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Animal Magick: The Art of Recognizing and Working with Familiars

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Conway's research is horrid. She threw together a bunch of shaky information in her usual "Look! I'm a witch!" format and called it a book. Of course, that's par for the course with her. Get Ted Andrews' stuff instead.

This book could be so much better if it contained *accurate* information about all the animals mentioned! Conway needs to do adequate research before writing, and Llewellyn needs to do their editorial homework before publishing her books.

My coven and I have been researching animal familiars, guides and totems and this book is a great quick reference for just that. It had a great explanation for the different types of familiars in the front, meditation ideas, and a very comprehensive number of different animals that you might find are your spirit guides. I have found many people including myself who are not too keen on certain types of critters and she covers those as well, with reassurance and advice. Rest assured it is a good book to add to your library.

I like the meditations and rituals to give ideas and seek help from my Familiars. I like the chants to call the animals for help.this book had alot of creativity put into it from a european view D.J conway has been under alot of fire lately, Still this book has some of better medititions for beginner and advanced even thou not total complete but one of betters written about animals use book use this and Animal Speak by ted Andrews for finding and working with totems.I think the book was worth the money and one of the best.

Blessed Be;

This book is divided into several sections, each section contains a different class of animal. It tells about the different types of energy each animal has and how to use that energy in magickal workings as well as the messages they have for us. Sometimes we cannot work with the physical animal itself so we have to work with them on the astral plain, ie meditation. They are always there to help us out, we just have to stop and pay attention to what they have to tell us. A great book for a shaman or a witch, DJ Conway has done it again. She is such a great author.

I LOVE this book! I like the meditations and rituals to find and seek help from my Familiars. I like the chants to call the animals for help.

Okay I was okay with this book before I started really doing research in animal magick and found this book to be very inaccurate in a lot of areas. First off she tries to state that Odin used Frigg's Falcon cloak to travel through the planes on occassion. This has never happened in any myth because for one Odin used Sliepnar and in his later stages doesn't even need Loki's steed. So where by all the gods does she get this idea? The only god that I've heard mention using the falcon cloak is Loki, and unlike her I've read and reread all of the myths.

Also when reading this book keep in mind the D.J. Conway like many wiccan authors are feminists. Their is nothing wronge with being feminist but I have noticed a lot of time these are the exact ones where their judgement clouds their writing. A lot go off with this huge creatrix theory, (where ever that freaken came from) and put it down as fact.

I personaly get sick of both shovenist and feminists books and wish to see for once a book that doesn't indulge on either. I've found this book sadly lacking in that area. Read Ted Andrews 'Animal Speak' it is a much better book overall and goes into things that Conway who thinks the Lynx and the bobcat are the exact same, sadly lacks.

This is the book that i first bought when i started studying more of animal magick, meditating to find animal spirits, and trying to work with familiars in general. I must say that this book was a great help. It gives examples of meditations and rituals of how to work with familiars. It also gives an index of animals and their history, and traits, so that you may find an animal that you can correspond with. It also gives a list of deites with familiars that they are portayed to be with. This book is definetly worth buying, and great for quick references.

The mojority of this book is telling you about each and every animal, its legends, supersition, how it is seen by some cultures, and a chant, which is a usefull starter for making your own chant, although I would recomened not useing them without your own adaptations...

I see this book as a good referance... and a good view point as many books on animal magick are from a shaman or native american view.

The mojority of this book is telling you about each and every animal, its legends, supersition, how it is seen by some cultures, and a chant, which is a usefull starter for making your own chant, although I would recomened not useing them without your own adaptations...

I see this book as a good referance... and a good view point as many books on animal magick are from a shaman or native american view.