Download or read book Shaman Pathways - Aubry's Dog: Power Animals In Traditional Witchcraft written by Suzanne Ruthven and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term 'power animal' was introduced into contemporary language in 1980 by anthropologist Michael Harner in his classic work The Way Of The Shaman, and refers to a broad-based animistic and shamanic concept that has entered the English language from the fields of anthropology, ethnography and sociology. The animal is conceived as a tutelary spirit that helps or protects individuals, lineages, and nations. Dogs and man became companions a long time ago, and the dog adopted as a power animal represents speed, agility, courage, protection, justice, nobility and loyalty. Aubry's Dog: Power Animals Within Traditional Witchcraft guides your footsteps on this most ancient of paths ... ,