Witches, Werewolves, and Fairies

Witches, Werewolves, and Fairies
Author: Claude Lecouteux
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2003-07-23
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1594776822

Reveals the true nature of medieval belief in the Double of the Soul • Demonstrates the survival of a pagan belief that each individual owns three souls, including a double that can journey outside the physical body • Explains the nature of death and the Other World hidden beneath the monsters and superstitions in stories from the Middle Ages Monsters, werewolves, witches, and fairies remain a strong presence in our stories and dreams. But as Claude Lecouteux shows, their roots go far deeper than their appearance in medieval folklore; they are survivors of a much older belief system that predates Christianity and was widespread over Western Europe. Through his extensive analysis of Germano-Scandinavian legends, as well as those from other areas of Europe, Lecouteux has uncovered an almost forgotten religious concept: that every individual owns three souls and that one of these souls, the Double, can—in animal or human form—leave the physical body while in sleep or a trance, journey where it chooses, then reenter its physical body. While there were many who experienced this phenomenon involuntarily, there were others—those who attracted the unwelcome persecution of the Church—who were able to provoke it at will: witches. In a thorough excavation of the medieval soul, Claude Lecouteux reveals the origin and significance of this belief in the Double, and follows its transforming features through the ages. He shows that far from being fantasy or vague superstition, fairies, witches, and werewolves all testify to a consistent ancient vision of our world and the world beyond.

The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Fairies

The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Fairies
Author: Skye Alexander
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-06-15
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1507215916

Interact with magical fairy folk and incorporate them into your own witchcraft practice with this detailed account of the ancient wisdom and traditions of fairies and witchcraft. Fairies have long been a part of witchcraft traditions, especially Celtic and Norse witchcraft, paganism, and other traditions deeply tied to the earth. But these fairies aren’t the harmless creatures you’ve read about in children’s tales: they are magical creatures with their own culture and rules that you need to know before venturing into their territory. Now you can explore the world of the fairies and how their magic relates to your own witchcraft practice with The Modern Witchcraft Book of Fairies. This book provides you with all the information you need to know about the different types of fae folk and how you can safely interact with them to make the most of your witchcraft practice.

Witches and Fairies

Witches and Fairies
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2015-07-28
Genre: Fairies
ISBN: 9781857338164

PICTURE STORYBOOKS. Witches and fairies are different and, needless to say, they play different games. Witches play witches' games, like turning princes into frogs. And fairies play fairy games, like turning frogs back into princes. And then there's Clotilda...Breathtakingly illustrated and magically told - maybe, at night's end, we're all just a little bit fairy, just a little bit witch!. Ages 0+

A Witch's Guide to Faery Folk

A Witch's Guide to Faery Folk
Author: Edain McCoy
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1994
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780875427331

Now, for the first time, a book reclaims the lost, rich heritage of working with faery folk that our pagan ancestors took as a matter of course. Learn to work with and worship with faeries in a mutually beneficial way. Practice rituals and spells in which faeries can participate, and discover tips to help facilitate faery contact. Photos and illustrations.

Tiffany Aching Complete 5-Book Collection

Tiffany Aching Complete 5-Book Collection
Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 834
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 006245742X

This collection includes all five Tiffany Aching novels in Terry Pratchett's beloved and bestselling Discworld series, including the final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown. The Wee Free Men: Armed with only a frying pan and her common sense, young witch-to-be Tiffany Aching must defend her home against the monsters of Fairyland. Luckily she has some very unusual help: the local Nac Mac Feegle—aka the Wee Free Men. A Hat Full of Sky: Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic. She expects spells and magic—not chores and ill-tempered nanny goats! Surely there must be more to witchcraft than this! Indeed, there is. . . . Wintersmith: When the Spirit of Winter takes a fancy to Tiffany Aching, he wants her to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever. It will take the young witch's skill and cunning, as well as help from the legendary Granny Weatherwax and the irrepressible Wee Free Men, to survive until Spring. I Shall Wear Midnight: As the witch of the Chalk, Tiffany Aching performs the distinctly unglamorous work of caring for the needy. But someone—or something—is inciting fear, generating dark thoughts and angry murmurs against witches. Tiffany must find the source of unrest and defeat the evil at its root, for if she falls, the whole Chalk falls with her. . . . The Shepherd's Crown: Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength. This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad. There will be a reckoning. . . .

Fairycraft

Fairycraft
Author: Morgan Daimler
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2016-06-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1785350528

An in-depth manual for practicing Fairy Witchcraft including theology, fairy lore, rituals, holidays, and magical practices. This book aims to pick up where Pagan Portals - Fairy Witchcraft leaves off and teach interested people the comprehensive practice of this system of honoring the Fair Folk and liminal Gods by blending the old Fairy Faith with modern paganism.

Zoë and the Witches' Spell

Zoë and the Witches' Spell
Author: Jane Andrews
Publisher: Piccadilly Press
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2002
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9781853407260

The fairies are very excited. Spring has arrived and it's time for their flying competition with the witches. But when they arrive at the wood where the competition is held, they discover a spell has been cast so that the wood is trapped in winter.

Pagan Portals - Kitchen Witchcraft

Pagan Portals - Kitchen Witchcraft
Author: Rachel Patterson
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2013-02-08
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1780998422

Pull up a chair, have a cup of tea, sit back and take a glimpse into the world of Kitchen Witchcraft. This little book will give you an insight into what a Kitchen Witch is, what they do and how they do it. It gives an overview of the Sabbats, working with the Moon, the elements and candle magic. Packed full of ideas for crafting such as washes and smudges for your home and your body, witch bottles, incense, medicine bags, magic powders and offerings. Take a stroll through a Kitchen Witch's garden and discover what you will find there and finish up with some lovely meditations. Follow the heart of a Kitchen Witch... ,

Feminist Spirituality under Capitalism

Feminist Spirituality under Capitalism
Author: Kathleen Skott-Myhre
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2017-07-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317422422

Industrial modernity's worship of rationality had a profound effect on women’s ways of knowing, marginalizing them along with other alternate forms of knowledge such as the imagination and the unconscious. Feminist Spirituality under Capitalism discusses the importance of women’s spiritual knowledge throughout history and under the current socio-economic consensus. Within a critical analysis of the subjugation of certain knowledges, it investigates in particular the role that psychology and psychiatry have played in the repression of women. Aimed at students and researchers in the social sciences, the book will also appeal to anyone interested in critical psychology, politics, activism and social change.