Books: Witchcraft
A Grimoire for Modern CunningfolkA Practical Guide to Witchcraft on the Crooked Path
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A practical manual of Traditional non-Wiccan Witchcraft.
While there are a lot of texts that cover advanced and academic subjects of interest to traditional Crafters, all of the introductory books tend to focus on Wicca... until now.
In this Book Peter Paddon - Magister of Briar Rose and host of the popular Crooked Path podcast - covers his particular path of Witchcraft from scratch. He goes over the basics of his personal Path, along with examples of alternatives from other traditions, covering philosophy, lore and practical techniques.
The Crooked Path is a way of Crafting based on experiencing the Mysteries of Ancestors and the Sacred Landscape first-hand, and Peter guides the seeker through the basics with competence and humor.
Available $10.95
978-0-9843302-1-8
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A Grimoire for Modern Cunningfolk - Special EditionLimited hardcover edition
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In this Book Peter Paddon - Magister of Briar Rose and host of the popular Crooked Path podcast - covers his particular path of Witchcraft from scratch. He goes over the basics of his personal Path, along with examples of alternatives from other traditions, covering philosophy, lore and practical techniques.
A limited hardcover edition of 100 copies only, this book includes the full text of the standard edition also comes with a DVD of the author demonstrating some of the practical techniques, and an extra chapter on body fluids and sex magic. 100 signed, numbered copies.
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STILL A FEW COPIES LEFT - LIMITED EDITION $75.95
978-0-9843302-2-5
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Balkan Traditional Witchcraft
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Published in English for the first time, this groundbreaking book by Radomir Ristic is a compilation of historical data, anthropological studies, and the authors own experiences and interviews with the Witches of the Balkans. Covering both theory and practice, the book gives a complete system of Balkan Traditional Witchcraft.
Balkan Traditional Witchcraft is an ancient system from humanity’s dawn that has survived into modern times due to the unique history of the region, and its practice can be applied to any culture, state or region in the world.
Translated into English by Michael C. Carter, Jr., this book – a bestseller in its native Serbia – is an incredible look into the world of the Balkan Witch, covering ritual trance, tools, rites for healing, love, divination, defense and for making charms. It also explores the supernatural beings that Balkan Witches share their world with, deities, fairies and other spirits. There has never been such a deep exploration of the magic of this region available in English before.
English translation by Michael C. Carter, Jr.
Available $15.95
978-0-9796168-5-3
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Domino DivinationFortune- Telling with Dominoues
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Tarot cards have been a staple of the divination market for years, as has been the I-Ching, numerology, astrology, tea-leaf reading and palmistry. More recently runes have joined these and become very popular. In 1982 Ralph Blum’s The Book of Runes started the trend and a wide variety of books on reading runes is now available.
Almost as old as tarot cards are the dominoes, the first records of their use being found in China in the early twelfth century. Although today familiar to most people only as a game, dominoes were originally used by the Chinese for divination and fortune-telling. The reading of dominoes comes under the heading of sortilege and, as such, can be traced back to early Greek and Roman methods of divining the future.
Divination with dominoes would seem to be a natural follow-on to the popularity of runes. Domino sets are much more readily available than are runes, which are usually manufactured solely for divination use. To be able to do similar readings but with such an accessible tool could not only fulfill the needs of those who are always searching for new lines of psychic development but could also be instrumental in introducing previously hesitant would-be diviners into the field.
One of the unique features of domino divination is the fact that more than one person may be “read” at the same time.
Domino Divination is designed to introduce the beginner to the whole concept of divination yet also to extend the reach of the more experienced divination practitioner. The book begins with an overview of the history of the subject and then proceeds to the actual reading/interpretation of the tiles. Here a number of methods of working are presented, ranging from very simple readings to the more complex, in-depth variety. Dominoes can also be aligned with the tarot cards, which may suggest their being used as an adjunct by those card readers. Additionally, with the make-up of the tiles utilizing various combinations of dots, there is another tie-in which is explored; this with numerology. All of this is presented in a book that is small enough to be handily carried around and/or kept with a set of dominoes, yet large enough in content to give complete instructions on the art.
