 | A Witch Alone: Thirteen Moons to Master Natural Magic by Marian Green
Buy new: £7.42 / Used from: £5.00 A good starter book, with exercises. Marian Green is one of the best authors for witches.
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 | Natural Magic by Doreen Valiente
Buy used from: £3.79 From the Mother of Witchcraft, Valiente has set out magic in easily referenced chapters.
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 | A Witch's Kitchen by Valerie Thomas
Buy new: £13.95 / Used from: £9.45 Full of practical tips and recipes. If you want to brew, dye, heal and grow, this is the book for you.
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 | What's Your Poison?: v. 1: The Garden of Hades by Tina Tarrant
Buy new: £13.95 / Used from: £35.74 A more up to date herbal than Culpeper. This comes highly recommended.
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| Root and Branch: British Magical Tree Lore by Paul R. Harris
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £39.51 A simple to use guide to the magical uses of trees. Includes some lovely tree lore.
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| How to Make and Use Talismans (Paths to Inner Power S.) by Israel Regardie
Buy used from: £23.44 Witches make talismans, and what could be better than this simple guide from an excellent author?
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 | The Complete Book of Incense, Oils and Brews (Llewellyn's Practical Magick) by Scott Cunningham
Buy new: £8.10 / Used from: £4.66 A very useful book. Ignore the anti-Cunningham snobs. His encyclopaedias are excellent.
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 | Cunning-folk: Popular Magic in English History by Owen Davies
Buy used from: £66.60 Essential reading for anyone who is interested in facts instead of fanatsy in the development of modern witchcraft.
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 | The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft by Ronald Hutton
Buy new: £7.14 / Used from: £4.09 Same as Cunning Folk. Explodes all the myths surrounding modern paganism.
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 | The Sacred Circle Tarot: A Celtic Pagan Journey by Anna Franklin
Buy new: £18.76 / Used from: £12.88 Not a 'classic' deck, but uses lovely symbolism.
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 | Magick Without Tears by Aleister Crowley
For anyone put off by Crowleys reputation, this is an excellent way to wet your magickal feet.
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 | The Book of Ordinary Oracles by Lon Milo DuQuette
Buy new: £14.03 / Used from: £4.48 This is a lovely book about Oracles, which is an Oracle by itself. Great for all types of divination.
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 | Pacts with the Devil: A Chronicle of Sex, Blasphemy and Liberation by S.J. Black
Buy new: £10.50 / Used from: £19.99 Excellent book for the darker aspects of witchcraft.
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 | Foundations of Practical Magic: An Introduction to Qabalistic, Magical and Meditative Techniques by Israel Regardie
Buy new: £14.24 / Used from: £8.74 Where I started. All witches should master these techniques before moving to spell work and ritual.
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 | The Call of the Horned Piper by Nigel Jackson
Buy new: £8.95 / Used from: £5.99 Interested in BTW? This is the book to start with. Lovely male mysteries within.
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 | Witchcraft for Tomorrow by Doreen Valiente
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £3.53 Another book from the Mother of modern witchcraft. Hell, just buy all her books. They are great.
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 | Witchcraft Today by Gerald B. Gardner
Buy used from: £10.28 And one from the Father of modern witchcraft. It is a book about Wicca so not necessarily witchcraft but should be read for the history.
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 | The Element Encyclopaedia of 5000 Spells: The Ultimate Reference Book for the Magical Arts by Judika Illes
Buy new: £12.98 / Used from: £7.51 Huge, heavy and possibly not historirally accurate. Nevertheless it is great fun and very thorough.
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 | Natural Witchcraft: The Natural Way by Marian Green
Buy used from: £12.50 Another one from Marian Green. This is excellent, and describes the ways of the solitary witch without all that wicca stuff.
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 | The Roebuck in the Thicket: An Anthology of the Robert Cochrane Tradition by Evan John Jones
Buy new: £10.95 / Used from: £64.95 For balance, read about Robert Cochrane and the Clan of Tubal Cain. More physical than wicca, and much more fun.
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| The Azoëtia: A grimoire of the sabbatic craft by Andrew D Chumbley
Yeah, like you will ever be able to afford this, but apparently it is worth the money. One for lottery winners I think.
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