Wicca And Witchcraft Books (297)
Witches Potions And Spells by Kathryn PaulsenWitches have great knowledge of how to make magical potions and charms. A potion is a drink that causes a desired effect in a person's behavior. A charm is a magical incantation that helps to bring about a spell. Witches also are believed to be able to see into the future.According to tradition,...
>>Download<< Witchcraft A Guide to Magic by AnonymousThere are a few techniques that must be utilized for this part of spellworking. Ability to Meditate This is the art of clearing the mind of all mundane thoughts and feelings. It is a state of relaxation and peace, the goal to reach a state of nonthought.This is not easy and I still haven't mastered...
>>Download<< Luciferian Witchcraft The Mystery Revealed by Michael FordFor more than a decade left hand path and dark withcraft expert Michael W. Ford has labored in the forbidden fields of the dark side of the occult, lit by the pale moon of Luciferian ambition and Satanic drive. The first editions of most of his works are disappearing into private libraries of...
>>Download<< The Book of the Witch Moon by Michael FordPresenting the forbidden works of Chaos, Vampiric and Luciferian Sorcery. A grimoire which explores the dark feminine current of HECATE, Witch Moon explores ritual and dream Lycanthropy, Chaos Sorcery and Luciferian Ritual practice as well as the darksome practice of Vampirism and Predatory...
>>Download<< Demonology and Witchcraft by Walter ScottSir Walter Scott's Demonology and Witchcraft contains among others the case of Bessie Dunlop, whose familiar was the ghost of one Thome Reid, killed at the battle of Pinkie (1547), who enabled her to give answers to such as consulted her about the ailments of human beings or cattle, or recovery of...
>>Download<< Old Witchcraft Secrets by Archmage Bob Andrews"This book contains rare incantations that belonged only to the pharaohs and their most trusted priests," Andrews said. "These spells were successfully used in those times to make the miracles that our science is still trying to figure out."Among the secret spells revealed in "Old Witchcraft...
>>Download<< Pagan Spells Blessings Spells by Al Selden LeifSpells are not about turning people into frogs or granting wishes. A spell is a set of actions and prayers that you do and say in order to ask for divine help with some particular aspect of your life. Spells are one of many ritual activities that many Wiccans engage in. Not all Wiccans cast spells ...
>>Download<< The History Of Witchcraft And Demonology by Summers MontagueMy present work is the result of more than thirty years close attention to the subject of Witchcraft, and during this period I have made a systematic and intensive study of the older demonologists, as 1 am convinced that their first-hand evidence is of prime importance and value? whilst since their...
>>Download<< All About Wicca and Witchcraft by AnonymousHave you noticed how many witches are featured on TV shows and in movies? It used to be that you heard about witches only in children's stories or fairy tales. But these days it seems like witches are everywhere. Why? Because witches are really intriguing and mysterious. Haven't you always been...
>>Download<< Witchcraft For All by Louise HuebnerThere are real witches today. Contrary to folk tales, they don't go riding about by night on brooms. They don't cavort in the nude unless they have something very normal in mind, and they don't cackle over cauldrons of vintage LSD.They do dabble in spells and chants, burning candles and employing...
>>Download<< Basic Technologies of Witchcraft by AnonymousThis is the outline for a collection of four semi-formal training sessions for people interested in starting out in "The Craft" or Neopaganism. It is intended to give enough grounding to effectively participate in ritual, with the expectation that those that are really dedicated, skilled, and/or...
>>Download<< Witchcraft And Medicine by Jaroslav NemecThe National Library of Medicine extends thanks to the foNowing persons for their support in the preparation of this exhibit: Copperthwm'te, Derek, Research Director, Dr. Gardner Museum of Witchcraft, San Francisco, California Graubard, Mark. Ph.D., Professor Emen'tus and Chairman, Natural Science...
>>Download<< Wicca And Magick Beginning Wicca What is Wicca by AnonymousWicca is an unending path of light, magic, love, and constant learning. We revere nature and see the true divine beauty of the universe. It's about recognizing that we all have the ability to take our fate into our own hands, and we have the right to choose how we use that power. There is no bible...
>>Download<< Ariadia Or A Gospel Of The Witches by Charles Godfrey LelandAradia, or the Gospel of the Witches is an 1899 book by Charles Godfrey Leland. The book is an attempt to portray the beliefs and rituals of an underground religious witchcraft tradition in Tuscany that, Leland claimed, had survived for centuries until his discovery of its existence in the 1890s....
>>Download<< Anglo Saxon Witchcraft by Swain Wodening"What was Anglo-Saxon witchcraft?" is a very difficult question to answer. Our sources are primarily laws against the practice of witchcraft. These laws unfortuantely lump a whole lot of Heathen practices together so that it is difficult to tell whether galderes "charm speakers," seers, and leechs...
>>Download<< Luciferian Witchcraft An Introduction by Michael FordThe union of some aspects of Middle Eastern practices such as Sufism and the various parallel witch ways of tribes of the Deserts are essential productive and beneficial for the advancement in human thinking. There is much to be learnt from other cultures, however the heart of such always emanates...
>>Download<< The Luciferian Path the Witches Sabbat by Michael FordThe Averse Path-way of the Sabbat lies in the twilight, the space between sleep and dreaming, which the flesh takes flight without weight to draw towards a communion of those gathered under the fires of the Elphame world. It is the trance which guides the spirit towards this darkness of earth...
>>Download<< Magic and Witchcraft by George MoirThis book of the worthy Church-Coimsellor is rather a singular one : it is not a history of Magic, but a sort of spiiitual periodical, or magazine of infernal science, supported in a great measure by contributions from persons of a ghostly turn of mind, who, although they affect occasionally to...
