Nine Fires of the Soul is for those who dare to dance with spirits, kiss with spellbound lips, and command their fate with blood, perfume, and will. It is a book of witchcraft not for the meek, but for those who were never meant to kneel. Within these pages, the nine flames of Pomba Gira blaze to life, each a current of power, passion, and absolute sovereignty. This is the path of Quimbanda’s muse. Pomba Gira does not ask. She takes. She does not forgive. She balances. She does not hide. She arrives when called, in smoke and silk, with a smile that undoes curses and a voice that speaks only truth. Through her fire, you will learn the magic of the mirror, the knife, the skirt, the lipstick, the crossroads. You will learn to summon her in the dark, with spells that taste like honey and bite like glass. You will learn what it means to burn beautifully and live without apology. To laugh at midnight, knowing the spirits are near and your enemies are far behind. You will not be the same after reading this book. You will not want to be.

The Crimson Mirror: One Hundred and Forty-Four Lesser-Known Faces of Pomba Gira
Behind its crimson glass are one hundred and forty-four Pomba Giras - spirits fierce, wild, and untamed, who carry the deepest fire of Quimbanda. Rooted in African-Brazilian blood and ritual, these women embody the full spectrum of power: desire that consumes, rebellion that reshapes, and wisdom born in shadows. They walk the crossroads of life and death, pleasure and pain, freedom and fate. They are the voices whispered where the night is darkest, the flames that refuse to be extinguished. The Crimson Mirror is for those who will not settle for illusions or half-truths. It is for those ready to meet the spirits as they are: demanding, fierce, and endlessly alive. This is not a book for the timid. It is a call to step into the fire, to honour a living tradition that moves through blood, breath, and bone. Here you will find the strength to claim your own reflection, to face your truths without flinching, and to walk the path with fire in your veins and steel in your spine.

The Black Book of Exu: A Grimoire of Sorcery, Fire, and Seven Pacts of Power leads you into the seven living pacts of Quimbanda. Each pact is a spirit current. Each current holds keys to glamour, vengeance, necromancy, wealth, seduction, destruction, and command. These are not spirits to worship. They are spirits to work with. Exus and Pomba Giras who teach through experience, walk with fire, and answer only those who dare. Inside you will find seventy full spells and rituals, each one a living working with these spirits. You will learn to enchant with perfume, feed the spirits, speak in smoke, dance for power, and call the roads open with red wine, laughter, and blood-true intent. These are not borrowed traditions. They are true works of the pact. This is a book for those who want results. Not philosophy. Not metaphors. Sorcery that moves, burns, transforms.This is not a book for the curious. It is a tool for witches, sorcerers, and spirit-workers ready to walk the road of fire with boldness, devotion, and cunning.

Spells of Fire and Ash: A Compendium of Magical Workings from the Infernal Heart of Quimbanda is not a book of light. It is a book of blood, crossroads, and fire. A grimoire whispered by the spirits themselves, gathered from the paths of the cemetery, the riverbank, and the ruined altars of forgotten saints. These are not safe spells, nor are they gentle. They are real. Quimbanda is a current of spirit and flame. A pact that lives in gin and tobacco, in offerings made at midnight, in whispered names and broken chains. Every charm, every curse, every prayer in this book was written for those who walk with Exu and Pomba Gira. Not in theory, but in living practice. Inside you will find works for love and vengeance, success and separation, cleansing and destruction. You will find powders, padês, charms, and spells carved from experience. But more than that, you’ll find the heartbeat of a tradition that does not ask permission and never apologises for its power. This is a compendium for the serious practitioner. For the witch who wants results. For the devotee who knows that spirits are not metaphors, and that power must be earned, kept, and fed. Light the candle. Pour the gin. Open the gates. The fire is already burning.

