Guest post by Lupa Of all the books Ted Andrews wrote, perhaps none was as well-known—or as often recommended—as his seminal work on neopagan animal totemism, Animal Speak. Like so many non-indigenous totemists, it was the first book I ever picked up on the topic, back in the mid-1990s when all I had access to in my small town of origin was a little hippie-owned health food store. While texts on Wicca and ceremonial magic were a bit too "spooky" for these rural folks, the warm, cuddly topic of animals was alright, wasn't it? Okay, maybe "warm and cuddly" isn't the right description. But Andrews had this way of making the information accessible to just about anyone who picked it