Reading List

Reading List

Favorite literature from my personal library.

Culture, History and Myth

• Grimm's Complete Fairy-tales by the Brothers Grimm
• The Silver Bough: Scottish Folk-Lore and Folk-Belief by F. Marian McNeill
• Scottish Folk-Tales and Legends by Barbara Ker Wilson and Joan Kiddell-Monroe
• The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: The Landscape of Celtic Myth and Spirit by Patricia Monaghan
• The Encyclopaedia of Celtic Myth and Legend: A Definitive Sourcebook of Magic, Vision, and Lore by John Matthews and Caitlin Matthews
• The Encyclopedia of Celtic Wisdom by Caitlin Matthews and John Matthews
• The Mabinogion
• Fairies: A Guide to the Celtic Fair Folk by Morgan Daimler
• Rowan Tree and Red Thread: a Scottish Witchcraft Miscellany of Tales, Legends and Ballads; Together with a Description of the Witches' Rites and ceremonies by Thomas Davidson.
• Brigid: Meeting The Celtic Goddess Of Poetry, Forge, And Healing Well by Morgan Daimler
• Roles of the Northern Goddess by Dr Hilda Ellis Davidson
• Bullfinche's Mythology
• Visions of the Cailleach by Sorita d'Este
• Mythology by Edith Hamilton
• Metamorphoses, Ovid
• Argonautica, Apollonius
• Theogony, Hesiod
• The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
• Magic and Mysticism: An Introduction to Western Esotericism by Arthur Versluis
• Modern Witchcraft and Psychoanalysis by Mel D. Faber

WitchQueen

• Hekate: Liminal Rites by Sorita d'Este
• Temple of Hekate by Tara Sanchez
• HEKATE Her Sacred Fires by Sorita d'Este
• HEKATE: Keys to the Crossroads - A collection of personal essays, invocations, rituals, recipes and artwork from modern Witches, Priestesses and ... Goddess of Witchcraft, Magick and Sorcery by Sorita d'Este
• Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate's Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature by Sarah Iles Johnston
• Liber Khthonia by Jeff Cullen
• Keeping Her Keys: An Introduction To Hekate's Modern Witchcraft by Cyndi Brannen
• Noxobnia: Feminine Deities of the Left Hand Path by Asenath Mason, Bill Duvendack, and S. Connolly
• Transformations​ of Circe: The History of an Enchantress by Judith Yarnall
• Medea by Euripides
• Religion and Identity in Porphyry of Tyre: The Limits of Hellenism in Late Antiquity: Greek Culture in the Roman World by Aaron P. Johnson

Trad Craft: Neo-traditional

• Call of the Horned Piper by Nigel Aldcroft Jackson
• Craft of the Untamed by Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold
• The English Book of Magic by Philip Carr-Gomm and Richard Heygate
• The Horn of Evenwood by Robin Artisson
• The Witching Way of the Hollow Hill by Robin Artisson
• The Resurrection of the Meadow by Robin Artisson
• The Luminous Stone by Michael Howard and Daniel Schulke
• Hedge Rider: Witches of the Underworld by Eric de Vries
• Besom, Book and Sword by Christopher Orapello and Tara-love Maguire
• A Deed Without Name by Lee Morgan
• Folk Witchcraft by Roger J. Horne
• Liber Nox by Michael Howard
• Mastering Witchcraft: A Practical Guide for Witches, Warlocks, and Covens by Paul Huson
• Masks of Misrule: The Horned God & His Cult in Europe by Nigel Jackson
• The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe by Brian P. Levack
• The Complete Book of Magic and Witchcraft by Kathryn Paulsen

Old World Witchcraft:

• Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History by Owen Davies
• The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Shamanism and Witchcraft in Seventeenth-century Scotland by Emma Wilby
• Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic by Emma Wilby
• The NightBattles: Witchcraft & Agra​rian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seven​teenth Centuries by Carlo Ginzberg
• Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits: Traditional Belief & Folklore​ in Early Modern Europe (Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies,​ V. 62) by Kathryn A. Edwards
• The Sorceress: Satanism and Witchcraft by Jules Godfrey Michelet
• Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century by Richard Kieckhefer
• Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History by Owen Davies
• Irish Witchcraft from an Irish Witch by Lora O'Brien
• Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft by Robin Briggs
• Russian Magic: Living Folk Traditions of an Enchanted Landscape by Cherry Gilchrist
• Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World by John G. Gager
• Magic, Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Sourcebook by Daniel Ogden
• Greek and Roman Necromancy by Daniel Ogden
• The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation: Including the Demotic Spells: Texts by Hans Dieter Betz

New World Witchcraft /Traditional American Folkloric Witchcraft

• Witchcraft in the Southwest: Spanish and Indian Supernaturalism on the Rio Grande by Marc Simmons
• America Bewitched by Owen Davies
• Witchcraft in Early North America by Alison Games
• American Witches: A Broomstick Tour Through Four Centuries by Susan Fair
• Witchcraft Myths in American Culture by Marion Gibson
• Witches of the Atlantic World: An Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook by Elaine G. Breslaw
• Witchcraft and Sorcery of the American Native Peoples by Deward E. Walker
• The Realness of Witchcraft in America by A Monroe Aurand Jr.
• Pow Wow: Or The Long Lost Friend by John George Hohman
• Witchcraft in North Carolina by Tom Peete Cross
• Infusions of Healing: A Treasury of Mexican-American Herbal Remedies by Joie Davidow
• Voodoo and Hoodoo: The Craft as Revealed by Traditional Practitioners by James Haskins
• A War Of Witches: A Journey Into The Underworld Of The Contemporary Aztecs by Timothy Knab
• Witches, Ghosts, and Signs: Folklore of the Southern Appalachians by PATRICK W. GAINER
• Sacred Plant Medicine: The Wisdom in Native American Herbalism by Stephen Harrod Buhner
• Four Seasons of Mojo: An Herbal Guide to Natural Living by Stephanie Rose Bird
• Southern Cunning: Folkloric Witchcraft In The American South by Aaron Oberon
• Working the Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing by Michele Elizabeth Lee
• A Treasury of New England Folklore: Stories, Ballads and Traditions of Yankee Folk by B.A. Botkin
• Treasury of Southern Folklore: Deluxe Edition by B.A Botkin
• Witchcraft in the United States: The History of Witches, Practices, and Persecution in America by Charles River Editors
• Folklore of the American Land by Duncan Emrich
• The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England by Richard Godbeer
• Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts by Weisman, Richard
• Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore by Frank C. Brown
• Southern Folklore Quarterly
• History of Effingham County, Illinois edited by William Henry Perrin
• Witchcraft in Illinois: A Cultural History by Michael Kleen
• Texas folk medicine: 1,333 Cures, Remedies, Preventives & Health Practices by John Q. Anderson
•  American Folklore: An Encyclopedia by Jan Harold Brunvand
• Ozark Magic and Folklore by Vance Randolph
• Signs, Cures, & Witchery: German Appalachian Folklore by Gerald Milnes
• Witchcraft Magic and Spirits on the Border of Pennsylvania and West Virginia by S. P. Bayard
• Indiana Folklore and Oral History, Volumes 13-15 by Published at Indiana University by the Folklore Institute and the Oral History Research Center, 1980
• The Silver Bullet, and Other American Witch Stories by Hubert J. Davis
• Folk Nation: Folklore in the Creation of American Tradition by Simon J. Bronne
• Journal of American Folklore
• Knots and Knot Lore by Cyrus L. Day
• Yule, Beltane, And Halloween Festivals (Folklore History Series) by Napier, James
• Conjure in African American Society by Jeffrey E. Anderson
• The Folklore of Love and Courtship by Duncan Emrich
• The Witches of Early America by Sally Smith Booth 
• Curses, Hexes, & Spells (Weird & Horrible Library) by Cohen, Daniel

Non-Witchcraft Magic etc:

• Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition by Yvonne P. Chireau
• Haboo: Native American Stories from Puget Sound by Vi Hilbert
• Roots and Branches: The Religious Heritage of Washington State by David M. Buerge, Junius Rochester
• Folktales of the Coast Salish by Thelma Adamson
• Mythology Of Southern Puget Sound: Legends Shared By Tribal Elders by Ballard, Arthur C.
• Salish Myths and Legends: One People's Stories by M. Terry Thompson, Steven M. Egesdal
• The Childhood of Fiction: A Study of Folk Tales and Primitive Thought by John Arnott MacCulloch
• Ethnobotany of Western Washington by Erna Gunther
• Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America by Nancy Turner

Inter Viridis

• Green Magic by Lesley Gordon
• Viridarium Umbris by D. A Schulke
• Thirteen Pathways of Occult Herbalism by Daniel A. Schulke
• Clavis Journal Volume 4
• Verdant Gnosis: Cultivating the Green Path by Rosarium, Catamara
• The Blood of the Earth: An Essay on Magic & Peak Oil by John Michael Greer
• Paganism: An Introduction to Earth- Centered Religions by River Higginbotham, Joyce Higginbotham
• Discovering The Folklore of Plants (Shire Discovering) by Baker, Margaret
• The Witches Garden by Harold A. Hansen
• The Haunted Garden: Death and Transfiguration in the Folklore of Plants by Humphrey, Sheryl
• The Witches Ointment by Thomas Hatsis
• The Green Mantle by Michael Jordan
• Wild Flower Folklore by Laura C. Martin
• Garden Flower Folklore by Laura C. Martin
• The Folklore of Birds by Laura C. Martin
• The Meaning of Flowers by Clair Powell
• The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
• Green Man by William Anderson and Clive Hicks
• Medicinal Herbal by Penelope Ody
• LEECHDOMS, WORTCUNNING, AND STARCRAFT OF EARLY ENGLAND by Thomas Oswald Cockayne
• The Mythic & Magickal Folklore Of Plants by Thiselton-Dyer, T. F.
• Leechcraft: Early English Charms, Plant-Lore and Healing by Stephen Pollington
• Mastering Herbalism by Paul Huson
• Witchcraft Medicine by by Claudia Müller-Ebeling, Christian Rätsch and Wolf-Dieter Storl Ph.D.
• Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future by Bron Taylor
• Folklore and Symbolism of Flowers, Plants and Trees by Ernst Lehner
• Scottish Herbs and Fairy Lore by Ellen Evert Hopman
• Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs by Scott Cunningham
• Wildcrafting: Harvesting the wilds for a living : brush-picking, fruit-tramping, worm-grunting, and other nomadic livelihoods by Jack McQuarrie
• The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacolo​gy and Its Applications by Christian Rätsch
• Pharmako trilogy: Poeia, Dynamis, Gnosis by Dale Pendell
• Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers by Hoffman and Schultes
• Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places by Steve Brill and Evelyn Dean
• The Way of the Green Witch by Arin Murphy Hiscock
• Psychedelic Shamanism: The Cultivation, Preparation, and Shamanic Use of Psychotropic Plants by Jim DeKorne
• The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants by Samuel Thayer
• A Gardener's Latin: The Language of Plants Explained by Richard Bird
• Plants of Love: Aphrodisiacs in Myth, History, and the Present by Christian Rätsch
• The Complete Meadmaker : Home Production of Honey Wine From Your First Batch to Award-winning Fruit and Herb Variations by Ken Schramm
• Making Plant Medicine by Richo Cech
• This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment by Roger Gottlieb
• Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth by Various
• Sea Magic: Connecting with the Ocean's Energy by Sandra Kynes
• Traditional Witchcraft for the Seashore by Melusine Draco
• Keeping it Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America by Douglas Deur
• Healing with Herbs and Rituals: A Mexican Tradition by Eliseo Torres
• Los Remedios by Michael Moore
• Ewe Osain: 221 Plants, Herbs and Trees Essential to the Lucumi Tradition by Mr. William J. Irizarry Jr.