Description: Pagan Portals - Fairy Witchcraft: A Neopagan’s Guide to the Celtic Fairy Faith by author Morgan Daimler is a guidebook for those seeking a path that combines modern neopagan witchcraft with the older Celtic Fairy Faith.

Verdict: Many neopagan’s today are drawn to honor the fairies but find that the modern-day path to Fairy is hidden in mist and shadow. Yet the path is still there, waiting for those who are ready to seek it out.

Pagan Portals - Fairy Witchcraft: A Neopagan’s Guide to the Celtic Fairy Faith by prolific author Morgan Daimler, is a guidebook for those seeking a path that combines modern neopagan witchcraft with the older Celtic Fairy Faith.

Topics include basic beliefs and practices, holidays, tools, altar set up, and theology, with the intent of giving the seeker a solid grounding in the basics of modern Fairy Witchcraft.

This highly intelligent, expertly sculpted, and extremely well researched new guidebook is a most dutiful one on the subject matter, sure, but it also expands in a way that allows Morgan’s very own personal experiences with these entities to bleed through; allowing the reader to admire, and learn, all the collective arts and practices of Fairy Witchcraft along the way.

Growing up in England, it was told to me that Fairy Witchcraft was a polytheistic and animistic religion first and foremost, which meant that we believe in many individual Gods and also that all things have a spirit. This is a vital difference between Fairy Witchcraft and some other forms of modern neopaganism, which may see the Gods as archetypes or as manifestations of a single Godhead (or Goddess-head as it were).

For their Gods are no more or less reflections of an even higher Power than we ourselves are, and as we know them they are unique individuals with personality and presence.

Interestingly, the Fairy Witchcraft view of death and the afterlife is a thoroughly Celtic one, reinforced with some Heathenry. We know from Roman and Greek sources that the Celts believed that the soul was immortal and that after dying in this world it was reborn into the Otherworld for a certain amount of time before being reborn here again (Freeman, 2000).

Caesar mentions in his work The Gallic Wars that the great courage the Celts had in battle came from this belief, because they did not fear death, but saw it as merely a transition into another life. They believed this so strongly in fact that people could write an I.O.U. promising to repay debts in the next life.

But, I digress, for here in Morgan’s enthralling new book, we quickly discover a heartfelt, impassioned and all-embracing guide to the powers of magic brought forth by the Sidhe. And in what is an all-encompassing Introduction from the author, one that in some ways acts like a speedy set of cliff notes on the subject at hand, the steps are clearly laid out for what to expect from the book. And with that said, expect a LOT!

About the Author - Morgan Daimler is a blogger, poet, teacher of esoteric subjects, witch, and priestess of the Daoine Maithe. Morgan is a prolific pagan writer, having published more than a dozen books under Moon Books alone, and she is one of the world’s foremost experts on all things Fairy. She lives in Connecticut, US.

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