>>Download<< The Witches Pyramid (Oath of the Circle) by Michael FordThe Witches' Pyramid - Also known as the Four Pillars of the Witches' Temple, is the foundation for all magical work and represents the mindset necessary to create magic and the qualities to be embraced by all witches.There are four statements that represent The Witches Pyramid, To Know, To Will,...
>>Download<< The God Of The Witches by Margaret Alice MurrayThis celebrated study of witchcraft in Europe traces the worship of the pre-Christian and prehistoric Horned God from paleolithic times to the medieval period. Murray, the first to turn a scholarly eye on the mysteries of witchcraft, enables us to see its existence in the Middle Ages not as an...
>>Download<< The Witch Cult of Zos vel Thanatos by Michael FordThere has been much talk and focus on the English Artist and Sorcerer Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956) and his Zos Kia cultus. Austin, the son of a Police Officer, grew up in South London near Kennington. His interest in art began at a very early age and luckily, was supported by his mother who aided...
>>Download<< Vox Sabbatum by Michael FordVox Sabbatum (The Witches Sabbat).Behind the initiatory models of what is called Diabolism, lies a plethora of shapes and forms for any initiate to move through. The gate of the Left Hand Path is indeed a dangerous way as it inaugurates and initiates change - internal and external. In the rational...
>>Download<< Dance of the Witches Opening the Devil Eye by Robin ArtissonSome acts of craft require the trance to be effective in any meaningful way: divination, for instance, requires a shift into a state wherein subtle realities and messages are not only apparent, but able to be communicated.I have written at length about the need to change more than one's individual,...
>>Download<< Pocket Guide To Witchcraft by Frater FPWitchcraft, Wicca and Paganism you'll need to decide what aspect to follow. In my view, Paganism encompasses all aspects of a pagan lifestyle, and suits those with a view to bringing their entire life, family and career into a pagan (country-dwelling) perspective. Witchcraft is the magical...
>>Download<< The Discoverie of Witchcraft by Reginald ScotRemarkable 16th-century classic attempted to disprove existence of witches. Rich full account of charges against witches, witch trials, practice of the black arts. Excerpts from Inquisition, interviews with convicted witches, discussions of alchemy, astrology, much more. Indispensable primary...
>>Download<< Beyond Wicca Journey To The One The Elements by AnonymousThe Elements are one of the most important things we study in Wicca and they're no less important as we move on in the Journey to the One. This is presented here as a study for those who do not have too much experience with the Elements and as a review for those who do.First of all, what are the...
>>Download<< Wicca Beliefs and Practices by AnonymousThere are a wide variety of beliefs and practices in modern day Wicca. However, despite the pluralism and diversity, distinct principles derived from Gardnerian Wicca are common to most modern witches.Beliefs will often be mixed with a combination of mystical traditions, Celtic or Norse paganism,...
>>Download<< Welcome to the Secrets of the Root Witch by AnonymousCREDITS: In fact, as notified Lady Diavanii, De Lady-Root of the Circle Vitches, the author of this book is known, this is Wizard Luxas.Part 1 of a 4 part book that explores the power and truth of the "Rooting" magic(k) image of witchcraft and Cultures about...A coven journey of the secrets and...
>>Download<< Embracing The Witch And The Goddess by Kathryn RountreeThe purpose of the book is to present an ethnography of New Zealand feminist witches - to colour one small space in the global picture of Paganism - and to engage with a number of issues and debates which concern the feminist spirituality movement as a whole. I have also compared New Zealand...
>>Download<< European Witchcraft by AnonymousEuropean Witchcraft is witchcraft and magic that is practised primarily in the locality of Europe. The old liberal view of European Witchcraft holds that witchcraft never existed at all, but was invented by the Catholic Church and other authorities to gain power and prestige.Margaret Murray claimed...
>>Download<< Irish Witchcraft and Demonology by John Drelincourt SeymourThis is a survey of the Witch persecution in Ireland, as well as a wide array of other paranormal events such as poltergeists, ghosts, apparations and even an early UFO account. Very readable, yet well documented, this book has extensive and fascinating quotes from historical source...
>>Download<< Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Walter ScottIn ill health following a stroke, Sir Walter Scott wrote Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft at the behest of his son-in-law, J. G. Lockhart, who worked for a publishing firm. The book proved popular and Scott was paid six hundred pounds, which he desperately needed. (Despite his success as a...
>>Download<< The Roots Of Witchcraft by Michael HarrisonFascinating book with enough "oomph" to make me want to check out more books on the subject. The author comes across as brilliant, but scatter-brained and after a while, some of the tangents he goes off on become tedious and confusing, causing a re-read of what the original subject was for clarity....
>>Download<< King Of The Witches The World Of Alex Sanders by June JohnsThis Book is a cornerstone of Wiccan Literature. It is easy to read in biography form and explains a number of complex phenomena that were then taking place within wicca during the early generation of this past century. As it tells the story of his life, the book explores intricate balances of life...
>>Download<< Eight Sabbats Of Witchcraft by Mike NicholsThis file contains 9 seasonal articles by Mike Nichols. They may be freely distributed provided that the following conditions are met: No fee is charged for their use and distribution and no commercial use is made of them These files are not changed or edited in any way without the author's...
>>Download<< Witch Brew by Mary MazzerThe focus of my work is an investigation of the ritual of ornamentation. In both the fabrication and presentation of my work, I regard my assemblages as fetish objects, as autonomous art objects and an iconography of my subjective memory. By accepting the assemblages as fetish objects, I am...
