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Summary: A Witch's Guide to Faery Folk was
Review: my first book on witchcraft. I have always been interested in faeries, and that's what drew me to this book. Included in this book are spells and rituals for you and the faery folk, how and where to find faeries, a dictionary of various faeries from around the world, and other invaluable information about faeries no practicing witch should go without.
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Summary: The Witch and the Faery
Review: No book is perfect, and there are several flaws to McCoy's work, but all and all, this is a fine book. The premise is the witch working with the faery, an excellent idea, and a valuable collection to any collector of books on witchcraft, wicca, and faerylore. The introduction is wonderful, and the source list is valuable. The book also includes a dictionary of some 200 plus faery creatures. If I have a complaint, it's that McCoy does not write enough on the German, French, and Bohemian experience, where faery creatures existed as surely as they existed in Ireland, Scotland, and England. McCoy's background is basically Celtic, as with many in the witchcraft community. Love the book, its premise, but I sure would have liked more on the French, Italian, and German folklore. A must for collectors.
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Summary: A good place to start...
Review: The advice presented in this book is a good place to start for a guide to working with the Fae. The dictionary addresses many types of Faeries but I feel it would have helped to have illustrations to accompany the definitions, even simple black and white sketches would have helped, to provide the mind with visual memory cues when working in meditation. My advice as a remedy to this is to use one of Brian Froud's books to provide the visual side of it, along with the good information in this book. Don't get me wrong, the info and ideas are very useful, and I do recommend it to those looking into working with Faeries. The advice is sensible and she writes wonderfully.
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Summary: A good place to start...
Review: The advice presented in this book is a good place to start for a guide to working with the Fae. The dictionary addresses many types of Faeries but I feel it would have helped to have illustrations to accompany the definitions, even simple black and white sketches would have helped, to provide the mind with visual memory cues when working in meditation. My advice as a remedy to this is to use one of Brian Froud's books to provide the visual side of it, along with the good information in this book. Don't get me wrong, the info and ideas are very useful, and I do recommend it to those looking into working with Faeries. The advice is sensible and she writes wonderfully.
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Summary: Terrible! Total turn off!
Review: The reading in this book was interesting enough, but it was hardly a decent work on the subject! It was more like fantasy, and McCoy should have marketed it as the fiction it is!
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Summary: Don't do it, PLEASE don't buy this trash
Review: There is a review that says it better than me, but take our word for it as scholars - this book is FICTION. Poorly researched and filled with trite dribble you find in her other books, this book proves once again that Edain McCoy is only out for money and cares nothing for REAL Celtic tradition. I would give this book FIVE BOO's!
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Summary: You could dig deeper with a safer shovel.
Review: There is an inspiring and alluring appeal to the faery beings of the world. The very idea of delicate energy spirits is ambrosia in a society of BigMacs and Eighteen wheelers. This book is a pleasant lexicon and does not include much in the way of dangerous misrepresentation like some others.With this in mind I recognize the benefit and appeal of this book and others of it's genre. But what is the source of this beauty? Is it aesthetic whimsy? If it's the calling from the lands of effervescent green to your spiritual depths you *can* dig deeper. This tradition is alive, and good news: There is so much luminescence waiting to be seen beneath the surface of Gaia. There is a great deal of oral lore, study and practice that can be touched in the faery tradition of celtic lands... And you can go so much further!! Examples have already been named by another reviewer below... I would also include RJ Stewart inspirationally and for magickal practice and Evans-Wentz (Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries)for details on the beings themselves.
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Summary: Great!
Review: This book is an excellent guide for people who are interested in working with the fae. I would highly recommend it!
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Summary: Well written, basic guide
Review: This book is nominally well written and contains quite a bit of good information in an easily accessible and clear form (I'm not sure McCoy could have done better with as nebulous a subject). The rituals are decent, however, the pathworking she recommends as an introduction is long and needed a major overhaul before I found it workable. McCoy uses /The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves & Other Little People/ heavily as a resource, but this book gives a much cleaner presentation and is written in more modern english. The former is for a scholar, this is for a Witch. The content itself is on the overall good but at some parts questionable from my own experiences. So long as you watch for those (few) parts, it is an excellent resource for your own personal library.
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Summary: Good Book but not the best
Review: This book is not bad nor the best one.I found that dictiionary was best point of book it was nice to put the list of fay and give ya a guide to mythology to do the reseach why 3 star rating well forcing any elemental and spirt to do anything i do question,still had some nice things on it i just do more reseach and ignore the opinion this is mainly a guide to work with fay but by far not complete.I use the book for dictioary in back and add and new infomation that i discover. Good luck. Blessed Be;
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