Recommended Reading

There are a lot of books around on Wicca and related subjects. In amongst the good ones are a lot of "flaky" ones. You should be able to tell them apart, but here's a guide to some of the good books around....

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Valiente, Doreen: An ABC of Witchcraft Past and Present (Phoenix Publishing Inc.) ISBN 0-919345-77-8; Natural Magic (Phoenix Publishing Inc.) ISBN 0-919345-80-8; Witchcraft for Tomorrow (Phoenix Publishing Inc.) ISBN 0-919345-83-2; The Rebirth of Witchcraft (Phoenix Publishing Inc.) ISBN 0-919345-39-5; Anything by Doreen Valiente is highly recommended

Starhawk: The Spiral Dance (Harper San Francisco) ISBN 0-06-250814-8

Farrar, Janet & Stewart: A Witches' Bible* (Phoenix Publishing Inc) ISBN 0-919345-92-1
*also published as two separate books: Eight Sabbats for Witches & The Witches Way; also; The Pagan Path; Spells, and How They Work; What Witches Do; The Witches' God; The Witches' Goddess

Frazer, Sir James: The Golden Bough

Stone, Merlin: When God Was a Woman (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich) 0-156961-58-X

Adler, Margot: Drawing Down the Moon (Beacon Press, Boston) 0-140195-36-X

Carmichael, Alexander: Carmina Gadelica: Hymns & Incantations (Lindisfarne Press) ISBN 0-940262-50-9

Jackson, Nigel Alderoft: Call of the Horned Piper (Capall Bann Publishing) ISBN 1-898307-09-1; Masks of Misrule (Capall Bann Publishing) ISBN 1-898307-09-1

Huson, Paul: Mastering Witchcraft (Rupert Hart-Davis, London) ISBN 0-399504-42-7

King, Bernard: The Elements of the Runes (Element) ISBN 1-86204-037-0

Liddell/Howard: The Pickingill Papers (Capall Bann Publishing) ISBN 1-898307-10-5

Best/Brightman: The Book of Secrets of Albertus Magnus of the Virtues of Herbs, Stones and Certain Beasts, Also a Book of the Marvels of the World (Oxford University Press) ISBN 0-198125-02-X

Leland, Charles Godfrey: Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling ISBN 0-7858-0440-4; Aradia: Gospel of the Witches ISBN 0-91934-510-7

Crowther, Patricia: The Lid off the Cauldron (Samuel Weiser Inc) ISBN 0-87728-629-9

Fortune, Dion: Psychic Self Defence (Samuel Weiser Inc) ISBN 0-87728-150-5; All titles

Kramer/Sprenger: Malleus Maleficarum (Bracken Books, London) ISBN 1-85170-539-2; This book is recommended for its historical look at witchcraft, but it is more a book of what witchcraft isn't. It includes the Papal Bull, which is very appropriate name. The contents of the Malleus Maleficarum would be funny had they not had tragic results for millions of innocent people. Never again the burning times.

Cunningham, Scott: Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs (Llewellyn Publications) ISBN 0-87542-122-9

Bradley, Marion Zimmer: The Mists of Avalon (Penguin) ISBN 0-14-017719-1; This is my favourite fiction book... I have also read and enjoyed:; The Firebrand (Penguin) ISBN 0-14-017720-5; The Forest House (Penguin)

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