>>Download<< History of Witchcraft vol 1 of 7 by AnonymousAs I am trying to put this all together, I hope to bring about an understanding that Witchcraft, like any religion, has undergone it's changes throughout the centuries. It is my personal feeling, however, that the religion of Witchcraft has undergone far fewer changes than any other in history.An...
>>Download<< History of Witchcraft vol 7 of 7 by AnonymousAs I am trying to put this all together, I hope to bring about an understanding that Witchcraft, like any religion, has undergone it's changes throughout the centuries. It is my personal feeling, however, that the religion of Witchcraft has undergone far fewer changes than any other in history.An...
>>Download<< The Secret History Of Modern Witchcraft by Allen GreenfieldThis monograph has a long history. The earliest published draft appeared in a small, independent radical journal during my sojourn in Florida in the middle 1980s. I was at that time closely associated with the OTO, but was not then an initiate member. I had been in close contact with Wiccan and...
>>Download<< Witchcraft A History Of The Black Art by Walter GibsonWalter Brown Gibson (September 12, 1897 - December 6, 1985) was an American author and professional magician, best known for his work on the pulp fiction character The Shadow. Gibson, under the pen-name Maxwell Grant, wrote "more than 300 novel-length" Shadow stories, writing up to "10,000 words a...
>>Download<< A True History of Witchcraft by Allen GreenfieldTo arrive at some perspective on what the modern mythos called, variously, "Wicca", the "Old Religion", "Witchcraft" and "Neopaganism" is, we must firstly make a firm distinction "witchcraft" in the popular informally defined sense may have little to do with the modern religion that goes by the...
>>Download<< The Laws For Witches by AnonymousI don't know who the author of this piece is. Please note that NeoPaganism is a decidedly pluralistic group of religions. Many witches/NeoPagans do not agree with these rules. I see it mostly as a deterring example.
>>Download<< Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart Essex by Alan MacfarlaneThis paper will assume a knowledge of the historical background to witchcraft prosecutions in sixteenth- and seventeenth - century England. (The best general studies of English witchcraft are Ewen, 1929, and Notestein, 1911.) It will also assume a general knowledge of current anthropological...
>>Download<< History of Witchcraft vol 3 of 7 by AnonymousAs I am trying to put this all together, I hope to bring about an understanding that Witchcraft, like any religion, has undergone it's changes throughout the centuries. It is my personal feeling, however, that the religion of Witchcraft has undergone far fewer changes than any other in history.An...
>>Download<< Correlian Wicca by AnonymousWHAT WILL YOU GET FROM THESE LESSONSWhat is all this witchcraft stuff, anyway? Does being a witch mean you can point your finger and make things happen? Does it mean you can learn to fly on a broom and turn people into toads? Well, not quite. Witchcraft, or WICCA, is a religion. Wicca is not...
>>Download<< History of Witchcraft vol 2 of 7 by AnonymousAs I am trying to put this all together, I hope to bring about an understanding that Witchcraft, like any religion, has undergone it's changes throughout the centuries. It is my personal feeling, however, that the religion of Witchcraft has undergone far fewer changes than any other in history.An...
>>Download<< Unicorn Tradition Of Wicca by BylawsThe Unicorn Tradition is an eclectic one, rooted in a family tradition through which our founders, Lady Galadriel and Lord Athanor, received their training and Initiations.Goddess and God are honored as essential to the sacred dance we call life, and as emanations of the One Source from which the...
>>Download<< Demonomania And Witchcraft by Joseph WorkmanJOSEPH Workman, hardware merchant, newspaper writer, medical teacher, and the most influential psychiatrist of his day in Canada was so highly regarded by his medical contemporaries that he was elected President of The Canadian Medical Association in 1877, first President of the Ontario Medical...
>>Download<< Mesmerism Spiritualism Witchcraft And Miracle by Allen PutnamMesmerism is a bit of medical quackery developed in the 1806 Sibly18th century by the German physician Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815). In 1766, he published his doctoral dissertation on how the planets affect health: De planetarum influxu in corpus humanum (On the Influence of the Planets on the...
>>Download<< History of Witchcraft vol 6 of 7 by AnonymousAs I am trying to put this all together, I hope to bring about an understanding that Witchcraft, like any religion, has undergone it's changes throughout the centuries. It is my personal feeling, however, that the religion of Witchcraft has undergone far fewer changes than any other in history.An...
>>Download<< The Salem Witchcraft Papers Vol 1 by Paul BoyerVerbatim Transcriptions of the Court Records In three volumes Edited by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum. This is the most important and accessable resourse for anyone intersested in the Salem Witch Trials. It seems a real shame that a person can buy Journey albumn released ten years ago but books...
>>Download<< History of Witchcraft vol 5 of 7 by AnonymousAs I am trying to put this all together, I hope to bring about an understanding that Witchcraft, like any religion, has undergone it's changes throughout the centuries. It is my personal feeling, however, that the religion of Witchcraft has undergone far fewer changes than any other in history.An...
>>Download<< The Witch by Alfred Elton van VogtThis is one of a handful of fantasy stories by van Vogt by his own admission, he found fantasy particularly difficult to write, and always found the genre "weird." Indeed, he even attributes the demise of Unknown Worlds to his inability to write enough fantasy tales to satisfy John W. Campbell...
>>Download<< History of Witchcraft vol 4 of 7 by AnonymousAs I am trying to put this all together, I hope to bring about an understanding that Witchcraft, like any religion, has undergone it's changes throughout the centuries. It is my personal feeling, however, that the religion of Witchcraft has undergone far fewer changes than any other in history.An...
