The Complete Idiot's Guide to Elves and Fairies

by Sirona Knight

The most complete book on these powerful magical beings. Elves and fairies provide a magical mirror into the human psyche and can help people better understand themselves. In The Complete Idiots Guide to Elves and Fairies , readers encounter and learn from an array of magical creatures, and discover how they can positively influence their lives. Key topics include fairy magic in the 21st century, how to recognize an elf and what to do when you meet one, how to attract good elves and fairies, and how to protect yourself from bad ones.

• The Lord of the Rings trilogy, on film and DVD, have increased people’s interest in elves and their ways

• Brian Froud’s The Faerie Oracle, Good Fairies Bad Faeries , and Lady Cottington’s Faerie Album have kept fairy lore and fairy images in the public eye for more than 25 years
• This book explores fairy tales, folklore, and mythology, including modern fairy tales like the Harry Potter series

Genres: Folklore, Nonfiction, Spirituality, Reference

352 pages, Paperback

First published June 7, 2005

About the author

Sirona Knight, M.S. (Psychology and leisure studies, California State University, Sacramento), is a Third Degree Craftmaster and High Priestess of the Celtic Gywddonic Druid Tradition, and has been a contributing editor for Magical Blend. She is also a hypnotist, and writes for New Age Retailer and Aquarius.

Reviews

[Tina · Rating 1 out of 5]

This series of Idiot's Guides are hit and miss. This one's a miss. The vast majority of this book is literally about witchcraft. How to do various rituals. Magical incantations to draw fairies and elves to your garden and how to repel bad ones. Using crystals and botanical oils, using your power hand to participate in communications with spirits, using your heel to rub out your salt circle, counter clockwise when the ritual is over... Don't buy this for children, especially. This is not harmless fun. On the other hand, the shallow dive into fairies in literature and the history of various world myths and legends and fairy tales was good but not worth all the Druidic dabblings in the occult I had to wade through to get to it.

[Eve · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you read the cover of this book, it states the preface is written by Phillis Currott. Currott is a well known Wiccan author and lawyer. This should give the reader a bit of a clue that this book is more than likely written for a pagan audience or for people who are actually interested in more of an earth spirituality/lore. Flip the book over and on the back jacket, it states that the author, Sirona Knight is a High Priestess of Druidism. I can see how a non-pagan reading this book would be baffled that the author would actually believe such entities exist - why read this book then? This isn't Tolkien darlings!

From a pagan perspective, this book has quite a bit of information in it. It would be a great starting point on one's journey to exploring the world of the Fae.

[Sarai · Rating 2 out of 5]

Was okay had a good list of things that one can find in myths and legends but Ms. Knight truly beleives elves and faries are real which puts a different spin on it.
Although it was useful for basic rules and stuff it didn't really answer some questions I had for research.
However, it did put things together in one easy to find book

[Nikki · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was ok, but I guess it wasn't for me since I knew most of the information in this book already. Of course, it is a beginner's book, so it was my fault for picking it up.

An excellent intro book on the wee folk.