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VG small nick from spine, remainder striped $15 B/B Paladin 1975 first thus paperback, 302pp+ plates. A study of medieval heresies including the Knights Templars, witches and the witch trials, magic, sorcery and maleficium. ISBN 0586082352 [# 1321 wicca]
COMPTON Carole with Gerald Cole Superstition The True Story of the nanny they called a Witch
VG VG $8 C/C Ebury Press 1990 first edition hard cover, 214pp. Nanny Carole Compton was arrested for arson and attempted murder and was suspected of malefica and casting the evil eye by her Italian employers. The Italian police kept her in custody for 17 months. Has good insights into the nature of superstition and the belief in magic still current in many rural European areas. ISBN 0852238029 [# 755 wicca]
CUNNINGHAM Scott
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Llewellyn 1997 softcover, 223pp. Over 75 rituals , spells and ceremonies, and instructions for designing own spells. ISBN 0875421318
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ELSBETH Marguerite & JOHNSON Kenneth The Silver Wheel, Women's Myths & Mysteries in the Celtic Tradition FN new $30 B/B Llewellyn 1996 first edition softcover, 212pp. Religion, mythology, women's mysteries and useful for wicca as well. Meditations and exercises to find the archetypal goddess within. ISBN 1567183719 [OCC 206]
GRIMASSI Raven Hereditary Witchcraft; Secrets of the Old Religion NEW $35 C/C Llewellyn 2003 softcover. Complete work on Italian strega witch tradition 'drawn from family texts and oral traditions' wiccan book of shadows and rituals [OCC 31]
HANSEN Chadwick Witchcraft at Salem VG $8 C/A Arrow 1988, 288pp Challenges orthodox views of the Salem witchcraft trials and ' sets out to prove that there was witchcraft at Salem, and it worked. It did real harm to its victims. It worked then as it does now in witchcraft societies...producing hysterical symptoms as a result of the victim's fears, and sometimes...even producing death.' ISBN 0099039109 [PB#139 wicca]
HEATHER and Hans HOLZER Confessions of a Witch G+ creased wrapper $8 A/B Star 1976 first edition paperback, 190pp. Holzer introduces and ghost writes this biography of an American wiccan from the late 1960s and early 1970s. ISBN 0352398434 [PB# 927 wicca]
HUGHES Pennethorne
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Penguin Pelican 1967 paperback, 236pp + plates. Covers witchcraft ancient and medieval.
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JONES Noragh Power of Raven, Wisdom of Serpent (Celtic Women) VG+ spine lightly sunned $25 C/B Floris Books 1995 softcover 238pp the oral culture of the Highlands and islands of Scotland, the lore of the crofters and Canadian migrants, christian addition have crept in but the underlying vitality of the Pagan faith is unmistakable in these 'runes' (rhymes ) and prayers. based on early twentieth century fieldwork. This volume describes the rhythms of work, living and dying for the womenfolk of the highlands and islands, as part of the Celtic spiritual tradition. Celtic Women's Spirituality. ISBN 0863151868 [RM 58]
MARTELLO Leo Louis Witchcraft, the Old Religion VG VG light rubbing to DW edges, price clipped. $30 C/C University Books nd (mid 1970s) first edition hardcover, 287pp. A modern witch of Sicilian descent, Martello covers modern Wicca and traditional witchcraft with chapters on Leland, Murray and G B Gardner; Sicilian witchcraft; interviews with a Welsh traditionalist and Gardnerian high priest; Mother Shipton and a reading list. Martello was a flamboyant and forceful personality in the New York occult movement. ISBN 0821602004 [OCC 237]
MCLELLAND Lilith The Salem Witches Book of Love Spells, Ancient Spells from Modermn Witches VG light edge wear $15 B/B Citadel Press 1999 softcover, 152pp. Wicca / Witchcraft spells and charms, mainly to do with relationships and love, includes runic charms. ISBN 0806520205 [Item# 440 OCC]
MORRISON Dorothy In Praise of the Crone A Celebration of Feminine Maturity
G ex library with stamps and labels and contact seled wrappers $10 C/C Llewellyn 1999 soft cover, 239pp. Feminine mysteries, wicca and goddess worship ISBN 1567184685 [# 938 wicca]
ROSEN Barbara editor Witchcraft Stratford-Upon-Avon Library 6
G/ VG ex-library, stamps, hinges weak, DW light edge wear, tape rust to reverse side, but tidy. $35 C/C Edward Arnold 1969 hard cover, xii 407pp, some illustrations. The present volume is concerned with manifestations of witchcraft in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Pamphlets, reports, accounts of trials and other material describing the experience, interpretation and punishment of witchcraft have been collected and arranged in sequence. The work is a considerable contribution to a subject which has been by no means fully explored or understood. In her introduction, Barbara Rosen describes the wide range of factors contributing to the curious events and beliefs which have been termed 'witchcraft'. Her diagnoses of the causes, which include considerations of medical ignorance, environmental, social and political pressures, response to religion and psychological disorders, are suggested in close context with informative descriptions of the exact forms which the practices of witchcraft took and in connection with the court proceedings which tended to define them. The selection of pamphlets reprinted covers a broad variety of the different aspects of witchcraft. Poor and hurried writing, reported dialect and bad printing tend to make the original text unattractive and difficult to read: it has therefore been modernised in certain respects to make the reading as clear as possible. However the book retains its value for scholars: omissions are detailed in the notes and additions marked; obsolete words and grammar have been retained and are referred to in the glossary. ISBN 0713154721 [#618 wicca]
SERITH Ceisiwr The Pagan Family, handing the Old Ways down VG+ shop stamp and name at front $25 C/B Llewellyn 1994 second impression softcover xiv 241pp, guide for modern (neo) pagans wanting to nurture pagan tradition within the family, includes seasonal rites and festivals, coming of age ceremonies, household observances etc. pen name inside cover, tidy bookseller stamp foot of first page, minor corner curls. ISBN 0875422101 [OCC 72]
SHUTTLE Penelope & Peter REDGRAVE The Wise Wound; Menstruation and Everywoman VG- light wear, name to first page, age browned paper stock $8 C/B Penguin 1980 paperback, 335pp. Study of the mythology and sociology of menstruation from ancient past to the present, includes some intelligent observations of its role in the Witch craze and in tantric sex magic with reference to Kenneth Grant and Aleister Crowley. ISBN 0140050485 [Item# 364 RM]
SJOO Monica & MOR Barbara The Great Cosmic Mother, rediscovering the religion of the earth VG name and date to first page.
