Unrelated to J. K. Rowling. Alphabetiical few pages each description about history of terms. Plus old woodcut style illustrations. Wands and wizards, boggarts and broomsticks, hippogriffs and herbology, all have astonishing histories rooted in legend, literature, or real-life events dating back hundreds or even thousands of years. Magic wands, like those sold in Rowling’s Diagon Alley, were once fashioned by Druid sorcerers out of their sacred yew trees. Love potions were first concocted in ancient Greece and Egypt. And books of spells and curses were highly popular during the Middle Ages.From Amulets to Zombies, you’ll alsohow to read tea leaveswhere to find a basilisk todayhow King Frederick II of Denmark financed a war with a unicorn hornwho the real Merlin washow to safely harvest mandrake rootwho wore the first invisibility cloakhow to get rid of a goblinwhy owls were feared in the ancient worldwhat really lies beyond the Veilthe origins of our modern-day “bogeyman,” and more.