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by Gerald Gardner
The Book of Shadows is a Wiccan text which is maintained by the initiated in manuscript form.
Robert Graves' primary contribution to modern Neopaganism
An essay by J.B. Hare.
by Sir James Frazer · 1922
A massive study of the mythological cycle of the Godesses' lover, the solar God who dies and is reborn
by Charles G. Leland · 1899
Evidence of a surviving underground Italian pagan religion?
by Charles G. Leland · 1893
Stregheria is Italian traditional witchcraft.
by Charles G. Leland · 1891
Leland investigates another traditional system of magic, that of the Rom, or Gypsies.
by Sir Walter Scott · 1885
Scott covers much of the same evidence for the Witch cult as Murry
by Jules Michelet & Alfred Richard Allinson · 1939
The story of witchcraft from the medieval to the 17th century
From the 14th to the 17th Century a hysteria spread across Europe which involved torturing and executing people based on accusations that they were witches. Whether any actual practicioners of a pre-Christian pagan tradition were persecuted as the result of a witch trial is up for debate. These books and texts are period documents which illustrate the methods, rationale (such as it was) and history of this persecution. They shouldn't be taken as illustrative of Neopaganism, but as a warning about religious tolerance and the fragile nature of justice.
by Montague Summers · 1486
The best known witch-hunt manual, a primary source of information on this chilling subject.
by King James the First · 1597
Two texts, one an essay on demons and other denizens of the night
by George L. Burr · 1896
A short collection of translations of historical documents of the witch craze.
Although little is actually known about the Druids, that didn't stop 18th and 19th century intellectuals from building a romantic mythology around them. This was closely associated with the rebirth of Celtic nationalism, as well as the Romantic and Gothic movements. This body of fact and speculation later became a central source of modern Wicca and Neo-Pagan belief and practice.
by James Bonwick · 1894
A scholarly perspective on the Druids in Ireland, weaving together strands of mythology and anthropology to build a picture of ancient Irish paganism.
by W. Winwood Reade · 1861
A typical example of the romantic and misconcieved mid-19th Century literature about Druidry.
by J. A. MacCulloch · 1911
An authoritative and factual study of ancient Celtic religion
1874
Iolo Morganwg was one of the first to revive Druidry in the 18th century
by Herbert A. Strong · 1913
Lucian of Samosata's late classical account of Goddess worship
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by St. John D. Seymour · 1913
This is a fascinating study of the witch-persecutions in Ireland, along with accounts of paranormal activity.
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