Popular Witchcraft

Popular Witchcraft
Author: Jack Fritscher
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2004
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780299203047

Popular Witchcraft: Straight from the Witch's Mouth, inspired by the British Gerald Gardner's Witchcraft Today, was the first book to be published on popular American witchcraft and remains the classic survey of white and black magic. Newly revised and updated for twenty-first-century readers, the author--an ordained but marvelously fallen exorcist--tells all about the evil eye, the queer eye, women and witch trials, the Old Religion, magic Christianity, Satanism, and New Age self-help. Jack Fritscher sifts through legends of sorcery and the twisted history of witchcraft, including the casting of spells and incantations, with a focus on the growing role of witchcraft in popular culture and its mainstream commercialization through popular music, Broadway, Hollywood, and politics. As seriously historical as it is fun to read, there is no other book like it.

Popular Witchcraft

Popular Witchcraft
Author: Jack Fritscher
Publisher: Carol Publishing Corporation
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1973
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe

The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe
Author: E. Bever
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 643
Release: 2008-06-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230582117

Exploring the elements of reality in early modern witchcraft and popular magic, through a combination of detailed archival research and broad-ranging interdisciplinary analyses, this book complements and challenges existing scholarship, and offers unique insights into this murky aspect of early modern history.

Witchcraft Continued

Witchcraft Continued
Author: Willem De Blécourt
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780719066580

An important collection of essays that use a variety of different approaches and sources to uncover the continued relevance of witchcraft and magic in nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe.

Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft

Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft
Author: Raymond Buckland
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1986
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0875420508

"This complete self-study course in modern Wicca is a treasured classic - an essential and trusted guide that belongs in every witch's library."---Back cover

Spellcasters

Spellcasters
Author: Pauline C. Bartel
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Witchcraft
ISBN: 9780878331833

This in-depth study of the history of witches and witchcraft begins with the first mention of witches 3,000 years ago, and follows the history up to modern-day Wiccans, exploring the origins of witchcraft, the Inquisition and Salem Witch Trials, and witches in popular culture.

A Popular History of Witchcraft

A Popular History of Witchcraft
Author: Montague Summers
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0486443914

Catholic priest and eminent scholar, Montague Summers firmly believed in witchcraft, demonology, and vampirism, about which he wrote several authoritative books. As the title indicates, this is a popular history, offering everything you ever wanted to know about black magic, from ordinary mischief to elaborate hexes.

The Modern Witchcraft Book of Natural Magick

The Modern Witchcraft Book of Natural Magick
Author: Judy Ann Nock
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1507207212

The magic of witchcraft never dies. Harness the power of nature-based magick, including herbal charms and remedies, cleansing rituals, crystal healing, astrology, and more with this new guide in the popular Modern Witchcraft series—perfect for millennials. Modern-day interest in witchcraft and wicca isn’t surprising—who wouldn’t want to focus their energy into rituals of change and healing in today’s troubled and chaotic times? Right now, many of the most popular types of magick are nature-based. This fun and practical book includes methods to help you connect with the Earth mother and your own natural self. Each chapter focuses on a different type of nature magick, from seed magick to the magick of the sun, of water, of the moon, and more—and every topic includes its own accompanying spells, charms, rituals, and meditations. The Modern Witchcraft Book of Natural Magick is your complete guide to everything you’ll need to know about nature-based magick to fully embrace your spiritual and natural self.

Witchcraft Today

Witchcraft Today
Author: Gerald Brosseau Gardner
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2023-11-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

The Meaning of Witchcraft is a non-fiction book written by Gerald Gardner. Gardner, known to many in the modern sense as the "Father of Wicca", based the book around his experiences with the religion of Wicca and the New Forest Coven. He claimed he was allowed to tell more than ever before and cast light on the rituals and beliefs of witches. The book's main message was that neither the practices of witches nor their intents were harmful. The book tells the history of witchcraft in Europe. The author traces back to pre-Christian times, studies the rituals and beliefs of templars, and states that the belief in fairies in ancient, medieval, and early modern Europe was connected with a secretive pygmy race that lived alongside other communities. The preface to this book was Margaret Murray, who stated that witchcraft took its root in the pre-Christian religions and had nothing to do with spell-casting and other evil practices. Instead, Murray proposes to view witchcraft as "the sincere expression of that feeling towards God which is expressed, perhaps more decorously though not more sincerely, by modern Christianity in church services."