>>Download<< The Witch Cult In Western Europe by Margaret Alice MurrayTHE mass of existing material on this subject is so great that I have not attempted to make a survey of the whole of European 'Witchcraft', but have confined myself to an intensive study of the cult in Great Britain. In order, however, to obtain a clearer understanding of the ritual and beliefs I...
>>Download<< Firefly Wiccan Advancement by Iris FiremoonThis book is for those who are just beginning, or interested in studying Wicca. It contains an introductory look at Wicca and magick, as well as how to do spell work, construct rituals, and the basic practices. Seventeen sample rituals are included, as well as instructions on how to make several of...
>>Download<< 6 Questions On Wicca And Paganism by Al Selden LeifContemporary Paganism is the restoration of indigenous religion, especially that of ancient Europe. Paganism has grown in popularity greatly during the last hundred years. The growth coincides with a decline in Christianity in Europe, and the increase in knowledge of past and distant cultures.WICCA...
>>Download<< Witchcraft And The Law In Zimbabwe by Gordon ChavundukaWITCHCRAFT is an emotive subject and has been very difficult to deal with legally. This difficulty has allowed a number of people, who have had others commit crimes, escape punishment.The problem, legally, arises from the fact that there is no scientific or legal proof that performing an act of...
>>Download<< Dreams in the Witch House by Howard Phillips LovecraftWalter Gilman, a student of mathematics and folklore at Miskatonic University, takes a room in the Witch House, a house in Arkham thought to be accursed. The first part of the story is an account of the history of the house, which has once harboured Keziah Mason, an accused witch who disappeared...
>>Download<< Witchcraft in North Carolina by Tom Peete CrossThe study of popular delusions has far more than an antiquarian or academic interest. Its results constitute one of the most fascinating and instructive chapters in the story of human progress. Written history is not so much the record of battles, conquests, and legislative acts as of social and...
>>Download<< Witchcraft and Wicca FAQ by AnonymousFrequently asked questions, or FAQs are listed questions and answers, all supposed to be frequently asked in some context, and pertaining to a particular topic. Since the acronym FAQ originated in textual media, its pronunciation varies "fack," "fax," "facts," and "F.A.Q." are commonly heard....
>>Download<< Obeah Witchcraft in the West Indies by Hesketh BellObeah (sometimes spelled Obi, Obea or Obia) is a term used in the West Indies to refer to folk magic, sorcery, and religious practices derived from West African, and specifically Igbo origin. Obeah is similar to other African derived religions including Palo, Voodoo, Santeria, rootwork, and most of...
>>Download<< Witches Wives and Mothers by Louise JacksonWitches, Wives and Mothers: witchcraft persecution and women's confessions in seventeenth-century England by LOUISE JACKSON.The confessions made by the Suffolk women charged with witchcraft in 1645 indicate that, in many cases, accused women were contextualising their own experiences within a wider...
>>Download<< The Salem Witchcraft Papers Vol 3 by Paul BoyerVerbatim Transcriptions of the Court Records In three volumes Edited by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum. This is the most important and accessable resourse for anyone intersested in the Salem Witch Trials. It seems a real shame that a person can buy Journey albumn released ten years ago but books...
>>Download<< The Philosophy of Witchcraft by John MitchellThe Philosophy'of Deroonology, or Witchcraft, involves in it, in a greater or lesser degree, the history of a considerable portion of the inhabitants of every age and nation, and embraces," within the wide range of its illustrations, the consideration of some of the most important faculties of the...
>>Download<< The Salem Witchcraft Papers Vol 2 by Paul BoyerVerbatim Transcriptions of the Court Records In three volumes Edited by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum. This is the most important and accessable resourse for anyone intersested in the Salem Witch Trials. It seems a real shame that a person can buy Journey albumn released ten years ago but books...
>>Download<< The Devil Mark And Witch Prickers Of Scotland by John McDonaldSearch for the Devil's or witch's marks formed an important part of the examination of suspected witches in the 17th century. These skin marks were insensitive to piercing by a needle and did not bleed. Ideas about them varied between countries. In England and America, the mark was regarded as an...
>>Download<< A Treatise Of Witchcraft by Alexander RobertsI find the idea of rating an historical publication like Alexandr Roberts' A Treatise of Witchcraft difficult, so I have opted not to do so. However, the content itself is very interesting. In his 1620 writing Roberts moves through a series of topics related to witchcraft: he begins by insisting...
>>Download<< FAQ On Wicca And Witchcraft And More by Gordon IrelandThis list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) is designed as an introduction to Wicca and to this newsgroup as well as a reference for those investigating the religion of Wicca for the first time.This FAQ was first composed in March 1995 as a composite of three drafts by different authors: Lleu,...
>>Download<< What Is Wicca Article 1 by Anonymous"Wicca" is the name of a contemporary Neo-Pagan religion, largely promulgated and popularized by the efforts of a retired British civil servant named Gerald Gardner [late 1940's]. In the last few decades, Wicca has spread in part due to its popularity among feminists and others seeking a more...
>>Download<< 13 Questions On Paganism And Wicca by Richard RoyMy conception of any sincerely religious person is that he tries to express his convictions into his life. To me, it seems that the most potent form of prayer is in work. Or like Gurdjieff said, "Work as if everything depends on work. Pray as if everything depends on prayer." It seems to me the...
>>Download<< Impossibility Of Witchcraft by AnonymousJane Wenham was the last person prosecuted for witchcraft in England. She quarreled with her neighbors and then unwisely brought suit against the one who had called her "a witch and a bitch." Things went from bad to worse and she found herself charged, tried, and convicted of witchcraft. The judge...
