Suffolk Witchcraft Training

The Pattern Under the Plough

We recommend that you read as widely as possible.

For those people who are new to the Craft we can recommend the following books.

The Craft

Doreen Valiente's Witchcraft for Tomorrow, ABC of Witchcraft, Witchcraft a Tradition Renewed (with Evan John Jones) and The Rebirth of Witchcraft

Gerald Gardner's Witchcraft Today, The Meaning of Witchcraft and High Magic's Aid

Vivianne Crowley's Wicca the Old Religion in the New Millenium

Thorn Mooney's Traditional Wicca a Seekers Guide

History of the Craft

Ronald Hutton's Triumph of the Moon, Stations of the Sun and Witches, Druids and King Arthur

The books of Phillip Hessleton

Wicca,Magical Beginnings by Sorita D'Este and David Rankine

Magic and Occultism

Dion Fortune's Practical Occultism, Psychic Self Defence, The Sea Priestess and The Mystical Qabbalah

David Conway's Magic an Occult Primer

Ramsey Dukes's SSOTBME, How to See Fairys and Uncle Ramsey's Little Book of Demons

Marian Green's The Gentle Arts of Aquarian Magic and Path through the Labyrinth

Aleister Crowley's Magic in Theory and Practice

Catlin and John Matthew's The Western Way Volume 1 and 2

Meditation and Pathworking

Pete Jennings and Pete Sawyer's Pathworking

Dolores Ashcroft Norwicki's The Shining Paths

Lawerence LeShan's How to Meditate

Religion, Myth and Sprituality

Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Masks of God (Primative Mythology, Occidental Mythology, Oriental Mythology and Creative Mythology), Goddesses

Karen Armstrong's A Short History of Myth, The History of God and the Case for God

 Mircea Eliade's Rites and Symbols of Initiation

Fiction

Terry Pratchet's Wyrd Sistres, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, A Hat Full of Sky and the Wintersmith

Lucius Apuleius's The Golden Ass

Proto CraftTexts

Robert Graves's The White Goddess

Charles Godfrey Leyland's Aradia Gospel of the Witches