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Witches Weekly
Jan. 3rd, 2006 06:54 amI wrote this last week and thought I might say something more, but work calls and I thought I'd just post it.
The Witches Weekly is starting up again. I plan to try and do it more often!
This week's question is What book do you feel provided you with some of the most useful information towards your spiritual path? Describe what information you found to be the most important.
There were several books that came immediately to mind. In late childhood, Ingri & Edgar Parin D'Aulaire's Book of Norse Myths fired my love of the Gods (and set me drawing knot monsters) and a copy I had of the Homeric Hymns that gave me words to use to invoke them. I did many rituals using my own gnosis, family traditions and those two sources. In 9th or 10th grade I found Margaret Murray's Witch Cult in Western Europe which gave me the sense of being part of a tradition stretching back in time. It also got me known around school as "that witch girl" because I had to go to various language teachers to try and get translations for all the French and German bits. Murray wrote in an era when a scholar was expected to be multilingual! At about the same time I got a copy of a new book called Pagan Celtic Britain by Anne Ross which furthered my sense of connection and gave me more ritual ideas. One of Franz Bardon's books gave me practical exercises and daily practices. In 1971 I found What Witches Do by Stewart Farrar which gave me more liturgy and was much more accessible than Gardner's books, more practical than Sybil Leek and less campy than Lady Sheba.
The Witches Weekly is starting up again. I plan to try and do it more often!
This week's question is What book do you feel provided you with some of the most useful information towards your spiritual path? Describe what information you found to be the most important.
There were several books that came immediately to mind. In late childhood, Ingri & Edgar Parin D'Aulaire's Book of Norse Myths fired my love of the Gods (and set me drawing knot monsters) and a copy I had of the Homeric Hymns that gave me words to use to invoke them. I did many rituals using my own gnosis, family traditions and those two sources. In 9th or 10th grade I found Margaret Murray's Witch Cult in Western Europe which gave me the sense of being part of a tradition stretching back in time. It also got me known around school as "that witch girl" because I had to go to various language teachers to try and get translations for all the French and German bits. Murray wrote in an era when a scholar was expected to be multilingual! At about the same time I got a copy of a new book called Pagan Celtic Britain by Anne Ross which furthered my sense of connection and gave me more ritual ideas. One of Franz Bardon's books gave me practical exercises and daily practices. In 1971 I found What Witches Do by Stewart Farrar which gave me more liturgy and was much more accessible than Gardner's books, more practical than Sybil Leek and less campy than Lady Sheba.
