The Book of Goddesses & Heroines
10 best books like The Book of Goddesses & Heroines (Patricia Monaghan): War for the Oaks, Metamorphoses, The Daylight Gate, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help, Faeries, Krampus: The Yule Lord, Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic, Embracing the Moon: A Witch's Guide to Rituals, Spellcraft and Shadow Work, Drowned in Evil, Good Faeries Bad Faeries
| Author | Emma Bull |
| ISBN | 0765349159 |
Acclaimed by critics and readers on its first publication in 1987, winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel, Emma Bull's War for the Oaks is one of the novels that has defined modern urban fantasy.
Eddi McCandry sings rock and roll. But she's breaking up with her boyfriend, her band just...
Prized through the ages for its splendor and its savage, sophisticated wit, The Metamorphoses is a masterpiece of Western culture--the first attempt to link all the Greek myths, before and after Homer, in a cohesive whole, to the Roman myths of Ovid's day. Horace Gregory, in this modern translation,...
| Author | Jeanette Winterson |
| ISBN | 0099561859 |
Good Friday, 1612. Pendle Hill, Lancashire.
A mysterious gathering of thirteen people is interrupted by local magistrate, Roger Nowell. Is this a witches' Sabbat?
Two notorious Lancashire witches are already in Lancaster Castle waiting trial. Why is the beautiful and wealthy...
The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
| Author | Amanda Palmer |
| ISBN | 1455581089 |
Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly asked thousands of passersby for their dollars. When she became a singer, songwriter, and musician, she was not afraid to ask her audience to support...
I bought this book for my wife some years ago. She was an artist and very talented. Near the end of her life one of the subjects she was beginning to work with was "fantasy subjects" including faeries. She was (as I said above) very talented and throughout her life as she would pick up different techniques...
Set in Appalachia, Krampus the Yule Lord is a twisted fairytale about a failed West Virginia songwriter who gets ensnared on Christmas Eve in an eternal war between a not-so-saintly Saint Nick and his dark enemy Krampus, aka Black Peter, an ancient trickster demon. Krampus the Yule Lord is Gregory Maguire...
| Author | Emma Wilby |
| ISBN | 1845190793 |
In the hundreds of confessions relating to witchcraft and sorcery trials from early modern Britain we frequently find detailed descriptions of intimate working relationships between popular magical practitioners and familiar spirits of either human or animal form. Until recently historians...
Embracing the Moon: A Witch's Guide to Rituals, Spellcraft and Shadow Work
| Author | Yasmine Galenorn |
| ISBN | 1567183042 |
I received this book from a friend back in like third grade. Neither she nor I considered ourselves to be Pagans and we didn't want to be Witches either, whatever that meant to us back then. We just enjoyed fantastical things, but we were kids and what kid doesn't? It was such a strange gift and my mother made...
Ooooo, Wet Moon is getting crazy!! Having read one or two other Ross Campbell books outside of the Wet Moon storyline, I knew he was capable of some twisted tale-telling, but this is the first Wet Moon book that really digs into some of that. We're back with Cleo and the gang, as Trilby drags them to a comic...
| Author | Brian Froud |
| ISBN | 0684847817 |
"Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc..." In the long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller "Faeries",...
Geosophia: The Argo of Magic I (Encyclopaedia Goetica Volume II)
| Author | Jake Stratton-Kent |
| ISBN | 0956720307 |
Revolutionary. Books I, II,III, & IV of Volume II of Encyclopaedia Goetica. Highly recommended if you're interested in the roots of western magic or mythology. Jake traces the ancient Greek goetes who engaged with the spirits of the underworld and predated the aristocratic Olympian state cults...
The Sorcerer's Secrets: Strategies in Practical Magick
This book is about real magick, effecting real change, in a real world. There are some books on magick that teach it purely as spiritual advancement. There are others that teach it as a form of psychological self-help that effects only inner change. While magick can and should be both of these, it is something...
| Author | Molly Crabapple |
| ISBN | 0062323644 |
An unforgettable memoir of the years between 9/11 and the Occupy movement—in New York City and around the world—by the renowned artist and journalist
"When the world watched me hardest, when my brain burned itself bloody, I could draw. No matter what, I had that. It was all I needed."
In language...
Bearing Torches: A Devotional Anthology for Hekate
| Author | Sannion |
| ISBN | 1449917046 |
Hekate is, without question, one of the most popular goddesses in the world today, worshiped by Hellenic Recons, Wiccans, and Neo-pagans alike. Hekate has many roles and many guises. To some she is a beautiful maiden, to others the dark mother. She has been called the guide of souls; the protector of...
Geosophia: The Argo of Magic II (Encyclopaedia Goetica Volume II)
| Author | Jake Stratton-Kent |
| ISBN | 0956720315 |
Geosophia traces the development of magic from the Greeks to the grimoires, laying bare the chthonic roots of goetic ritual. By exposing the necromantic origins of much of modern magic we are able to reconnect with the source of our ritual tradition. There is a continuity of practice in the West which...
Aghora: At the Left Hand of God
| Author | Robert E. Svoboda |
| ISBN | 0914732218 |
Aghora: At the Left Hand of God is the first book in the Aghora trilogy. Written almost entirely in Vimalananda's own words, it presents events from his life, tenets of his philosophy, and highlights from his spiritual practices. Designed partly to shock and partly to comfort, but wholly as an offering...
Witch, Please: A Memoir: Finding Magic in Modern Times
| Author | Misty Bell Stiers |
| ISBN | 1948062038 |
A touching and thought-provoking account of how a woman explored a spectrum of religions—ancient and new—and ended up, unexpectedly, becoming a bona fide witch.
Misty Bell Stiers set out on a spiritual path to find a faith that worked for her, and accidentally became a witch. She knew...
Opuscula Magica Volume I: Essays on Witchcraft and the Sabbatic Tradition
Opuscula Volume One contains nine essays written between 1990 and 2003, including one previously unpublished. This volume also includes an Author’s Introduction never before published, as well as an expanded version of the interview with Chumbley in The Cauldron. The essays reflect a degree...
