Download The Sorcerer's Companion: A Guide to the Magical World of by Allan Zola Kronzek, Elizabeth Kronzek PDF
By Allan Zola Kronzek, Elizabeth Kronzek
The New York Times bestseller, now absolutely up-to-date to include the whole seven-volume series.
Who used to be the genuine Nicholas Flamel? How did the Sorcerer’s Stone get its energy? Did J. okay. Rowling dream up the terrifying basilisk, the seductive veela, or the vicious grindylow? And if she didn’t, who did?
Millions of readers around the globe were enchanted through the paranormal international of wizardry, spells, and legendary beasts inhabited via Harry Potter and his acquaintances. yet what such a lot readers don’t recognize is that there's a centuries-old trove of actual historical past, folklore, and mythology in the back of Harry’s wonderful universe. Now, with The Sorcerer’s Companion, these with out entry to the Hogwarts Library can tuition themselves within the interesting fact at the back of J. ok. Rowling’s global of magic.
Newly up to date to incorporate Harry Potter and the part Blood Prince, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Sorcerer’s Companion permits curious readers to seem up something magical from the Harry Potter books and find a wealth of exciting, unforeseen details. Wands and wizards, boggarts and broomsticks, hippogriffs and herbology, all have superb histories rooted in legend, literature, or real-life occasions relationship again hundreds of thousands or maybe millions of years. Magic wands, like these offered in Rowling’s Diagon Alley, have been as soon as formed by means of Druid sorcerers out in their sacred yew bushes. Love potions have been first concocted in old Greece and Egypt. And books of spells and curses have been hugely well known in the course of the center a while. From Amulets to Zombies, you’ll additionally learn:
• how one can learn tea leaves
• the place to discover a basilisk at the present time
• how King Frederick II of Denmark financed a battle with a unicorn horn
• who the true Merlin was once
• tips on how to accurately harvest mandrake root
• who wore the 1st invisibility cloak
• easy methods to dispose of a goblin
• why owls have been feared within the old world
• what fairly lies past the Veil
• the origins of our modern day “bogeyman,” and extra.
A spellbinding journey of Harry’s attractive international, The Sorcerer’s Companion is a needs to for each Potter aficionado’s bookshelf.
The Sorcerer's spouse has now not been ready, licensed, or authorized through any individual or entity that created, released, or produced the Harry Potter books or comparable houses.
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