Hello, pornies! How are you feeling today? Still no changes about the internet issue here, hehe. I’m an all-you-can-read buffet, though. Today I want to tell you about I read recently and that surprised me A LOT! I’m totally in love with Fairycraft: Following the Path of Fairy Witchcraft, by Morgan Daimler, the second book on her Fairy Witchcraft series. Thank you so much to the publisher for sending me a review copy!
- Series: Fairy Witchcraft #2
- Print Length: 272 pages
- Publisher: Moon Books (June 24, 2016)
- Publishing Date: June 24, 2016
- Genres: Fairies, mythology, folklore, witchcraft
- ISBN-10: 178535051X
- ISBN-13: 978-1785350511
- Rating: 5 / 5 stars
An in-depth manual for practicing Fairy Witchcraft including theology, fairy lore, rituals, holidays, and magical practices. This book aims to pick up where Pagan Portals - Fairy Witchcraft leaves off and teach interested people the comprehensive practice of this system of honoring the Fair Folk and liminal Gods by blending the old Fairy Faith with modern paganism.
This book goes deeper than the first one, which serves as a quick reference guide in Fairy Witchcraft matters, and when I say deeper, I mean DEEPER. It touches several of the topics we explored previously such as the Gods, the tools and festivities, but goes way beyond the basics and includes several new topics like the Gods (beautiful, beautiful chapter, if you ask me,) the Ancestors, and one for stones, plants and animals.
We get to meet the myths and legends that shaped this tradition and its beliefs, both from a scholar point of view and from personal experience. Each of the chapters also including a personal, modern experience from Morgan Daimler that takes you a bit further and helps you know what to expect (as much as you can expect from the Fae.)
I found particularly useful the comparison between several, similar myths, such as with the Fairy Host and the Wild Hunt. They have much in common and could be confusing to find them on your own, but this book makes it clear which is which. I also feel in love with the herbal mixes, folk remedies, chants, prayers, and almost every imaginable tool you would find useful in your path as a Faery Witch.
I lost track of time reading Fairycraft. It has been on my wish-I-read list for a long, really long time, and I can tell you it’s beautiful inside and out (tell me you don’t like that cover and I’ll hex you!) This is a powerful tool for those who want to discover more about this charming path. Part reference book, part grimoire, this will be one of your favorite readings!
About Morgan Daimler:
Morgan Daimler is a witch who has been a polytheist since the early ’90′s. Following a path inspired by the Irish Fairy Faith blended with neopagan witchcraft, Morgan teaches classes on Irish myth and magical practices, fairies, and related subjects in the United States and internationally. Morgan has been published in multiple anthologies as well as in Witches and Pagans magazine, Pagan Dawn magazine and the CR journal Air n-Aithesc, and they are one of the world's foremost experts on all things Fairy. Besides the titles available through Moon Books Morgan has self-published a book of Old and Middle Irish language translations called The Treasure of the Tuatha De Danann, and an urban fantasy/paranormal romance series called Between the Worlds.
Have you read this book? Would you recommend it or not? Let me know in the comments! Kinky regards, K!
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