List of Useful Books

Books on Other Wiccan Traditions:

Gardnerian & Alexandrian Traditions:

• High Magic’s Aid, by "Scire" (Gerald B. Gardner); Pentacle Enterprises, 1993
  (reprint of the out-of-print original). This is the first book on Witchcraft written by "Uncle Gerald," while being a witch was still illegal in England. It is in the form of a novel, but it contains an amazing amount of information about the Craft.
• Witchcraft Today, by Gerald B. Gardner; Magickal Childe Publishing, 1954.
  This is the first book Gardner wrote about the Craft after the laws against witchcraft were repealed in England, in 1954. It has his view of both the Craft’s history and its meaning.
• The Meaning of Witchcraft, by Gerald B. Gardner; Magickal Childe Publishing, 1959, 1991.
  An expansion on Witchcraft Today, written five years later, this book goes into more detail about both the history and the meaning of the Craft.
• The Rebirth of Witchcraft, by Doreen Valiente; Phoenix Publishing, 1989.
  Written by one of Gardner’s high priestesses (and the author of the Charge of the Goddess), this book discusses the renaissance of witchcraft in this century, how it relates to what has gone before, and where it is likely to go in the future.
• Witchcraft for Tomorrow, by Doreen Valiente; Phoenix Publishing, 1978.
  In this book, Ms. Valente discusses the things about Wicca that will help take this culture out of the Age of Pisces and into the Age of Aquarius.
• Wicca: The Old Religion for the New Age, by Vivianne Crowley; Aquarian Press, 1989.
  A discussion of Wicca from the point of view of the Jungian orld-view, seeing the archtypical imagery of the gods and oddesses and the transcendent power of Wicca.
• The Witch’s Bible, by Janet and Stewart Farrar; Magickal Childe Publishing, 1981, 1984.
  The most complete book of Gardnerian Wicca in print; it contains two volumes as originally published, Eight Sabbats for Witches and The Witches’ Way.

Celtic and Woodland Celtic Traditions:

• The Book Of Shadows of Woodland Celtic Wicca, by Ray Fagan; submitted to Lewellyn Publications, 1999.
• Celtic Magic, by D. J. Conway; Llewellyn Publications, 1994.
  Has two good things -- a brief introduction to Wicca from a Celtic viewpoint, and a history of the Celts and their deities.
• The Elements of the Celtic Tradition, by Caitlín Matthews; Element Books, 1991.
  This covers the same type of information as Celtic Magic, but has a lot more information, in a lot more detail.