Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 192 pages
- Published by: Llewellyn Publications July 1, 2003
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0738703397
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0738703398
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Book Dimensions:
8.7 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
- Weighs: 10.4 ounces
Product Description
You can use Familiars as guardians during dream or astral work or to protect your home and property. Familiars can also help in spell-casting and other works of magick. The Witches' Familiar is the first thorough and serious work on the subject for modern Witches and Pagans. It shows how to obtain a Familiar and work with one and it also provides cautions and remedies for any problems that may occur in this magical partnership. Learn a magical system for creating and using mystical seals designed to evoke Familiar spirits. This is never-before-published material, based upon Pagan elements rather than the more common Hebrew and Kabbalistic seals.
About The Author
Award-winning author Raven Grimassi is the author of seven books on Wicca and Witchcraft, including Wiccan Mysteries (awarded Best Book of the Year & Best Spirituality Book 1998 by the Coalition of Visionary Retailers), Wiccan Magick, Italian Witchcraft (previously titled Ways of the Strega), Hereditary Witchcraft, Encyclopedia of Wicca & Witchcraft (awarded Best Non-Fiction Book 2001 by the Coalition of Visionary Retailers), Beltane, and The Witches' Craft.
Raven Grimassi has been a teacher and practitioner of the Craft for nearly thirty years. He is trained in the Family tradition of Italian Witchcraft (also known as Stregheria), and is also an initiate of several Wiccan Traditions, including Brittic Wicca and the Pictish-Gaelic Tradition. He is currently the Directing Elder of the Arician Ways. Raven considers it his life's work to ensure the survival of ancient witch lore and legend along with ancestral teachings of the Old Religion.
Grimassi has worked as both a writer and editor for several magazines over the past decade, including The Shadow's Edge (a publication focusing on Italian Witchcraft) and Raven's Call (a journal of modern Wicca, Witchcraft and Magick).
Reader ReviewsI really enjoyed this book. It provided a lot of information on the familiar which I didn't know. It's approached lightheartedly, not strictly, and explores animal guides in depth. It's very informative and I recommend it for any Witch's bookshelf. It's not a scholarly, in-depth study of the history of the Witch's familiar, but it doesn't need to be. It's clear, accurate and well-written, in all honesty. It's a relatively small book, but this is expected for the content explored. How much can be said about familiars? I believe that which can be said, Mr. Grimassi says here. I recommend this book alongside Ted Andrew's classic "Animal Speak" for any Earth-based spiritualist. Thanks, Raven, for another good book! =) ~Colin Smith~ Missoula, MT
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