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This is a list of books I recommend as good resources for Wicca, Pagan and Pagan-interest.  They are not separated into any specific “beginner/advanced” type categories.

Wicca

The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft - Ronald Hutton

An ABC of Witchcraft Past and Present - Doreen Valiente

Witchcraft For Tomorrow - Doreen Valiente

Witchcraft Today - Gerald Gardner

Progressive Witchcraft: Spirituality, Mysteries, and Training in Modern Wicca - Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone

The Law Enforcement Guide To Wicca - Kerr Cuhulain

The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (20th Anniversary Edition) - Starhawk

The Real Witches' Handbook - Kate West


Witchcraft

The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Carlo Ginzburg

Ecstasies : Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath - Carlo Ginzburg


Pagan


The Wiccan Tao:  A Reinterpretation of the Tao Te Ching - Boniface Wolfsong


The Second Circle: Tools for the Advancing Pagan - Venecia Rauls

Pagan Virtue: An Essay in Ethics - John Casey

The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy - Ronald Hutton

Stations of the Sun - Ronald Hutton

Pagans and the Law: Understand Your Rights - Dana D. Eilers

Drawing Down the Moon : Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today - Margot Adler

Circles, Groves & Sanctuaries: Sacred Spaces of Today's Pagans - Dan and Pauline Campanelli

The Wisdom of the Pagan Philosophers - Timothy Freke/Peter Gandy

Warriors of the Wasteland: A Quest for the Pagan Sacrificial Cult Behind the Grail Legends - John Grigsby

A Book of Pagan Prayer - Ceisiwr Serith


Shamanism

Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy - Mircea Eliade

The Way Of Wyrd: Tales Of An Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer (fiction) - Brian Bates

Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self Through Shamanic Practice - Sandra Ingerman

Drumming the Spirit to Life - Russell Buddy Helm (CD included)

Impro - Keith Johnstone (specifically for the chapter entitled "Mask and Trance")

Eduardo El Curandero: The Words of a Peruvian Healer - Richard, M.D. Cowan, Douglas Sharon, F. Kaye Sharon


Occult

The Forge and the Crucible : The Origins and Structure of Alchemy - Mircea Eliade

Rites and Symbols of Initiation: The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth - Mircea Eliade


Myth and Symbolism

The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell

The Hero With A Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell

Transformations of Myth Through Time - Joseph Campbell

The Masks of God: Creative Mythology - Joseph Campbell

Images and Symbols - Mircea Eliade


Goddess/Divine Feminine

The Goddess Companion: Daily Meditations on the Feminine Spirit - Patricia Monaghan

The Goddess Path: Myths, Invocations & Rituals - Patricia Monaghan

The New Book of Goddesses & Heroines - Patricia Monaghan

Sophia: Goddess of Wisdom : The Divine Feminine from Black Goddess to World-Soul - Caitlin Matthews

The Song of Eve: Mythology and Symbols of the Goddess - Manuela Dunn Mascetti

The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory - Why an Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future - Cynthia Eller

Book of Hours: Prayers to the Goddess - Galen Gillotte


Magick & Divination

The Heretic's Tarot - Boniface Wolfsong

A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarot - Ronald Decker, Thierry Depaulis and Michael Dummett (out of print; check rare book dealers)

Magick in Theory and Practice - Aleister Crowley


Death and Dying

The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings, and Meditations on Crossing Over - Starhawk, M. Macha NightMare

Sacred Dying : Creating Rituals For Embracing the End of Life - Megory Anderson

The Skeleton at the Feast: The Day of the Dead in Mexico - Elizabeth Carmichael, Chloe Sayer


Of Interest

Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend - Jeffrey S. Victor

The Gnostic Gospels - Elaine Pagels

The Origin of Satan - Elaine Pagels

Many Moons: The Myth & Magic, Fact & Fantasy of Our Nearest Heavenly Body - Diana Brueton
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