Faeriecraft [Paperback]

Neil Geddes (Author), Alicen Ward (Author), Alicen Geddes-Ward (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2005

The faerie seeker is invited to follow the sparkling pathway to Elf Land through the pages of "Faeriecraft. The aim of this book is to reverse a trend--that the magical and spiritual pathway of Faeriecraft has traditionally been kept a mysterious and elusive secret. The authors passionately believe that the faeries are for everyone who seeks them. This inspirational version of Faeriecraft is shaped from the authors' own experiences and concepts, which have been impressed upon her by the faeries themselves. "Faeriecraft takes the fey seeker on a step-by-step guide on how to practice this craft, which is the creative melding of the faerie faith and natural witchcraft. Once faerie seekers have followed the exercises and insights throughout this book, they can emerge inspired to work with the faeries and have the knowledge and confidence to call themselves a faerie priest or priestess.

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About the Author

Neil and Alicen Geddes-Ward are an artist and writer respectively, and they frequently work collaboratively as a creative team. Alicen works as a writer and faerie priestess, and she travels extensively throughout the U.K. giving workshops and lectures on Faeriecraft. As a writer, she regularly contributes articles for New Age and wiccan magazines. She has also had numerous plays performed and has toured internationally in the theater on faerie/esoteric themes. She has appeared on TV, radio, and in magazines, and has been described as the "U.K.’s leading exponent on faeries."

Pagan and visionary artist Neil Geddes-Ward is one of the founding members of the prestigious British Visionary Artist Group, which attracts esteemed artists from all over the U.K. to exhibit and publish their work collectively. Neil’s artwork is influenced by dreams, psychic and astral experiences, and the pagan imagery of the British landscape. He has appeared on TV and radio, in books and CDs, and in esoteric magazines in the U.K., the U.S., and Australia. His work sells internationally as prints and cards, and he’s gained the reputation of becoming a highly collectible and celebrated artist in his field.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Hay House (August 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401906109
• ISBN-13: 978-1401906108
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,290,392 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Faerie Tradtion Lite...., November 21, 2006

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Rashchupkina (Off left in center.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Faeriecraft (Paperback)

I got this book super cheap at a sale, otherwise I doubt I would have purchased it.

Just a warning, if you are seriously interested in profound, complex work with Faeries, this is not the book to help you. Like the other reviewer wrote, is this fiction? She said she's done tons of research. Where? What books was she researching? Certainly none of the dozens of books I have read on the lore, history and past of this ancient tradtion. She makes no mention of ancestors, none of the different types of faeries (hives, trooping etc)...only focusing on the elementals, which aren't even the Faery in the body of old lore. No mention of the connection between the Faerie realm and ghosts (ancestors as well)....even though this is well known and documented throughout all cultures and times.

Her brand of Faerie seems to come from the post industrial realm of what people think Faeries are and do. Really a made up one. She has none of the beautiful and evocative poetry and words from well known old poets such as W.B. Yeats, Fiona MacLeod....or writing from the famous Robert Kirk...nothing whatsoever of any histrorical mention, not even folklore or ballads! Just qoutes from her horrible sounding faerie romance novel (from the many qoutes from it) Uhg and the artwork...pretty bad. One of the paintings of a "faerie king" looks like some cheesy calvin klein model, with one of his hands in his jeans to boot. I laughed outloud at this drawing. The only thing intersting in the whole book was her description of the Snow Queen.

This book is just bad. If you are a serioud seeker and what to really delve into the enchanted realm and way beyond I recommend The Feary Teachings by Orion Foxwood or Earth Light and Living World of Faery by R.J. Stewart. If you want to keep it lite and flit about the flowers and think you've somehow connected to something by just wandering around nature and building altars with glitter....by all means read this book.

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not What I Expected ! Fiction?, April 29, 2006

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Rhonda J. Thompson (Indiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Faeriecraft (Paperback)

What a joke! I have read alot of books on faeries. After reading all of R J Stewarts` books and Faery Teachings by Orion Foxwood this seams like fiction. I could bearly bring myself to finish it. I can`t beleive the author is the UK`s top authority on faeries. Very sad.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars vomiting rainbows, November 22, 2009

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Broch Gwrthryfelwr "trouble bruin" (Great Britain) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Faeriecraft (Paperback)

One of the worst, wishy-washy, sugary, lost in a rainbow-haze-of-crystals-and-unicorns books I have ever had the misfortune to read.

The fascinating subject of the Fae, their traditions, ways, origins and working with them as a pantheon are reduced to watered down new-age fare. Far from being the great beings of folklore, and nature spirits, akin to gods and Jungian archetypes, the host of Faerie has been reduced to pale stereotypes, little more than weak Patriachal Monotheist angels. Avoid this insubstantial morass of dreadful wicca-lite confection and treat yourself to a serious study on the fae, something along the lines of Faeries (25th Anniversary Edition) , The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fairies or Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, & Other Supernatural Creatures (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)