Fang and Fur, Blood and Bone: A Primal Guide to Animal Magic Review

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Fang and Fur, Blood and Bone: A Primal Guide to Animal Magic ReviewLupa's book is exactly as it says: practical and straight-forward with no hand-holding exercises. Don't expect prefab spells or "this is the way you should do it." She gives you ideas, starting places, and the results from her own work, then turns you loose with the knowledge to do it your own way. No stone is left unturned with chapters on the standard totemism and familiars, moving on to invocation and evocation of animal entities, the creation of animal entities, shapeshifting, and even the heretofore taboo subjects of the use of animal parts in magic and animal sacrifice. Even these branch off into subsections dealing with everything from mythology to cryptozoology and therianthropy.
The art is beautiful and the writing is clear and easy to read; I devoured it the night I got it (something I almost never do with any book). Elements of paleopaganism, neopaganism, and pop culture (including a guest appearance by Moro no Kimi and mentions of such seemingly random and unrelated subjects as "Pokemon" and "Star Wars") blend together to bring something completely new to the standard fare currently ascribed to books on animal magic. Even the chapter on totems alone is well worth it, going far more indepth than any I've read so far.
In short, for those of you (be you magician, witch, whatever, or not) tired of reading the same totem dictionary in fifteen different covers by thirty different authors, this book is for you.Fang and Fur, Blood and Bone: A Primal Guide to Animal Magic Overview

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Animal Spirit ReviewTelesco's Animal Spirit is a nice concept, but poorly written and sometimes even useless. The best way to review it is by going through the chapters:
what is animal magick? Discusses the general idea. Petricia does one of the most common and annoying things a wiccan author does - invents her own tradition, in this case, "wild witchery".
2 - The scientific dimension: this chapter is actually the most usable and I was really happy to see a wiccan book that doesn't ignore the scientific point of view. The author discusses animals not by their cultural attributes but by their habitat, feeding habits and such.
Animal omens: Instead of giving us a long detailed list of animal attributes, somehow the author thinks giving us several lists (animal totems list, omens list, dream symbols... there are maybe twenty hard-to-reference lists in this book!).
Fur, Feather and Fin: Is a useless chapter. She gives you general information on how to reserve dead animals found in the woods or on the highway. Not only this is dangerous, if the readers would actually want to follow this idea, they would probably read a book by an expert, and not just a set of tips.
The Circle of Life: discusses the general idea about using animals in rituals. Note there are no real rituals or spells in this book, although the word "spells" was added to the book's title, to allure buyers.
Zodiac and Beyond: A general overview of western and Chinese astrology. Very superficial and short, but I guess it was nice she mentioned it.
Feng Shui Bestiary: Gives you, again, a general idea about feng shui. There are no actual tips here - just again, 4 lists of correspondences, that repeat the same information.
Totems, Guides, Familiars and Teachers: A chapter with general tips about finding your totem. Of course, no rituals or any practical ideas, just another list of correspondences (with the same animals...).
The most useful part in this book, besides the scientific point of view in chapter 2, is appendix B with one big list of (yet again) animal correspondences, only this time it is very general and altogether helpful.
Overall, this is a nice superficial book that gives you ideas about how to live closer to nature with animals. It repeats itself often, and has no practical point of view at all, but is nice to keep as a reference.Animal Spirit Overview

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