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Icebreaker: What was the first Witchy book you ever read?
Answers from the Wiccan Community:
- “Celtic Magic” by DJ Conway [Buy now!]
- “Wicca: Guide for the Solitary Practitioner” by Scott Cunningham [Buy now!]
- “Be a Goddess” by Francesca DeGrandis [Not in print]
- “Wicca: the Complete Craft” by DJ Conway [Buy now!]
- “Teen Witch” by Raven Silverwolf [Buy now!]
- “The Witch In Every Woman” by Laurie Cabot [Buy now!]
- “The Wicca Handbook” by Eileen Holland [Buy now!]
- “A Witch Alone” by Marian Green [Buy now!]
- “The Teen Spell Book” by Jamie Wood [Buy now!]
- “Wicca for Beginners” by Thea Sabin [Buy now!]
Q1: What beginner books do you recommend to a Witch that’s just starting on their path?
Answers from the Wiccan Community:
- “The Inner Temple of Witchcraft” by Christopher Penczak
- “Teen Witch” by Raven Silverwolf [Buy now!]
- “Grimoire of the Green Witch” by Ann Moura [Buy now!]
- “City Magick” by Christopher Penczak [Buy now!]
- “How to Do Psychic Readings Through Touch” by Ted Andrews [Buy now!]
- “Ancestral Medicine” by Daniel Foor [Buy now!]
- “Modern Guide to Witchcraft” by Skye Alexander [Buy now!]
- ” Wicca: A Year and a Day” by Timothy Roderick [Buy now!]
- “Wicca for One” by Raymond Buckland [Buy now!]
- “Witchcraft for Tomorrow” by Doreen Valiente [Buy now!]
- “The Spiral Dance” by Starhawk [Buy now!]
- “Elements of Ritual and Magical Power for Beginners” by Deborah Lipp [Buy now!]
- “Call of the Horned Piper” by Nigel Jackson [Not in print]
- “A Deed Without a Name” by Lee Morgan [Buy now!]
- “The Pillars of Tubal Cain” by Nigel Jackson and Michael Howard [Not in print]
- “Liber Nox” by Michael Howard [Buy now!]
- “Traditional Witchcraft” by Gemma Gary [Not in print]
- “Craft of the Untamed” by Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold [Buy now!]
- “The Witch’s Book of Power” by Devin Hunter
- “Book of Shadows” by Phyllis Currott [Not in print]
- “Wicca: Guide For The Solitary Practitioner” by Scott Cunningham [Buy now!]
- “Life Magic” by Susan Bowes [Not in print]
- “Natural Witchery” by Ellen Dugan [Buy now!]
- “The Idiots Guide to Wicca and Witchcraft” [Buy now!]
- “Wicca for Beginners” by Thea Sabin [Buy now!]
Q2: What books do you recommend for budding herbalists?
Answers from the Wiccan Community:
- “Peterson Field Guides’ Medicinal Plants and Herbs” for your region [Buy now!]
- “The Herbal Arts” by Patricia Telesco [Not in print]
- “Herbal Rituals” by Judith Berger [Buy now!]
- “Magical Herbalism” by Scott Cunningham [Buy now!]
- “Lone Pine: Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast” by Jim Pojar and Andy MacKinnon [Buy now!]
- “The Witching Herbs” by Harold Roth [Buy now!]
- “The Herbal Medicine-Makers Handbook” by James Green [Buy now!]
- Any book by Ellen Dugan [Buy now!]
- Any book by Susan Weed [Buy now!]
- “Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs” by Scott Cunningham [Buy now!]
- “The Book of Master Herbalism” by Paul Beryl [Buy now!]
- “Herbal Magic” by Gerina Dunwich [Buy now!]
Q3: What books of spells do you feel are the most traditionally or historically accurate?
Answers from the Wiccan Community:
- “The Long Lost Friend” by John George Hohman [Buy now!]
- “The Long-Lost Friend: A 19th Century American Grimoire” by Daniel Harms [Buy now!]
- “The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses” by Joseph Peterson [Buy now!]
- “Hoodoo, Conjuration, Witchcraft, Rootwork” by Harry Hyatt [Not in print]
- “Magic and Fetishism” by Alfred Haddon [Buy now!]
- “Mules and Men” by Zora Hurston [Buy now!]
- “A Century of Spells” by Draja Mickaharic [Buy now!]
- “America Bewitched” by Owen Davies [Buy now!]
- “Taking Up the Runes” by Diana Paxson [Buy now!]
Q4: What books do you recommend to academic-natured Witches?
Answers from the Wiccan Community:
- Anything by Christopher Penczak [Shop now!]
- “A Witches Bible” by Stewart and Janet Farrar [Buy now!]
- “Drawing Down the Moon” by Margot Adler [Buy now!]
- “A History of Witchcraft” by Jeffrey Russell [Buy now!]
- Anything by Carl Jung [Shop now!]
- “7 Days With A Witch” by Don Allen Jr. [Buy now!]
Q5: How do you classify your favorite authors?
Answers from the Wiccan Community:
- Is the advice good advice?
- Is the magical system they are describing compatible with the magical system I practice?
- Is their cosmology compatible with what science tells me is true?
- Is their history accurate.
Q6: What’s your favorite Witchy book of all time?
Answers from the Wiccan Community:
- “Three Sisters trilogy” by Nora Roberts [Shop now!]
- “Garden Witchery” by Ellen Dugan [Buy now!]
- “Black Jewels Trilogy” by Anne Bishop [Buy now!]
- “Herbal Rituals” by Judith Berger [Not in print]
- “A Witches Bible” by Stewart and Janet Farrar [Buy now!]
- “Wicca and Witchcraft for Dummies” [Buy now!]
- “Natural Witchery” by Ellen Dugan [Buy now!]
- “Seasons of Witchery” by Ellen Dugan [Buy now!]
- “The Spiral Dance” by Starhawk [Buy now!]
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us! If you missed it, we look forward to seeing you next Wednesday! Have any comments or answers to these questions? Leave a comment below!