Witchcraft from Brazil: Spells and Secrets from the Living Tradition of Quimbanda is a raw, poetic, and powerfully intimate journey into the living current of Quimbanda, a tradition rooted in fire, graveyard earth, bloodline memory, and spirit pacts. Written by a long-term practitioner who has walked the road with the spirits for more than two decades, this book offers a rare and unfiltered look into a path that is often hidden in silence. From the quiet altars of the masked devotee to the dreaming roads of the spirit world, this is not a beginner’s manual, it is a companion for those who already feel the fire stirring in their bones. Here, you will find not only spells and offerings, but tests, transformations, truths, and the lived wisdom of a path built in service, not spectacle. You will meet the twelve masks of Exu and Pomba Gira, explore the role of beauty and rage, dream with spirits, and learn how real devotion grows when no one is watching. This is a book for those who walk in secret, who serve with blood and breath, and who understand that power lives not in display, but in discipline.

The Psalms of Exu and Pomba Gira: A Book of Praise, Pact, and Presence is a book of devotion, not to saints on pedestals, but to spirits who walk beside the forgotten, the wounded, the fierce, and the free. The Psalms of Exu and Pomba Gira gathers sacred verses not to tame them, but to awaken their power in service of those who live and work at the edges. These psalms have been read at midnight crossroads, whispered before flame, buried with thread and glass. Here they become more than prayer. They become dialogue, offering, pact. Each one is paired with a sigil, not as decoration, but as a door, a shape through which the spirit may be called and the work may begin. This book is not for tourists. It is for those who know the taste of silence before a candle answers. For those who have asked for justice, and meant it. For those who love fiercely, speak plainly, and serve with both hands open. The Psalms of Exu and Pomba Gira is a devotional for the brave. A book of poetry and presence. A key. A mirror. A flame that remembers.

The Purple Flame: A Grimoire of Gypsy Sorcery, Wandering Spirits and Ancestral Freedom is a living book of gypsy magic, spirit contact, and ancestral power. Rooted in the living traditions of Umbanda, Quimbanda, and Latin American spiritism, this book opens the roads to the Povo Cigano, the Gypsy Spirits who speak through cards, flame, perfume, and dream. These are not romantic fantasies or historical re-enactments. These are the real spirits who answer when called with respect, who move when honoured, and who dance when devotion is true.

Inside, the reader will learn how to settle a Gypsy Spirit, build her seat, and serve her through perfume, music, and ritual offering. Dozens of original spells and spirit workings are shared for love and revenge, for glamour and money, for justice, protection, beauty, and fate. Every work is alive with the voice of the spirits who walk the roads. Every chapter is written with the voice of the witch who knows. This is not a book of theory. It is a flame. It is a road. It is a pact. Come ready. The spirits are already waiting.

NA GIRA DO EXU – Invoking the Spirits of Brazilian Quimbanda
Quimbanda, the cult of Exu and Pomba Gira, is a shamanic, spirit-led tradition of witchcraft practised in Brazil. Sometimes called Macumba, and at times mislabelled as Satanism or Devil Worship, it weaves together elements of African and South American Indigenous beliefs with the ritual magic of medieval European witchcraft.

This 2007 edition of Na Gira do Exu contains more than 330 Pontos Cantados (sacred songs and invocations) and over 100 rare Pontos Riscados (ritual sigils and drawings) for Exu and Pomba Gira, the central spirits of Brazilian Quimbanda. It also explores the roots and historical development of the tradition, the role of the initiate, the structure of ceremonies, the nature of magical workings, and the hierarchy of the spirits within this powerful and enduring current.

The Book of the Witch of Évora is a complete grimoire of the Black Queen’s rites, seals and conjurations. In the white-stoned city of Évora she walks by night, her shadow moving through arches older than empires, her crown glimmering in the lamplight, and the black cat in her arms seeing into every soul. She is the Senhora das Pedras, the Pomba Gira whose court spans crossroads and kingdoms, old Iberian crypts and the red-lamped altars of the New World. This work is drawn from the living traditions of Quimbanda, from the currents of European sorcery, and from the deep magical strata of the city that bears her name. It carries the reader from the first rites of consecration to the coronation of the sorcerer in her service. The invocations are given in Latin, each with its English translation, allowing them to be spoken in the ancient tongue alone or alongside the modern. The workings include the consecration of the grimoire and the black lamp, the drawing and awakening of her seals, the conjuration of her spirits and the binding of pacts within her court.