Fang Fur Bone Blood

Fang and Fur, Blood and Bone A Primal Guide to Animal Magic

Fang and Fur, Blood and Bone A Primal Guide to Animal Magic

By Lupa

Stafford, England

Lupa

Fang and Fur, Blood and Bone A Primal Guide to Animal Magic By Lupa First edition © 2006 All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form. The right of Lupa to be identified as theauthor of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act, 1988. Lupa may be contacted at: chaohippie@excite.com http://www.thegreenwolf.com Cover by Jim Towns Typesetting: Storm Constantine Design: Kid Charlemaine Editor: Taylor Ellwood Set in Souvenir First edition by Megalithica Books, 2006

A Megalithica Books Edition An imprint of Immanion Presshttp://www.immanion-press.com info@immanion-press.com ISBN 1-905713-01-0 Immanion Press 8 Rowley Grove Stafford ST17 9BJ UK

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Dedication

To Nick, for the superior essay and for broadening my magical outlook significantly. To Jim, for the best thirteen months of my Pittsburgh years, for helping me get through the winter of 2004-5, for being one of my dearestpartners, and for the outstanding artwork for this book. To Taylor, for the foreword, the editing and hooking me up with Immanion in the first place, and for being my partner in magic, creativity and matters of the heart. I love you all.
Acknowledgements To all the wonderful people who reviewed bits and parts of this book in its varying stages of development, to those who contributed source material(especially the surprises!) and to everyone who offered their support of this project, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. You honor me by your presence in my life. To Lyssa, for the first half of the title, and for being one of “all the wonderful people” mentioned above. To Don, for the excellent copy edit (even though you sided with Taylor on the use of commas). To Social Distortion, forbraving the ice rink and for the song “Reach For the Sky” which was the impetus to get this project rolling. And to me, for finally completing a major project!

Table of Contents Foreword (by Taylor Ellwood) Introduction Chapter 1: Totemism Chapter 2: Familiars Chapter 3: Animal-based Evocation and Invocation Chapter 4: Creating Animals in Magical Practice Chapter 5: Shapeshifting Chapter 6:Working With Animal Parts Chapter 7: Animal Sacrifice Afterword Appendix A: Guided Totem Meditation Appendix B: Simple Divination Techniques Appendix C: How to Make a Fur Pouch Appendix D: Animal-based Charities Glossary Bibliography Index 9 12 19 65 89 109 127 151 175 196 198 203 206 211 215 219 223

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Foreword

One of the biggest problems that faces a genre inthe publishing industry is that particular topics end up occupying specific niches. The niche produces a formulaic format that is relied upon to the point that you have authors beating a dead horse on a particular subject, with little or nothing to write that is original, new, or meaningful. This happens in science fiction, fantasy, non-fiction publishing, and it happens in the occult publishingindustry. There are more Wicca 101 books out there than I could shake a stick at. And for that matter the majority of animal magic books I’ve seen look to be rather similar: massive encyclopedic compendiums that tell you about an animal, and the correspondences, but limit the ideas to how you can work with totem spirits. What is lacking are approaches that involve actually creating new techniquesand approaches for doing animal magic, or, even more radically, coming up with a magical system focused entirely on animal magic. So in February of 2005, when I met Lupa via Livejournal.com and she mentioned her book, I was intrigued. My first foray into magic was shamanism, mixed in with Hermeticism, but I’d never really done any totemic magic workings or any other animal magic workings beyond...