Reviews

Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic by Emma Wilby

lebelinconnu's review

challenging informative slow-paced

4.0

hoodiecrush's review

4.0

Meticulous but cohesively presented. 

sweetiepea12's review

4.0

Very interesting book! I totally recommend reading if you want to know more about witchcraft and what's more to it. Found a lot of great info for my research paper! Hard book to find and expensive though.

theoakwitch's review

hopeful informative slow-paced

5.0

battlepoet's review

4.0

Engaging, interesting, and entirely what I wanted.

nytshayde's review

5.0

This a wonderful book, focusing primarily on the relationship between Witches, Cunning Folk and their faerie/demonic familiar spirits- exploring both early modern Witch Trials and their contexts as well as Animistic cultures and folklore from which these traditions may have been derived. This is a significant text and frankly an important one for the scholars among us. Wilby sheds light on incredibly fascinating viewpoints, and through reading this book, I have better come to understand my own relationships with my familiars and how they came about, and how they developed- while having some light shed on how I was personally called to this path as a witch in my early childhood.

elzbethmrgn's review

3.0

Despite being predicated on a lot of 'not much evidence for X but let's assume X anyway', there's some good stuff here on familiars/fairies, especially the non-binary nature of good vs. bad and the human/fairy relationship (and the reasons for such a relationship).