Spells and Bindings
10 best books like Spells and Bindings (Tristram Potter Coffin): Goddesses: A World of Myth and Magic, Heroes of the Dawn: Celtic Myth, De Historia Et Veritate Unicornis/on the History and Truth of the Unicorn, The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Arthurian Legends, Best-Loved Folktales of the World, The Boy's King Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology, The Encyclopaedia of Celtic Wisdom: A Celtic Shaman's Sourcebook, The Discovery of King Arthur, Celtic Myths and Legends (Myths of the World)
Goddesses: A World of Myth and Magic
| Author | Burleigh Muten |
| ISBN | 1841480754 |
★ true rating: 3.5 stars ★
Overall this was pretty cute, it showcases 2-3 goddesses on each page. The goddesses are organized in alphabetical order, but there is also a chart in the back of the book that has them organized by region/culture which I thought was a nice touch.
There are 100+...
| Author | Fergus Fleming |
| ISBN | 0705421716 |
Generation after generation has passed down the ancient legend of a boy-king named Arthur who pulled a sword from stone, loved the beautiful Guinevere, and presided over the Round Table. And we still celebrate the ancient Celtic holy day of Samhain, only now we call it Halloween. The earth itself has...
| Author | Michael Green |
| ISBN | 0894712063 |
I bought this book new back in the early 80's, and have read it a few times since then. I mostly enjoy the story, even if it does seem a bit simplistic to me these days. How many times have we seen the device of 'I found this manuscript and translated it in order to share its secrets with the world'? Michael Green...
| 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 | Joanna Cole |
| ISBN | 0385189494 |
A great compendium of stories with the common hidden theme which you can find if you read them with your heart.
Some favorites:
Maid Lena: This story reveals that the source of our lack of energy and courage is the result of something being “dead at our center,” and the necessity...
| Author | Sidney Lanier |
| ISBN | 0684191113 |
First published in 1880, The Boy's King Arthur was edited by the American poet Sidney Lanier from Sir Thomas Malory's history of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Lanier said of the Malory work, "I suspect there are few books in our language which lead a reader - whether young or old - on from...
| Author | Félix Guirand |
| ISBN | 0517004046 |
Here, in all their wonder and splendor, are the Mythologies of Mankind.. from pre-biblical Egypt and pre-Homeric Greece to the farthest researches of Africa, the Orient, the Pacific and the Americas.. all gathered into one mammoth volume of unprecedented scope and beauty, and illustrated with an...
| Author | Caitlín Matthews |
| ISBN | 1852305606 |
The Celtic tradition is a source of inspiration to many seeking to discover their ancestral spiritual heritage. This superb sourcebook contains many new translations of seminal Celtic texts, including stories, poems, and prose pieces, some dating from as far back as the seventh century. Key ingredients...
| Author | Geoffrey Ashe |
| ISBN | 0905649699 |
Myths, legends & literary mysteries mix with maps, relics & historical facts in "The Discovery of King Arthur." Scholars, students & general readers of all ages have wondered for centuries about whether Britain was ever really ruled by an Arthur who held court at a place called Camelot....
| Author | Charles Squire |
| ISBN | 0517101572 |
This is one from my PC shelf; not one to read cover-to-cover, I refer back to this from time to time, and read it sporatically. Lots of interesting bits about the Celts..
2/15/08: I am currently in the midst of reading "The Mists of Avalon" (heehee), and so I am reading bits of this as a sort of "background";...
| Author | David G. Hartwell |
| ISBN | 1568650396 |
Note, Dec. 17, 2016: I edited this review just now to correct two misspelled words.
July 2, 2011
Hartwell is a respected anthologist in the field of speculative fiction, so when I got a good deal on this collection a couple of years ago, I grabbed it up. His objective here (set forth in his short...
| Author | Chic Cicero |
| ISBN | 1567181368 |
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn has been considered one of the most important Western magical systems for over a century. Although much of their knowledge has been published, to really enter the system required initiation within a Golden Dawn temple--until now.
Regardless of your magical...
| Author | Time-Life Books |
| ISBN | 0809452162 |
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I've been working to complete my collection of "The Enchanted World Series" throughout this year and this has to be one of my favorite volumes yet. The volume titled Ghosts is packed full of...
| Author | Brendan Lehane |
| ISBN | 0809452057 |
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I learned about this Time Life Enchanted World Series after Stacy and I did an interview with Katherine Arden, author of The Bear and the Nightingale. The author had mentioned reading these when...
| Author | Dion Fortune |
| ISBN | 1578631858 |
Applied Magic is a selection of Dion Fortune's writings on the practical applications of magical and esoteric techniques. Everyone has the ability to access the invisible planes of existence a whole kingdom of mind and spirit which cannot be perceived with the physical senses. Fortune provides invaluable...
