Books about Nature Spirits and Elemental Beings

Nature Spirits & Elemental Beings: Working with the Intelligence in Nature

This is a wonderful book by Marko Pogacnik about his own experiences of working with nature spirits.  It describes how he helped many, like a water sprite displaced when humans changed the course of a river.  It is full of facinating illustrations of how he perceived these subtle spirits and full of insights into the elemental world. 




Healing the Heart of the Earth: Restoring the Subtle Levels of Life

This book by Marko Pogacnik follows on from Nature Spirits & Elemental Beings:.  It gives lots more examples of his work with the elemental kingdom using lithopuncture (a type of acupuncture for the Earth) and other techniques.






Summer with the Leprechauns: A True Story [SUMMER W/THE LEPRECHAUNS]


This book by Tanis Helliwell tells the true story of her summer retreat in Ireland, where she encountered a family of Leprechauns.  It gives much insight into elemental spirits and their relationship to the human world.  We are thinking about writng our own book on this- Scoof and Goose: Adventures in the knitted.

Ten Canoes (DVD)

Ten Canoes



This is a wonderful film about Aborigianl Australians filmed in their own language (with subtitles, that are to be honest, rather difficult to read) It follows a young initiate on his goose egg gathering mission and his education by an older and wiser tribal elder. The story the elder tells the initiate is from the dreaming and follows the exploits of one of their ancestors. A very watchable, informative and interesting film. The extras on the DVD are also well worth a look.

Doing and Boing Rating 5/5

We The Aborigines

 We, the Aborigines




At first glance this looks like a wonderful book giving insights into Australian aboriginal life. It has some beautiful photographs, but the text consists of invented interviews with the characters in the photographs, and is often quite patronising. It does hovever give some insights into aboriginal culture and beliefs.

For this reason we have rated it 2/5.

Black Sheep

Black Sheep: Journey to Borroloola

An enjoyable read which follows the author’s search for his ancestors in Australia’s Northern Territory. It gives an insight into the history of this region and the treatment of aboriginal Australians. Does not go into detail about the Aboriginal way of life, but does offer some insights. Nothing actually to do with sheep though, which is a pity as we were looking forward to meeting them!

Do-ing and Bo-ing Factor 4/5

Aboriginal Fables and Legendary Tales

Aboriginal Fables and Legendary Tales (Aboriginal Library)



An excellent book containing around 70 stories from the aboriginal dreaming, with wonderful titles such as ‘How Tortoise Got His Shell’, ‘The First Bullroarer’ and ‘The First Man in the Southern Cross.’ Gives a good insight into the Aboriginal creation myths and is a valuable resource for the storyteller. A must read for anyone interested in mythology or Aboriginal Australia. Of course the Aboriginals considered the dreaming myths as actual fact and we do too.

Do-ing and Bo-ing Factor 5/5