A Witches Bible - Janet Farrar, Stewar Farrar 1981

A Witches Bible - Janet Farrar, Stewar Farrar 1981



The Sabbats and Rites for Birth, Marriage and Death

Introduction

The Frame

The Opening Ritual

The Great Rite

The Closing Ritual

The Sabbats

Imbolg, 2nd February

Spring Equinox, 21st March

Bealtaine, 30th April

Midsummer, 22nd June

Lughnasadh, 31st July

Autumn Equinox, 21st September

Samhain, 31st October

Yule, 22nd December

Birth, Marriage & Death

Wiccaning

Handfasting

Requiem

Notes

Bibliography

Principles, Rituals and Beliefs of Modern Witchcraft

Introduction

Leaves From The Book of Shadows

First Degree Initiation

Second Degree Initiation

Third Degree Initiation

Consecrations

The Rest of the Book of Shadows

More Wiccan Rituals

Drawing Down the Sun

Three Goddesses Ritual

Rite of the Thirteen Megaliths

Rituals of Protection

A Seashore Ritual

The Wiccan Path

The Rationale of Witchcraft

Reincarnation

The Ethics of Witchcraft

Myth, Ritual and Symbolism

Witchcraft and Sex

Many Mansions

On Running a Coven

Naked in Your Rites

Clairvoyance and Divination

Astral Projection

Healing

Spells

Self-Initiation

The Witches’ Tools

In Tune with the Land

In Tune with the Times

Appendix

The Search for Old Dorothy by Doreen Valiente

Casting and Banishing the Circle

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography