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Titles from Troy Books exploring Cornish/West Country Witchcraft, Folk-Magic, Lore, Customs and Traditions.
 
Traditional Witchcraft A Cornish Book of ways
by Gemma Gary


Cornwall has long been home to the Craft of the working Witch. Through the decline in Cornish Witch beliefs, much of the ways of those practitioners, consulted for their abilities to counsel, conjure, cure and curse have been preserved, and, in some cases, continued. In this haunted landscape where the influence of the ‘unseen’ and the potential for supernatural harm are still very real and ever present concerns, the trade of the Cornish Witch never entirely went away for the services of Witch, Charmer, Conjuror and Pellar are still sought by ordinary folk today.

Traditional Witchcraft, a Cornish Book of Ways explores a fascinating collection of preserved Traditional, established ways and new innovations relating to the rites, spells, charms, working tools and magical recipes of the Cornish Craft. This book covers such areas as the gathering and use of land sprowl, the Cornish spirit world, Bucca, gathering and fashioning the tools of the Cornish Craft, conjuring the Compass, celebrating the Troyl, working with places of power, Crafting powders, suffumigations, oils and charms, working with the moon, celebrating the Cornish ritual year and more.

"It was well worth the wait and I read it at one sitting!" "Highly recommended."
Mike Howard - Editor 'The Cauldron'


Traditional Witchcraft
A Cornish Book of Ways

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The Cornish Traditional Year
by Simon Reed

Just as the language of Cornwall is crucial to the continued survival of the Cornish people, so it is equally crucial to practice and understand our distinctive Cornish calendar. This book presents to all the people of Cornwall the full exposition of the yearly cycle that forms such an important part of our culture. Celebrating together leads to strong communities and positive sense of identity, by adopting, reviving or preserving this heritage we take giant steps towards ensuring the future of the Cornish culture into the 21st Century and beyond.
The Cornish Traditional Year

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Devon Witchcraft and Folk Ways
 by Sarah Hewett

This fascinating collection of West Country ‘old ways’ was originally gathered by Sarah Hewett as part of her book ‘Nummits and Crummits’ first published in 1900 at a time when many of the old Devonshire folk beliefs and practices were retained by living memory or even continued.

The selection presented here forms a veritable treasure trove of West Country customs, beliefs and magical practices including Witch charms for healing and protection, the casting and countering of curses, love divinations, seasonal superstitions and customs, omens and death tokens, dream interpretation, things lucky and unlucky, evil days of the year, weather lore and ‘wise saws’ and more.

Devon Witchcraft and Folk Ways will be a worthy addition to the bookshelves of those with an interest in regional folk beliefs, customs and magic.

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Other books on Witchcraft in Cornwall and the West Country and on the Traditional Craft in general. Available here via Amazon:

An Joan The Crone
The History & Craft of the Cornish Witch

The term "An Joan" is the traditional name once applied to a Cornish witch. In this history of the Cornish witch, Kelvin I. Jones pieces together a fascinating account of four centuries of the work and reputations of Cornish witches. The book also includes a detailed A to Z of witchcraft in Cornwall. This is the most detailed study ever attempted on the subject of Cornish Witchcraft.

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An Joan the Crone The History and Craft of the Cornish Witch
An Joan the Crone: The History and Craft of the Cornish Witch  

OCCULT CORNWALL
Magic, Witchcraft & the Supernatural in Cornwall

Because of its isolated position, Cornwall has always had its fair share of occult history. In this detailed Study, Kelvin I. Jones provides us a rare glimpse into the fascinating world of witches, wizards, magicians and exorcists in this wild and remote county. A rich compendium of magic and the supernatural in Cornwall

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Occult Cornwall Magic, Witchcraft and the Supernatural in Cornwall

Occult Cornwall: Magic, Witchcraft and the Supernatural in Cornwall  

PAGAN CORNWALL
Land of the Goddess

This book discovers a continuity of Goddess-tradition in remote Cornwall from ancient times right up to the present day, using evidence from archaeological research, folklore and legend and rural tradition and custom. Rich in information the book is also alive with photographs and artwork by Goddess celebrating women artists living in Cornwall.