>>Download<< The Superstitions of Witchcraft by Howard WilliamsPeople all over the world have grown up cowering under the false representation of the witch. Belinda Smith, High Priestess to the Silver Serpent Coven, and known as Becca to her coven kin, presents a description of what most people think of when they hear the word "witch": "Parents were telling......
>>Download<< Witch Milk And Witches Marks by Thomas ForbesThe term witch's milk, referring usually to the mammary secretion of newborn infants,t is an example of that small group of medical and biological words and phrases which had its origin in the popular vocabulary of past centuries. (Freemartin2' is a similar term.) Such expressions lack the...
>>Download<< The Legal Basis For Wicca by AnonymousThe following are four court rulings regarding the legal legitimacy of the Wiccan religion and other cases that support religious freedom. The text from this page was graciously reprinted with permission by ShadowStorm at Pagans Unlimited. For original versions of this page, please visit Pagan's...
>>Download<< The Lawes Against Witches by AnonymousThe LAWES against WITCHES, AND CONJURATION AND Some brief Notes and Observations for the Discovery of WITCHES. Being very usefull for these Times, wherein the DEVIL reignes and prevailes over the soules of poor Creatures, in drawing them to that crying Sin of WITCH-CRAFT.Be it enacted by the King...
>>Download<< A Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft by John StearneJohn Stearne was an associate of Matthew Hopkins the Witchfinder General. He was known at various times as the witch-hunter,and "witch pricker", John Stearne, a family man and land owner from Lawshall near Bury St Edmunds, was 10 years older than Hopkins. He maintained a house in Manningtree which...
>>Download<< History Of Wicca In England by Julia PhillipsThis talk was given by Julia Phillips at the Wiccan Conference in Canberra, 1991. It is mainly about the early days of the Wicca in England specifically what we now call Gardnerian and Alexandrian traditions. The text remains "as given", so please remember when you read it that it was never...
>>Download<< Mysterious Delusions Witchcraft in Salem by Walter RoweThe Salem witchcraft trials are events that most Americans have heard of, but about which they actually know very little. For example, some people believe that witches were burnt in Salem. Actually, the prescribed punishment for witchcraft under English law was hanging. Another commonly held belief...
>>Download<< Reaching Out to Wiccans by AnonymousBegin your time together by asking your students to name as many TV shows, books, movies and video games as they can that deal with witches, the supernatural world and the occult. As they name them, list each one on a chalkboard, whiteboard or large sheet of paper. Say something like this:...
>>Download<< The Witch And Other Stories by Andrew LangAndrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally (with the notable exception of...
>>Download<< What Is Wicca Article 2 by Anonymous"Wicca" is the name of a contemporary Neo-Pagan religion, largely promulgated and popularized by the efforts of a retired British civil servant named Gerald Gardner [late 1940's]. In the last few decades, Wicca has spread in part due to its popularity among feminists and others seeking a more...
>>Download<< Cotton Mather and Salem Witchcraft by William Frederick PooleNearly two centuries have passed away since the saddest tragedy of early New England history was enacted at Salem and Salem Village. Instead of fading out from the memory of men, the incidents of Salem Witchcraft are receiving more attention to-day than at any former period. Tlie fact of its being...
>>Download<< The Witch of Salem by John MusickCharles Stevens of Salem, with Cora Waters, the daughter of an indented slave, whose father was captured at the time of the overthrow of the Duke of Monmouth, are the principal characters. Samuel Parris, the chief actor in the Salem tragedy, is a serious study, and has been painted, after a careful...
>>Download<< Nocturne City Book 4 Witch Craft by Caitlin KittredgeSomeone, or something, is setting fire to the homes of the city's most infamous non-humans, racking up a body count that's growing by the day. And strange, otherworldly creatures no one has seen before--selkies trolls and harpies--are causing chaos throughout the city. Racing to stop the carnage,...
>>Download<< A Modern Witch Hunt Among The Lango Of Uganda by Ray AbrahamsThe material presented in this paper was collected in 1967 while I was carrying out research in Labwor, Northern Uganda, It concerns events which took place at that time in the neighbouring area of Lango District, the home region of President Obote. For a variety of reasons, I did not investigate...
>>Download<< REP Insight The Witches Resource Pack by AnonymousWelcome to 'The Witches' resource pack. The activities included in this pack are intended for use within Key Stage 2, although they can be adapted for use with any age.The pack has been divided into curriculum areas Literacy, Drama and Art and Design. Each section has suggested teaching...
>>Download<< Notes on Witchcraft by George Lyman KittredgeGeorge Lyman Kittredge (February 28, 1860-July 23, 1941) was a scholar of English literature and a professor at Harvard University. Between his position at Harvard and his editions of major literary figures, notably William Shakespeare, he was one of the most influential American literary critics...
>>Download<< Exegesis On The Wiccan Rede by Judy HarrowAll religions began with somebody's sudden flashing insight, enlightenment, a shining vision. Some mystic found the way and the words to share the vision, and, sharing it, attracted followers. The followers may repeat those precise and poetic words about the visionuntil they congeal into set...
>>Download<< Robin Hood And The Witches by Michael MageeRobin Hood is the King Arthur of the people. The "bitter cry" of the oppressed was echoed in the Old English Chronicle of the days of Stephen and, ignored by court historians and writers of romance, centuries had to elapse before it could find adequate expression in the alliterative lines of Piers...
>>Download<< Obeah Witchcraft in the West Indies OCR Version by Hesketh BellObeah (sometimes spelled Obi, Obea or Obia) is a term used in the West Indies to refer to folk magic, sorcery, and religious practices derived from West African, and specifically Igbo origin. Obeah is similar to other African derived religions including Palo, Voodoo, Santeria, rootwork, and most of...
