v. Reading List: general

Reading List

Here is a collection of books that I recommend to those interested in traditional witchcraft, traditional witch ways, and old ways in general.
This list is not geared towards the beginner. Some books are very accessible, but most are best suited to the intermediate or advanced seeker/practitioner.

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Caveat: books are merely resources, nothing more. They may trigger insights just as much as a commercial, a walk in the park, or a casual conversation with a stranger.To understand a people – visit their land and meet the Land spirits, or connect to others of that heritage. To understand nature, go outside and connect. To understand the ways of your soul (be it witch or any other) do shadow work, trance, meditate, day dream.I believe strongly that everything you need to know is within you or in nature. Books are wonderful, but they can become barriers as much as anything else – use them as masters, not as slaves.Books with an * are highly recommended for their importance or quality.

General Witchcraft, Paganism & History

• Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History
• Dreamtime: Concerning the Boundary Between Wilderness and Civilization
• Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath
• Hammer of the Gods: Anglo-Saxon Paganism in Modern Times
• In Darkness and Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia
• Leechcraft: Early English Charms, Plantlore and Healing *
• Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England
• The Pattern Under the Plough: Aspects of the Folk-life of East Anglia
• The Road to Hel
• The Robert Cochrane Letters: an Insight into Modern Traditional Witchcraft
• The Roebuck in the Thicket: An Anthology of the Robert Cochrane Witchcraft Tradition
• The Sacred & the Profane
• Seidways: Shaking, Swaying and Serpent Mysteries new
• We Borrow the Earth : An Intimate Portrait of the Gypsy Shamanic Tradition and Culture
• Witchcraft & Magic in Europe: Biblical & Pagan Societies *
• Witchcraft & Magic in Europe: Ancient Greece & Rome *
• Witchcraft & Magic in Europe: the period of the witch trials
• Witchcraft Medicine: Healing Arts, Shamanic Practices, and Forbidden Plants *
• Witchdom of the True (A Study of the Van-Troth and the Practice of Seidr) *