Nigel Pennick

The authors present personal vision of what certain beasts mean to them, how they see them living and interacting with the human and divine worlds, through the medium of our cultural heritage. Their vision stems from the European Traditional Spirituality, with the natural understanding that humans are at one with Nature.

For thousands of years fabulous serpents and dragons have been the stuff of myth and traveller's tales. The dragon has held the attention of people for centuries, and continues to do so. This book explores Western dragon and dragonslayer traditions, not just legends, but living festivals and rituals surviving today.

The aim of Earth Harmony is the integration of human activity with the natural environment and the flow of events. Every building and feature on the landscape has to occupy the position appropriate to its direction. In pre industrial Europe this was part of everyday life and you are here shown how your life can fit harmoniously into the world today.

The Eldritch World is a place redolent of the quality of strangeness & wonder. Some call it Elfland...

This book explores aspects of East Anglian local identity; the altering landscape and its dwindling wildlife; patterns on the landscape, real & imagined; the lore of roads & transport; and the characteristic food & drink of East Anglia, with rare recipes for local delicacies to be cooked at the right season and enjoyed anew.

A celebration of the sacred male throughout the pagan year, dealing with the cycle of the year through the medium of its sacred associations with divinity, in this case the gods of Northern Europe, Roman, Greek and Egyptian tradition.

A celebration of the sacred female throughout the Pagan year. Nigel writes the text which describes the changes and progressions within the year cycle, sacred days and festivals of various Goddesses within the tradition and how the appropriate day relates to them.

Up until the nineteenth century, the Fens were an isolated place. The working people developed a rich culture of folk and magical traditions with included rural fraternities such as the Horsemen, Toad Men and Women and Bonemen, along with cunning men and witches. In Field and Fen is an exploration of this rich magical heritage with its secret rites and ceremonies.

This book is about the personifications and spiritual beings that describe certain aspects of the world. From the basic structure of time, in the Three Fates, to the Divine Harmony, embodied in the Nine Muses, these spiritual forms speak to us of the powers and forces that make the world what it is. Based on the traditional cosmology that underlies Pagan, Jewish and Christian mystical thought, this book presents an integrated world view that includes Time, Space and Life. Nigel Pennick's text, augmented by new drawings by Helen Field, brings this age-old tradition into the 21st century.

Natural Magic is the power of everyday objects, of herbs, trees, minerals, and animals, the power in the landscape and the weather, and the power within us as human beings. Based in the grinding poverty that was the reality of rural life in former times, it makes use of the most basic materials and techniques, guided by the true principles of traditional spirituality. It gives us a unique means to discover and create harmony and beauty in our lives.

This book explores the `Wattles and Branches' of the Celtic tree alphabets and the tree-lore of the British Isles. It is a wide-ranging explanation of, and commentary on, Celtic tree traditions, covering the Oghams of Ireland and the Bardic alphabets of Wales. These symbolic systems encapsulate the ancestral spiritual traditions of the British Isles

Divinatory geomancy is described and explained using history and practical working traditional systems from around the world. Examples and illustrations are given including the 16 figures of divinatory geomancy and how to erect them, use them and interpret the results.

An introducton to the basic principles that underly the perception of the human body in the European tradition, with regard to the fighting traditions of the Pagan north. Fencing, stick fighting, boxing and wrestling are looked at as well as texts and artefacts, chronicles, legendary history, myth, prophetic and symbolic writings of the last few centuries.

The Northern Tradition is the indigenous spiritual and magical system of European people north of the Alps. With its origin in shamanic nature veneration when we view the world this way, Nature, personified as goddesses, gods and spirits becomes approachable. By following the age old festival customs described here, we can become attuned to the natural cycle of the seasons.

A rich sourcebook for talismanic magic, charms against evil, household & animal magic, folk recipes, ceremonies of protection, and curative spells.

England is traditionally divided into northern and southern halves. The River Humber is the dividing line. For many centuries, Northumbria was a kingdom in its own right. It is rich in legendary history, which tells us something about the interaction between humans living in the visible, material realm and their relationship with the otherworld. It is the Northern Tradition world-view which underlies is legends, and which is embedded in the Northumbrian runes. Nigel Pennick, author of 50 books, gives a detailed exposition of the 33 Northumbrian runes and puts them in their native landscape, a land peopled with eldritch beings.

On the remote north-western Isle of Lewis stands one of the most spectacular megalithic monuments in the world: Callanish. This little paperback book, packed with fine old engravings, is a great introduction to Callanish.