Books & Links

About Witchcraft:
Some of these links & books below contain some info about "witchcraft"..
unfortunately this is hard to avoid when you're looking for info on paganism
these days.. at one point I started to become interested in that, too, until
I learned that most of this witchcraft/wicca stuff was invented by some nut
in the 1940s. One "witch" in the IRC started arguing with me about that, saying
"what's wrong with being invented in the 1940s?" - well, nothing, but then they
shouldn't call themselves "Witches" or refer to what they're doing as "Witchcraft".
They should call it "Wicca" and "Wiccans" exclusively, that's the term for their
religion I believe. My own kind of paganism is not that different from Wicca,
actually. You just won't catch me calling the "Watchtowers", reciting the "Charge
of the Goddess", or any of that stuff. I say "Merry Meet" sometimes in mails to
other pagans, to make them feel more comfortable - however, I'm well aware that
those phrases have their origin in freemasonry, and have nothing to do with
paganism.

Books

Don't waste your money!

Ok if you're bored & have nothing else to read..

Pretty good..

Excellent - must read!

This book RULES!!!

The Urban Pagan - by Patricia Telesco
(Llewellyn Publications, St. Paul, Minn; 1995)
Easy reading - full of "New Age" crap.
The Truth About Witchcraft Today - by Scott Cunningham
(Llewellyn Publications, St. Paul, Minn; 1996)
Very basic overview. If you have access to the web don't buy it - most of this info you'll find surfing on a Pagan webring for example.
To Ride a Silver Broomstick - by Silver RavenWolf
(Llewellyn Publications, St. Paul, Minn; 1996)
Like a workbook. Most of the exercises you won't be able to do unless you're already into meditating or have a very active imagination.
The Spiral Dance - by Starhawk
(HarperSanFrancisco; 1989)
I'm only starting the second chapter and I absolutely love it! Well researched book, very challenging, makes you think. Reads more like a college-level book, while the others were high school. Four pentagrams! :)
The Dawn of Belief - by Bruce Dickson
(University of Arizona, Tuscon, Az; 1990)
Extremely interesting but not very entertaining to read; dry. Presents and discusses archaeological evidence of the very first belief systems (in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwestern Europe).