Books for Content and Learning
Want to help me make more content? These books will be great educational material, which will then come through in what I write!
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Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History — Owen Davies
I have been coveting this book for a while now, as I have a strong interest in the historical practices of cunning folk in the UK and England in particular
$52.88
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Folklore: A Journey Through the Past and Present — Owen Davies and Ceri Houlbrook
"This guide to the weird and wonderful world of British folklore offers much more than a compendium of curiosities." As a British person, I would love to learn more about our wacky folklore
$23.49
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Pages From a Welsh Cunning Man's Book: Magic and Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Wales — Andrew Phillip Smith
A reconstructed and translated notebook of an actual cunning man from Wales, originally written in 1890. This would be a valuable resource to look at first hand accounts of British folk magic
$23.15
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Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic — Owen Davies
Another book on the historic practices of cunning folk in Britain, this time focusing on the spirits and entities that they worked with
$57.82
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Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Shamanism and Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Scotland: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland — Emma Wilby
"The confessions of Isobel Gowdie are widely recognised as the most extraordinary on record in Britain", featuring testimony about her relationship with the Fair Folk, which interests me
$67.76
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How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher From Galilee — Bart D. Ehrman
The premise of this book — that Jesus was a Jewish prophet later elevated to godhood by the church — really interests me
$23.11
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The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version
I have never fully read the bible but I feel it is important to do so to dig into folk magic as well as to be aware of what I critique in it. This study bible comes highly recommended
$46.73
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Botanical Curses and Poisons: The Shadow-Lives of Plants — Fez Inkwright
I have the matching book to this already which talks of the beneficial ways one can work with plants. I'll admit cursing is not something I've explored before, so I would love to learn more
$16.58
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The Charmer's Root: Witching Ways with Common Flora — Roger J. Horne
A study on the folkloric use of common plants, especially in Britain. I want to get more experience working with herbs outside the usual ones I employ, especially if they are local to me
$18.89
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Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An Investigation — Ronald Hutton
"In this riveting account, renowned scholar Ronald Hutton explores the history of deity-like figures in Christian Europe." This includes the 'Fairy Queen', and I am eager to learn even more about this
$15.27
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Grimoires: A History of Magic Books — Owen Davies
While I am not a ceremonial magician by any measure, the history of grimoires is absolutely fascinating to me and I would love to learn more about them to see if they relate to folk practice at all
$25.97
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