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Introduction to Wicca

• Drawing Down the Moon, Margot Adler
• Natural Magic,  Marian Green
• Idiots Guide to Wicca/Idiots Guide to Paganism
• Wicca for the Solitary Practitioner, Scott Cunningham
• True Magic, Amber K
• The Craft, Dorothy Morrison
• Wicca for Beginners, Thea Sabin
• Witchcraft From the Inside, Raymond Buckland

Wiccan and Witchcraft Traditions

• Alexandrian
• Fire Child, Maxine Sanders
• The Alex Sanders Lectures, Alex Saunders
• King of the Witches,  June Johns
• Cochrane (1734 Tradition)
• Witchcraft: A Tradition Renewed, Doreen Valiente & Evan Jones
• The Roebuck in the Thicket, Evan Jones & Robert Cochrane
• Gardnerian
• Witchcraft Today, Gerald Gardner
• The Meaning of Witchcraft, Gerald Gardner
• High Magic's Aid, Gerald Gardner (fiction)
• A Goddess Arrives, Gerald Gardner (fiction)
• Gerald Gardner: Witch, J. L. Bracelin
• Lid Off the Cauldron, Patricia Crowther (out of print)
• General
• An ABC of Witchcraft, Doreen Valiente
• Drawing Down the Moon, Margot Adler
• Complete Art of Witchcraft, Sybil Leek (out of print)
• The Complete Book of Witchcraft, Katherine Paulsen
• Diary of a Witch, Sybil Leek (out of print)
• The Grimoire of Lady Sheba, Lady Sheba (out of print)
• Heart of Wicca, Ellen Cannon Reed
• Keepers of the Flame, Morganna Davies & Aradia Lynch
• Natural Magic, Doreen Valiente
• Philosophy of Wicca, by Amber Laine Fisher
• Wicca, The Old Religion In The New Age, Vivianne Crowley
• Witchcraft for Tomorrow, Doreen Valiente (out of print)
• The Rebirth of Witchcraft, Doreen Valiente (out of print)
• Witchcraft: The Old Religion, Dr. Leo Louis Martello (out of print)
• A Witches' Bible Complete, Janet & Stewart Farrar
• Books by Margaret Murray, Lois Bourne, Vivianne Crowley

Academic Views (non-Wiccan)

• The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles, Ronald Hutton
• The Stations of the Sun, Ronald Hutton
• The Witch-Cult of Western Europe, Margaret Murray
• The God of the Witches, Margaret Murray
• Persuasions of the Witch's Craft, T.M. Luhrmann

Astrology

• The Only Way to Learn Astrology, March & McEvers
• The Only Way...: Basic Principles, March & McEvers
• The Only Way...: Horoscope Analysis, March & McEvers
• The Only Way...: Math and Interpretation Techniques, March & McEvers
• Mythic Astrology, Liz Greene

Auras and Energy

• Wheels of Life, Anodea Judith

Calendars

• Wheel of the Year, Dan & Pauline Campanelli
• Festivals of the Athenians, H.W. Parke
• Aquarian Book of Festivals, J. Cooper
• Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year, David Ewing Duncan 

Ceremonial Magick

• Psychic Self Defense, Dion Fortune
• Complete Golden Dawn, Israel Regardie
• Modern Magick, Donald Michael Kraig
• Philosophy of Natural Magic, H. C. Agrippa
• Three Books of Occult Philosophy, H. C. Agrippa
• Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy, H.C. Agrippa

Children and Family

• Pagan Kids' Activity Book, Amber K
• When the Moon is Full: A Lunar Year, Penny Pollock
• The Lady of Ten Thousand Names: Goddess Stories from Many Cultures, Burleigh Mutén
• An Ordinary Girl, a Magical Child, W. Lyon Martin
• Aidan's First Full Moon Circle, W. Lyon Martin
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare
• Wise Child, Monica Furlong
• Juniper, Monica Furlong 
• Colman, Monica Furlong 
• Brother Wind, Sister Rain, Patricia Telesco
• Strega Nona, Tomie De Paola
• Seasons of Magic: A Girl's Journe, Laurel Ann Reinhardt
• Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back A Native American year of Moons, Joseph Bruchac
• Circle Round: Raising Children in Goddess Traditions, Starhawk, Diane Baker, Anne Hill

