Drawing Down the Moon (108 page)

Teish, Luisah.
Jambalaya, The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Ritual
(San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1985). A book by a publicly avowed Voudoun priestess, which lays to rest various stereotypes and gives information on Yoruba goddesses and ritual workings. Turner, Kay.
Beautiful Necessity: The Art and Meaning of Women's Altars
(London: Thames and Hudson, 1999). For many years I listed Kay Turner's wonderful journal,
Lady Unique Inclination of the Night,
and her special issue on altars in the resource guide. Now that issue has morphed into something larger—a beautiful book.

Valiente, Doreen.
An ABC of Witchcraft: Past and Present
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1973).

———.
The Rebirth of Witchcraft
(London: Robert Hale, 1989).

———.
Witchcraft for Tomorrow
(Custer, WA: Phoenix Publishing, 1985). A priestess who worked with Gerald Gardner, was a good writer, and had loads of common sense. All her books are lucid and well written. Many of the rituals in the Gardnerian tradition of Wicca bear her stamp. And for all those priestesses who are full of themselves, it's good to remember that she once said: “The only queen I bow to is the Queen of England.”

Walker, Mitch, and Friends.
Visionary Love: A Spirit Book of Gay Mythology and Trans-Mutational Faerie
(San Francisco: Treeroots Press, 1980). An early introduction to Radical Faery spirituality. Also take a look at
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
by Larry Mitchell (New York: Calamus Books, 1977).

Weinstein, Marion.
Positive Magic: Occult Self-Help
(Custer, WA: Phoenix Publishing Company, 1981). A very good introductory book on magical working from a totally non-manipulative point of view. Includes everything from Astrology to I Ching to Wicca. Chapter 8, “Words of Power, the World of Self-Transformation,” is very valuable and worth the price of the book. Techniques of affirmation are clear and beautifully described. Some people will find Weinstein's approach too saccharine, with almost no acknowledgment of the darker side of life, but the book is a great ethical antidote to the thousands of worthless pages published every day promising readers power, money, love, and glory through the control of others.

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Earth Magic: A Dianic Book of Shadows
(Custer, WA: Phoenix Publishing Company, 1986).

Zaretsky, Irving I., and Mark P. Leone.
Religious Movements in Contemporary America
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974). This is a fascinating collection of essays on new religions in America, and includes such gems as “Reasonably Fantastic: Some Perspectives on Scientology, Science Fiction and Occultism” by Harriet Whitehead.

Zell-Ravenheart, Oberon.
Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard
(Franklin Lakes, NJ: New Page, 2004). Oberon likens this to the
Boy Scouts Handbook
for wizards, and it is a mix of life skills, nature craft, and occult study.

AADL

Abbey of Thelema

ABC of Witchcraft Past and Present, The
(Valiente)

Aborigines, Australian

Adam

Adams, Frederick

Adler, Nathan

Aeschylus

Aesir

Akhenaten

Alexandrian tradition

Algard tradition

Alkemene

Allen, Todd

Althing

Amazons

Amelia Earhart Coven

American Academy of Religion (AAR)

American Humanist Association

Amiro, Elaine

Am'n

Ancient Egyptian Religion
(Frankfort)

Anderson, Cora

Anderson, Victor

Andruzzi, Tony

animism

Apuleius, Lucius

Aquarian Tabernacle Church

Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches
(Leland)

archetypes

Arechaga, Odun (Frederic M.)

AREN (Alternative Religions Education Network)

Arghuicha

Ár nDraíocht Féin

Arretos Koura

art

surrealist

Artemis

Arthen, Andras Corban

Arthen, Dierdre

Ásatrú

Ásatrú Folk Assembly (AFA)

astrology

athame

Athanor Fellowship

atheism

Athena (goddess)

Athena (priestess)

Atl

Atlas Shrugged
(Rand)

Avatar Jones Memorial Cabal

Awareness Trap, The: Self-Absorption Instead of Social Change
(Schur)

Bachofen, J. J.

Baker, James

Barrett, Ruth

Barry, W. F.

Bavarian Illuminati

beauty

Beauvoir, Simone de

Belgium

beliefs and dogmas

Bender, Deborah

Bentley, Ariel

berdache

Berger, Helen

Bergier, Jacques

Berosus

Besant, Annie

“Biotheology” (Zell)

bisexuality

Black Arts, The
(Cavendish)

Blake, William

Blavatsky, H. P.

Bliss, Shepard

Blot

Bly, Robert

Bone, Eleanor Rae

Bonewits, Isaac

Druidism and

on Graves

ritual defined by

Witches categorized by

Bookchin, Murray

Book of Shadows

Botkin, Gleb

Bracelin, J. L.

Breasted, James Henry

Britain

Witchcraft Acts in

British Traditional Wicca

Brower, David

Brubaker, Ginny

Buckland, Raymond

Buckland, Rosemary

Buczynski, Edmund M. “Eddie,”

Budapest, Z

on ritual

Buddhism

Burland, C. A.

