A Reading List for the Traditional Witch: For a few years I've been meaning to finally get my reading list typed out, and I figure as the Old Hag settles her icy bottom down for a spell, I might as well. Here is the master list, many I've read, most are on my to do list. Please feel free to suggest any additions, for this is by no means a complete list. Check back! I add frequently. The Foundational Texts: Aradia or the Gospel of the Witches of Italy - Charles G. Leland The Secret Commonwealth: An Essay on the Nature and Actions of the Subterranean (and for the Most Part) Invisible People, Heretofore Going Under the Name of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies - Robert Kirk The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - W.Y. Evans-Wentz The Golden Bough - James George Frazer The Greater Key of Solomon - Samuel L. Macgregor Mathers The Complete Art of Witchcraft: Penetrating the Secrets of White Magic - Sybil Leek Fifty Years in the Feri Tradition- Cora Anderson High Magic’s Aid - Gerald Gardner Mastering Witchcraft: A Practical Guide for Witches, Warlocks & Covens - Paul Huson Natural Magic - Doreen Valiente Rebirth of Witchcraft - Doreen Valiente Witchcraft for Tomorrow - Doreen Valiente Witchcraft: a Tradition Renewed - Doreen Valiente and Evan John Jones The Writings of Roy Bowers - (Robert Cochrane) Apocalyptic Witchcraft - Peter Grey Traditional Witchcraft: The Roebuck in the Thicket - Evan John Jones & Robert Cochrane, editor Mike Howard The Robert Cochrane Letters: An Insight into Modern Traditional Witchcraft - Robert Cochrane and Evan John Jones The Forge of Tubal Cain - Ann Finnin The Pillars of Tubal Cain - Nigel Aldcroft Jackson & Michael HowardLiber Nox: A Traditional Witch's Gramarye - Michael Howard Call of the Horned Piper - Nigel Aldcroft Jackson Masks of Misrule - Nigel Jackson Grimore for Modern Cunning Folk - Peter Paddon Letters from the Devil's Forest - Robin Artisson The Witching Way of Hollow Hill - Robin Artisson The Horn of Evenwood - Robin Artisson Azoetia: Grimoire of the Sabbatic Craft - Andrew D. Chumbley Opuscula Magica. Volume I: Essays on Witchcraft and the Sabbatic Tradition - Andrew D. Chumbley and Daniel A. Schulke The Devil's Dozen-Thirteen Craft Rites of The Old One - Gemma Gary Cecil Williamson's Book of Witchcraft-A Grimoire of the Museum of Witchcraft - Steve Patterson Serpent Songs - Editor: Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold Specific Cultural Traditions: Balkan Traditional Witchcraft - Radomir Ristic Practical Magic in the Northern Tradition - Nigel Pennick Irish Witchcraft and Demonology - St. John D. Seymour The Devil's Plantation: East Anglian Lore, Witchcraft & Folk-Magic- Nigel Pearson Traditional Witchcraft a Cornish Book of Ways - Gemma Gary The Black Toad - Gemma Gary General Craft: Wheel of the Year - Pauline Campanelli Witches All - Elizabeth Pepper Irish Witchcraft from an Irish Witch - Lora O'Brien Magical Ritual Methods - William G. Gray Seasonal Occult Rituals - William G. Gray Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath - Carlo Ginzburg and Raymond Rosenthal History: The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth - Robert Graves The History of the Devil: The Horned God of the West - R. Lowe Thompson Witchcraft and Society in England and America, 1550-1750 - Marion Gibson Cunning-Folk & Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic - Emma Wilby Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England - Alan MacFarlane Singing With Blackbirds: The Survival of Primal Celtic Shamanism in Later Folk -Traditions by Stuart A. Harris Logan The Pattern Under the Plough - George Ewart Evans. Faber and Faber. The Secret Teachings of All Ages - Manly P. Hall. Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy - Mircea Eliade Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History - Alan Charles Kors and Edward Peters Shamans Sorcerers and Saints: A Prehistory of Religion - Brian Hayden Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe - H.R. Ellis Davidson The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy - Ronald Hutton Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History - Owen Davies The Know How: Complete Book of Incense, Oils & Brews - Scott Cunningham Hoodoo, Herb and Root Magic - cat yronwode Practical Candleburning Rituals: Spells and Rituals for Every Purpose - Raymond BucklandMagic and Husbandry- The Folk-Lore Of Agriculture; Rites, Ceremonies, Customs, And Beliefs Connected With Pastoral Life And The Cultivation Of The Soil; With Breeding And The Care Of Cattle; With Fruit-Growing, Bees, And Fowls – Lewis Dayton Burdick Wortcunning: For Info on plants see my other site, it's literally a giant bibliography. Witchcraft Medicine: Healing Arts, Shamanic Practices, and Forbidden Plants - Claudia Müller-Ebeling, Christian Rätsch, and Wolf-Dieter Storl Pharmako Trilogy - Dale Pendell Magical Herbalism by Scott Cunningham Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs by Scott Cunningham The Herb Book by John Lust Herbal Medicine-Maker’s Handbook: A Home Manual by James Green Magical and Ritual Use of Herbs - Richard Alan Miller Blackberry Cove Herbal: Healing With Common Herbs in the Appalachian Wise-Woman Tradition -Linda Ours Rago Leechcraft: Early English Charms, Plant-lore and Healing - Stephen Pollington Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers - Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English Folklore: A Dictionary of English Folklore - Jacqueline Simpson and Steve Roud Make Merry In Step and Song: A Seasonal Treasury of Music, Mummer's Plays & Celebrations in the English Folk Tradition - Bronwen Forbes
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