The Celts
by T.G.E. Powell
"... a MUST read for all pagans" ~ North Woods Wolf

Wicca: The Old Religion in the New Age  
by Vivianne Crowley
The Western Way: A Practical Guide to the Western Mystery Tradition
by Caitlin and John Matthews
Origins of Modern Witchcraft : The Evolution of a World Religion
by Ann Moura
Raising Hell : A Concise History of the Black Arts and Those Who Dared Practice Them
by Robert Masello

Masello has collected the exploits of prominent sorcerers and alchemists, secret societies, rituals and key tools of black magic, without sinking into a subjective analysis of the morality of these occult arts. ~amazon
A History of Witchcraft : Sorcerers, Heretics, and Pagans
by Jeffrey B. Russell

"That Gardener (or Crowley) invented the religion does not invalidate it. Every religion has a founder, and much that surrounds the origin of every religion is historically suspect. Lack of historicity does not necessarily deprive a religion of its insight."~Russell
The Night Battles : Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
by Carlo Ginzburg, Anne Tedeschi (Translator), John Tedeschi (Translator)

The Rebirth of Witchcraft  
by Doreen Valiente

An ABC of Witchcraft Past and Present
by Doreen Valiente

The Meaning of Witchcraft
Gerald Gardner

Principles of Paganism
by Viviane Crowley

The Triumph of the Moon : A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
by Ronald Hutton

Paganism and Christianity, 100-425 C.E. : A Sourcebook
by Ramsay MacMullen
Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries
by Ramsay MacMullen
The Dark Side of Christian History
by Helen Ellerbe

 

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