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by: Dakota1324 on Dec 24, 2014

Here's a list of books on Traditional Witchcraft and magic. I'm sure there are dozens of others, so feel free to add your suggestions in the comments!


~Practical Reading~

?Traditional Witchcraft: A Cornish Book of Ways
- Gemma Gary



?A Deed Without A Name: Unearthing the Legacy of Traditional Witchcraft

- Lee Morgan

?Treading the Mill: Practical Craft Working in Modern Traditional Witchcraft

- Nigel G. Pearson

?Call of the Horned Piper

- Nigel Aldcroft Jackson

?The Way of the Shaman
- Michael Harner (Traditional Witchcraft has quite a few shamanistic attributes, making this worth the read)

?Mastering Witchcraft: A Practical Guide for Witches, Warlocks and Covens

- Paul Husson (it?s more Wicca based, but it?s a classic with some very strong points)

?Village Witch

- Cassandra Latham-Jones

?Devon Witchcraft and Folk Ways

- Sarah Hewett

?Secrets of East Anglian Magic
- Nigel Pennick

?A Grimoire for Modern Cunning Folk: A Practical Guide to Witchcraft on the Crooked Path
- Peter Paddon

?Crone?s Book of Charms and Spells/Crone?s Book of Magical Words*

- Valerie Worth

?The Black Toad: West Country Witchcraft and Magic*

- Gemma Gary

*= These are really just spell books with not much else in them. They?re good, but not if you want to understand deeper the spiritual side of Traditional Witchcraft.

~Historical Reading~

?Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits

- Emma Wilby

?Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History

- Owen Davies

?Witchcraft in Early North America

- Alison Games

?The Archaeology of Ritual and Magic

- Ralph Merrifield

?The Power of Words: Studies on Charms and Charming in Europe
- James A. Kapalo, Eva Pocs and William Francis Ryan

?The Tradition of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practices

- Claude Lecouteux

?Between the Living and the Dead

- Eva Pocs

?Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches? Sabbath

- Carlo Ginzburg and Raymond Rosenthal

?The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries

- Carlo Ginzburg, John Tedeschi and Anne Tedeschi

?Witches, Werewolves, and Fairies: Shapeshifters and Astral Doubles in the Middle Ages

- Claude Lecouteux