Magickal, Mythical, Mystical Beasts: How to Invite Them Into Your Life

by D.J. Conway

Book Overview

Gain the Magical Powers of More Than 200 Amazing Creatures From pookas and green men to gorgons and gargoyles, this occult encyclopedia reveals everything you need to know about more than two hundred... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567181767
• ISBN13: 9781567181760
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Book for Everyone

iv just gotten back into reading about wicca but this book is a great read even if your not Pagan. its would just be fun to read for anyone.

Great book

This book details more about spirts and even totems that are not the standred totems and this book talks about some of things on astral. Over all a nice book good infomation on finding and understand these other worldy creature this book is just a guide and i would do read on myth on creature and go with your gut feeling. I found the book fun to read i would recommed this one for semi advanced because most that are new are just beginning.This book was one better ones and one of few the touches this subject.Blessed Be;

A Good Starting Point

A good book for beginners and those who are just beginning research on the various mythical beasts. She covers nearly every creature within mythology, quite a few of which I never heard of. At times it felt as though she wasn't saying enough about a creature but she did give enough to go on to further research each one.

Comprehensive, fascinating, amazing!

I have always been fascinated with mystical creatures, but unfortunately very few intelligent books have been written about them. I'm glad to say this book is great! It covers a lot of ground, offering information for each creature, and also advice for working with them.Conway begins with an introduction to the concept of mythical beasts, and a general overview of working with them. The book is then divided into sections for each type of creature, as follows: Unicorns, Flying Horses, Centaurs, Satyrs and Fauns, Gigantic Birds, Human-Birds, Griffins, Mystical Bulls, Fabulous Lions, Magickal Serpents, Sphinxes, Hell Hounds, Water-folk, Creatures of the Stony Stare, Gargoyles, and other creatures. Each chapter has many different types of creatures that fall under that heading, such as Woodwose under "Centaurs", and Nixies under "water-folk". For each creature a description, area, origin, and folklore are given, followed by psychological attributes and magickal attributes. The many illustrations are delightful and detailed. The final part of the book deals with working with magick, and covers candle burning, amulets and talismans, and rituals. These chapters are brief, but Conway gets right to the point. In the "Rituals" section, she offers three different quarter calls and dismissals, for the Archangels, Lords and Ladies, and the Elemental Kings.A wonderful book that anyone interesting in magick or mystical beasts can enjoy greatly. Even if you are not into magick or paganism, you can still delight in reading about the folklore and legends about these magickal mythical mystical beasts.

This book was a lifesaver!

In this book, you basically learn how to use certain creatures in your spells-- a great book for new witches such as myself.