Chapter 4, Bird Medicine Summary and Analysis

The next exercise is 'Breathing Through the Feathers'. After that comes an exercise designed for 'cleansing auras' with feathers. Many of the instruments for doing this look just like feather dusters. 'Feather and Fetish Pots' come next, followed by another work book style suggestion titled 'Prayer Sticks'. Wearing your feathers, then "enhancing and protecting" feathers are names of the rest of the exercises in chapter nine of the book.

The rest of this chapter consists of exercises. The next one of these is a bit of a shift. While it still includes feathers, the exercise is about 'prayer sticks'. These come in more than one kind. The author describes this type of ritual device. There are staffs, wands and sticks. The staff is quite long and often easily doubles as a walking stick. For this reason they...