Recommended Witch Books:
Tag: cosmology
Plato’s Complete Works
Review:
You can learn more about magic and Witchcraft from a handful of Plato's dialogues than you can from a warehouse-full of popular modern books. *Diuvei recommends in particular the Republic, the Symposium, Timaeus & Critias, Phaedo, and the Apology.
Tags
Witchcraft Basics
Golden Bough, The
The Golden Bough: The Classic Study In Magic
Sir James G. Frazier (1890 et seq.; this reprint by Papermac, 1990)
Review:
Magical myths, folklore, customs, and practices of cultures worldwide compiled by a Scottish anthropologist. While its material is sometimes scattered or specious, it remains a valuable resource. (Actual book cover not shown.)
Tags
- religion
- cultures
- Roman
- superstition
- magic
- practices
- reference
- folklore
- history
- European
- customs
- Greece
- nonfiction
- mythology
- spells
- symbolism
- cosmology
- Anthropology
Witchcraft Basics
Spiral Dance
The Spiral Dance A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess
Starhawk (Harper-Collins Publishers, 1999)
Review:
An eclectic primer about ancient and modern Goddess-worship and Pagan cosmology; written by a contemporary magical practitioner and co-founder of the Reclaiming trad.
Tags
- deity
- sabbats
- Goddess-worship
- cosmology
- modern
- Pagan
- moon
- religion
- primer
- magic
- ancient
- persecution
- theology
- history
- eclectic
- God
- feminism
- esbats
Witchcraft Basics
Goodly Spellbook, The
The Goodly Spellbook: Olde Spells for Modern Problems
Lady Passion (Dixie Deerman) & *Diuvei (Steven Rasmussen) (Sterling Publishing, 2nd edition, 2014)
Review:
Illustrated, definitive, fascinating guide to Witchcraft that explains how everyone can use common ingredients to work effective magic to help themselves, others, and the planet; written by trained, experienced Gardnerians.
Tags
- language
- nature
- daimons
- magical: colors
- scourging
- animals
- Fire
- monotheism
- the Mysteries
- Olde Religion
- chanting
- gypsy
- planet
- paganism
- polytheism
- divination
- décor
- secret
- cosmology
- Asian
- flowers
- mythology
- voces magicae
- practices
- Church
- healing
- practical
- ethics
- Priest
- dreamwork
- gems
- sex
- Pagan
- astrology
- fortunetelling
- Native American
- virtues
- Rites
- Priestess
- compendium
- herbs
- prevent pregnancy
- England
- principles
- Egyptian
- foods
- solitary practice
- Roman
- attraction
- freemasonry
- Norse
- Voudon
- history
- reference
- conjure
- herbal medicine
- protection
- esbats
- spirituality
- Elements
- movement
- spell ingredients
- sites
- authentic
- German
- numerology
- Water
- illustrated
- Wicca
- cooking
- herbalism
- Puritans
- Initiation
- folklore
- entities
- music
- spellwork
- statues
- banish
- gesture
- offerings
- wind
- deities
- Witchcraft
- Crossing Over
- home
- purity
- nonfiction
- paranormal
- essential
- names
- Strega
- Craft terms
- Barbarous Words of Power
- ghosts
- oils
- world
- gods
- America
- culture
- invocation
- Renaissance
- ritual
- Activism
- European
- numbers
- Sumerian
- love
- Gerald Gardner
- body
- Golden Dawn
- oral tradition
- goddesses
- ceremonial magic
- cure
- Italian
- Russia
- sabbats
- African
- fascination
- and squares; medieval
- survival skills
- witches
- Gardnerian
- brew
- Greece
- Pagan dances
- tradition
- Earth
- cursing
- justice
- sacred: geometry
- spells
- Air
- fairies
- Meso-American
- symbolism
- cauldron
- New Forest Coven
- Burning Times
- grimoire
- Paleolithic
- reincarnation
- gatherings
- death
- kitchen
- substances; Santeria
- spirits
- ancient
- fertility
- mind
- travel
- occult
- Celtic
- guide
- persecution
Witchcraft Basics
- By Lady Passion & *Diuvei
- Beliefs, Practices, & Traditions of Pagans, Witches, & Wiccans
- Fortune-telling & Divination
- Healing Arts
- Rituals & Spells
Plato’s Republic
Review:
A seminal tome by a Classical Pagan who argued that archetypal ideas govern matter and time, and explains magic’s philosophical bases.
Tags
Witchcraft Basics
Drawing Down the Moon
Drawing Down the Moon: Witches Druids Goddess Worshippers & Other Pagans in America Today
Margot Adler (Penguin Books, 2006)
Review:
Craft history, information about diverse magical practitioners, groups, and Covens, and resources; written by a traditionally trained Gardnerian Witch; the author included information about Coven Oldenwilde in this 20th-anniversary update of her 1986 original edition.
Tags
- Goddess-Worshipper
- Goddess
- Priestess
- heathen
- nonfiction
- reference
- interviews
- ritual
- Wicca
- nature
- cosmology
- Witchcraft
- Pagans
- Craft terms
- America
- witches
- polyamoury
- Gerald Gardner
- ceremonial magic
- polytheism
- Gardnerian
- Druids
- history
- Priest
- magic
- Earth
- tradition
- principles
- occult
- Feri
- paganism
- spirituality
- Olde Religion
- gatherings
- God
- practices
Witchcraft Basics
Alexandria: The Journal Of The Western Cosmological Traditions
Alexandria 1: The Journal of Western Cosmological Traditions
Vol. 1, ed. David Fideler (1991 Phanes Press)
Alexandria 2: The Journal of Western Cosmological Traditions
Vol. 2, ed. David Fideler (1994 Phanes Press)
Alexandria 3: The Journal of Western Cosmological Traditions
Vol. 3, ed. David Fideler (1995 Phanes Press)
Review:
Explorations of Pagan topics such as the Life of Hypatia, an Orphic Hymn to Artemis, the Sacred Geography of the Ancient Greeks, The Science & Art of Animating Statues, and Pythagorean Harmonics, etc.; written by academic researchers and magical practitioners.
Tags
- harmonics
- Hypatia
- hymns
- Mantinea
- sites
- history
- Orphic
- statues
- paganism
- Orphism
- Western magical traditions
- God
- Pagan
- Goddess
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- religion
- Artemis
- research
- cosmology
- Roman
- Gnostic
- sacred architecture
- Greek
