title: Animal Magick: The Art of Recognizing and Working with Familiars
author:  D.J. Conway 
description: Many of you reading this will have had pets for years. Some of you may consider them to be your familiars. In D. J. Conway's <i>Animal Magick </i>you'll discover new ways to learn from them (and other creatures) in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment and personal power.
zlib_text: The Familiar Life-Giver 
  The use of animals for spiritual enlightenment dates back beyond 
  ancient Egypt. Now you can open doors to your secret self and a 
  buried past when you find and befriend animal familiars. Animal 
  Magick shows how to work with animals for your spiritual 
  growth and increased magickal power. Familiars are not the 
  stereotyped witch's cat and cohort-in-crime. Real or imagined, 
  familiars make excellent companions: they can warn you of dan­
  ger, generate healing energy, and love you unconditionally. If you 
  work magick, familiars can aid in augmenting your results with 
  their preternatural power. 
  Your work with your familiar can take on an ever greater purpose, 
  true to the Pagan tradition: that is the remembrance and honoring 
  of our ancestors. Most books on animal magick are written from a 
  Native American viewpoint, but Animal Magick captures the sub­
  ject of animal familiars from a European Pagan perspective. Now 
  you can investigate ancient European Shamanic 