Colors

• Wheels of Life, Anodea Judith
• Luscher Colour Test, Max Luscher

Comparative Mythology

• New Larousse Encyclopaedia of Mythology
• Witches God, Janet and Stewart Farrar
• Witches Goddess, Janet and Stewart Farrar
• Ancient and Shining Ones, D. J. Conway
• Celtic Gods, Celtic Goddesses, R. J. Stewart

Covens

• Wicca Covens, Judy Harrow
• Positive Magic, Marion Weinstein

Craft Laws

• The Witches Way, Farrar
• Book of Shadows, Phyllis Curott 

Divination

• Runes
• Raido, Jennifer Smith (http://www.tarahill.com/books.html)
• The Runic Reading List, Runesmith (http://www.ica.net/~runesmith/bibliogr)
• Leaves of Ygddrasil, Freya Aswynn
• Teutonic Magic (ISBN 0875422918)

Teutonic Religion (ISBN 0875422608)
both by Kveldulf Gundarsson

• Scrying
• Crystal Gazing & the Wonders of Clairvoyance, John Melville
• Scrying for Beginners, Donald Tyson
• Divination other than scrying
• Games of the Gods, Nigel Pennick
• The Ancient Science of Geomancy, Nigel Pennick
• Ouija, The Most Dangerous Game, Stoker Hunt
• Pendulum Power, G. Neilsen
• Tarot
• 78 Degrees of Wisdom, Rachel Pollack
• Royal Road, Stephan Hoeller
• Tarot: A New Handbook for Apprentices, Eileen Connolly

Ethics

• When, Why, If, Robin Wood 

Elements

• The Way of Four, Deborah Lipp

Gender Specific Mysteries

• He, Robert A. Johnson
• She, Robert A. Johnson
• We, Robert A. Johnson
• MotherWit, Diane Mariechild
• To Know, Jade (out of print)
• Blood , Bread & Roses, Charlene Spretnak

Healing

• Polarity Therapy, Randolph Stone

Herbalism

• The Master Book of Herbalism, Paul Beyerl
• The Herb Book, John B. Lust
• The Natural Remedy Bible, John B. Lust
• The Herbal Tea Garden, Marietta Marshall Marcin

History

• Splendor Solis, Solomon Trismosin
• Night Battles, Carlo Ginzburg
• Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath, Carlo Ginzburg
• History of Pagan Europe, Pennick & Jones
• Triumph of the Moon, Ronald Hutton

Incense and Oils

• Magical and Ritual Book of Perfumes, Richard A. Miller
• Wylundt's Book of Incense, Wylundt
• Aromatherapy, Robert Tisserand
• Golden Secrets of Mystic Oils, Anna Riva

Initiation

• The Training and Work of the Initiate, Dion Fortune

Lore (non-academic) 

• Gospel of Aradia, Charles Leland
• Weird Way of Witchcraft, Dr. Leo Louis Martello

Meditation

• Full Catastrophe Living, Jon Kabbat-Zinn
• How to Meditate, Lawrence LeShan
• Highways of the Mind, Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki (out of print)
• The Way of the Goddess, Shantara Khalsa

Moonlore

• The Moon and the Virgin, Nor Hall
• Moon Madness, Paul Katzeff
• Mysteries of the Dark Moon, Demetra George

