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The Laws by J. Random Folksinger
How to power a magic spell by Black Cat
What is Magick by David Rankine
Ethics and Etiquette by Morgaine
Becoming a Witch by Morgaine
Self Dedication Explained by David Rankine and Sorita
A Self Dedication Ritual by David Rankine and Sorita
How to find a Coven or Group by David Rankine and Sorita
The Internet Book of Shadows
Cleansing (Rowan Moonstone)
Second Degree Initiation (Gary Dumbauld)
Pagan Ritual for Basic Use
A Circle For Catharsis (Judy Harrow)
Opening (ending) The Circle
Consecration Of Chalice, Athame Or Other Tool
Samhain Ritual For Small Circle (L. A. Hussey)
NROOGD SAMHAIN - 1987 (l.a. Hussey)
The Origins Of Halloween (Rowan Moonstone)
Firestar Beltaine 1986
An Eclectic Circle Ceremony (Durwydd)
A Mabon Outline (anon.)
A Midsummer Celebration (Mike Nichols)
Ceremony Of Initiation (Brad Hicks)
Invocations to Frigg, Baldur, Freyja, Freyr, Brigit, Herne and Thorr
An Issian Circle Casting (Matrika)
Circles, why use them? (Mel White)
Handfasting (Wedding)
Initiation Into The Coven, Outdoor Version
Neo-Pagan Ritual (Brad Hicks)
A Celebration of May Day (Mike Nichols)
Midwinter Night's Eve: Yule (Mike Nichols)
Winter Solstice Or Yule (Starhawk)
Yule in Britain (Tana)
Witches Lesser Banishing Ritual Of The Pentagram (Paul Hume)
On the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram (Tim Maroney)
Mystical Pentagram
Basic Spell Construction
Tool Blessing Ritual
Dedication Of Altar And Athame (Durwydd)
Beltane: Its History and Modern Celebration in Wicca in America
Casting The Circle
Technology And The Craft
Wiccan Tool List Master (Seastrider)
All Hallows Eve (Mike Nichols)
Samhain (United Wiccan Church)
Samhain Notes (Farrar)
O.T.O. Samhain Ritual
Two Witches A Modern Craft Fairy-Tale (Mike Nichols)
Wicca from My Point of View (Lady Phoenix)
Witchcraft: The Old Religion Q&A (Dr. Leo Martello)
Wicca, Wicca, Who's Got the Wicca? (Hurn, RMPJ)
Binding A Spell (Farrar & Farrar)
Saxon Wicca Rites (Raymond Buckland)
Wiccan Shamanism (Selena Fox)
Healing Myth (Nihasa)
Candlemas: The Light Returns (Mike Nichols)
Lady Day: The Vernal Equinox (Mike Nichols)
Lammas: The First Harvest (Mike Nichols)
Harvest Home (Mike Nichols)
The Death Of Llew, A Seasonal Interpretation (Mike Nichols)
Spring Equinox Ceremony (Farrar and Farrar)
Smudging: How To Do It -- How Not To Do It (Michelle Haas)
An Introduction to Traditional Wicca (K.A.M.)
Principles of Wiccan Beliefs (American Council of Witches, 1974)
The Wiccan Way (Lady Beckett)
The Charge of the Goddess (D. Valiente)
Satanism vs. Wicca (Diane Vera)
Women vs. Men (Michele Haas)
WHAT IS D.A.W.N.? (Denver Area Wiccan Network)
Glossary Of Terms Commonly Used In Wicca
Ritual For The Healing And Preservation Of Rainforests
What Are Runes (Lokrien)
Models of Magick
The Eight Paths and Other Wiccan Miscellany (Carrie McMasters)
Balance of the God and Goddess (Adrienne)
Where do we go from here?
Wiccan Path (Madoc)
Sex and Magick (Fra. Apfelmann)
The Riddle Of The Trickster
Notes on Kabbalah (Colin Low)
Footprints in the Chamber - Towards a Quantum Qabbala
The Dark Night of the Soul
Weaving Webs
Supradimensionality Part I (I.O.T.)
Celtic Craft Reading List (Rowan Moonstone)
The Covenant of the Goddess
Covenant of the Goddess Pledge
Basic Principles Of The Craft (American Council of Witches)
In Grandmother's Lap (RMPJ)
Exegesis On The Wiccan Rede (Judy Harrow)
Witches Creed (Doreen Valiente)
What is Wicca? (Texas Pamphlet)
A Little Less Misunderstanding (J. Brad Hicks)
NeoPagism (Eric S. Raymond)
What is Wicca? (Amber K.)
