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Available
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Publication
Green Magic (2000), Paperback, 228 pages
Description
For the first time in book form, Brighid's Healing brings to life the wisdom and techniques of Irish traditional healing. The author has over 20 years experience and is widely acclaimed as a healer with vision, skills and the ability to revive the ancient arts of healing from the Celtic culture's wise and civilizing traditions from the deep past.
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LibraryThing member MaelBrigdeTWO
I can't speak for the herbal remedies, only for McGarry's presentation of Brigit and Celtic material, which is seriously flawed. I appreciate what McGarry intended and her goodwill shines off the page. Yet she mixes speculation and factual error with verifiable fact and tradition, and doesn't
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distinguish between them. (The lack of footnotes makes this impossible to disentangle.) For example: her use of the Wiccan four elements -- valid in their own right, they are completely out of place in a traditional Celtic context. McGarry could have gotten around this problem and had a much stronger book as a result if she had dispensed with the claim that her work was traditional and simply presented it as a modern Pagan offering, inspired by Celtic and NeoPagan interpretations of Brigit. Show Less
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Physical description
228 p.; 9.16 inches
ISBN
0954723023 / 9780954723026
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