Seasonal Dance: How to Celebrate the Pagan Year [Paperback]

Janice Broch (Author), Veronica Macler (Author)

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Seasonal Dance delves into the history and significance of the eight Sabbats, while offering suggestions for celebrating them with rituals, games, dances, and much more. For those with a bit of creativity, Broch and Macler offer guidelines for creating personalized rituals. Part folklore studies, part pagan handbook, Seasonal Dance is a well-researched and exhaustively annotated reference work that will prove useful throughout the years to come. --Brian Patterson

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser (November 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0877287740
• ISBN-13: 978-0877287742
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,511,375 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very useful book for non-poets, January 5, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Seasonal Dance: How to Celebrate the Pagan Year (Paperback)

I found this book delightful. It is not another version of Wicca 101! The authors choose to share what are in my opinion, and the opinion of those that I work with, some very beautiful and meaningful examples of Sabbat rituals. Some of the pieces were written as performance pieces, and they all require more than one person so they are not suitable for solitaries or for all climates. They are however very inspirational for those of us who not blessed with the ability to write poetic ritual ourselves.

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected..., January 31, 2000

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Ashleigh Benge (London,KY) - See all my reviews

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Seasonal Dance is not what i expected it to be. Before i bought the book, i read most of the reviews on it and most of them said that it was a book w/ GAMES, RECIPES, SONGS, and CHANTS, however, it is not a book that you would want to buy if this is what you are looking for. Seasonal Dance does have Games for two out of the eight sabbats, which anyone who gave any thought could have figured out that bobbing for apples on Samhain and Dancing around a Maypole on Beltane would be appropriate. There is also only one recipe for four out of the eight sabbats, and the rest of the book is mostly rituals (like every other book out there) and then there is the Gods and Goddesses chapter too, which takes up the bulk of the book. i am not saying that Seasonal Dance is a bad book, because it is not, what i am saying is that if you are looking for a book of GAMES, RECIPIES, AND SONGS, this book is not what you want to buy. i hope this reference will help everyone out... blessed be and merry part

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best Wheel of the Year book I've ever seen, February 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Seasonal Dance: How to Celebrate the Pagan Year (Paperback)

Finally. A book that gives simple, straightforward information with well documented resources and plenty of supplimentary material. The appendixes alone are worth the price of admission. With a ritual and historical perspective for each holiday, and an extra ritual for each cross-quarter holiday, this book is full of simple, useful information. Required reading for my group's reading list.