Re-Thinking The Watchtowers (Mike Nichols)
First Degree, What is it?
Church of All Worlds
What is Shamanism? (Michelle Haas)
Etymology of "Wicca"
Nature Spirit Magick (Larry Cornett)
Mycenaen Mysteries (J. Teller)
Open Circle Ethics (Brandy Williams)
Shamanic Lifeways Fellowship (Michelle Haas)
Pantacle, The (Gary Dumbauld)
Chaos Magic (Mark Chao)
Magickal History (Fra.: Apfelman)
Power Animals (RMPJ)
Crystals, their care and feeding (Matrika)
Ethics and Magick (Warren Stott)
Candle Magic
Cauldrons (Elemental)
Irish Myth Concordance (Mike Nichols)
CELTIC NUMEROLOGY (Mike Nichols)
Bare Bones 3rd Degree (Humor)
Beltane Ritual (Seastrider)
Landmarks of the Craft
Magickal Ethics (Judy Harrow)
Mind Control Techniques (Dick Sutphen)
A Neo-Pagan Filmography (Mike Nichols)
Candlemas (Gwydion)
Opening the Circle
Circle Casting (Avaloian)
Coven Leadership
Blood Sacrifice (Althea Whitebirch)
Ancient Art, The
Ethics and Love Magick (Mike Nichols)
Drawing Down the Moon
Crone Energies (Grey Cat)
Elemental Correspondences
Autarchic Creed
Psychic Attack
Ethics or Etiquette
Dream-News
Dream Life
Dream Problem Solving
Dreams Precognition
Dream Bibliography
Festivals
Fool
Psychic Self-Defense
Divination (RMPJ)
Divination (Bibliography)
Exorcism
EcoMagick
Fundamentals of Human Ecology
The Postures of Ecstasy
Creation Story
Comparison of Wicca and Christianity
Degrees within Covens
Full Deck Tarot Spread
Banes, Bindings, and Mirrors (Judy Harrow, Hugh Read)
Harvest Thoughts (Gary Dumbauld)
Heyokah (RMPJ)
Full Moon Ritual (Seastrider)
Goodwife (Story by L.A. Hussey)
Great Rite, The (Symbolic)
Heal The Earth (a meditation)
Healing (one method)
Homeblessing (Selena Fox)
Imbolc (Solitary Ritual)
Hypnosis 101
Taleisin's thoughts
Magick Vs. Prayer (Salgamma)
Dying God (Ammond ShadowCraft)
Golden Dawn (Calif.)
Golden Dawn Training (outline)
Gnosticism
Kali and Modern Physics
Hidden Codes in the Torah
K.A.M.
Keltria (The Henge of)
Ishtar
Five Fold Kiss
Ritual Bath (Sewna Silvara)
Tea Ritual (Sewna Silvara, Triskelion)
Scorpio Dragon (Sewna Silvara)
Descent of The Goddess (Sewna Silvara)
Craft Ethics (J. Crowley)
Computer Blessing (Zahai Stewart)
Charge of the Phone Goddess (Magenta Griffith)
Manhood Rituals (RMPJ)
Coven Offices
Odinism, What is it?
Strings On The Winds (Bardic Fiction)
Circle Purification for Asthmatics
Astral Projection (Monroe Technique)
History (Weyland Smith)
History of Witch Craft
Magick, Physics, & Probability (Hurn)
Magickal Definitions (RMPJ)
Magick Course Outline (Amber K.)
Magickal Laws (after P.E.I. Bonewits)
Mayan Deities (777 Supplement)
Mayday Celebration (Mike Nichols)
Necromancy (reprint)
Quantum Magick (Larry Cornett)
Personal effects of Ritual (Nihasa)
Heretic's Corner (RMPJ)
Open Letter to A New Witch
Maychants (4) (Tanscribed by SeaStrider)
Magickal Stones & Gems
Modern Pagaism, Q&A
A Booklist of Pagan/Magickal Titles
Talespinner's Neopagan Reading List
Witchcraft (Annotated bibliography)
Charge of The Horned God, The
Shamanic Binding (Gaffer Maccluiunn)
Spitual Emergence or Emergency (Paul Seymour)
Monotheism vs. Polytheism (Dan Holdgriewe)
Modern Pagan Persecution (Jonathan Hutchins)
Magick Christians (Alfgar Maharg)
Polarity and Single Sex Covens (Marios)
Evolution of Wiccan Ritual (Paul Hume)
Basic Beliefs of WICCA (C.O.G.)