>>Download<< Trial of Manningtree Witches in Chelmsford 1645 by AnonymousOf the severall Informations, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches, arraigned and executed in the County of Essex. Who were arraigned and condemned at the late Sessions, holden at Chelmesford before the Right Honorable ROBERT,Earle of Warwicke, and severall of his Majesties Justices of...
>>Download<< Bewitched And Bothered by Edward HareUnclean Spirits: Possession and Exorcism in France and England in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries. D P Walker. (Pp 116.) Scolar Press. 1981. BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL VOLUME 282.
>>Download<< Discovery of Witches by Thomas PottsWere not every chapter of the history of the human mind too precious an inheritance to be willingly relinquished -for appalling as its contents may be the value of the materials it may furnish may be inestimable -we might otherwise be tempted to wish that the miserable record in which the excesses...
>>Download<< Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases by George Lincoln Burr1914. A volume in the Original Narratives of Early American History series. These narratives of witchcraft are no fairy tales. Weird as they seem to us, they were the most intense of realities to thousands of men and women in 17th century America. They were the bulletins of a war more actual, more...
>>Download<< Teen Witches Wiccans and Wanna Blessed Be by Lawton WinsladeJ. Lawton Winslade Teen Witches, Wiccans, and "Wanna-Blessed-Be's": Pop-Culture Magic in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.In a series about vampires and magic, where words have visible magical effects and vampirism itself is based on a quite literal contagion, Buffy seems a perfect text to explore such...
>>Download<< Witchcraft And The Suspicion Of Witchery by Hippolyte TaineIf one restricts one's horizon to the Danvers village near present-day Salem town, one can be led to the belief that what went wrong in the "Salem witchcraft" frenzy of 1692 had to do with traumatized little girls, acting out their traumas, or had to do with an ergot poisoning of the stomachs, and...
>>Download<< Witchcraft Farther Displayd by Fransis BraggeThe 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...
>>Download<< Issue 14 October 2007 vol 1 by Correllian Times EmagazineThe Correllian Times E-magazine is available free of charge. Help this project and many others - buy a supporting membership to WitchSchool.com. The Correllian Times features articles, reports on events, photos, artwork, poetry, and more! To download a .pdf copy of the magazine, click on the link...
>>Download<< Chelmsford Witches by Frank LuttmerThe Examination and Confession of Certain Witches at Chelmsford in the County of Essex, before the Queen Majesty's Judges, the 26th day of July Anno 1566 (London, 1566)The examination of them with their confession before Doctor Cole and Master Foscue at the same Assize verbatum as near as could be...
>>Download<< A Rebel And Witch The Historical Context by MaryLynn SaulMorgan le Fay, alternatively known as Morgane, Morgaine, Morgana and other variants, is a powerful sorceress in the Arthurian legend. Early works featuring Morgan do not elaborate her character beyond her role as a fay or magician. She became much more prominent in the later cyclical prose works...
>>Download<< The Witchcraft Trial in Moscow by Friedrich AdlerI predict that Behind the Moscow Trial will stand not only as a brilliant attempt to clarify the conftirm status of this particular trial, but also as a land in intelligent political pamphleteering in the American labor and revolutionary movement. I know of no other such w^ork w^ritten by an...
>>Download<< Witchcraft in Kenmore from 1730 to 1757 by John ChristieThis is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part...
>>Download<< Issue 02 November 2006 vol 2 by Correllian Times EmagazineThe Correllian Times E-magazine is available free of charge. Help this project and many others - buy a supporting membership to WitchSchool.com. The Correllian Times features articles, reports on events, photos, artwork, poetry, and more! To download a .pdf copy of the magazine, click on the link...
>>Download<< Issue 06 February 2007 by Correllian Times EmagazineThe Correllian Times E-magazine is available free of charge. Help this project and many others - buy a supporting membership to WitchSchool.com. The Correllian Times features articles, reports on events, photos, artwork, poetry, and more! To download a .pdf copy of the magazine, click on the link...
>>Download<< The Literature of Witchcraft in New England by Justin WinsorThe detailed consideration of the literary remains of witchcraft is clearly of the greatest value in helping us to understand it, and it is curious that no-one has attempted this approach before. Dr. Anglo's and his contributors' scholarly essays are therefore most welcome, and they stand out in...
>>Download<< Notes on Witchcraft OCR Version by George Lyman KittredgeGeorge Lyman Kittredge (February 28, 1860-July 23, 1941) was a scholar of English literature and a professor at Harvard University. Between his position at Harvard and his editions of major literary figures, notably William Shakespeare, he was one of the most influential American literary critics...
>>Download<< Issue 01 November 2006 vol 1 by Correllian Times EmagazineThe Correllian Times E-magazine is available free of charge. Help this project and many others - buy a supporting membership to WitchSchool.com. The Correllian Times features articles, reports on events, photos, artwork, poetry, and more! To download a .pdf copy of the magazine, click on the link...
>>Download<< Issue 21 May 2008 Blessed Beltane by Correllian Times EmagazineThe Correllian Times E-magazine is available free of charge. Help this project and many others - buy a supporting membership to WitchSchool.com. The Correllian Times features articles, reports on events, photos, artwork, poetry, and more! To download a .pdf copy of the magazine, click on the link...
>>Download<< The Witch of Prague by Marion CrawfordThe witch Unorna pursues true love. While she is being pursued by Israel Kafka who is madly in love with her, Unorna falls madly in love with ""The Wanderer,"" who goes about the world in search of his long lost love, Beatrice. Unorna is not able to make the Wandered fall in love with her without...
