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For us, Aradia is much more complex and much more simple than a just historical Christ-like figure of the witches or a goddess of witchcraft. Read more
For us, Aradia is much more complex and much more simple than a just historical Christ-like figure of the witches or a goddess of witchcraft. Read more
Michael Howard (1948-2015) was an Anglo-Irish writer, researcher, magazine publisher and editor, and member of the Folklore Society. As a writer and editor, his career began in 1974 when he launched the esoteric magazine Spectrum. This ceased publication after ten issues in 1976, when he inaugurated the witchcraft magazine The Cauldron, which was published for 39 years. In the early 1970s he also began contributing feature articles and book reviews to the US magazine Fate and the British astrological journal... Read more
I cannot ever possibly imagine a better book written about the subject as the author hits every single possible area on the topic that I could ever imagine or want. Read more
"Traditional Witchcraft" is a term for witchcraft practices and metaphysics that are known from non-Wiccan, pre-modern, and pre-industrial revolution era sources - or in other words, the witchcraft of folklore. Read more
Old World Witchcraft: Ancient Ways For Modern Days by Raven Grimassi is a great introduction to the relationship between the witch and the plant world. The book is a fascinating read and Grimassi’s first public introduction to his Ash, Birch, and Willow tradition of witchcraft, and is somewhat of a prequel to his book Grimoire of the Thorn-Blooded Witch. Grimassi provides a re-examination of the folkloric witch and this book presents the first major shift in Raven Grimassi’s writing that... Read more
Believe it or not, you the client, can make or break a reading. I thought it would be helpful for me to share what I've learned. Read more
Serpent of Wisdom: And Other Essays on Western Occultism by Donald Tyson are an anthology of writings on various topics of interest. Donald Tyson is one of my favorite authors on the occult, though I haven’t dived into his Lovecraftian works yet. Each essay is intelligent, thought-provoking, and creative. The scope of this book is broad – from high magick, to low magick, to folklore, to original ideas. The essays are on the definition of magic, the magic circle, the... Read more
The witch is forged in the flames that destroy others. The witch finds the blessing in the curse. It is through adversarial forces that we are strengthened Read more
An apocalyptic age demands an apocalyptic witchcraft. Read more
"Familiar" is primarily understood by me to refer to an other-than-human person that a witch has a close, special, or strong relationship with. Read more
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