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  • The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
    by Ronald Hutton
    ISBN 0192854496 (0-19-285449-6)
    Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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    Here is a book that brings witchcraft out of the shadows. The Triumph of the Moon is the first full-scale study of the only religion England has ever given the world--modern pagan witchcraft, otherwise known as wicca. Meticulously researched, it provides a thorough account of an ancient religion that has spread from English shores across four continents.
    For centuries, pagan witchcraft has been linked with chilling images of blood rituals, ghostlike druids, and even human sacrifices. But while Robert Hutton explores this dark side of witchery, he stresses the positive, reminding us that devotion to art, the natural world, femininity, and the classical deities are also central to the practice of wicca. Indeed, the author shows how leading figures in English literature--W.B. Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, and Robert Graves, just to name a few--celebrated these positive aspects of the religion in their work, thereby softening the public perception of witchcraft in Victorian England. From cunning village folk to freemasons and from high magic to the black arts, Hutton chronicles the fascinating process by which actual wiccan practices evolved into what is now a viable modern religion. He also presents compelling biographies of wicca's principal figures, such as Gerald Gardner, who was inducted into a witch coven at the age of 53, and recorded many clandestine rituals and beliefs.
    Ronald Hutton is known for his colorful, provocative, and always thoroughly researched studies on original subjects. This work is no exception. It will appeal to anyone interested in witchcraft, paganism and alternative religions. [via]

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  • Truth or Dare: Encounters With Power, Authority, and Mystery
    by Starhawk
    ISBN 0062508164 (0-06-250816-4)
    Softcover, Harpercollins

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    An examination of the nature of power that offers creative alternatives for positive change in our personal lives, our communities, and our world. [via]

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  • Starhawk: The Twelve Wild Swans
    The Twelve Wild Swans
    by Starhawk, Hilary Valentine
    ISBN 0062516698 (0-06-251669-8)
    Softcover, Harper San Francisco

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    Starhawk and Hilary Valentine, renowned leaders in the Wicca movement, use the transformative fairy tale of The Twelve Wild Swans to teach an advanced class on magic. More significantly, this is an introduction to a mature level of Wicca called "Reclaiming"--a model of witchcraft that blends magic, personal growth and activism. The book begins with the first chapter of the fairytale, in which a foolish queen wishes to exchange her 12 sons for a daughter. An old woman "dressed all in black" overhears the queen and makes the wish come true--granting the queen a daughter but turning her sons into wild swans.

    From here the coauthors launch into a back-and forth structure of telling the story and then stopping to show how it applies to a witch's initiation and transformation. For example, we all must leave the castle in order to heal our past. We all must spend some time wandering in the wilderness before finding our true home and we all must conquer some form of "wicked vows" before we can reach full maturity. These are wise leaders and strong guides--well worth following on this life-altering fairytale. --Tara West [via]

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  • Voices from the Pagan Census: A National Survey of Witches and Neo-Pagans in the United States
    by Helen A. Berger, Evan A. Leach, Leigh S. Shaffer
    ISBN 1570034885 (1-57003-488-5)
    Hardcover, Univ of South Carolina Pr

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    Voices from the Pagan Census provides unprecedented insight into the expanding but largely unstudied religious movement of Neo-Paganism in the United States. Helen A. Berger, Evan A. Leach, and Leigh S. Shaffer present the findings of "The Pagan Census," which was created and distributed by Berger and Andras Corban Arthen of the Earthspirit Community. Analyzing the most comprehensive and largest-scale survey of Neo-Pagans to date, the authors offer a portrait of this emerging religious community, including an examination of Neo-Pagan political activism, educational achievements, family life, worship methods, experiences with the paranormal, and beliefs about such issues as life after death.

    A collection of religious groups whose practices evolved from Great Britain's Wicca movement of the 1940s, Neo-Paganism spread to the United States in the 1960s. While the number of people who identify themselves with the religion has continued to rise, quantitative study of Neo-Paganism has been difficult given the movements lack of centralized leadership and doctrine and its development as scattered, independent groups and individuals. Endorsed by all major Neo-Pagan leaders, "The Pagan Census" generated a demographically diverse response. In contrast to most previous surveys, which were limited to Neo-Pagan festivals, this survey incorporates input from the large population of practitioners who do not participate in such events.

    Keenly anticipated by the academic and Neo-Pagan communities, the results of the census provide the most in-depth information about the group yet assembled. Comparing Neo-Pagans with American society at large, Berger, Leach, and Shaffer show that although the two groups share certain statistical characteristics, there are differences as well. The scholars also identify variations within the Neo-Pagan population, including those related to geography and to the movement's multiple spiritual paths. [via]

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  • The White Goddess : A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
    by Robert Graves, Grevel Lindop
    ISBN 1857542487 (1-85754-248-7)
    Hardcover, Carcanet Press, Limited

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    Robert Graves, the late British poet and novelist, was also known for his studies of the mythological and psychological sources of poetry. With The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Graves was able to combine many of his passions into one work. While the book is so poetically written that many of the passages amount to prose poems, it is also frequently plot driven enough to feel like a novel, and it is rich with scholarly insight into the deep wells of poetry. Especially fascinating is the chapter in which Graves explores the ancient and ongoing practice of poets' invoking the muse. Graves details the practice in both the Eastern and Western literary traditions, and shows specific similarities and differences among Greek, British, and Irish tales and myths about the muse. Graves has much to offer students of history and myth, but poetry lovers will also be fascinated with The White Goddess. [via]

