Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1870518 in Books
• Published on: 1980-07
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback

Customer Reviews

Witchcraft Today
Gardner takes you into the present knowledge and dis-information that is attached to this type of knowledge. It is very informative and educational.

You can't call yourself Wiccan until you read Gardner.
If you want to know why you have been called a fluffy bunny, then read Gerald Gardner's books. If you want to know the differences between Wicca (what is often called today by some British Traditional Wicca) and what some are calling NeoWicca then you need to abandoned what you think you know about Wicca, and start with the person who first introduced Wicca to the world. There is a big difference between the religion of Wicca, and the New Age spirituality called Wicca today. The only way you will know is if you educate yourself.

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.