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Faery Magick

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This lovely book is filled with great stuff! The book begins with some Faery history and folklore, including Shakespeare's faeries and faeries in other literature. It also breaks down the types of faeries, briefly, leaving room in the book for plenty of Faery magick. Each chapter begins with a "journey", which can be read as a beautiful story or meditation relating to the subject matter of the chapter. Magickal guidelines for working with Fae are described, including gardening and offerings. The rituals are positive and beautiful, incorporating nature such as flowers, fruits or other treats. There are special sections devoted to hearth and home magick, love and romance, healing, prosperity, and empowerment. Sometimes you even get to cook and eat or create a beauty treatment. The magick is positive and non-manipulative. This book is a great addition to the library of anyone desiring to or already working with Faery energy.

A friend turned me on to this wonderful and magickal book. I was reading Cunningham's book and it didn't have much on the fae, so she told me to buy Sirona Knight's book on faery magick. I'm glad I did. This is one book I don't loan out to anyone because I refer to it so much the pages are already worn. If you are totally into the fae, then this is a book you will use often. Everything Knight describes is easy to do and follow, with powerful results. I especially like the practical, down to earth, tone of her writing, and the fae stories.

Sirona Knight's book is a terrific book all about the Faery. There is so much that is great about this book, with a bunch of spells, charms, potions, and meditations. Faery Magick far outshines anything by E. McCoy. Knight's book is clear, accurate, and I found the spells particularly helpful. I love the outdoors and Knight makes a point of suggesting we all go outside in nature more and experience it's beauty firsthand. Right on! This book and Knight's new book, "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Elves and Fairies" are really the best books on the market about actually going outdoors and getting to know the Faery. R.J. Stewart writes the forward in her new book which shows that he really likes her books too! And RJ is the most famous Faery author beside Brian Froud. I would definitely suggest everyone that connects to the Fae read Knight's Faery Magick. It really is a terrific book!

Sirona Knight has crafted a rare and marvelous resource book for getting in touch with the fae. She uses lots of rituals, spells, and charms to access the fae and her writing shows that she really knows what she is writing about! This is a well-written, interesting, and fantastic book is you are interested in the fae like I am. Everyone with fae heritage will appreciate Sirona Knight's compassionate writing and her deep understanding and love of nature spirits and elementals.
There is a history of faeries in the book, and then modern examples of faeries. The best part of the book is the stories at the beginning of each chapter--I wish the author would have included about 10 more of these. Then the other best part of the book is the rituals, spells, and charms that get you going in the right direction. I live in the suburbs and did several of the spells in my backyard by my oak trees and rose bushes and they were very successful. I like this book because it is truly fabulous, marvelous and fantastic. Blessed be the fae.

This is one of the most positive and uplifting books I have read. It was pure pleasure reading the guided journies that opened each of the chapters. There was an abundance of rituals and spells as well as all kinds of information about faeries. I highly recommend "Faery Magick" to everyone looking for a great book on faeries and magick.

Faery Magick is a book about faery spells, potions, and lore. The first chapter summarizes the history, folklore, and mythology of the fey. Chapter two discuses the types of faeries. Chapters' three, four, and five covers the times for faery magic, the magical ways of the fae, and faery romance and love. The last four chapters give spells for home, romance, wealth, and empowerment. This book contains a Bibliography and an index.

Chapter 1 has an extensive history, which was very informative. In the second chapter Ms. Knight discusses the types of fae. I found this to be very well written. Chapter four gives again excellent correspondences for plants, animals, stones and metals.

From chapter five on, Ms. Knight deals heavily with the traditional aspect of this craft. Although Ms. Knight feels this is the correct way to do it, most of us do not have the time in today's nine to five world. In addition, I found the spells to be somewhat problematical considering the majority of us live in cities or suburbs. It would be wonderful if we all could go out to a hillside at twilight, and give our offerings to the fae, in reality; most of us leave gifts for them where and when we can.

After reading this book, I felt I gained a lot of knowledge about who the fae are and Ms. Knight does give excellent correspondences. But the ritualistic aspect leaves much to be desired for most of us.

I've enjoyed some of this author's work in the past (especially the shapeshifter tarot) but this book seemed to be just thrown together.

There are a lot of problems and contradictions in this book. Knight writes that Europe and Asian are rich in faery lore and Africa and America are not. (which is untrue--the Cherokee people have an expecially strong faery traditon) And because of this all her information on faery comes from Europe. The problem with this, is that the author lives in the u.s.a.--so if she only knows about european faeries than its highly unlikely that she has any experience with faeries at all.

She says that you have to go outside in nature to find these faeries--but if you go by her list of faeries you won't find many of them if you live in the u.s.a.. She also says you can make a doorway in your circle in spot the doorway is in your room--this after saying you have to work outside-does that make any sense?

The author provides lists of faery flowers, stones, trees, etc. presumably you are to use these in faery spell work. But what about the section on faery animals and insects--how are we to use this information? She doesn't say.

The spells this book do not have much to do with faeries--you can use them with or without faery influence--and to be honest most faeries won't be interested in helping you make money. She also gives some bad advice--like telling you to apply essential oils directly to your skin. None of the spells in this book seem like they have been performed by the author--like most spell books, they seem to be created specifically to fill the book without ever being tested first.

This book does have some faery lore in it but not much. i am not saying that if you are in america you can't work with european faeries--a lot of irish faeries for instance came over with the irish immegrants during the potato famine. but most faeries do not owe allegence to a specific country, or people, rather they are of the earth and you will find more faeries in america that are not from europe--they originate here.

Another problem i found with this book is that the author will tell you to merge with a tree or merge with a faery but she doesn't tell you how--if you aren't familiar with energy work you won't know what to do. But she provides basic information on wiccan tools--which she calls faery tools. So in some ways this book is really basic and in others it assumes prior knowledge.

There are also love spells included in this book--which isn't a bad thing, but there are no warnings about the consequences of casting a love spell that manipulates another's free will.

if you want to work with faeries my advice is to contact them and let them teach you about what you should do. I also reccomend Brian Froud's Faery Oracle--if you don't know how to get started. if you want to learn about traditional european faery lore, check out books by the late british folklorist Katherine Briggs.

A word of caution about books that claim to help you work with faeries--most faery beings are very secretive so you won't find very good information on them in books. They usually forbid you to share information with others--so either the authors don't know what they are talking about or they will soon be taking into faerieland for good (and so far that hasn't happened to too many authors--Rev. Kirk being the exception that proves the rule)

Faery Magick is a truly enchanting book! It really helped me get in touch with my faery nature. I recommend this book to everybody who is interested in faeries and nature spirits. I really liked how Sirona Knight showed me how to contact the helpful and not harmful faeries. Really a cool and useful book! I refer to it almost every day.

I just got this book as a gift from my sister and I thought it was very useful, well-written, and really interesting. I did several of the spells in it right away and was extremely pleased with the results. Knight shows you how to really communicate with the nature spirits. The stories at the beginnings of the chapters are fascinating! I have a new and profound respect for the faeries now because of this book. It's an intelligent approach to nature and how we can work with nature to better the world and enrich our lives. I highly recommend this wonderful book to readers who want hands-on ideas on how to work with the faeries.

I liked the stories at the beginning of each chapter. It set a magical tone that carried throughout the book. Filled with lots of cool potions, spells and meditations. I recommend this book along with Sirona Knight's "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Elves and Fairies" and Pierre Dubois' "The Great Encyclopedia of Faeries."