A Field Guide to the Little People
10 best books like A Field Guide to the Little People (Nancy Arrowsmith): The Fairy Bible: The Definitive Guide to the World of Fairies, The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Arthurian Legends, Magical Beasts, Fairies and Elves, Great Swedish Fairy Tales, Fairies: Real Encounters With Little People, The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and Other Little People, The Faery Teachings, Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins: An Encyclopedia, Celtic Gods and Heroes
| Author | Teresa Moorey |
| ISBN | 1402745486 |
Fairies of the water, air, and earth, the trees and flowers, the house and hearth: all these mysterious, elusive creatures materialize on the pages of this distinctively beautiful guide to fairyland. Illustrated throughout with captivating artwork in glorious color, it examines fairy legend and...
| Author | Ronan Coghlan |
| ISBN | 1566198763 |
Often plundered and even plagiarised – frequently online and most notably in print by Mike Dixon-Kennedy in his Arthurian Myth and Legend: an A-Z of People and Places (1996) – this was the first really accessible dictionary of Arthurian personages, locales and other miscellanea. While not an...
| Author | Ellen Galford |
| ISBN | 0809452294 |
To learn more about the Enchanted World Series and see this full review, please visit www.readrantrockandroll.com
Magical Beasts is the second book in the Enchanted World Series that I've read recently. The book is split into three sections/chapters and covers many different beasts and...
| Author | Tristram Potter Coffin |
I picked this up by chance in a local market and I'm deeply thrilled that I did.
large range of Fairy legends essentially condensed into a flow of text. Seems to draw mainly from pre-existing collections.
In terms of layout and art - a really fantastic book. Pulls from the history of 19th...
This book has wonderful tales and equally wonderful artwork by John Bauer. Three tales stand out, "The Magician's Cape", "The Queen," and "The Changelings". The stories include encounters with trolls and feature a good mixture of heros and heroines.
It should be noted, however, that the...
| Author | Janet Bord |
| ISBN | 0440226120 |
Hordes of tiny people playing at a spot in Wales called "Fairies Bog"...an impossibly tiny shoe found in Ireland...fairy dust discovered on Mount Shasta, California...the wondrous sighting of a winged woman inside a rose.
These and many more astounding accounts offer tangible evidence...
| Author | Thomas Keightley |
| ISBN | 0517263130 |
Finally finished it! Enjoyed it so much. A great collection of folklore from all over the world.
I will caution: not a book to read if you're looking for something light. I was sometimes frustrated by the lack of English in certain sections. Almost all of the Spain section I couldn't read because...
| Author | Orion Foxwood |
| ISBN | 0979140226 |
The "Faery Teachings" re-attune us to the spirits of the land, sea, wind, flame, human ancestry and the Elder race, which we know as the Faery. This attunement occurs through the application of age-old lore, techniques, folk practices, inner contacts and wisdom of Faery Seership. The stream of mystical...
| Author | Carol Rose |
| ISBN | 0393317927 |
In more than 2,000 alphabetically arranged entries, readers will meet angels, demons, elves, encantados, fairies, familiars, keremets, nats, nymphs, and many other strange beings from around the world. Carol Rose introduces the reader to the little--and not so little--folk, delightfully various...
| Author | Marie-Louise Sjoestedt |
| ISBN | 0486414418 |
There's a surprising amount of information packed into this tiny book about Celtic culture and myth. It's dense reading, and I read each chapter through multiple times and took notes in order to really absorb the information. What I appreciated most about this work is how Sjoestedt highlights the ways...
| Author | Katharine M. Briggs |
| ISBN | 0394508068 |
Katharine Briggs took her fairies seriously. She was a folklore scholar, with several Oxford degrees, and did not think fairy tales were strictly the province of children. The tales she liked were those handed down over generations by people who believed in them, as opposed to the ones “made up as...
| Author | Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie |
| ISBN | 0933999518 |
As I said about the Presocratics and Stoics in other reviews, all the writings of the first Pythagoreans and of Pythagoras have disappeared and the fragments attributed to Pythagoras are contested. But, if not an exhaustive account of later Pythagorean writings and thought, this book is at least a...
| Author | Stuart Piggott |
| ISBN | 0500273634 |
3 из 5, потому что зубодробительное написание текста стало и в каком-то роде и открытием, и головной болью. Если хотите поистязать мозг-милости просим,...
A Witch's Guide To Faery Folk: How to Work With the Elemental World
| Author | Edain McCoy |
| ISBN | 0875427332 |
Work magick with help from the little people
All over the world, people have reported encounters with a race of tiny people who are neither human nor deity. This book reclaims that lost, rich heritage of working with faery folk that our Pagan ancestors took for granted.
Edain McCoy...
| Author | Rudolf Koch |
| ISBN | 0486201627 |
This unusual collection of primitive and medieval symbols provides one of the most fertile single sources of decorative ideas available today. It is also a graphic history of the development of written communication and offers a singular insight into the psychology of the primitive mind.
The...
The Complete Golden Dawn System Of Magic (Ltd Edition)
| Author | Israel Regardie |
| ISBN | 1561841714 |
The Special Red Edition with Hebrew Letters
by Israel Regardie
Foreword by David Cherubim
Master Index by Jim Strain
This is the master compilation of the magical teachings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn of which Israel Regardie was an initiated Adept....
Magickal Mystical Creatures: Invite Their Powers Into Your Life
Here is an occult encyclopedia of over two hundred magickal creatures, from pookas and green men to gorgons and gargoyles. Included are their history, symbolism, appearance, associated traits, and magickal abilities. More important, however, is the included information on how to use the energies...
Complete Enochian Dictionary: A Dictionary of the Angelic Language As Revealed to Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley
| Author | Donald C. Laycock |
| ISBN | 1578632544 |
In 1581, Dr. John Dee, an advisor in the court of Queen Elizabeth I, began a series of experiments intended to explore the ability to contact the spirit world. With Edward Kelley acting as the medium in these experiments, Dee was able to record these communications as they were transmitted in Enochian...
On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans and Assyrians
| Author | Iamblichus of Chalcis |
This volume, On the Mysteries, by Iamblichus (Abamun) is a unique form or scripture out of the Ancient Egyptian religious tradition. It is written in a form that is not usual or which is not usually found in the remnants of Ancient Egyptian scriptures. It is in the form of teacher and disciple, much like...
A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels and Other Subversive Spirits
Watch your back! . . . How to spot and identify demons and other subversive spirits . . . And what to do next.
Demons, fairies, and fallen angels are everywhere. They lurk at crossroads, crouch behind doors, hide in trees, slip into beds, wait in caves, hover at weddings and childbirths, disguise...
Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Sourcebook
| Author | Daniel Ogden |
| ISBN | 0195151232 |
In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary and mythic tradition and in ritual practice. Recently, ancient magic has hit a high in popularity, both as an area of scholarly inquiry and as one of general, popular interest....
| Author | Time-Life Books |
| ISBN | 0809452332 |
A series from Time Life Books on myth, superstitions, and legend, brought to life with beautiful illustrations, and written in a fluid like prose that brings to mind a storyteller sitting by a crackling fire sharing his tales.
I remember reading some of the books in this series when I was younger....
