Working with Fairies

Working with Fairies
Magick, Spells, Potions, & Recipes to Attract & See Them
Anna Franklin
Career Press, 2006
256 Pages
If you've seen any New Age spellbook, you've seen this one. The formula is pretty standard, with a few chapters of somewhat breathless and very much unreferenced recounting of general fairy lore ranging from Shakespeare to generic folklore, jumping from culture to continent. It's a nice summary of beliefs in other races that co-habit with humans, but in the light of such works as Hutton's "Triumph of the Moon", it frankly lacks scholarship.
We then get into various forms of magick for working with fairies, from guided visualization to recipes for ritual baths and such, and the usual magickal lexicon of correspondence in colors, elements, stones and symbols.
It's an interesting approach, but it's Magick 101 re-interpreted more than it is any useful information about fairies.
