Rook Chant [Kindle Edition]

K. A. Laity (Author), S. L. Johnson (Illustrator)

Book Description

Collected Writings on Paganism & Witchcraft by award winning author, K. A. Laity. This collection represents a wide range of pieces touching on the breadth of her interests in paganism and witchcraft. It includes everything from short pieces for pagan/spirituality journals like The Seeker Journal, The Beltane Papers, Circle and New Witch, papers delivered at academic conferences or published in academic journals as well as a few reviews and translations of old magical texts.

"Laity is a very remarkable sorceress indeed."
~ Elizabeth Hand, author of Waking the Moon

"ROOK CHANT is a delicious in-gathering, a magpie's nest of shiny new things about subjects old, gnarled and powerful. Sit with it, relish it and be bound likewise into a breathing tradition that puts Potter et al to shame. It is a charm well-sung and a talisman."
~H. Byron Ballard, Asheville's Village Witch and author of 'Staubs and
Ditchwater: a Friendly and Useful Introduction to Hillfolks' Hoodoo'

Product Details

• File Size: 861 KB
• Print Length: 266 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Women's League of Ale Drinkers (June 12, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B008B7WV8I
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #946,825 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Rook Chant Enthralls! June 15, 2012

By Hannah Menzies

Format:Kindle Edition

For a collection that brings together the elements of a multi-faceted mind and an industrious keyboard over a period of years, Rook Chant conveys a remarkable sense of harmony between its elements. Perhaps this is due to Laity's well-considered enthusiasm for her subject matter as well as her consistent awareness of the needs of her readership in terms of explanation, clarification, and the use of common cultural ground to convey what may be entirely novel concepts. The exuberance that drives these essays brings something back from the medieval past to modern readers: that excitement contained in a varied collection, that certainty that they are journeying into the unknown on a hand picked tour of the unusual. This miscellany reminds us, like all good catalogues of the fantastic, of the richness and strangeness of literary tradition and of human experience. Laity gathers an astonishing variety of meaningful essays here, a treasure trove for those interested in medieval and modern magic!

More About the Author

K. A. Laity (kalaity.com) writes in a variety of genres and is editor of WEIRD NOIR and the author of OWL STRETCHING, CHASTITY FLAME, THE CLADDAGH ICON, UNQUIET DREAMS, PELZMANTEL and many more stories, essays, plays and humour pieces. Laity received a 2006 Finlandia Foundation grant and the 2005 Eureka Short Story Fellowship to work on UNIKIRJA (Dreambook), a collection of short stories based on Finnish mythology and the Kalevala (Aino Press 2009). In 2011-2 she was a Fulbright Fellow at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Dr. Laity is Associate Professor of English at the College of Saint Rose, where she teaches medieval literature, film, New Media and popular culture, with a particular interest in magic -- see her collection ROOK CHANT. She divides her time between NY and Dundee, Scotland. Find her on Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads or follow her blog.