Judika Illes has been a student of the magical arts since childhood. Her interests include tarot, runes, and other forms of divination, astrology, spell-casting, traditional healing and spirituality, Kabbalah, the Egyptian Mysteries, mythology, folklore, and fairy tales. Judika is the author of Pure Magic, Magic When You Need It, The Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells, The Element Encyclopedia of Witchcraft, and .