Book List

Here's a list of books on Traditional Witchcraft and magic. I'm sure there are dozens of others, so feel free to add your suggestions in the comments!


~Practical Reading~

•Traditional Witchcraft: A Cornish Book of Ways
- Gemma Gary

•A Deed Without A Name: Unearthing the Legacy of Traditional Witchcraft
- Lee Morgan

•Treading the Mill: Practical Craft Working in Modern Traditional Witchcraft
- Nigel G. Pearson

•Call of the Horned Piper
- Nigel Aldcroft Jackson

•The Way of the Shaman
- Michael Harner (Traditional Witchcraft has quite a few shamanistic attributes, making this worth the read)

•Mastering Witchcraft: A Practical Guide for Witches, Warlocks and Covens
- Paul Husson (it’s more Wicca based, but it’s a classic with some very strong points)

•Village Witch
- Cassandra Latham-Jones

•Devon Witchcraft and Folk Ways
- Sarah Hewett

•Secrets of East Anglian Magic
- Nigel Pennick

•A Grimoire for Modern Cunning Folk: A Practical Guide to Witchcraft on the Crooked Path
- Peter Paddon

•Crone’s Book of Charms and Spells/Crone’s Book of Magical Words*
- Valerie Worth

•The Black Toad: West Country Witchcraft and Magic*
- Gemma Gary

*= These are really just spell books with not much else in them. They’re good, but not if you want to understand deeper the spiritual side of Traditional Witchcraft.

~Historical Reading~

•Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits
- Emma Wilby

•Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History
- Owen Davies

•Witchcraft in Early North America
- Alison Games

•The Archaeology of Ritual and Magic
- Ralph Merrifield

•The Power of Words: Studies on Charms and Charming in Europe
- James A. Kapalo, Eva Pocs and William Francis Ryan

•The Tradition of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practices
- Claude Lecouteux

•Between the Living and the Dead
- Eva Pocs

•Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath
- Carlo Ginzburg and Raymond Rosenthal

•The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries
- Carlo Ginzburg, John Tedeschi and Anne Tedeschi

•Witches, Werewolves, and Fairies: Shapeshifters and Astral Doubles in the Middle Ages
- Claude Lecouteux

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