"Condensed" Definition of Wicca (Lady Phoenix)
Origins of the Mandan (Madoc)
Burning Times, The (Marios)
Fortune, The (RMPJ)
Lucid Dreaming (Omni Magazine)
Check List for A Well Working Group (Earthrite BBS)
Basic Love Spell
Amazing (Pagan?) Grace
Elements, A Hermetic Summoning (Marios)
Learning Process
High Technology Meets The Ancient Wisdom
Helpful Hints (Humor)
Channeling (Jast)
Elemental Correspondences (from Starhawk)
Candle Colors
Scents and Oils
"Landmarks" (D.C.W.)
Modern Paganism: Questions & Answers (C.O.G. Salt Lake City)
Standing Stones Book Of Shadows (Scott Cunninham)
Consciousness & Politics (Carol Moore)
Mothers Day Message
Memory & Perception, a new Model (Paul Seymour)
Some Magical Musical Selections
Chants w/ASCII Notation (L.A.Hussey)
Lilith (BBS Conversation)
Wiccan Information Network
Runic Thorn Ritual (Faunus)
Solitary Moon Rite, Issian (Ellen Cannon Reed)
Quilting and "Craft" (J.M. Cortese)
Sophia and Gnosticism (Terry J. McCombs)
Beltane (The White Bard)
Samhain (The White Bard)
Celtic Bibliography (Annotated, by Eryn Darkstar)
Candlemas (The White Bard)
Salem Anniversary Ritual (Sandy & Diug Kopf)
Elven (Modern Mythic Prose by Par Garou)
Craft Laws (by Lady Sheba)
New Laws (Lady Galadriel, Grove of The Unicorn)
The New Book Of Law, A Commentary (J. Random Folksinger)
Aporrheton 5 (Judy Harrow?)
The Abbreviated Laws (including Comment by J.R.F.)
The Law (Humor)
Karma, The Three-Fold Law (Paul Seymour)
Exegesis on The Wiccan Rede (Judy Harrow)
JOAN on the Witch Laws
Commentary by L.A. Hussey
Craft Ethics Response (M.K.H)
Broken Heart Spell (Healing)
Statement of Principles and Ethics (Lifeway Shamanic Fellowship)
Dragon, The Last (story by Gerald Decampo)
Circle Casting
On the Number 451 (Ordo Argentum Astrum)
Chaos Magick vs. Thelema
Notes On The Historical Egregore in Magick (I.O.T.)
Nemesis Conjuration (I.O.T.)
Ideology (I.O.T.)
Thunder, Perfect Mind (Tony Ianotti)
Treatise On Mind (The Tigress)
Magickal Training Course (Phil Hansford)
Chaos-sphere
I.O.T. History (The Beginnings)
Chaoism and Chaos Magick (Pete Carroll)
"Dark Night of the Soul"
Liber OZMA (Tim Maroney)
Sigil Magick (I.O.T.)
Drugs and Religion -- Snakebite Trips? (Loren Petrich)
Wishing Well (I.O.T.)
Hymns To The Star Goddess (O.T.O.)
Mind, A Treatise on The (The Tigress)
Dragon Trad and the Holy Grail (C.J. Mandrake)
Ritual of the Blessed Motherboard (Discordian Humor)
Prosperity Spell [Famtrad] (Rowan Moonstone)
"Quarter Calls"
Safe Travel Spell (Rowan Moonstone)
Wiccan Rede, The (J. Taylor, S.O.T.E.G.)
Wicanning Ritual (Earthworld Circle)
Washington Post Article (1991)
The 12 Steps and Shamanism (Matrika, P.A.N.)
Divine Circle Scam
Wiccan Rede (Poetic)
Blessing Prayer (Traditional Gardnerian "Dryghten Prayer")
Meditation Techniques, Basic (Bill Witt)
When Magic Doesn't Work (Magical Blend Magazine)
MONISM (Durwydd Mac Tara)
Bardic Wedding (RowanHart Circle)
"Weasel Wicca" (Humor fm. Green Egg)
Rabbit (John Lone Wolf)
Literary Roots of Wicca (Diane Vera)
Satanism 101 (Diaane Vera)
Satanism Defined (Delohine)
Wiccan Rede (Poetic, WCC)
Orphic Invocations of God & Goddess (Phaedra)
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SOUTH
WEST
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Wiccan History (BTW, Julia Phillips)
What is Wicca (Durwydd Mac Tara)
wiccan Monism (Durwydd MacTara)
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