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Tag: Pagan
Irish Cures, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions
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Enchanting, authentic, archaic folklore, magic, omens, prophecies, and proverbs compiled by the mother of author-wit Oscar Wilde.
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- Pagan
- omens
- magic
- prophecies
- authentic
- proverbs
- superstitions
- charms
- archaic
- collection
- cures
- Irish
- Ireland
- legends
- nonfiction
- mystical
Witchcraft Basics
Folklore and Odysseys of Food and Medicinal Plants
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Pen-and-ink illustrations of ancient Pagan glyphs and plants decorate this exploration of ancient, medicinal herbal lore and the magical uses of food.
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Amulets and Superstitions
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Seminal tome; written by a British Museum Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities.
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Prisoner Advocates Guide
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This illuminating free handbook details a Wiccan clergywoman’s two decades' experience advocating for incarcerated and institutionalized Pagans persecuted behind bars. High Priestess Lady Passion reveals her techniques for securing their religious rights — empowering any volunteer to do the same and aid this vulnerable segment of the Craft community.
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Greek Magical Papyri
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The title word “Demotic” isn’t a typo of demonic: That material is Coptic. The illustrated main corpus is a collection of 2nd-century B.C.E. to 5th-century C.E. Egypto-Greco-Roman magical spells, rituals, and invocations from ancient papyrus spellbooks, many of them found in the tomb of a magic man in Thebes. Also known as the Papyri Graecae Magicae, or PGM.
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Spiral Dance
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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.
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- esbats
- deity
- sabbats
- Goddess-worship
- cosmology
- modern
- Pagan
- moon
- religion
- primer
- magic
- ancient
- persecution
- theology
- history
- eclectic
- God
- feminism
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An ABC of Witchcraft
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Alphabetized information about Craft beliefs, traditions, lore, and practices; written by a witness to the modern rise of Witchcraft.
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- Witchcraft
- nonfiction
- magic
- ritual
- New Forest Coven
- Pagan
- occult
- 1734 plate
- Olde Religion
- Aleister Crowley
- practices
- witches
- Book of Shadows
- Priestess
- Craft terms
- reference
- paganism
- esbat
- Robert Cochrane
- England
- family traditions
- sabbat
- God
- Gerald Gardner
- Wicca
- Goddess
- Gardnerian
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Witch Book
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Alphabetized, oft-illustrated information about magical practices, fads and traditions, and some ancient and modern occultists; written by a trained Gardnerian Witch elder who’d given our The Goodly Spellbook a rave review.
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- Craft beliefs and terms
- paganism
- folklore
- nonfiction
- paranormal
- Pagan
- spiritualism
- occult
- table-tipplng
- Olde Religion
- Witch
- practices
- reference
- Wicca
- Witchcraft
- America
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Good Magic
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Teens to adults will like this guide to Pagan candle, herb, natural, and basic ritual magic; written in lyrical, non-dogmatic fashion, it’s illustrated with mood-enhancing photographs.
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Witchcraft-related Subjects
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)
Alexandria 4: The Order & Beauty of Nature
Vol. 4, ed. David Fideler (1997 Phanes Press)
Alexandria 5: Cosmology, Philosophy, Myth, & Culture
Vol. 5, ed. David Fideler (2000 Phanes Press)
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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.
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- 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