Picture an old, gothic cathedral. Now, lift your eyes to the edges of the eaves and the peaks of the ridgelines. Look carefully and you're likely to spot one or more creatures clinging to the side of the building or balancing atop a spire. Gargoyles! These staring, startling, sometimes leering creatures have gazed down at us for centuries. "Gargoyles" takes you on a journey into a mysterious world, through bestiaries and traveling menageries, past grotesques and chimeras, through medieval cities and guilds and into huge stone buildings. Gargoyles are an embodiment of form and function - serving a clear architectural purpose but, also, symbolically important.

This book delves into historic models of arcane craftsmanship and architecture, considering the reasons for gargoyles coming into being and hearing the legends of the gargoyle, both mythic and modern. For modern magick users, "Gargoyles" explores the role of the gargoyle in magickal practice, including gargoyle use in elemental correspondences, stone magick, protection, warding, egregores, talismans, animal associations, ritual and spell work.

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