Mythology

• Celtic
• Celtic Gods, Celtic Goddesses, R. J. Stewart
• Pagan Celtic Britain, Anne Ross
• Celtic Heritage, Alwyn & Brimley Rees
• Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend,  Miranda J. Aldhouse-Green 
• Celtic Goddesses, Miranda Green
• The Gods of the Celts, Miranda J. Aldhouse-Green 
• The Apple Branch, Alexei Kondratiev
• The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles, Ronald Hutton
• See also Irish and Welsh, below
• Egyptian
• Ancient Egyptian Religion, Stephen Quirke
• The Book of the Dead (Faulkner Translation), Raymond Faulkner
• Greek
• Light in Extension, David Godwin
• The Iliad, Homer
• Theogony, Works & Days, Hesiod
• The Odyssey, Homer
• Greek plays by Aeschylus
• Irish
• Early Irish Myths and Sagas, Jeffrey Gantz
• Myth, Legend & Romance: An Encyclopedia of the Irish Folk Tradition, Dáithí Ó hÓgáin
• Mythic Ireland, Michael Dames
• Norse
• Poetic Eddas
• Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe, H. R. Ellis Davidson
• Teutonic Magic, Kvendulf Gundarsson
• Teutonic Religion, Kvendulf Gundarsson
• Roman
• The Aeneid, Virgil
• On The Nature of the Universe, Lucretius
• Metamorphoses, Ovid
• Sumerian
• Mesopotamian Myths, Henrietta McCall
• Ancient Mesopotamia, A. Leo Oppenheimer
• Sumerians: Their History, Culture and Character, Samuel Kramer
• Welsh
• The Mabinogion, trans. Jeffrey Gantz

Nature Spirituality and Lore

• Natural Magic, Doreen Valiente
• Full Circle, Lone Wolf Circles
• Sacred Land, Sacred Sex, Dolores LaChapelle
• Folklore of Birds, Laura Martin
• Sharing Nature with Children, Joseph Cornell
• Thinking Like A Mountain, Seed, Fleming, Macy & Naess
• Dictionary of Symbolic and Mythological Animals, J. Cooper
• Lady of the Beasts, Buffie Johnson
• Confessions of an EcoWarrior, Dave Foreman
• Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, J. Lovelock
• Petersen's Field Guides to...

Palmistry

• The Benham Book of Palmistry, William G. Benham

Patrons

• Devoted to You, Judy Harrow et al.
• A Guide to the Gods, Marjorie Leach
• The Witches' Goddess, Janet & Stewart Farrar
• The Witches' God, Janet & Stewart Farrar

Public Relations and the Law

• The Law Enforcement Guide to Wicca, Kerr Cuhulain
• The Truth About Witchcraft Today, Scott Cunningham

Principles of Magic

• Spells and How They Work, Janet & Stewart Farrar
• Path to Power, Roger Heisler
• Natural Magic, Marian Green
• Good Magic, Marina Medici

Qabala

• Adam and the Kabbalistic Tree, Z'ev Ben Shimon Halevi
• Kabbalah for the Layman, Rabbi Berg
• The Mystical Qabalah, Dion Fortune
• The Shining Paths, Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki (out of print)

Ritual Construction

• Celebrating Life, Tzipora Klein
• Magical Rites From the Crystal Well, Ed Fitch
• First Steps in Ritual, D. Ashcroft-Nowicki
• The Elements of Ritual, Deborah Lipp

Sabbats

• The Magickal Year, Diana Ferguson
• The Sabbats, Mike Nichols
• Eight Sabbats for Witches, Janet and Stewart Farrar
• Wheel of the Year, Dan & Pauline Campanelli
• Aquarian Book of Festivals, J. Cooper

Sacrifice

• The Wicker Man, Allan Frewin Jones
• The Hero Within, Carol S. Perason
• The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks, M. Detienne

Song and Chant

• Circle of Song, Kate Marks
• Carpe Noctum, Tamarra James (http://www.indiecanada.com/tamarrajames)

Stones

• The Occult and Curative Powers of Precious Stones, W. Fernie
• Precious Stones, May Bauer
• Book of Sacred Stones, Barbara Walker

Sunlore

• Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault (out of print)

Talismans

• Magical Alphabets, Nigel Pennick
• The Complete Book of Amulets and Talismans, Migene Gonzales-Wippler
• Secrets of Magical Seals, Anna Riva

Tool Making

• Tree Medicine, Tree Magic, Hopman
• The Complete Metalsmith, Tim McCreight

Good General Books

• The New Encyclopedia of the Occult, John Michael Greer
• Lucid Dreams in 30 Days, K. Harary
• The Practical Guide to Psychic Self Defense and Well-Being, Denning & Phillips

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