This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.

Peter Burns doesn’t believe in magic, but when horses talk to you and a witch hound swoops out of the sky, how long can you disbelieve? Jeanne Tucker believes in magic, but she’s teamed with someone who’d rather examine the special effects. The two friends must learn to work together in order to defeat a trio of evil witches and unravel a curse that has enslaved an entire land.

Adventure is the ticket when 11-year-old Billy has a run-in with his Dad's latest and craziest invention in their basement, and ends up lying on top of a strange and wondrous being in a strange and wondrous land - the Land of Nubbins! With his new Nubbin friends Hazel and Filbert, Billy must face extraordinary creatures and overcome dangerous enemies as they search for a way to get him back home ... before it's too late!

William was truly at a loss for words. He moved closer to her. As he approached the window where she was standing, the scent of fresh blossoms in her hair filled the air. Helena had a natural beauty that hadnt aged with the years. Life had been good to them both. Over the years, he wanted to tell her so many things about his past, about his life in the Valley. She never asked where he came from; as far as she knew he had no family and no homeland. He had traveled far and wide fighting in many wars securing his own future as an adept swordsman, one not to be challenged with in battle. He had obtained his fortune through his bounties. When he met Helena, war was raging in her land, their land now. Helenas kingdom was being torn apart by the greedy and black magic worshippers of Augustas family. It was this war, which had brought him to her, and now he feared, it would be war again, which would take her from him.

Jane' s exceptional psychic abilities made her the target of MK Ultra mind control systems beginning in the early 1960' s. Integral to breaking the mind and spirit of children- as a precursor to suicide or trafficking-- is removing the loving mother from the family.When they took her mother, Jane was only seven. As a little girl she instinctively began a walkabout in the woods and fields around her house in Hanover, MA. Lifetimes of knowledge unfolded almost magically as she quickly learned to speak the language of animals, flowers and trees. This is a natural ability we all have and our normal human state of being. This book reveals the shocking details of the Satanic forces in our world who are currently trying to genocide of children, and how you can claim your own shamanic powers-- your ability to communicate with nature and traverse the magical worlds of power animals, angel-- to fight back.After childhood she set out on a journey to find her mother, did not find her but instead had her own two little girls. She had found peace but then was confronted by her mortal enemy, a woman with a lineage back to Nazi Germany who was determined to steal her children.The story which unfolds is one of extreme loss, unfathomable grief, trips back in time, death-defying risks, magical horses, Snow White Owls, and attacks by demons, witches and corrupt judges and guardians. But Love is the strongest force in the world and the ties between grandmother, mother and daughters were more powerful. It is a journey you will never forget but would never want to live.