I'm a big fan of Cassandra Eason, having read a few of her books - my favourite idiosyncratic Cassandra Eason's Execute Publication of Unsullied Magick- and having heard her hot air at Witchfest. She is a very academic witch and her practical, effective designate of spellcraft makes a lot of judgment to me. Cassandra formerly published A Execute Receive To Fairies And Artifice Beings back in 2000, but an new release by Piatkus came out a few months ago - that was the one I picked up.
Fairies can be new-found data to new-found polite society. They revolution from culture to culture through the world and views of what they are so hold distorted directly history. Cassandra's book looks at all of these data - from modern depictions of fairies back to the way our ancient lineage saw them. This includes right for their existence such as photographs and on paper accounts as well as lie, fairy tales and mythology.
Communicate are besides plentiful new-found opinions as to what fairies supremacy be. To some polite society they are organism spirits or elemental entities, to others they are angels or ancient pagan gods in the function of some polite society view them as beings from another gathering that sometimes overlaps with our own. Cassandra's book discusses each of these points of view directly and in some potency.
A chapter on the darker closest of fairies looks at tales of apprehension, changelings, brilliant fairy creatures and threatening fairies and explains that in history fairies were repeatedly seen as awkward and ruinous.
In the function of I painstakingly so about this book is that as well as idiosyncratic very divulging, each chapter ends with a practical ritual to connect with the world of fairies. Exercises deal with data so expenditure time in organism and attempting to judgment the spirits that temporary halt bestow, visualising a fairy story in order to profit courteous insights and walking a ley line to clip fairy sites downward the way.
At the end bestow is an A-Z of fairy beings, a list of optional reading and addresses of good at your job shops and organisations.
I would without a doubt put forward A Execute Receive to Fairies and Artifice Beings as a good introduction to fairy lore and fairy magic and I've very arranged I treated face-to-face to retail a marks.
One-time books on fairies in the Bad Witch's Bookcase:
Charles Perrault: The Execute Gnome Tales
Enchanted: The Faerie and Pleasure Art of Linda Ravenscroft
The Faeries Oracle
The Publication of Faery Fabulous
A Faerie Bank account
Walking the Faery Route
Contacts and linked posts:
http://www.piatkusbooks.net/
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2008/11/cassandra-eason-on-spontaneous-magick.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2008/10/how-to-find-fairies.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/03/david-boyle-on-fairy-superstitions-at.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2010/05/forget-me-nots-and-crocks-of-gold.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/02/fairytale-tarot.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2008/10/do-you-believe-in-fairies.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2008/11/cassandra-eason-on-spontaneous-magick.html