>>Download<< Issue 11 August 2007 by Correllian Times EmagazineThe Correllian Times E-magazine is available free of charge. Help this project and many others - buy a supporting membership to WitchSchool.com. The Correllian Times features articles, reports on events, photos, artwork, poetry, and more! To download a .pdf copy of the magazine, click on the link...
>>Download<< Issue 09 May 2007 by Correllian Times EmagazineThe Correllian Times E-magazine is available free of charge. Help this project and many others - buy a supporting membership to WitchSchool.com. The Correllian Times features articles, reports on events, photos, artwork, poetry, and more! To download a .pdf copy of the magazine, click on the link...
>>Download<< Issue 47 JULY 2010 by Correllian Times EmagazineThe Correllian Times E-magazine is available free of charge. Help this project and many others - buy a supporting membership to WitchSchool.com. The Correllian Times features articles, reports on events, photos, artwork, poetry, and more! To download a .pdf copy of the magazine, click on the link...
>>Download<< Issue 12 July 2007 by Correllian Times EmagazineThe Correllian Times E-magazine is available free of charge. Help this project and many others - buy a supporting membership to WitchSchool.com. The Correllian Times features articles, reports on events, photos, artwork, poetry, and more! To download a .pdf copy of the magazine, click on the link...
>>Download<< Issue 38 OCTOBER 2009 by Correllian Times EmagazineThe Correllian Times E-magazine is available free of charge. Help this project and many others - buy a supporting membership to WitchSchool.com. The Correllian Times features articles, reports on events, photos, artwork, poetry, and more! To download a .pdf copy of the magazine, click on the link...
>>Download<< Issue 07 March 2007 by Correllian Times EmagazineThe Correllian Times E-magazine is available free of charge. Help this project and many others - buy a supporting membership to WitchSchool.com. The Correllian Times features articles, reports on events, photos, artwork, poetry, and more! To download a .pdf copy of the magazine, click on the link...
>>Download<< Issue 05 November 2006 vol 5 by Correllian Times EmagazineThe Correllian Times E-magazine is available free of charge. Help this project and many others - buy a supporting membership to WitchSchool.com. The Correllian Times features articles, reports on events, photos, artwork, poetry, and more! To download a .pdf copy of the magazine, click on the link...
>>Download<< Issue 04 November 2006 vol 4 by Correllian Times EmagazineThe Correllian Times E-magazine is available free of charge. Help this project and many others - buy a supporting membership to WitchSchool.com. The Correllian Times features articles, reports on events, photos, artwork, poetry, and more! To download a .pdf copy of the magazine, click on the link...
>>Download<< Issue 10 June 2007 by Correllian Times EmagazineThe Correllian Times E-magazine is available free of charge. Help this project and many others - buy a supporting membership to WitchSchool.com. The Correllian Times features articles, reports on events, photos, artwork, poetry, and more! To download a .pdf copy of the magazine, click on the link...
>>Download<< Issue 08 April 2007 by Correllian Times EmagazineThe Correllian Times E-magazine is available free of charge. Help this project and many others - buy a supporting membership to WitchSchool.com. The Correllian Times features articles, reports on events, photos, artwork, poetry, and more! To download a .pdf copy of the magazine, click on the link...
>>Download<< Issue 16 December 2007 Happy Yule by Correllian Times EmagazineThe Correllian Times E-magazine is available free of charge. Help this project and many others - buy a supporting membership to WitchSchool.com. The Correllian Times features articles, reports on events, photos, artwork, poetry, and more! To download a .pdf copy of the magazine, click on the link...
>>Download<< Issue 35 JULY 2009 by Correllian Times EmagazineThe Correllian Times E-magazine is available free of charge. Help this project and many others - buy a supporting membership to WitchSchool.com. The Correllian Times features articles, reports on events, photos, artwork, poetry, and more! To download a .pdf copy of the magazine, click on the link...
>>Download<< Issue 29 January 2009 Happy 2009 by Correllian Times EmagazineThe Correllian Times E-magazine is available free of charge. Help this project and many others - buy a supporting membership to WitchSchool.com. The Correllian Times features articles, reports on events, photos, artwork, poetry, and more! To download a .pdf copy of the magazine, click on the link...
>>Download<< Issue 32 APRIL 2009 by Correllian Times EmagazineThe Correllian Times E-magazine is available free of charge. Help this project and many others - buy a supporting membership to WitchSchool.com. The Correllian Times features articles, reports on events, photos, artwork, poetry, and more! To download a .pdf copy of the magazine, click on the link...
>>Download<< Issue 46 June 2010 Happy Summer by Correllian Times EmagazineThe Correllian Times E-magazine is available free of charge. Help this project and many others - buy a supporting membership to WitchSchool.com. The Correllian Times features articles, reports on events, photos, artwork, poetry, and more! To download a .pdf copy of the magazine, click on the link...
>>Download<< Issue 26 October 2008 vol 2 by Correllian Times EmagazineThe Correllian Times E-magazine is available free of charge. Help this project and many others - buy a supporting membership to WitchSchool.com. The Correllian Times features articles, reports on events, photos, artwork, poetry, and more! To download a .pdf copy of the magazine, click on the link...
>>Download<< A Wiccan Bible by AJ DrewA Wiccan Bible: Exploring the Mysteries of the Craft from Birth to Summerland, by A. J. Drew New Page Books, 1564146669, 312 pp., 2003This is the third book I have read by Mr. Drew (Wicca Spellcraft for Men and Wicca for Couples being the two previous ones). Even before I opened the covers I was...
