 | The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy by Ronald Hutton
Buy new: £18.19 / Used from: £23.08 A must read for anyone interested in the subject. If you are reading 'The Golden Bough' beg, steal or borrow this to enjoy alongside it.
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 | The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion: A Study in Magic and Religion: A New Abridgement from the Second and Third Editions (Oxford World's Classics) by Sir James George Frazer
Buy used from: £10.76 Avoid the 1922 text as crucial material is missing. This is an indispensible read but needs to be imbibed alongside other material as some of the scholarship in this v influential text has dated now.
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 | The Paganism Reader
Buy new: £25.64 / Used from: £21.24 Key sources in paganism: (1) classical texts from the ancient world (2) `proto-revival' texts, and (3) a look at the revival & diversification of paganism from the late 1800s onwards.
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 | The Druids: A History by Ronald Hutton
Buy used from: £4.00 Alas, even after reading this book the druids will remain rather mysterious; but probably as close as you are going to get for now. An up-to-date history of what people have written about druids.
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 | The Quest for the Wicker Man: Historical, Folklore and Pagan Perspectives (Quest for) by Benjamin Franks
Buy used from: £23.97 For fans of the film (The Wicker Man) but there's a lot more in here alongside; including material on pagan sacrifices, music, May Day, Wicca women & modern paganism.
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 | The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth by Robert Graves
Buy new: £9.35 / Used from: £4.99 Another classic text. Myth and religious ceremonies, some dating from the Old Stone Age.
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 | Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain by Ronald Hutton
Buy new: £7.11 / Used from: £4.88 A History of the Ritual Year in Britain (From May Day revels & Midsummer fires, to Harvest Home & Hallowe'en, to the 12 days of Christmas).
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 | The Meaning of Witchcraft by Gerald Brosseau Gardner
Buy new: £11.35 / Used from: £10.84 Treat with some caution; probably a lot of story telling in this rather fine "sourcebook for witches and pagans". Published 1959.
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 | The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft by Ronald Hutton
Buy new: £7.14 / Used from: £6.53 Not my first port of call but I can't deny it is a significant work for many of those interested in and / or practicing Wicca today.
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 | Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Malory
Buy used from: £1.99 Malory's anthology of various King Arthur myths. Paganism? Some elements, yes.
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 | The Lancashire Pace-Egg Play: A Social History by Eddie Cass
Buy used from: £14.99 The pace egg plays are a great Easter tradition going back many hundreds of years (but try to get 'The Pace-Egg Plays of the Calder Valley' if you can get your hands on a copy, FLS Books, 2004).
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 | Cowboys for Christ by Robin Hardy
Buy new: £9.48 / Used from: £7.20 A thumping good, light read and there are attempts to turn it into a film.
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 | The Rise and Fall of Merry England: Ritual Year, 1400-1700 by Ronald Hutton
Buy used from: £30.00 Good luck in finding a reasonably priced copy of this fine book.
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