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?

I'd say NetherSpirit pretty much got it - the difference is that cryptozoology is scientific and mythology is religious - the two do sometimes overlap, but myths and legends are different from modern sightings.

I'm now not following at all. Every single one of your references about dragons are over four hundred years old in age. Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent is the Aztec god of fertility. The Chinese Ocean Branch heads and the rain god are worshipped and taught in mythos. Saint George's dragon is a misconstrued myth from thousands of years ago.

Are you using mythos or ancient sightings where witnesses happened to throw thousands upon thousands of their hours to worshipping these mysterious sightings.

Would UFOs count? They're sighted often.

On the other hand, humans aren't animals.

Wait. What? What are you saying are animals? I mean, wikipedia might be wrong, but it claims explicitly that we very much are. Why can't we discuss werewolf magick and vampires while we're at it? Is it because we don't have vampire sightings anymore, or that they're slowly 'coming out of the coffin' more and more?