WICCA ORIENTED AND BY REAL WICCAN AUTHORS The Alex Sanders Lectures – Alex Sanders Witchcraft Today – Gerald Gardner The Meaning of Witchcraft – Gerald Gardner A Witches Bible (or ‘What Witches Do and Eight Sabbat’s for Witches) – Stewart Farrar Wicca- The Old in the New Age – Vivienne Crowley Charge of the Goddess - Doreen Valiente Circle of Fire – Sorita D'Este Lid off the Cauldron – Patricia Crowther Rebirth of Witchcraft – Doreen Valiente Dancing with Witches – Lois Bourne Religion Without Beliefs – Fred Lammond
NEO-PAGANISM AND ECLECTIC WITCHCRAFT Witchcraft for Tomorrow – Doreen Valiente Witchcrafting – Phillis Currot Elements of Ritual – Deborah Lipp Spiral Dance – Starhawk Drawing Down the Moon – Margot Adler Magical Rites from the Crystal Well - Ed Fitch Coven Craft: Witchcraft for Three or More - Amber K Ethics and the Craft - John J. Coughlin The Truth About Witchcraft - Hanz Holzer The Paganism Reader - Chas Clifton
TRADITIONAL WITCHCRAFT Mastering Witchcraft – Paul Huson Conversations with a Witch – Lois Bourne The Forge of Tubal Cain - Ann Finnin The Crooked Path Journal (Various Contributors) Hedge Rider - Eric de Vries Sorgitzak: Old Forest Craft - Veronica Cummer
ACADEMIC HISTORIES OF WICCA AND WITCHCRAFT Triumph of The Moon – Ronald Hutton Wiccan Roots: Gerald Gardner and the Modern Witchcraft Revival (also as: Gerald Gardner and the Cauldron of Inspiration: An Investigation into the Sources of Gardnerian Witchcraft)– Philip Heselton Her Hidden Children: The Rise of Wicca And Paganism in America - Chas S. Clifton The Pickengill Papers-The Origin of the Gardnerian Craft - W.E. Liddell WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC IN EUROPE: (a 6 Volume series), edited by Bengt Ankarloo and Stuart Clark Vol 1 Biblical and Pagan Societies Vol 2 Ancient Greece and Rome Vol 3 The Middle Ages Vol 4 The Period of the Witch Trials Vol 5 The 18th & 19th Centuries Vol 6 The 20th Century Early Modern Witches: Witchcraft Cases in Contemporary Writing Edited by Marion Gibson
HISTORICAL WITCHCRAFT TEXTS Malleaus Mallifacarum The White Goddess – Graves The new Golden Bough – Frazer Aradia: Gospel of the Witches – Leyland A Witchcult in Western Europe – Murray
REFERANCE TEXTS ABC of Witchcraft – Doreen Valiente The Witches God – Farrar The Witches Goddess – Farrar Spells to Change Your Life - Lois Bourne Spells and how they work – Farrar
PSYCHOLOGY TEXTS (i.e Lots of Jung!) Man and His Symbols – Carl Jung The Undiscovered Self - Carl G. Jung The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious - Carl G. Jung Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle - Carl G. Jung The Undiscovered Self - Carl G. Jung Psychology and Religion (The Terry Lectures Series) - Carl G. Jung
BIOGRAPHIES King of the Witches – June Johns Fire Child: The Life & Magic of Maxine Sanders 'Witch Queen' - Maxine Sanders Fifty Years of Wicca – Frederic Lammond Diary of a Witch - Sybil Leek Gerald Gardner: Witch - Jack L Bracelin High Priestess – Patricia Crowther Witch Amongst Us – Lois Bourne Witches Speak – Aronld and Patricia Crowther [RARE BOOK]
CEREMONIAL MAGICK AND OCCULT/MYSTICISM TEXTS Magick in theory and practice – Crowley The Kabbalah unveiled – Mathers The Tree of Life: An Illustrated Study in Magic - Israel Regardie The Training & Work of an Initiate - Dion Fortune
FICTION Sea Priestess - Dion Fortune High Magic’s Aid – Scire (Gerald Gardner) Witches Were For Hanging (Paperback) FICTION – Patricia Crowther
OPEN SOURCE There are a fair few books that are available open source if you don't mind reading off a computer screen! Some of them might be a little heavy going for the beginner, but they are all classic texts on Wicca and Witchcraft