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  • Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner
    by Scott Cunningham
    ISBN 0875421180 (0-87542-118-0)
    Softcover, Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd

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    Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner is the essential primer from one of the best known authors on Wicca. Focusing on the importance of individualism in your spiritual path, Cunningham explains the very basics of Sabbats (holy days), ceremonies, altars, and other nuts and bolts of Wicca that a solitary practitioner may have trouble finding elsewhere. While Wicca shouldn't be your sole point of reference when considering Wicca as your way of life, it is one of the best starting points. --Brian Patterson [via]

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  • Green, Marian: Witch Alone : Thirteen Moons to Master Natural Magic
    Witch Alone : Thirteen Moons to Master Natural Magic
    by Marian Green
    ISBN 1855381125 (1-85538-112-5)
    Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited

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  • Witchcraft: Theory and Practice
    by Ly De Angeles
    ISBN 156718782X (1-56718-782-X)
    Softcover, Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd

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    Are you ready to open yourself to the divine powers in order to bring beauty into your life, happiness to your heart, and strength to your will? Then you'll want to get Witchcraft: Theory and Practice by Ly de Angeles. With more than three decades of experience she has learned how to bring the teachings alive, combining modern with ancient, so you can better understand the true potential and depth of Witchcraft.

    Within the pages of this book you will find the secrets and techniques to become a Witch. These can be divided into three categories: philosophical disciplines, spiritual beliefs, and practical techniques. Each part gets a focus in this book.

    In the first section, you will:
    - Learn meditation and how it can be used for ritual
    - Discover the secrets of visualization, telepathy, and personal power
    - Use the self-analysis techniques to discover who you are and never walk in anyone's shadow

    In the second section you can:
    - Uncover the essence of the God and Goddess
    - Discover the festivals of Witchcraft
    - Learn how to make and use the tools of Witchcraft
    - Understand how to do rituals, including the rite of self-initiation

    And in the final section, you'll:
    - Practice psychic protection, shapeshifting, and banishing
    - Master astral projection
    - Learn to interpret omens

    This really just barely covers some of the information you will find revealed in these pages. Written in a style that is clear and concise, this book will add to your knowledge of Witchcraft. Whether you are new to the Craft or have been practicing for some time, Witchcraft: Theory and Practice will impart wisdom that will fascinate and entice. You will be using this book for many years to come.
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  • Hutton, Ronald: Witches, Druids And King Arthur
    Witches, Druids And King Arthur
    by Ronald Hutton
    ISBN 185285555X (1-85285-555-X)
    Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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  • Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America
    by Sabina Magliocco
    ISBN 0812218795 (0-8122-1879-5)
    Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

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    Taking the reader into the heart of one of the fastest-growing religious movements in North America, Sabina Magliocco reveals how the disciplines of anthropology and folklore were fundamental to the early development of Neo-Paganism and the revival of witchcraft. Magliocco examines the roots that this religious movement has in a Western spiritual tradition of mysticism disavowed by the Enlightenment. She explores, too, how modern Pagans and Witches are imaginatively reclaiming discarded practices and beliefs to create religions more in keeping with their personal experience of the world as sacred and filled with meaning. Neo-Pagan religions focus on experience, rather than belief, and many contemporary practitioners have had mystical experiences. They seek a context that normalizes them and creates in them new spiritual dimensions that involve change in ordinary consciousness.

    Magliocco analyzes magical practices and rituals of Neo-Paganism as art forms that reanimate the cosmos and stimulate the imagination of its practitioners. She discusses rituals that are put together using materials from a variety of cultural and historical sources, and examines the cultural politics surrounding the movementhow the Neo-Pagan movement creates identity by contrasting itself against the dominant culture and how it can be understood in the context of early twenty-first-century identity politics.

    Witching Culture is the first ethnography of this religious movement to focus specifically on the role of anthropology and folklore in its formation, on experiences that are central to its practice, and on what it reveals about identity and belief in twenty-first-century North America.

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    • La Danza En Espiral/the Spiral Dance
      by Starhawk
      ISBN 8477209618 (84-7720-961-8)
      Softcover, Ediciones Urano

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      Este clásico en su género, éxito de ventas sin precedentes, es al mismo tiempo referencia obligada en la filosofía y la práctica de la brujería y una guía para que sus lectores se acerquen a la Diosa, desarrollen sus poderes psíquicos e integren su cuerpo, mente y espíritu. En una nueva introducción, Starhawk revela los caminos que han tomado la religión de la Diosa y la práctica del ritual durante estos últimos veinte años y refleja el modo en que estos cambios han influido y realzado las ideas originales. Ante un mundo siempre cambiante esta valiosísima guía espiritual es más relevante cada día.

      An influential masterwork that launched the rebirth of the American Goddess Movement, is both an unparalleled reference on the practices and philosophies of Witchcraft and guide to the lifeaffirming ways in which readers can tun to the Goddess to deepen their sense of personal pride, develop their inner power, and integrate mind, body and spirit. [via]

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