>>Review Only<< Wicca Spellcraft For Men by AJ DrewWicca Spellcraft for Men, by A. J. Drew New Page, 2001The subtitle of this book gave me some trouble as soon as I saw it (A Spellbook for Male Pagans), and I feel it would be better without it. It is NOT a spellbook, it is a book about spells, and those are very different types of books.Every once...
>>Review Only<< Wicca for Couples Making Magick Together by AJ DrewThis book shows us the potential for a modern Wicca based on the lives of the pre-Christian Pagans, a Wicca where the structure is founded on the natural bonding of a couple, rather than the seclusion of the solitary practitioner or the confines of a coven. Wicca for Couples not only includes...
>>Review Only<< Weird Ways Of Witchcraft by Dr Leo MartelloI had no intention of writing a book on witchcraft. That was the farthest thing from my mind. I did have a couple of other book ideas. I dropped a note to my graphological colleague, Dorothy Sara, asking her if she knew of any publisher who might be interested. She got my letter on Monday, March...
>>Review Only<< The Winter Sabbat by Leo RuickbieWhat is the real meaning of Christmas? Have you ever wondered what Yule Logs, Fir Trees, Holly, Ivy and Mistletoe have to do with the supposed birth of a boy in the sun-baked Near East? Underneath the Christian layers there is a Pagan secret. Whatismore, it is a secret that Christianity has...
>>Review Only<< A Witch Alone by Marian GreenAs the number of people interested in Paganism, Wicca, and Witchcraft continues to grow, so has the number of books aimed at the new Pagan or Wiccan. In many cases, these so-called "Wicca 101" books are a waste of valuable trees. Some are poorly written. Others contain the author's opinion and...
>>Review Only<< The Witchs Spellcraft Revised by TarostarThis is a wonderfull little book to have in your library. Its written much like her other book The Witchs Formulary and SpellBook.......its full of rhymes and spells by her and lady charmaine dey. I highly reccomend this one even if its just to have it for your collection. Its based on Hoodoo and...
>>Review Only<< Green Witchcraft by Ann MouraPositive, practical, and easy to use, Green Witchcraft brings together the best of both modern Wicca and the author`s family heritage of herb craft and folk magic. Green Witchcraft explores the fundamentals of the Wiccan religion, providing magical training for the independent thinker. Step-by-step...
>>Review Only<< The Well Read Witch by Carl McColmanHere's help for anyone with a sincere interest in Wiccan ways find the best books to read. With reviews of over four hundred books, this will be an essential handbook for anyone interested in reading about the magical world of Witchcraft-as well as related topics of interest to any Wiccan...
>>Review Only<< Witchcraft Today by Gerald GardnerIn this book Dr. Gardner states that he has found in various parts of England groups of people who still practise the same rites as the so-called 'witches' of the Middle Ages, and that the rites are a true survival and not a mere revival copied out of books. In his easy pleasant style he gives a...
>>Review Only<< Witchcraft A Concise Guide by Isaac BonewitsThis book is the product of many years of reading scholarly works, some of them well respected by their colleagues, some heretical (then or now), and a few genuinely ground-breaking ones here and there. Just as important in many ways, however, have been the words and actions of those brave women...
>>Review Only<< Wicca And The Christian Heritage Ritual Sex And Magic by Joanne PearsonWhat is Wicca? Is it witchcraft, Paganism, occultism, esotericism, magic, spirituality, mysticism, nature religion, secrecy, gnosis, the exotic or 'other'? Wicca has been defined by and explored within all these contexts over the past thirty years by anthropologists, sociologists and historians,...
>>Review Only<< Historical Dictionary Of Witchcraft by Michael BaileyThis book was written by an academic, and not a practicing witch, as is increasingly the custom. So he views the subject of witchcraft from without and not within, which is a better vantage point for most of us and helps us grasp the many twists and turns of an endlessly intriguing subject. Michael...
>>Review Only<< Mastering Witchcraft by Paul HusonThis is the closest you will ever come to read about true genuine authentic Witchcraft if you can omitt the Lords Prayer backward section. The recipes, spells, initiation, witches pyramid (very important), tools and coven chapters are a must for true witches. Mr Huson's recipes are not only genuine...
>>Review Only<< Bucklands Complete Book Of Witchcraft by Raymond BucklandThis 1986 classic is not only an excellent introduction to the Wiccan religion and earth-based religions in general, it's also a workbook that can take the serious student to the equivalent level of third-degree Gardnerian. Though Raymond Buckland was a student of the late great Gerald Gardner,...
>>Review Only<< Self Initiation For The Solitary Witch by ShanddaramonIn Hellenistic Greece and, most likely, far earlier in history, there existed several mystery schools. These spiritual schools existed, in theory at least, to teach people about the Great Mysteries of the gods. This learning took place in stages or degrees. Students began by dedicating themselves...
>>Review Only<< Witchcraft Mythologies And Persecutions by Gabor KlaniczayWitchcraft Mythologies and Persecutions (Volume III Of Series "Demons, Spirits, Witches")This third, concluding volume of the series publishes 14 studies and the transcription of a round-table discussion on Carlo Ginzburg's Ecstasies. The themes of the previous two volumes, Communicating with the...
>>Review Only<< A Witchs Beverages and Brews Magick Potions Made Easy by Patricia TelescoThis book is dedicated to good friends, without whom there would be little worthy of toasting. Specifically, to Walker, I promise never to serve you anything other than Coors Light and Sam Adams again. Rowan, Kit, and Danya, you canshow this to him when he gets uppity. To Maggie, AJ, Wade, Diane,...
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