Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #482963 in Books
• Published on: 1990-07-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Customer Reviews

New Age Gobbledygook
This is yet another wicca 101 primer rather than a reference on Celtic Paganism. Much of her claims fly in the face of archeologic evidence and credible historic research. Many of the sources Ms. Conway quotes are (at best) out of context. If you desire to learn about Celtic paganism, I would suggest "The Druids" by Stuart Piggott, "Pagan Celtic Britan", "The Pagan Celts", and "Druids, Gods, and Heroes from Celtic Mythology" all by Anne Ross.

Interesting but historically inaccurate
Okay. This book has come in for a lot of criticism here, and a lot of it's justified.

However, this was the book that set me on the pagan path, and as such I guess I feel a little sentimental about it.

The history is bad. Okay. That's something you're likely to find in most books on paganism these days, and at least it's vague enough to make people (such as myself) read up on it and learn the "truth," so to speak.

I thought the correspondence tables were quite nice, even if there's next to no information on too many of the deities listed there aside from the mention of their names.

The rituals are the high point of the book for me. Even if they don't quite suit your personal practice, I'd recommend a look at them for ideas on how to write your own.

All in all, a book of limited use, but it makes for a nice read anyway.

Beginners beware!!
I find this book insulting and upsetting not only to the Celtic people but to magic itself. Further more it is dangerous!! If a beginner were to use the rituals suggested in this book they could run into a whole host of problems. The "deities" mentioned are incorrect for magic practice (one of which is a Christian entity and another of which is a Muslim entity, these are included in the same ritual and both are opposed to the use of Magic!), there is some symbolism which could be correct but placed in the context given by Conway would result in a complete catastrophe! She is no magical practitioner, she is a saboteur of Magic practice!Judging by the reviews I have read for her other books she seems to do the same thing in every facet of magic. The only good reviews she gets are by those who are beginners themselves, wht is worse is that her books are aimed at beginners! Beginners beware!