Ok guys….I need some recs!
I have one year to bone up on the idea of shapeshifting and the Fetch in traditional witchcraft (or other paths, as well, but focusing on TW).
The meeting point is the idea that soul travel can take on animal forms, and the Fetch is the mobile part of the soul that…
http://afwcraft.blogspot.ca/2011/08/fetch-and-flight.html
http://www.davidscauldron.com/2012/03/fetch.html
http://mojobanjo.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/the-fetch-thought-forms-and-secondary-personalities/
http://coffeexandxmagick.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/f-is-for-fetch/
http://www.feritradition.org/grimoire/practices/practices_threesouls.htm
http://swainwodening.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/anglo-saxon-witchcraft/
http://annua-mycraftandsullenart.blogspot.ca/2013/02/witch-to-fetch-mate-dialogue.html
http://www.englatheod.org/soul.htm
http://www.friggasweb.org/soulmaki.html
http://sarahannelawless.com/2010/04/14/shapeshifting/
http://witchesofthecraft.com/2013/05/29/life-as-the-witch-shapeshifting/
http://ladyofspiders.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/shapeshifting-witches/
http://thewitchdrisin.blogspot.ca/2007/01/shapeshifting-and-genderbending.html
http://newworldwitchery.com/2010/11/22/podcast-20-magical-animals/Books:
Witchcraft: Theory and Practice by Ly De Angeles
Hedge-Rider: Witches and the Underworld by Eric De Vries
Evolutionary Witchcraft by T. Thorn Coyle
Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History by Owen Davies
Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic… by Emma Wilby
The Well and the Tree: World and Time in Early Germanic Culture by Paul C. BauschatzThe Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland by Emma Wilby
Witchcraft, Sorcery, Ghosts And Fetches Of The Irish Celts by Patrick Kennedy
The Red Church or the Art of Pennsylvania German Braucherei by C. R. Bilardi
The Power of Ecstatic Trance: Practices for Healing, Spiritual Growth, and Accessing the Universal Mind by Nicholas E. Brink Ph.D.
Neolithic Shamanism: Spirit Work in the Norse Tradition by Raven Kaldera and Galina Krasskova
Wyrdwalkers: Techniques of Northern-Tradition Shamanism by Raven Kaldera
Drawing Down the Spirits: The Traditions and Techniques of Spirit Possession by Kenaz Filan and Raven Kaldera
Trance-Portation: Learning to Navigate the Inner World by Diana L. Paxson
Nine Worlds of Seid-Magic: Ecstasy and Neo-Shamanism in North European Paganism by Jenny Blain
Tree of Enchantment: Ancient Wisdom and Magic Practices of the Faery Tradition by Orion Foxwood
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (Bollingen Series) by Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask and Wendy Doniger
Plant Spirit Shamanism: Traditional Techniques for Healing the Soul by Ross Heaven, Howard G. Charing and Pablo Amaringo
The Hollow Bone: A Field Guide to Shamanism by Colleen Deatsman and Sandra Ingerman
The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History (Bollingen) by Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask and Jonathan Z. Smith
Treading the Mill: Practical Craft Working in Modern Traditional Witchcraft by Nigel G. Pearson
Fang and Fur, Blood and Bone: A Primal Guide to Animal Magic by Lupa
Skin Spirits by Lupa
Walkers Between the Worlds: The Western Mysteries from Shaman to Magus by Caitlín Matthews and John Matthews
The Roebuck in the Thicket: An Anthology of the Robert Cochrane Witchcraft Tradition by Evan John Jones, Robert Cochrane and Michael Howard
… and I’m just going to stop here.
I feel like my teacher just handed me a cheat-sheet.
THANK YOU JUNI!!!!