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About the Author
Edain McCoy became a self-initiated Witch in 1981 and underwent a formal initiation in 1983 with a large San Antonio coven. She has been researching alternative spiritualities since her teens, when she was first introduced to the Kaballah. Since that time, she has studied a variety of magickal traditions, including Celtic, Appalachian, Curanderismo, Wiccan, Jewitchery, and Irish Wittan, the latter in which she is a priestess of Brighid and an elder. An alumnus of the University of Texas with a bachelor of arts in history, she is affiliated with several professional writer’s organizations and is listed in the reference guides Contemporary Authors and Who’s Who in America. Articles by her have appeared in Fate, Circle, Enlightenments, and similar periodicals. Edain also worked for ten years as a stockbroker with several large investment firms. This former woodwind player for the Lynchburg (VA) Symphony claims both the infamous feuding McCoy family of Kentucky and Sir Roger Williams, the seventeenth-century religious dissenter, as branches on her diverse family tree.
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A Witch’s Guide to Faery Folk © 1994 by Edain McCoy. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, including Internet usage, without written permission from Llewellyn Publications except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
FIRST EDITION
Twenty-seventh Printing, 2021
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Book Design and layout by Jessica Thoreson
Illustrations: © 1994 by Anna Ferguson, Alexandra Lumen
The text of the poems “The Three Wishes” and “The Wee Little Hobgoblin” are used by permission of the author.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McCoy, Edain, 1957–
A witch’s guide to faery folk: reclaiming our working relationship with invisible helpers / Edain McCoy.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 13: 978-0-87542-733-1
ISBN 10: 0-87542-733-2
1. Faeries. I. Title. II. Series
BF1552.M37 1994
133.1'4—dc20
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Other Books by Edain McCoy
Advanced Witchcraft
Astral Projection for Beginners
Bewitchments
Celtic Myth and Magick
Celtic Women’s Spirituality
Enchantments
Entering the Summerland
If You Want to Be a Witch
How to Do Automatic Writing
Magick & Rituals of the Moon
Mountain Magick ostara
Past Life & Karmic Tarot
Sabbats
Spellworking for Covens
The Witch’s Coven
Witta
