Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1859731 in Books
• Published on: 1980-07
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback

Customer Reviews

Interesting book
This text is usually required reading for some Traditional Wicca. It was more interesting than I thought it would be.

From the material inside the book, one can research on their own with other material and get a good "guess" on who the Gardnerian God/dess are. Read material by Caesar, Sumer, Egypt, and modern (non Trad) Wicca books and you will be able to find much of what Gardner likely did inside his original groups. At the very least, reading this with the suggested material above will give you an edge on any paper you would have to write for the training groups.

Also, the part about the Little People (chapter V), you have to take with a grain of salt. There has been no archeological proof that there ever were any little people in ancient Europe. If there were, why didn't Caesar (for one) write about them? Or any skeletons found? Or even the buildings (yes, I have been to Europe and have seen that the buildings are slightly shorter back then. But, the people were still above 5 feet tall and some of the building architecture was deliberately done the way it was for battle).

Even though the book was originally written in the 1950's, the chapter on the aura is very interesting.

Overall, get the book with the updated comments. It helps out with the rational of the author.

good for its time
this was cutting edge stuff when it first came out in the 1950s, but nowadays, it's mainly of historic value. It WAS one of the founding documents of the modern neo-pagan revival, despite the patty-cake club of rainbows & fairy wings it has become in some circles, especially in America. Interesting, nevertheless.

Witchy Times
I read some of the book and am looking forward to reading it more. I am currently reading three other books so it will take me awhile to finish it.