“Burning Times, The” (Starhawk)

Butyrin, Svetlana

Cabot, Laurie

cakes and wine ceremony

Cakes for the Queen of Heaven

Callenbach, Ernest

Callow, John

Candomblé

Caradoc Ap Cador

Carleton College

Carpenter, Dennis

Castaneda, Carlos

Catholicism

Devlin and

Cavendish, Richard

Celts

Charge of the Goddess

charities

Cherry Hill Seminary

Chesley Donovan Science Fantasy Foundation (CD)

Childhood's End
(Clarke)

children

Christianity

Adam and Eve story in

Ásatrú and

Botkin on

Catholicism.
See
Catholicism

Culdee Church and

Devlin on

Egypt and

interdenominational strife in

nature and

Protestantism

victory over paganism

women's spirituality and

Christian witches

Christie, Lance

Church and School of Wicca

Church of All Worlds (CAW)

Church of Aphrodite

Church of the Eternal Source (CES)

Church of Y Tylwyth Teg

circle

magician's

in Wicca

Circle (group)

Circle Craft

City living

Clan of Tubal Cain

Clark, Carolyn

Clark, Dick

Clark, J. Michael

Clarke, Arthur C.

Clifton, Chas

Clutterbuck, Dorothy

Cochrane, Robert

Coeden Brith

Cohn, Norman

computers
See also
Internet

cone of power

consciousness-raising (CR)

Continental tradition

conversion

Cornett, Larry

Council of American Witches

statement of principles of

Council of Themis

Covenant of the Goddess (COG)

Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (CUUPS)

covens

all-women

COG alliance of

consciousness-raising groups and

feminist

feminist, characteristics of

festivals and

fluidity in

Gardner and

how they work

Murray and

number of

See also
Wicca

Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
(Harris)

Cox, Harvey

Craft.
See
Wicca

Crafting the Art of Magic
(Kelly)

Craft Laws

creativity

Crete

Crowley, Aleister

Gardner and

Crowther, Patricia

cryptozoology

Culdee Church

Cult of Rhea/Cult of the Double Axe

Culver, Cassie

Culver, Jennifer

Cunningham, Sara

Cybele, Lady

Cygnus

Dafo

Daly, Mary

dance

Dancers of the Sacred Circle

Darling, Diane

Dashu, Max

Davis, Elizabeth Gould

Delphic Fellowship

Demarest, Heather

Demdike, Diana

Demeter

Devereux, George

devil.
See
Satan, Satanism

Devlin, Jenkin

Devlin, Sharon

interview with

on ritual

Diamond, Stanley

Diana

fairies and

Leland's work and

Dianic Covenstead

Dianic cults

Dianic tradition,

Diner, Helen

Discordian Society

diversity

Church of the Eternal Source and

Heathenism and

divination

Heathens and

Divine King in England, The
(Murray)

divinity

gender of
See also
god; goddess

Divinity as the Eternal Feminine
(Keith)

Dobkin, Alex

Dodds, E. R.

Doersch, David

Dog Star Nest

Dove, W. Franklin

Drawing Down the Moon

Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex, and Politics
(Starhawk)

dreams

drug use

Druid Chronicles (Evolved), The
(Bonewits, ed.)

Druids

Ár nDraíocht Féin

Hassidic

New Reformed Druids of North America

Reformed Druids of North America

drumming

Early, Biddy

Earth

as Gaia (Gaea)
See also
nature

EarthSpirit

ecology

Church of All Worlds and

Feraferia and

Rand and

Ecosophical Research Association (ERA)

ecstasy

Ectopia
(Callenbach)

Egypt

Church of the Eternal Source and

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Eleusinian Mysteries

Elf Queen's Daughters

Elfwreck

Eliade, Mircea

Elizabeth Gould Davis Coven

Ellwood, Robert

Encyclopedia of Modern Witchcraft and Neo-Paganism
(Rabinovich and Lewis, eds.)

Engels, Friedrich

England.
See
Britain

English, Dierdre

environmentalism.
See
ecology

Epilegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
(Harrison)

Epiphanes

ERAL (Earth Religions Assistance List)

Eris

in popular culture

Erisian Liberation Front (ELF)

Erisians

esbats

Essays toward a Metathealogy of the Goddess
(Kelly)

Etruscan Roman Remains
(Leland)

Europe's Inner Demons
(Cohn)

Evans, Arthur

Eve

fairies

Diana and

families

fantasy

literature of

witchcraft as

Farrar, Janet

Farrar, Stewart

Feast of Fools (Cox)

Fellowship of Crotona

feminism

Feraferia and

goddess and

Heathenism and

Leland's work and

matriarchy and

men's spirituality and

rituals and

in twenty-first century

Feraferia

Feri (Faery; Faerie) tradition

fertility religions

festivals

resources for

fire spinning

Firestone, Shulamith

First Arachnid Church

First Sex, The
(Davis)

Fisher, David

Fitch, Ed

folkish, use of term

Forfreedom, Ann

Fox, Selena

Foxwood, Orion

France

Frank, Jerome

Frankfort, Henri

Frazer, James

freedom

Freud, Sigmund

Frew, Donald

Frey

Freya

Frigga

Fromm, Erich