Product Description

Everything you need to know is here - The Sabbats, Casting & Banishing the Magic Circle, The Complete Book of Shadows, The Great Rite, Initiation Rites, Consecration Rites, Spells, Witches' Tools, Witchcraft & Sex, Running a Coven, Clairvoyance, and Astral Projection. This collection includes two books in one volume, "Eight Sabbats for Witches" and "The Witches' Way" and is the most comprehensive and revealing work on the principles, rituals and beliefs of modern witchcraft.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #137514 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 584 pages

About the Author
Janet and Stewart Farrar, authors of many books on witchcraft appeared frequently in the media. Stewart lived with his wife in Co. Meath, Ireland, until his death in 2000.

Customer Reviews

just my opinion
i have read reviews of his book comparing it to others authors and i don't think that is fair. Far more advanced than most books it is likened to this is the one book i would recomend to anyone considering serious group work. it is more like a manual rather than a tea and biscuit read and yes it does contain nudity and if this offends are you really in the right religon. i personally don't think this was written for solitaries certainly not for fluffys, there is plenty of stuff out there for them if you take your craft seriously this is a must have in your library

disappointing
I've been studying wicca for a while now, but had never read this book. A friend told me it was in interesting read....
Interesting indeed. Unnerving, slightly kinky, vastly unneccesary, heavily laden with lugubrious detail and spiritual waffle, with loads of fairly pointless pictures of the authors being 'skyclad.' How nice.
It is far too full of phrazes like 'while trying to remain impartial, our opinion is...' and is thus full of contradictions and personal opinion. Something they claim at the beginning to be trying to avoid.
Their attempts at olde english proze does not reflect the fact that most wiccans (as with most other religions) are constantly moving with the times, whilst maintaining the integrity of the religion itself.
I gave it a two star rating because there is useful information in there, but no more so than in more modern, and much more user friendly, books.
Read Cunningham, read Katy West, Read Mae Beth.
This book has it's roots in the sixties era. It should have stayed there.

risible
This book is not a Wiches' Bible, it's a Wiccan bible and concerns itself only with the Gardenerian / Alexandrian traditions and group work. As such it isn't suited to the Hedge/solitary witch in any way.

It's extremly dogmatic in tone, laying out the precise structures of rituals as practiced in the Farrar's coven in 70s Ireland as though they were universally representative. The emphasis on on nakedness, very artifical faux-antiquated speech (most of it composed in the 1950s not the middle ages) and initiation rituals involving binding and scourging make this book an alternately uncomfortable and laugh-out-loud read. There's a lot of heavy technique but no real spirituality or heart.

If you're interested in how Wicca developed this is an interesting period peice, but if you're looking for a manual or source of inspiration this isn't it. Unless you want to swan around in the nude, speaking like Chaucer and whipping people...