Pagan Portals - Folktales, Faeries, and Spirits
A practical exploration of local faery and spirit led magic through folktales and stories.
A practical exploration of local faery and spirit led magic through folktales and stories.
A practical exploration of local faery and spirit led magic through folktales and stories.
Celtic spirituality, Paganism & neo-paganism, Witchcraft
Folktales, Faeries, and Spirits is a practical exploration of faery and spirit led magic through folktales and stories of Britain and Western Europe for pagans who wish to work with the spirits of these traditions, and to find their own local lore and direct relationships therein. If you are ready to meet the spirits of faery lore and build your own personal, living practice of witchcraft, spirit-led and rooted in the magic of the land, this is the book for you.
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Halo Quin’s Folktales, Faeries, and Spirits brings Faery lore to life, retrieving it from the archives and oral traditions, from beneath toadstools and mossy tree stumps. This book is an invitation to open one’s eyes to the awareness that we share our homes and landscapes, the Middle Realm, with innumerable Fae Beings, many of whom go unnoticed. For those seeking to correct this oversight and to respectfully (and sensibly!) greet their Fae neighbours, this is a portal to the land of the Fae, which is closer than one might think! ~ Olivia Church, author of Pagan Portals: Isis - Great of Magic, She of 10,000 Names and Pagan Portals: Sekhmet - Lady of Flame, Eye of Ra.
Practical, hands on and wonderfully magical, this inclusive and accessible guide to navigating the faery realm is creative, original and utterly delightful. ~ Anna McKerrow, author of The Bird Atlas, The Book of Babalon and the Greenworld Trilogy
This book will be of particular interest to students of Druidry interested in working with folklore, landscape and spirits of place. There are many interesting fairy insights here, and the author provides a valuable map for engaging with stories and spirits in your landscape. ~ Nimue Brown, author of Druidry and the Ancestors: Finding our place in our own history, and Pagan Dreaming: The Magic of Altered Consciousness.
In "Folktales, Faeries, and Spirits" you will find practical ways for working with faeries and spirits, integrating those practices into your everyday life, and also approaching folklore as the living, breathing, moving body of work that it still is - not something static, or confined to dusty books and 'old wives tales'. Quin invites you to thoroughly examine your own beliefs and magical actions with useful questions in each chapter, and encourages a practice that finds us, quite literally, where we are. ~ Kate Garrett, author of To Feed My Woodland Bones [A Changeling's Tale] and Magical Editor of Mookychick magazine