Product Description

This comprehensive collection of knowledge and material on the mystical, magical and paranormal covers topics including astrology, the Tarot, and witchcraft. It investigates tradition, myth and folklore and explores the wisdom of other cultures as well as psychic powers and strange phenomena.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #344680 in Books
• Published on: 2000-10-26
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 346 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Cassandra Eason has written several books on different aspects of magic; in the Encyclopedia of Magic and Ancient Wisdom she draws together a range of esoteric subjects--some 88 in all--in a well-illustrated volume.

The wide scope of the book can be seen in the titles of its six parts: Essential Wisdom; Traditions, Myths and Folklore; Magical, Mystical and Otherworldly Beings; Nature Magic and Mystery; Wisdom from Other Cultures, Other Lands; and Psychic Powers and Strange Phenomena. Each contains entries on individual topics as varied as the Tarot, Fairies, Leylines and Telepathy. All classification systems are essentially arbitrary, but it seems strange, for example, that Candle Magic is included under Essential Wisdom, while Alchemy is listed under Traditions, Myths and Folklore along with Dice Divination and Tea Leaf Reading.

This book is really a selected compendium rather than an encyclopaedia; it is closer in style, content and pictorial appeal to Francis X. King's Encyclopedia of Mind, Magic & Mysteries than to more scholarly works such as Richard Cavendish's Encyclopedia of the Unexplained or Rosemary Ellen Guiley's Encyclopedia of Mystical & Paranormal Experience. Nevertheless, the Encyclopedia of Magic and Ancient Wisdom provides an attractively presented basic introduction to a good spread of esoteric topics, its Suggested Reading List providing a starting point to more detailed studies. --David V. Barrett

Customer Reviews

Full of Knowledge
I brought this book, and ever since I keep referring to it. There is so much information in contained within the pages of "Encyclopaedia of Magic and Ancient Wisdom". I love the fact that a lot of contents is in one book, making it easier to study and make reference to. Cassandra Eason covers almost everything she could think of to do with magic, ancient wisdom, history, and tarot cards, tea leaf reading and much more besides. Cassandra Eason also has a section at the back for suggested reading material on any of the subjects that she has contained within the
"Encyclopaedia of Magic and Ancient Wisdom". A wonderful present, either for yourself or/and a friend. Well, worth the money and the time to read it and learn from.

I also recommend "Every Women A Witch" and "Crystals Talk To The Women Within" very powerful books.

Complete Rubbish!
I have this same book under a diferent title, and I must say its complete rubbish!
Nothing original, no depth to anything. Statements made without anything whatsoever to back them up, no sources stated. The book was also badly indexed.
If you're a serious practitioner I would stay well away from Eason's tripe.