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Pagan Cornwall Land of the Goddess

Pagan Cornwall: Land of the Goddess  

TREADNG THE MILL
Practical Craft Working
in Modern Traditional Witchcraft

This book is concerned with the traditions pre-dating the Gardnerian revival and concentrates on the practical aspects of Traditional Witchcraft. It covers such areas as creating the Compass; crafting and use of wands; sacred wines and brews and the mysteries of the cup; practical spell crafting using words, herbs, oils, salves and natural objects; trance working techniques, including instructions for soul flight; working with natural Spirits, familiars, the fetch, the ancestors and faerie realms; approaching and working with the Witch God and Goddess in various aspects. A book for the serious student of real Witchcraft. Paperback, 248pp.

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Treading the Mill
Treading the Mill: Practical CraftWorking in Modern Traditional Witchcraft  

Call of the Horned Piper

A practical Grimoire of Traditional Witchcraft. Covering the archetypes & myths of the Traditional Craft exploring the inner symbology of the old Witchcraft religion, the sacred cycle, working tools, incantations, spells, path working, spirit lines, knots & thread lore & more. The text is complimented beautifully by the author's original artwork

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Call of the Horned Piper
The Call of the Horned Piper  

WITCHA - A Book of Cunning

WITCHA presents many secrets of English witchcraft, giving details of widdershins and deosil circle casting, spell-craft, divination, spiritism, sabbats and esbats, sacrifice, entheogens, philosophy, history, and more. The focus is primarily upon ‘operative witchcraft' of ‘results' and ‘getting things done', rather than the supposedly more ‘spiritual' aspects that have been the subject of so many books of late. Illustrated with photographs detailing, with their kind permission and support, exhibits from the Museum of Witchcraft , Boscastle

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Witcha a Book of Cunning
Witcha: A Book of Cunning  

THE AZOETIA
A Grimoire of the Sabbatic Craft

One of the most sought-after new magical works of our time and may be regarded as the foundation text of the Sabbatic Craft Tradition in its present phase of work. Comprised of three main parts: an exposition of preliminary magico-aesthetic formulae with detailed descriptions of working tools; the full text of the Sabbatic Rituals of Ingress, Congress, and Egress; and an eleven-chaptered Grimoirium detailing the arcana and composite practices of the Sacred Alphabet - the twenty-two lettered code of sorcerous principles underlying the practical spectrum of the Arte Magical.

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The Azoetia A Grimoir of the Sabbatic Craft
The Azoëtia: A grimoire of the sabbatic craft  

QUTUB - THE POINT
Andrew D. Chumbley

The Arcanum of the Opposer, a magical formula of the Crooked Path concerning the Powers of Self-overcoming. The book defines and illustrates the Design of Crooked Path Sorcery through a series of 72 arcane poetic verses of Qutub, Point and Axis of the World, weaving a rich tapestry to which is appended a scholarly commentary. This Illumination ultimately comprises the body of the Dragon of Eld, the Ancient Serpent of Light whose totality manifests within the miscrocosmic earth as the Great Opposer, whose Rite is included in the book.

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Qutub: The Point  

CUNNING FOLK & FAMILIAR SPIRITS

The first comprehensive examination of popular familiar belief in early modern Britain. Providing an in-depth analysis of the correlation between early modern British magic and tribal shamanism, the experiential dimension of popular magic and witchcraft in early modern Britain, and explores the links between British fairy beliefs and witch beliefs. In the hundreds of confessions relating to witchcraft and sorcery trials in early modern Britain there are detailed descriptions of working relationships between magical practitioners and familiar spirits of either human or animal form.

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Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits
Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic  

CUNNING FOLK - Popular Magic in English History

Local practitioners of magic, providing small-scale but valued services to the community. Mostly un-sensational in their approach, cunning-folk helped people with everyday problems: how to find lost objects; how to escape from bad luck or a suspected spell; and how to attract a lover or keep the love of a husband or wife. While cunning-folk sometimes fell foul of the authorities, both church and state often turned a blind eye to their existence and practices. In a world of uncertainty, before insurance and modern science, cunning-folk played an important role that has previously been ignored.

