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Summary: COOL BEGINNER'S BOOK ON WITCHCRAFT
Review: Buckland's book is a cool beginner's book on witchcraft. He covers a great deal of territory in this resource book. I bought Sirona Knight's book Empowering Your Life with Wicca just before I bought this one and the two books are perfect complements to one another. Buckland's book is more traditional and Knight's is more New Age. I think everybody who wants to get into Wicca would find Buckland's book (and Knight's book) useful and very helpful. This is the kind of book you can refer to over and over.
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Summary: Excellent for starters
Review: This is a great beginner's book, not as solid as Scott Cunningham's but still a good place to start. Buckland covers all the bases here. Like Cunningham's book, this one takes a down-to-earth, matter-of-fact approach on everything from the nuts and bolts of the rituals to herbal combinations. Good discussions of divination and ritual tools in particular. The book is nicely assembled too, you don't get disjointed rituals and descriptions but Buckland shows how to put everything together for your needs.
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Summary: A Must Have!
Review: This was one of the first books my parents introduced me to, and I must say I am very grateful! Despite the fact that I am no longer Wiccan, it is still a very useful handbook. This book is excellent for the beginner, giving a general overview of many topics, along with workbook sections which help you to learn on your own. I would certainly suggest this to teachers of the craft, this book would be EXCELLENT to go over with your most basic students. I think this is an awesome starting point for anyone wanting to know more Wicca or to become Wiccan. For those who are more advanced, it would be a must-have basic reference book for your shelf.
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Summary: The best introduction to Wicca I have read
Review: I am a big fan of Ray Buckland, and this book is one of his best. It covers everything in a simple easy to understand format. History, rituals, even making a Athame ( A ritual dagger all witches have) from scratch. This was my first book on Wicca I bought many years ago, and I could not have made a better choice. My only complaint is he could have added more to his topics, they tend to be a little short. I guess he just did not want to bog down the person wanting to get started. Anyways. A very good book, and I highly recomend getting it. His video Witchcraft: Yesterday And Today is a perfect companion to this book.
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Summary: Nick named Big Blue
Review: for some reason I've seen more and more people dub this book the big blue. I can't say that I am big on Buckland but its not because his books aren't good. I'm just not compatiable with buckland's tradition. However with that being said, This book does hold it's place in my library and comes off the self just as often as any other. There is a lot of useful information listed in this book and is a good beingers book. I would have to say it goes beyond the basic of basics in that it has information on runes, and tarots and more. It offers a couple of tarot spreads that I think I've only seen in one other resource, but no where else. There are many things here that follow older practices however some may not be comfortable with certain practices in the book, in that respect you may want to read other resources to find the tradition or path that fits you. Just don't be afraid to read other authors and decide for yourself which ones you are comfortable with. It's easy to be a sheep it's harder to take your own stand. Over all I liked this book for the resource and that rounded out reading and teaching in study groups. I say don't pass it by just because it's a diffrent tradition than the one your currently following now. you might still find use for it. At least I did and I'm not big on Buckland. After all it's well written and is a good beginner book and if this traditon suites you all the more reason to have it in your library.
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Summary: A good start
Review: This book is a good foundation for one starting on the Wiccan path. Mr. Buckland's work needs to be taken with a grain of salt though, and it should be compared to other foundational books by authors like A. J. Drew or Silver Ravenwolf. I do not recommend anyone to read this and take it as THE word on Wiccan beliefs.
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Summary: High Standards
Review: This book was given to me as a gift by someone who had no clue what she had. Her exact words were, "this is weird so I thought you'd like it."
Heh, now look what she's started.
Anyway, I do like this book very much. As with pretty much everything in life I don't agree completely with Mr. Buckland or feel that it offers me "everything I need to know" it has been a valuable asset to my learning.
I've seen a lot of comments about Buckland's high handed writing style that seems to talk down to the readers, but I didn't actually get that impression.
It seemed to me like he has high standards for the people reading his book and that's actually more comforting to me than many of the new wave "I'm your buddy, let me hold your hand through this big scary word" form of writing.
Blathering aside, I reccomend this highly to everyone just starting out as well as those who've been at it a while but have been intimidated by the author's steadfast opinions on what he considers truth.
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Summary: Informational
Review: I love this book because it is so vastly informational. For a beginner (and those who would like to refresh their memories), this book is frank about methods (and the "why" aspect of such methods) and never illusive like most books about witchcraft can be. Buckland gets down to the most minute details. Very good start and a great book to have around.
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Summary: Bucklands Complete book of witchcraft
Review: This is a book for those that seriously want to get into witchcraft. It is the beginers book. It actually tells you how to get started in the right way. It gives the history of
witchcraft, the how's and why's.
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Summary: A Good Learning Book!
Review: If you ever want to learn about Witchcraft I suggest you read this book. It has been a major blessing for me and I have learned much from it. Everything you ever want to learn is in this book.Brightest Blessings,
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