The Spiritual Power of MasksThe Spiritual Power of Masks explores ancient mask customs, rituals, and traditions throughout Europe, from Scandinavia and England to Germany and France to Greece and Rome. It reveals how mask rituals are akin to shamanic journeying and allow the mask wearer to personify an ancestral presence, spirit, deity, or power. Examining animal guising, the book shows how mask customs are tied to creation myths and the ancestral founders of a people, tribe,