Prologue (3k)
Chapter One: Designing Beasts (61k)
Chapter Two: New Rules for Familiars (2k)
Chapter Three: Familiars and Saga Development (42k)
Chapter Four: Popular Familiars (103k)
Chapter Five: Quadrapeda (84k)
Chapter Six: Birds (84k)
Chapter Seven: Serpents (62k)
Chapter Eight: Worms (9k)
Chapter Nine: Fish (13k)
Appendix One: Humans as Familiars (12k)
Appendix Two: Familiars of the Realms (70k)
Appendix Three: Forms, Effects and Sizes (11k)
Bibliography (6k)
The Medieval Bestiary
This was the first edition of this book. The statistics found here draw from this earlier work, which has an adventure seed for every single animal it includes.
Richard Barber, Bestiary, Folio, London, 1992.
The main bestiary used duration the preparation of this work was the Folio Society translation of Bodley 764, a manuscript in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It is an English bestiary, produced between 1220 and 1250.
Anne Payne, Medieval Beasts, The British Library, London, 1990.
This work is a translation of excerpts from many bestiaries of the 13th and 14th centuries. It's tremendously useful.
JC Cooper, A Dictionary of Symbolic & Mythological Animals, Thorsons, London, 1995.
Cooper's work is far more general than the earlier bestiaries, and often contains useful material on the development of myths.
Joeseph D. Clark, Beastly Folklore, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen (New York), 1968.
This work contains lists of the mystical powers attributed to common animals in folklore.
Hannke Wirtjes, The Middle English Physiologus, published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1991.
The Physiologus is the first bestiary, from which all others derive. The above version is difficult to understand if you aren't familiar with Middle English.
Theodore Xenophon Barber, Ph. D., The Human Nature of Birds, Bookman, Melbourne, 1993.
Angela Carter, "Puss in Boots" in The Bloody Chamber.
"Figaro", as the author calls Ms Carter's main character, has been an enduring presence in the author's campaigns through several roleplaying systems. If you enjoy it, you might like to read the script for the radio play, which is in Come Unto These Yellow Sands, again by Angela Carter. Her "A Company of Wolves" is also useful to Ars Magica players.
"Ferret Central"
http://www.optics.rochester.edu:8080/users/pgreene/central.html
"Ferret Natural History FAQ"
http://www.optics.rochester.edu:8080/users/pgreene/faq/history.html#domestication
"Ferrets in Art History"
http://www.tiac.net/users/drbeer/joyce/ferrets/frhistpg.htm
Bil Gilbert, The Weasels A Sensible Look at a Family of Predators, Pantheon Books (Random House), New York, 1970.
This book concerns American mustelids, and in this wiring it has been assumed that the habit of the European Mustelids are sufficiently similar that they can be projected upon their European cousins.
Frank W. Lane, Kingdom of the Octopus, Sheridan House, New Yourk, 1974.
Desmond Morris, Catwatching, Jonathan Cape, London, 1982.
ibid., Cat Lore, Jonathan Cape, London, 1987.
The Hidden Life of Dogs
The Tribe of the Tiger
These two works are by the same author. The author of this work regrets that his personal copies were destroyed in monsoonal flooding, and he has since been unable to verify their bibliographic details.
Aesop (O & RTemple, trans.), The Complete Fables, Penguin Classics, London, 1998.
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (15 ed.), Cassell's Publishers, 1996.
Bullfinch's Mythology, Spring Books, London, 1963.
J E Cirlot (trans J Sage), A Dictionary of Symbols (2nd ed.), Routledge, 1995.
This work gives translations for the concepts represented by many Egyptian heiroglyphs.
Herodotus, (Aubery De Sélincourt, trans.), Tales from Herodotus, Penguin Books, 1997.
Herodotus, A de Selicourt, trans, J Marincola, revision), The Histories, Penguin Classics, London 1996.
Herodotus, the Father of History, is the source of many of the legends which are reiterated here.
The Encarta and Hutchinson's Encyclopaedias were used in the preparation of this book.