 | Power of the Witch (Arkana) by Laurie Cabot
Buy used from: £0.01 From fairytale American witch this book is good written, includes a beautiful apple meditation and working with alpha ect.
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 | The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess by Starhawk
Buy new: £8.36 / Used from: £4.99 This is the best book of Starhawk (Miriam Simos) she has written. Includes all basic information, spells, visualizations and associationlist in the back. Much for less. Feri tradition/Dianic incl.
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 | Tree Wisdom by Jacqueline Memory Paterson
Buy used from: £39.94 A easy to read and nice designed book on the botanical, spirital and ogam/runes of trees. Also flower wisdom in same series; if you like flowers more.
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 | Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner (Llewellyn's Practical Magick) by Scott Cunningham
Buy new: £6.05 / Used from: £1.56 A simple book, not very solitary and not one of his best books. Magical Herbalism is much better if you have a garden or like working with herbs.
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 | Shamanism as a Spiritual Practice for Daily Life by Thomas Cowan
Buy new: £8.40 / Used from: £6.03 A very good beginners guide to shamanism. What is it? and how do they do it. More importantly: how can you travel between worlds? Text and exercises
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 | Charge of the Goddess: The Mother of Modern Witchcraft by Doreen Valiente
Buy used from: £39.98 Valiente is one of the most important people who has changed wicca at his beginning stage, with(out) Gardner. She is the author of the Charge of the Goddess a.o. text used in wicca today
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 | Book of Shadows by Phyllis Curott
Buy used from: £6.46 A nice novel for women about Dianic Wicca (originally a lesbienne/feministic tradition). The author has to much fantasy if you'll ask me. She is an American lawyer. Don't like the reprint cover.
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 | The Athlone History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries v. 5 (The Athlone history of witchcraft & magic in Europe)
Buy new: £59.50 / Used from: £12.61 A good research on withcraft in the past centuries. Not everywhere in Europe the witches were female. Marijke Gifswijt-Hofstra is a prof at University of Amsterdam, Brian Levack, prof of Texas.
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 | The Twentieth Century: 6 (Witchcraft & Magic in Europe) by Stuart Clark
Buy used from: £12.60 In this last volume Ronald Hutton writes about History of Wicca and Gardner. While Willem de Blecourt writes about Traditional Witches (not the same as wicca!!) Includes also a chapter on Satanism
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| Magical Religion and Modern Witchcraft
Buy used from: £66.46 Horrible layout; but good contributions. Where did wicca came from? Every part explained where Gardner gots his 'old' religion. Has a chapter on Astartu and Odenism
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 | The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft by Ronald Hutton
Buy new: £7.14 / Used from: £6.54 Not so interesting book because in the Athlone volume 6 already a large part is explained . He is a professor of History at Bristol University. Nice print
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 | Wicca: A Comprehensive Guide to the Old Religion in the Modern World by Vivianne Crowley
Buy used from: £0.45 Crowley is a psychologist, and in this book she explaines all the basic ideas and work of wicca or modern witchcraft. She thinks wicca is an'old'religion. Wicca was made by Gardner in 1949! Classic wo
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 | Exploring the World of the Druids by Miranda J. Green
Buy used from: £3.00 Green is an archeologist, following the same way of Margaret Murray I guess. Beautiful illustrations add much to the content. In one word: a glance at highlights of druidism
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 | Legends of Ancient Egypt by Margaret Alice Murray
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.23 Egypt specialized Murray wrote The Witch-Cult in Western Europe and in The Divine Kings she claims the Brittish Kings are witches. Wrote the introduction of Witchcraft Today
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 | Witchcraft Today by Gerald Brosseau Gardner
Buy new: £11.99 The man himself: Gerald the founder of Modern Witchcraft. In this book he speaks of his witch beliefs. Includes photographs. (It is possible to purchase it)
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 | High Magic's Aid: Wonderful Tale of Medieval Witchcraft by Gerald Brosseau Gardner
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £86.73 A novel under his witchname Scire, written by Gardner in 1949 (Witchcraft Act in England lasted until 1951). Medieval witchcraft novel. (I have an other edition)
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 | The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries (Library of the Mystic Arts) by W.Y. Evans-Wentz
Buy new: £15.19 / Used from: £8.25 Standard book on fairy belief in Celtic world. Don't buy commercial prints on the fairy folk, unless you do it for the drawings :o) This book covers it all
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 | The Fairies in Tradition and Literature (Routledge Classics) by Katharine Briggs
Buy new: £8.78 / Used from: £6.40 Katherine is a folklorist, made a dictonary on fairy folk. This book has many poems and text on all kinds of elementals. A Witchguide to fairyfolk is a duplicate of this book. Katharine was first!
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 | Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande by E. E. Evans-Pritchard
Buy new: £23.29 / Used from: £18.89 One of the first antropologist that had contact with african people and wrote about african witchcraft. Standard work; but a bit antiquated
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 | Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England (Penguin History) by Keith Thomas
Buy new: £12.31 / Used from: £9.00 Classic study. Some conclusions: English witches didn't burn, the hung.Trials as result of social-economic conflict, neighbour fights. Witchcraft as a way explaining death, poverty, fires ect.
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 | Wicca for Men: A Handbook for Male Pagans Seeking a Spiritual Path by A.J. Drew
Buy used from: £0.99 Not especially for men. author doesn't say anything on the male witches in Northern and East-Europe. Gives creative refreshing ideas on preforming rituals and making tools.
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 | The Witches' Bible: The Complete Witches' Handbook by Janet Farrar
Buy used from: £6.95 Wicca rule: don't save scripts from others. Wicca ideology: We don't have a standard book or bible. Provocation by a with-duo...?
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 | The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth by Robert Graves
Buy new: £9.31 / Used from: £4.99 Classic study on ogam (tree) alphabet, the (ancient) goddess and myths. Better than Frazers Golden Bough, I find
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 | Complete Book of Witchcraft (Llewellyn's Practical Magick) by Raymond Buckland
Buy new: £9.91 / Used from: £6.17 Unattractable print; made for people who don't wont to read much. Copied of Conways An occult Primer (appendix)
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 | Circle Round: Raising Children in the Goddess Tradition by "
Buy new: £9.29 / Used from: £6.62 This is my last line; so a symbolic title. Raising children in a pagan tradition. http://skriebels.tripod.com (dutch)- http://www.witchvox.com (english) for further information
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