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Wicca Unveiled: The Complete Rituals of Modern Witchcraft

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At last a book on Wicca that pulls no punches! J Philip Rhodes book on Wicca really hits home, the author has a real understanding of the subject and it's plain to see that he has put a lot of thought into it's contents. A complete working guide giving the full Initiation rituals as well as festival workings in a step by step guide that leads you on a journey of Knowledge the likes of which I have never seen before in print outside the Craft. Included within the author descibes the working tools and provides recepies for ritual incense etc. This book would grace anyones collection A MUST BUY for both the Initiated and beginer alike.

For a solitary Witch like me, I found this book a very interesting and clear descripion of the coven tradition. I read it because I wanted to know what a coven was like, and now I have a much better understanding of it.

This book is basically a rehash/rewriting of the material in Farrar's Witch's Bible. It really only contains ritual material and very little theory. This isn't a great book but it is better than the Llewellyn insty-witch materials flooding the market these days.

This book deals with traditional Wiccan practice rather than eclectic. I tend to distrust any book that calls itself complete in any way, but this book does provide a decent overview of many of the practices of traditional Wicca (caveat: I've never been in a coven, let alone a traditional Wiccan coven, but I will say that much of the material here is quite close to what I've read in similar sources. What's different here than in other books? Well, I've never heard of planetary rituals before, and would say that if astrology is something that interestes you this might be a good resource. The book is well organized overall, although I found the section on "The Rites of Wicca" a little confusing in that it mixes religious rites (consecration, handfasting, drawing-down, etc.) with spellwork, but that's a small thing. My impression (as a mostly-solitary eclectic) is that you really can't learn all there is about traditional Wicca from a book, but a book can tell you enough to know whether this is a path you would find at all to your taste, in which case you may want to seek out a coven. There are certainly books I'd consider a better introduction to traditional Wicca (Vivienne Crowley or the Farrars come to mind) but there seem to be few books with this focus (compared to the many devoted to eclectic Wiccan practice), and this isn't a bad one.