$25 C/C Harper and Row 1987 first edition soft cover, 501pp, illustrations in the text. Classic exploration of the Goddess through time and the world, of interest to wiccans and neo pagans reasserting the Feminine in their spiritual life. Posits universal prehistoric matriarchy. ISBN 0062507915 [RM 202]
SJOO Monica & MOR Barbara The Great Cosmic Mother, rediscovering the religion of the earth VG $25 C/C Harper Collins 1991 softcover, new edition with intro and colour art. Classic exploration of the Goddess through time and the world, of interest to wiccans and neo pagans reasserting the Feminine in their spiritual life. Posits universal prehistoric matriarchy. [OCC 30]
SKELTON Robin The Practice of Witchcraft Today, an introduction to Beliefs and Rituals of the Old Religion VG G DW has water stain to rear panel corner, and a tear along the top of the rear panel but is still complete and tidy. $25 C/B Robert Hale 1988 fist edition hardcover, 204pp. In three parts; 1-Questions and Answers, 2- Rituals and Celebrations, 3- Workbook , including Blessings, banishings, healing, binding, talismans. Good reading list at rear, author is an initiated witch, seemingly Gardnerian or Alexandrian rather than modern starhawk style wicca. ISBN 070903525X [OCC 226]
STARHAWK Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority and Mystery VG $20 C/C Harper Collins softcover, 1990. xii + 370pp. By a classic author of the genre, specialising in authorship of Feminist, Women's Spirituality, Wicca and Witchcraft movements. Includes writings and rituals for solo and group workings. Suitable for Wiccan covens and Neo-Pagans. Also includes visualisations. [OCC 10]
STARHAWK Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority and Mystery VG name to fep. $25 C/C Harper & Row 1990 softcover, xiii 370pp. Women's rituals and myths for feminists and wiccans. Exploring the Goddess through myth and performance, by the author of The Spiral Dance. Includes writings and rituals for solo and group workings. Suitable for Wiccan covens and Neo-Pagans. Also includes visualisations. ISBN 0062508164 [OCC 244]
STARKEY Marion L. The Devil in Massachusetts, a modern enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials G cover wear, name to first page, some pages detached but present, $5 C/B Doubleday 1969 paperback, 310pp The reign of terror that swept Salem Village in 1692 is still the most celebrated of all witch hunts. It was a tragedy of individuals, which underlined as sharply as has any event in history the power of self-righteousness, fantasy, and fear to turn decent people into fanatical persecutors. The accused were diverse personalities- a well-respected grandmother and an honest, skeptical farmer, as well as a pipe-smoking female tramp. One by one they were sent to the gallows by a pack of unbalanced young girls and a stiff-necked little Puritan community inflamed by the girls' "testimony." Born in the state that once countenanced these atrocities, Marion L. Starkey first published her deeply moving The Devil in Massachusetts in 1949. An authentic historical narrative, it takes its dialogue from the actual trial records but applies modern psychiatric knowledge to the witchcraft hysteria. At the same time the author's unerring sense of drama succeeds in creating the pity and the terror so necessary to an understanding of man's capacity for evil and for suffering. [PB#138 wicca]
STEPANICH Kisma K Faery Wicca book one; Theory & Magick: A book of Shadows & Light FN name in pen to fep $30 C/C Llewellyn 1994 softcover, xix 310pp The Ancient Oral Faery tradition of Ireland, Celtic Wicca, mythology and shamanism. Divided into sections on Celtic metaphysical theory, Magickal enchantments, Appendices and Guided visualisations and Rituals. ISBN 1567186947 [OCC 108]
WOMBWELL Felicity The Goddess Changes a personal guide to working with the Goddess VG sunned spine $20 B/B. Mandala 1991 softcover 175pp a book of womens spirituality for wiccans and goddess worshippers. ISBN 1852741112 [OCC 92 ]