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Cunning Folk
Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History  

THE PICKINGILL PAPERS

George Pickingill (1816 -1909) was said to be the leader of the witches in Canewdon, Essex. A fascinating collection of correspondence looking in detail at not only the differences between the Traditional Cunning Craft & modern Wicca but also exploring possible common roots, the relationship between the Hereditary Craft & Gardnerian Wicca, the influence of Freemasonry on the medieval witch cult, sex magic, ley lines, earth energy, prehistoric shamanism, the East Anglian lodges of Cunning Men & much more.

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The Pickingill Papers The Origin of the Gardnerian Craft
The Pickingill Papers: The Origin of the Gardnerian Craft

Witchcraft A Tradition Renewed
Evan John Jones with Doreen Valiente

First published in 1990, the authors delve deep into modern witchcraft, exploring the secrets of ancient rituals and its philosophy. The rudiments of the craft and nature of the rites are shown to revolve around traditional witchcraft passed down through families from earliest times, rather than the modern Gardnerian and Alexandrian versions. An essential for those interested in the Craft of Robert Cochrane and The Clan of Tubal Cain.

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Witchcraft: A Tradition Renewed

WITCHCRAFT for TOMORROW
Doreen Valiente

witch songs, spells, incantations, the running of a coven, acquiring a collection of magical implements, methods of divination and other witch lore. Valiente shows how the oral traditions of witchcraft throw light not only upon the origins of the present-day witch cult and the activities of Cunning Man George Pickingill and his covens, but also upon the mystery of the founding of the famous magical order, the Golden Dawn. Also discussed is the relationship between the witchcraft of Britain and Europe with the magical belief of the Far East. Do both traditions hark back to the legendary city of Shamballah and to the shamanistic practices of Asia? And, why do the secret circles of the witches resemble those of the Tantric sex-magic of India?

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Witchcraft for Tomorrow  

An ABC of WITCHCRAFT
PAST and PRESENT
Doreen Valiente

This volume, is intended to be not merely a guide to the many strange byways of witchcraft. The book seeks to be a serious contribution to the study of a subject long obscured by prejudice and sensationalism. The author sees witchcraft as being more than spells, charms, or even secret meetings and rituals; it is a philosophy and a way of life. It claims to be the oldest form of religion, that of nature-worship and magic.

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An ABC of Witchcraft Past and Present  

The REBIRTH of WITCHCRAFT
Doreen Valiente

This classic work is now available for the first time in paperback. Doreen Valiente, one of witchcraft's most widely known figures, was a close friend of the late Gerald Gardner,Initiated by him and for a time High Priestess of his coven, Doreen Valiente helped him rewrite his seminal "Book of Shadows". She records the break with Gardner that split his coven, the controversy surrounding Alex Sanders, "King of the Witches" and memories of many other witches whom she has known, including the lady called 'Dafo', Robert Cochrane, Leslie Roberts and Sybil Leek.

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The Rebirth of Witchcraft  

NATURAL MAGIC
Doreen Valiente

Did you know...that the thickness of the layers in a locally grown onion will indicate the severity of the coming winter? Magic is all around us in stones, flowers, stars, the dawn wind and the sunset cloud. Doreen Valiente shows how to practice the age-old white magic which has been familiar to the Wise Ones for centuries. This book helps you tap the magic of: herbs and flowers; amulets and talismans; Water, Air, Earth, and Fire; card reading; numbers and colours; weather predicting; love relationships; dreams; birds and animals; traditional Spells; and much more. Valiente

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Natural Magic  

The ROBERT COCHRANE LETTERS
An Insight into Modern Traditional Witchcraft

Robert Cochrane, with Evan John Jones and Michael Howard. Robert Cochrane is still one of the most controversial figures in contemporary witchcraft nearly 40 years after his death. This books details his letters dealing with magical/Craft topics written to Joe Wilson, founder of the 1734 Tradition, Norman Gills, a traditional witch and ‘cunning man’ of the old type with Romany ancestry and William ‘Bill’ Gray, well known in the 1960s as a writer on the Cabbala and a ceremonial magician. The decision was taken to publish these letters, with notes to explain their contents and place them in their historical context - this book is the result.

