Table of Contents
Acknowledgements x
Chapter 1 A Deed Without a Name 1
Chapter 2 Who is Called and who is Calling? 7
Chapter 3 The Witch as 'Shaman' 17
Chapter 4 Marked as Other 20
Chapter 5 The key that fits no lock 23
Chapter 6 The Bestiary 31
Chapter 7 Becoming Yourself 51
-Fetch-Beast and Familiars 52
-Devils, Familiars and Fetch-brides 54
-Foremothers and Fate-women 55
Chapter 8 The Crossroads Pact 66
Chapter 9 Wailing for the Demon Lover 71
Chapter 10 The Suckling Imp 75
Chapter 11 Hedge-Crossing 80
Chapter 12 Here Be Dragons 85
Chapter 13 The Other Self 89
Chapter 14 Drenching the Ghosts 95
Chapter 15 Riding the Beast 99
Chapter 16 Riding Plants 103
Chapter 17 When You Have to Come, You Will Come 109
Chapter 18 A Tale Shared 113
Chapter 19 The Mystery of the Sabbat 119
Chapter 20 Shaped in the Forge 126
Chapter 21 The Waters Below the Hills 131
Chapter 22 One of the Dead 134
Chapter 23 Ritual Space 137
-Discovering the Fetch-Beast 141
-Donning the Mask 144
-Acquiring a Magical Assistant 145
-Faerie-Doctoring 147
-Skin-Faring 149
-Calling to the Devil 151
-Exorcism 152
-Making Healing Water 155
-A Rite of Necromancy 156
Conclusion 160
Appendix 161
References 164
Further Reading 167