Although domino reading is occasionally referred to as a small subsection of some books reviewing a variety of divination methods, there seem to be no books focused solely on the tiles. Domino Divination would be the first such.
TBD 2010
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Hedge-RiderWitches and the Underworld
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Hedgerider: Witches and the Underworld is a re-interpretation of (Hedge-)Witchery. Drawing from an extensive historical, folkloric and mythological body it re-attributes and re-defines Witchery as a Heathen Cult centred around the journey to the Underworld and contact with the Unseen. With the insights into Cosmology, Philosophy and Practice this book provides a working body of Heathen Witch-lore, designed to transform the essence of humanity in something greater through contact with our Fetch and the Underworld itself.
Available $13.95
978-0-9796168-7-7
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Masks of the MuseBuilding a relationship with the Goddess of the West
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Who is the Muse? Why do we need Her? How do we tap into that shining current of inspiration and create something never before seen, something beautiful and terrible, fantastical and infinitely real.
The Muse is as vital to our lives today as She was in ancient times. She changes as we change and Her Arts are continually in flux, Arts that we simply cannot live without...or that we wouldn’t want to. Among other things, they are tools to make and re-make our world even as we work with Fate to weave the web of life and death, of creation and destruction. Through four faces, four masks of the Muse, this book explores different aspects of inspiration, creativity, and magick. Aphrodite, Cerridwen, Ariadne, and the Lady of the Lake await--each to teach us of the Arts and what we are capable of at our very best.
By the poetry, prayer, invocation, and ritual contained within we can come to know the Muse and so know ourselves and the gifts we all have within us that demand recognition and expression. The path of the Muse may not always be an easy or a safe one, but anything worth having is worth paying the price for. Who is the Muse? Who are we?
This book is a journey, one that we must dare to take and dare to take hold of what is revealed.. As we must return to the well of memory, the depths of the ocean, and the currents below the earth, there to claim what was ours all along.
Available $17.95
978-0-9820318-3-4
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Practical Color Magick
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Color Magick is the most effective, yet the most simple method of knowledge and practice in all the fields of psychic and spiritual development. Color surrounds us in our world and this book can show you how to put that color to work. Color Magick is powerful, yet safe. It is creative and fun to do. It is the use of a natural element in a practical way.
Color Magick can be used in meditation, healing, ESP, Tarot, crystal-gazing, ritual, candle-magick, and many other forms of magical practice. Learn all of its secrets in this exciting book!
TBD 2010
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Sorgitzak - KINDLE EDITIONOld Forest Craft
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The Kindle version can be read on the Amazon Kindle reader or the Kindle app for iPhone
Available $4.99
978-0979616860
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Sorgitzak: Old Forest CraftStories and messages from the gods of Old Europe
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This is a book about the religion once practiced ages ago in the Old Forest region of Europe. The book contains channeled messages from the Gods of the Old Forest and from the fey, as well as stories, myths, legends, and bits and pieces of the old witch language. It is not meant to be a "Wicca 101" book, but the next stage towards witches, in particular those of European descent, being able to reclaim their heritage. In this regard, there is no other book currently out there quite like this one. Not only does it provide a link to the past, but it also gives witches a potential focus for the future.
Available $18.95
978-0-9796168-6-0
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Sybil Leek: Out of the Shadows
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This is a unique book. It covers the life of Sybil Leek as experienced and shared by the author, Christine Jones, who was Sybil’s friend, student, and finally in the last months of her life, her nurse. Alongside a look at the life of this remarkable woman, the good and the bad, we find details of Sybil’s teachings on archangels, spellcrafting and herblore. The book also contains many rare and never before seen photos of Sybil and the people she connected with.
With introduction by Orion Foxwood.
"A powerful, personal look into the life and magic of a craft elder. I had no idea of Sybil’s interest and teaching in angelic magic, and found it fascinating, as well as Christine Jones’ relationship with Sybil, good and bad. An important contribution to our Craft’s history and lore." - Christopher Penczak, Author of the Three Rays of Witchcraft and the Inner Temple of Witchcraft.
