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Celtic Traditions: Druids, Faeries, and Wiccan Rituals

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This book is the best book I've read lately about the Celts, Faery, Druids, Celtic Gods, and Celtic Wicca. Sirona Knight covers all of these subjects in-depth and with intelligence. She obviously spent a great deal of time writing this book, and the information in it is both scholarly and experiential. She writes about the origins of the Celts, who the Druids and Faery are, and she also gives plenty of hands-on exercises. I have read many other books by this author, and each one of them is intelligent, articulate and very thought provoking. If you are interested in Celtic subjects and facts, read this book first!

This book would be a great starting point for those interested in exploring the realms of Celtic Magic. Ms. Knight covers Shamanism, the Celtic Gods and Goddesses, the Druids (including a brief description of the Ogham, a Celtic form of tree divination), the Faeries, and modern Celtic Traditions. She includes several visualizations and some sample rituals. She also talks about Celtic Wicca, which I didn't actually think was necessary; for me the Celtic lore would have been enough, but of course this would be an added plus for those interested in following the Wiccan path.

She also has a recommended reading list and a list of favorite Celtic music titles which I found to be very helpful.

Ms. Knight's writing is enjoyable and easy to read, and I would definitely recommend it to anyone wishing to explore the Celtic path.

I really couldn't put this book down. It covered everything from Celtic, to Wicca to the Fey.

The visualizations at the end of each chapter are exceptional.
I plan to use them very soon.

It was a very enjoyable read.

..this book still misses the boat on the truth about the celts, or Wicca, for that matter.

Don't combine the two until you understand them both separately!

I found this book to be a great read and very informative. I read a lot of books on Celtic history, culture, and traditions. This book did not disappoint. It came in a timely manner and packaged very securely.

This woman has the writing skills of a high school dropout. Some sentences are written so badly I had to read them again just to make sure they were in English. For some reason I thought this was a serious book about the Celtic revival phenomenon instead, I found out it was just another new age junk book filled with clichés, gross generalizations and non-sequiturs. Here is a classic example (pp. 29-20)

"Matriarchal order and lineages stem from the early concept that creation comes from women. Creation is a divine seed, stemming from the Mother. Plainly, the mother's identity is always certain while the father's is not..."

I want my money back.

I have read several of Sirona Knight's many books, and have always found them enjoyable to read. "Celtic Traditions" offers an excellent overview of Celtic culture, including a section on faery traditions. Beautifully combines historical data with modern Celtic spirituality. I strongly recommend this book along with "The Druids" by Peter Ellis and "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Elves and Fairies" by Sirona Knight

While I find a few of the concepts in this book highly dubious (such as the concept of Oneness, as stated above), this book is on the whole a very well written book. I enjoyed reading it not only for it's value as a "wicca/druid" text, but also as a historical and anthropological text. Sure, there are a few so-called "mistakes" in this book, but that's bound to happen. I've yet to find anyone who wrote a history or primer that could be called 100% accurrate.

So, on the whole, this book is very awesome.

I thought this book has lots of information, was well-written and was fascinating. It gave a overview of everything Celtic that I was interested in. I am new to paganism and I didn't know very much about the Celts or Celtic Wicca before I read this book. The bibliography led me to other terrific books on Celtic spirituality, too. Knight has put it all together in this fine book. I also read Knight's book called Exploring Celtic Druidism, and really liked it, too. Both books have really helped me on my pagan path.

This book is one of the best I've read on Celtic traditions. Most books on the Celts give you lots of examples of rituals and tools, but they don't explain the base of the Celtic beliefs. THIS BOOK DOES. This book gives you the history on the Celtic traditions. Not just a general overview, but why they believed they way they did. It is the best source of information I have come across. It has the information on tools and rituals, but those are no good if you follow something you don't know the history of or why you are doing rituals or what the tools are used for. This book has everything.