Ideas For Spells Options

Okay, I've been on a horrifying and shameful Tolkien binge lately. Literally, horrifying. Three weeks and I read the Hobbit, all three Lord of the Rings books and the Silmarillion. I'm now working on the unfinished tales. Those of you who have access to the box of spells forum (for those who don't... you'll discover many things by the time you reach thirty posts, and access to more forums will be your reward) may have seen my spell for large-scale protective shielding. I got the idea from the Silmarillion. This is the point of this post: to point out the wonderful ideas for spells and things that books can give us. So these books have given me great ones (seeing as the majority of books that include magic are distinctly Harry Potter-esque in the style of the spells used; wave a wand and it will rain candy, the gold ideas are few and far between) and I was wondering: what books have given you great (or good... or average... or bad... you get the point) spell ideas?

Kaboom, it is not up to you to judge any field of study. I guarantee that most other people who dismiss cryptozoology also dismiss magick - which is significantly less logical, I will add. I will point out that the platypus was once a subject of cryptozoology and that even when one was brought before scientists they STILL claimed it was a stitched-together fake. Open your mind or close your mouth, because you're sounding like a true cretin.

I love the hasty response. Given that is the case, enlighten me. Bring me what information you know about these fire breathing-creatures. Where have they walked the earth? Where did Saint George end up burying his dragon?

On the topic of cryptozoology, could we also involve vampires and werewolves? I've seen aplenty of personal blogs professing their discovery that they were children of the shadow too.

Bring me what information you know about these fire breathing-creatures. Where have they walked the earth?

On the topic of cryptozoology, could we also involve vampires and werewolves?

Lol - you chose the wrong person to ask for dragon information as proof of your point.

Where did these fire-breathing creatures walk the earth? The answer is everywhere. In every culture the dragon or a creature synonymous with it is a part of the spiritual belief - even Christianity. There is, of course, Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent - a Mesoamerican deity. There's Saint George's dragon as far as Christianity goes. In China there is, of course, a tradition of dragon-worship. Where Europe is concerned; do I need to provide examples? They're everywhere - Celts, Saxons and Angles all had dragons in their mythology. Northern Europeans had Sigurd the Dragon-Slayer and Greece had Python, usually represented as a serpent similar in shape to the Japanese and Chinese dragons. West Africans worshipped the "cosmic serpent." The fact that every culture, even those which had literally no contact for thousands of years, has a documentation of a belief in dragons makes it extremely unlikely that the creature (or creatures, as the case may be) never existed.

Cryptozoology is not the study of mythology, as you seem to think in the depths of misinformation, but the study of animals purported to exist but of which no evidence aside from eyewitnesses, photographs and videos has been collected. Vampires and werewolves are not encompassed in this, and are thus a different matter entirely. Cryptozoology deals more with Bigfoot, Skunk Ape, Mothman, etc.

I'm not asking you to believe in Bigfoot, I'm asking you to please not delude yourself into thinking you have the right to decide whether or not a completely valid branch of science to which many have dedicated their professional lives is utter garbage. You have no right to make such decisions and no right to impose such small-minded views on others. You can think what you want, but unless you can scientifically prove that no animal exists that we don't know about then keep your mouth shut; your belief that cryptozoology is garbage is actually mathematically less likely to be true than that cryptozoology is a valid field of study. So stop spewing (IMG:style_emoticons/default/horse.gif) and thinking you have a right to decide such things on a purely whimsical basis.