Available $10.95
978-0-9827263-6-5
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The Crooked PathSelected Transcripts from the Crooked Path Podcast,
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Selected transcripts of the Crooked Path Podcast hosted by Peter Paddon.
The Path of the Outcast
Sacred Space and Ancestral Work Ancestral Work
Spring Equinox
Witch’s Mark and Witch Blood
Witch-Wear & Herb Lore
Beltaine
Pathworkings
Pagan Books and Authors
Karma/Fate
Tapping the Bone
Interview With Dave Finnin (Clan of Tubal Cain)
Oaths and Pacts
Lammas
Traditions of Witchcraft
The Mystery of Initiation
Crises of Faith
Angels, Demons and Other Entities
Why Do a Podcast? (plus interview with Ann Finnin)
Available $10.95
978-0-9843302-0-1
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The Flaming CircleA Reconstruction of the Old Ways of Britain and Ireland
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‘A Regeneration of the Pre-Christian Spiritual Worldviews and
Religious Practices of the Holy Isles.’
This book is very different from anything Robin Artisson has written so far, for a very special reason: it is written in the tone of a father to his children. This book is a gift for his children, full of things he would want them to know and things he would want to tell them, to help them through their lives. The book is closer, more intimate, and warmer than most of his work.
But it includes massive amounts of material regarding native British Isles (Britain and Ireland) traditional Paganism and spiritual ecology, and native Gods and Goddesses. Tons of scholarly backing and personal inspiration, as well as a wide and complete selection of traditional Pagan philosophical ‘points of guidance’ are offered, as a father would want to offer his most beloved offspring. A full working reconstruction of the pre-Christian polytheistic religious perspectives and practices of Pagan Britain and Ireland is ‘taught‘ in its pages, like a guidebook and a long letter/narrative being sent from father to children.
There is a long occult tradition of such exchanges. All are invited to listen in on a man telling the most important things he can tell his children, and hoping that they remember these things when he is gone and they have children of their own. A very personal project, but one he has wanted to create and write for years, and it deals with years worth of material he has collected.
Available $22.95
978-0-9796168-4-6
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The Forge of Tubal CainSouthern California Witchcraft, Roebuck, and the Clan of Tubal Cain
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From its earliest days to the present, Ann and Dave Finnin have been at the center of the Pagan community in Southern California. Here is the story of the groups and covens that came and went, and those that grew into thriving Traditions. In particular, this is the story of the Roebuck, how it came to be, and the influences that led to its creation. Ann writes about all the ‘Big Names’ in the Craft from Los Angeles and beyond from personal experience - she was there, working with and interacting with the people and the groups that are legendary in Craft circles. With foreword by Ed Fitch.
Available $16.95
978-0-9796168-3-9
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The Forge of Tubal Cain - KINDLE EDITIONKindle Edition
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The Kindle version can be read on the Amazon Kindle reader or the Kindle app for iPhone
Available $4.99
978-0-9796168-3-9
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The Horn of Evenwood
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The Horn of Evenwood, Also called ‘The Master’s Book of Conjury’ or ‘The Witchfather’s Bloodless Bones’, is a true book of Art, a Grimoire of sorcerous operations, charms, and devices of Witchery. Based on well-worn patterns and operations of Traditional sorcery and European Witchcraft from the 16th-19th centuries, this manual of magical arts provides a complete working system of Craft-sorcery which taps into the numina of the British Isles folk-tradition, the Luciferian mysteries of the Witchmaster, traditional wortcunning, the Rades of Edric and Godda, and the hidden roads to Faery-Elfhame. Included are incantations, conjurations, instructions in the application of the Ten Pillars of Sorcery, "The Service of Sigils" working, and the operations of ‘Biting the Tongues of Serpents’, ‘Summoning the Witch-Dream by Moth Flight’, ‘Binding the Lovers One to the Other’, ‘The Fruitful Working of the Womb-Seed’, and ‘A Pavis from Foul Imprecations’, all of which are intended to instruct an initiate in the use of this timeless arcane system.
