A Witch's Guide to Faery Folk: How to Work with the Elemental World (Llewellyn's New Age Series)

Fairies used to play a more central role in magicackal ritual. Over the last several centuries their role has gotten smaller and smaller. Many pagans do not have the specific knowledge of fAERIES AND who they are as did the Pagans of old. Their specific identities and roles have been forgotten. In many of our rituals they are reduced to mere spirits or elemental. Edain McCoy would like to revive the knowledge of Faeries and start using them more in rituals.Irish Celtic mythology seems to be the richest source of knowledge and folklore when it comes to Faeries. Indeed their are places in Ireland, Scotland and Britain where the people still see the faerie folk and hear them and their music. Feiries who live primarily in Summerland and Faerie land exist in the astral realms which are separated from our world by a few psychic layer. Most faerie sighting are in forest, the sea shore and by the rivers. Around the oceans of Ireland and Scotland sailors still report seeing faerie Island that are there one minute and gone the next.In magical workings fairies are grouped with one of the four elements which are in turn connected with one of the four cardinal directions. West is with land, North with Water, south with fire and East with air. When a magician works with faeries or the fae they have to be very careful. Not all of the fae like humans in fact there are many who have an ambivalent attitude towards human folk. A good number hate humans. Faeries are often pranksters who enjoy a good laugh so they play lots of tricks. Still faeries can add lots of energy to a ritual and many of them are allied to specific deities which can even be more helpful. Gremlins are noted to have a strong hatred for humans while the Tuatha De Danan are very helpful.There are several things to keep in mind when working with the fae. One is that when working your rituals it is always wisest to stay inside your circle and keep the fairies outside of your circle. You can place your offering outside the circle for the fae to enjoy and they can add energy to your ritual outside of the circle. When working with the Fae in gratitude for their assistance you are supposed to leave them an offering but do not thank them profusely as they do not like that. When visiting the land of the Fae one should not eat or drink anything they offer but politely decline. Dancing can be a bad idea if you get caught up and become unaware of how much time has elapsed. For visiting the land of the fae in your astral travels you should set up your own Astral temple that is stocked with an altar and magical supplies. Even when doing your rituals their when requesting assistance from the fae stay inside your circle. In working with the fae your astral temple should be right on the edge bordering the land of the fae.Edain McCoy offers several tip in her book on working with faeries. The most valuable information is on protection against malevolent faeries and how to create your own thought forms. The book does have a glossary of over 230 faeries many of whom do not have any magical value or have a negative value. The helpful ones are in the minority. I have also found some listing that maybe spiritual but to me do not qualify as faeries. Dybuks in Jewish lore are disembodied spirits not faeries neither are Golems for that matter yet they are in their. The book does sport a good bibliography for future reference and further reading. I would give this book 3.5 stars out of five.Protection against malevolent fairies1. Iron is their enemy as is smoke and ashes. Sleep with Iron or keep some Iron in your breast pocket to drive away malevolent fairies. Smoke can be used for banishing and ashes can be used for a protective circle.2. Certain herbs are very helpful. Besom can be kept by a hearth to drive away the fae or keep them out. Mirrors and broken mirrors keep the bad fae away. Put a fully intact mirror at your entrance as faeries don't like to look at their reflections in the mirror. Broken mirror shards in a container at the foot of your house also keeps them away. Making a satchel with Rowan in also effective in keeping them away.Creating Faeries1. Rubs your hands together for twenty minutes ass this creates the energy next visualize the faeries form and give it a job. they have to be recharged from time to time,

This book has a lot of good information but seems to be confused with Wiccan and Pagan spirituality. Wiccan Rede has the 3 fold rule not Pagan. Also some pronunciation of the words are incorrect like Samhain is pronounced Sow-en not Sah-vain. There’s a lot of repeating the same stuff that could easily be shortened too.

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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.

A Witch's Guide to Faery Folk is a rich, detailed, book on exploring and working with the world of faery folk. It is not just a dictionary to 230 faeries but also has hints and helpful information on how to find them, make friends with them, and involve them in the spells and magic you creat.It also has tons of information on mediation, how to travel in Faeryland, and how to protect you home and loved ones from the darker, unfriendly, forces among the faery.Get it used or new. Even if you don't believe, it is still fun to read.

A very informative book about the Fae folk. And I enjoyed the list of the many types of Fae in the dictionary itself. She even lists the incubi and succubi as a type of Fae. Which most books on Faery lore avoid. A great book.

Book arrived a little beat up but ge book itself is wonderful

I love this book. I love the fantasy it brings and how the author makes the premise of the lives of Faeries come alive for the reader. or researchers. It is a hard to find book on the elemental world and the little people that populate the fantasy world. I recommend.

This book is most valuable for the several sections that integrate Wiccan pathworking with faeries. Particularly useful is the guided meditation into Faerieland, which is quite an original piece of work. McCoy also blurs the distinction between meeting faeries on the Astral plane and in the physical world, which is probably pitched just about right. Faeries are ultimately remnants from our own collective subconscious (or whatever you'd like to call it) and are quite real when encountered in an altered state, but such altered states needn't be too far out of the physical world. The 'Working with Faery Beings' section is thus quite helpful, especially for Pagans following solitary paths. However, this only just makes the book worth its asking price. As another reviewer points out, there are some pretty awful factual errors in the text that are cringeworthy: apparently Yorkshire borders Scotland (p.29), James I was king of England from 1567-1625 (p.28), and best of all Chaucer was the author of Beowulf!!!! (p.323). Well maybe he was on the astral plane, but these kind of errors do not give the reader much confidence in some of McCoy's other pronouncements. The dictionary of faeries is useful for non-British/Irish elementals, but if you want to know about British faeries there is no better place to start than Katherine Briggs' Encyclopedia, which is more detailed and authoritative. Overall a useful addition to pagan faery literature, but only in parts.

good read

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Well, the book is interesting, somehow, there is a good bunch of good informations in it. I found a lot of mistakes in the spelling, so are the italian Fae not the fada but the fata. There are also a lot of descriptions of italian names for the fae, but (I am italian btw) I never heard about them. They seem to be regional idioms and not general kind of faery.It is also interesting (in a lesser positive point of view), how on one hand we should develop the "sight" or the ability to perceive the faery world, but on the other hand, one have to banish the faery folk from home and property. It is a little odd and by the huge amount of unfriendly and evil spirited faeries, a little frightening....

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