Resources
We stand on the shoulders of giants.
Wildwood witchcraft has many influences and inspirations drawn from the vast history of witches, writers, and artists creating their legacy in the world.
To broaden your taste and feel of Wildwood witchery, we offer you the following lists of invitational reading and viewing.
Books
Invitational reading list
Non-Fiction
To Fly By Night: The Craft of the Hedgewitch, edited by Veronica Cummer (Pendraig Publishing).
Brigid: Meeting the Celtic Goddess of Poetry, Forge, and Healing Well, Morgan Daimler (Moon Books).
A Dictionary of Angels, Gustav Davidson (The Free Press).
Pan’s Daughter: The Magical World of Rosaleen Norton, Nevill Drury (Mandrake of Oxford).
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, Silvia Federici (Autonomedia).
Serpent Songs: An Anthology of Traditional Craft, curated by Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold (Scarlet Imprint).
Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath, Carlo Ginzburg (Pantheon Books).
The Night Battles, Carlo Ginzburg (Routledge).
Apocalyptic Witchcraft, Peter Grey (Scarlet Imprint).
Hereditary Witchcraft, Raven Grimassi (Llewellyn).
The Witches’ Craft, Raven Grimassi (Llewellyn).
Witchcraft: A Mystery Tradition, Raven Grimassi (Llewellyn).
Triumph of the Moon, Ronald Hutton (Oxford University Press).
Aradia, Gospel of the Witches, Charles Leland.
A Deed without a Name, Lee Morgan (Moon Books).
Sounds of Infinity, Lee Morgan with illustrations by Lily Collard (The Witches’ Almanac).
Standing and Not Falling, Lee Morgan (Moon Books).
Ecstatic Witchcraft, Gede Parma (Llewellyn, out-of-print, available as E-book, on Scribd, etc.)
The Discoverie of Witchcraft, Reginald Scot (Dover Publications).
Dreaming the Dark, Starhawk (Beacon Press).
The Fifth Sacred Thing, Starhawk (Thorsons).
The Rebirth of Witchcraft, Doreen Valiente (Robert Hale).
Brigid: History, Mystery, and Magick of the Celtic Goddess, Courtney Weber (Weiser).
Becoming Dangerous: Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurors, and Magical Rebels on Summing the Power to Resists, edited by Katie West and Jasmine Elliott (Fiction & Feeling).
Invoking the Akelarre, Emma Wilby (Sussex Academic Press).
Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits, Emma Wilby (Sussex Academic Press).
The Visions of Isobel Gowdie, Emma Wilby (Sussex Academic Press).
Fiction
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Roberto Calasso (Penguin).
Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi (Faber & Faber).
Newford Chronicles Novels, Charles de Lint (Various Publishers).
Wheel of Time Novels, Robert Jordan (Tor/Orbit Books).
Christopher Penrose Novels, Lee Morgan.
Film
Invitational viewing list
Talking Wildwood Witchcraft - Fio Gede Parma - 37 mins
Sorcellerie - An Introduction to Wildwood and traditional witchcraft - in French
Häxan, Benajamin Christensen, 1922
A Monster Calls, J.A. Bayona, 2016
Princess Mononoke, Hayao Miyazaki, 1997
Sense8, The Wachowskis & J. Michael Straczynski, 2015-2018
Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki, 2001
Suspiria, Dario Argento, 1977, and Luca Guadagnino, 2018
The VVitch, Robert Eggers, 2015
Wolfwalkers, Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart, 2020
Years and Years, Russell T Davies, 2019