Available $27.95
978-0-9796168-0-8
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THE RESURRECTION OF THE MEADOWA Grimoire by Robin Artisson, occult writer of note
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"The Resurrection of the Meadow" is described by the author as "A Record of Thirteen Occult Formulas & Charms of Art with Purport & A Sealing Conjuration & their many useful Sorcerous Permutations, Writ & Gathered on Walpurgis Night 2010, For those Inquisitive Adepts who walk The despised path of True Sorcery, The long-dimmed radiance of the Ancient Gold of the Wise."
Found within this full, self-contained working grimoire is a system of sorcery relying on the ancient spiritual aesthetic of the Faery-Faith and the Metaphysics of Elfhame- interaction with the Unseen world through the vehicle of the spirit-forms or the fetch-bodies of non-human persons that are merged with the land around us. Steeped in folklore and a much older form of deep ecology, it is a powerful work of Art for the discerning occultist.
The grimoire contains, among other things, full instructions for sealing and protecting the "Meadow" or sanctified outdoors locations, the "Feery Feast", the manifesting of the powerful "Weird of the Cairn", the creation of sacred interaction-points with the "Convocation of the Meadow" or Land-spirits, various Crossings, arboreal workings for harvesting and gathering sorcerous components from tree and plant weirds, charms of increase and fertility, and the creation of the fearful "White Mommet" for works of sympathetic magic.
Available $22.95
978-0-9843302-9-4
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To Fly By NightAn Anthology of Hedgewitchery
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Hedgewitch Craft takes its name from the practice of travelling beyond the boundaries, of going past the "hedgerows" that divide what is known from what is unknown. Hedgewitches utilize diverse techniques to undertake the night-flight into strange and sometimes dangerous places in order to gain spirit-allies, magickal abilities and knowledge, to heal and to commune with the Gods and the ancestors.
From the ancient to the modern, from the philosophical and historical to the practical and mystical, these essays span a wide variety of paths and approaches. To Fly By Night features works by: Robin Artisson, Christopher Crittenden, Veronica Cummer, Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold, Eric de Vries, Rev. Jack Green, Raven Grimassi, Beth Hansen-Buth, Juniper, Sylva Markson, Jenne Micale, Papa Toad Bone, John Pwyll, Elige Stewart, and Kari Tauring
At The Printers $13.95
978-0-9827263-7-2
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Visceral MagickBridging the Gap Between Magic and Mundane
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Ever had a "gut feeling" that proved to be correct? Ever gathered up your courage in the form of "intestinal fortitude"? Modern science has discovered that our digestive organs have a rudimentarty form of consciousness that corrsponds to these sayings, and this would be old news to our Celtic ancestors, who believed the human form contained three cauldrons that directed energy, inspiration and wisdom.
This book explores a set of basic experiences, ideas and techniques that used to be at the heart of every magical Tradition, but which are frequently overlooked or ignored in modern times. But they are the very things that breathe life into magical systems, the secret key that makes the magic actually work.
Peter Paddon, author and Witch, has had the fortune to encounter these techniques and practices in several forms, and her ehe documents his own journey - and the results - as well as laying out exercises and practical applications to enable the reader to stop visualizing and just plain see. Magic is a real force, one that will raise the hairs on the back of your neck, and become a living breathing part of your everyday life. This book will show you how to get there.
Summer 2010
978-0-9843302-3-2
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Witching Way of the Hollow HillThe Gramarye of the Folk Who Dwell Below the Mound
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This is a book that acts as a ‘traveler’s guide’ to a hidden country within each human being. Primal peoples all over the world embrace the ideas discussed in this work: the animistic worldview, spiritual communion with the dead and the Unseen World, sorcery and magic.
Author and traditional witch Robin Artisson explores these mystical themes from the perspective of The Old Faiths and pre-Christian metaphysical impulses of Europe and the British Isles. Bringing a new perspective to these ancient practices and making them more accessible, this book is a key to the door that leads into the mythical dimension of each person, and every feature of the sacred landscape. It helps to unlock the hidden wisdom in folklore, shed light on the enigma of the human being, and manifest an experience of the wisdom of the Old Ways- insofar as a book can. This book is about getting out of books and back into the spiritual dimension of the Land itself, and requires considerable dedication and work.
Originally self-published by the author, this is the third edition of this popular book.
Available $17.95
978-0-9820318-8-9
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