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The Robert Cochrane Letters: An Insight into Modern Traditional Witchcraft  

The ROEBUCK in the THICKET
An Anthology of the Robert Cochrane Tradition

by Evan John Jones and Robert Cochrane, edited by Mike Howard. The Roebuck in the Thicket contains information about Robert Cochrane, his coven - The Clan of Tubal Cain, their rituals, teachings and beliefs and his workings written by himself to Evan John Jones, with additional writings by Evan John Jones.

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The Roebuck in the Thicket: An Anthology of the Robert Cochrane Tradition  

A WITCH ALONE
Marian Green

Written for serious practitioners, Marian Green's Witch Alone: Thirteen Moons to Master Natural Magic guides those who wish to learn the "old religion" without the aid of a coven. Densely written in serious tone, Witch Alone is nonetheless an inspiring and poetic read. Exercises at the end of each chapter are designed to take a full 28 nights to accomplish, and are designed to progressively lead one on the path to success. For those committed to learning solitary witchcraft, Witch Alone is a must-read.

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A Witch Alone: Thirteen Moons to Master Natural Magic  

MASKS of MISRULE
Nigel Jackson

A study of the Horned God in the Traditional Witchcraft of Britain and Europe. Subjects covered include the Master of the Beasts, the White Stag of Annwyn and the Horned God of Celtia; Cycles of the Midnight Hunt and the Furious Host, Riding the Stang, Saturnus and the Cult of Misrule; the Masques of Old Scrat; the Sabbat of the Sorcerers, the Red Bones of Resurrection and the symbology of the Skull and Crossbones in Witchcraft; Old Pouck, Satyrs and the God of the Goatskins, Robin Goodfellow and the Pwca: the Great God Faunus, The Horned Lord of Horsemen and Shepherds; The Horned God as Coal-Black Smith; Tubal Qayin, and much more....In addition to the theoretical knowledge, the reader is given a number of Traditional Rituals: The Rite of the Horns of Misrule, The Ceremony of the Red Bones, The Knowledge of the Green One and The Fire of Qayin, making this volume an esoteric grimoire of the inner Religion of the Horned One.

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Masks of Misrule: Horned God and His Cult in Europe  

DEFENCES against the WITCHES' CRAFT
John Canard - An English Root Magician

For centuries curses, hexes and the 'evil eye' were seen as part of daily life in rural England, resulting in a rich heritage of folklore & apotropaic magickal practices. Such charms as Witch Bottles, Witch Balls, Hagstones, Horseshoes and Brasses, Magick Squares, Abracadabra, Rowan and Red Thread, Flint Arrowheads and Pebble Charms were often made from readily available natural materials. Here English Root Magician John Canard provides insights on how to find out if you have been cursed, detecting the perpetrator through dowsing, how to destroy magickal links, nail footprints, work with Church Grims and construct the Archangel Haniel's charm. Drawing from his own extensive research of English folk magick, the grimoire traditions, witchcraft and cunning - the author shares many unique insights and rare lore never published before.

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Defences Against the Witches' Craft: Anti-cursing Charms from English Folk Magick, Traditional Witchcraft and the Grimoire Traditions  

SECRETS of EAST ANGLIAN MAGIC
Nigel Pennick

by Nigel Pennick A new edition of this excellent book with many new illustrations making it much superior to the original version. A rich sourcebook for talismanic magic, charms against evil, household and animal magic, folk recipes, ceremonies of protection, curative spells and recipes, offering a unique and fascinating insight into the little-known techniques and traditions of East Anglia, with emphasis on the practical, useful nature of ‘nameless art’ as a magical path to self-awareness.

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Secrets of East Anglian Magic  

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT
Paul Huson

An enduring classic since its publication in 1970, Mastering Witchcraft is one of the best how-to manuals for those wishing to practice traditional European Witchcraft as a craft rather than a New Age religion. Starting from first principles, Huson instructs the novice step by step in the arts of circle casting, blessing and banning, the uses of amulets and talismans, philters, divination, necromancy, waxen images, knots, fascination, conjuration, magical familiars, spells to arouse passion or lust, attain vengeance, and of course, counter-spells to exorcize and annul the malice of others. "A genuine vade mecum."

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Mastering Witchcraft: A Practical Guide for Witches, Warlocks and Covens  

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