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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 20 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances by Lisa Morton
    Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances - by Lisa Morton

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781789146493 | ISBN 10: 1789146496

    Calling the Spirits investigates the eerie history of our conversations with the dead, from necromancy in Homer’s Odyssey to the emergence of Spiritualism – when Victorians were entranced by mediums and the seance was born.   Among our cas ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt
    Black Elk Speaks - by John G. Neihardt

    £13.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780803283916 | ISBN 10: 0803283911

    Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black ... more

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  • Cover image of book A New History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics and Pagans by Jeffrey B. Russell and Brooks Alexander
    A New History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics and Pagans - by Jeffrey B. Russell and Brooks Alexander

    £12.95   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780500286340 | ISBN 10: 0500286345

    For nearly thirty years, during which it has been continuously in print, Jeffrey Russell’s A History of Witchcraft has been the one authoritative concise illustrated history of witchcraft. Now, in collaboration with Brooks Alexander, who has cond ... more

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  • Cover image of book The History of Witchcraft by Lois Martin
    The History of Witchcraft - by Lois Martin

    £9.99   hardback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781904048770 | ISBN 10: 1904048773

    Witchcraft has recently undergone a huge popular revival, but does modern pagan witchcraft really bear any resemblance to its historical antecedants?  The witch in history was a very different creature from her modern counterpart, and this book sets ... more

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  • Cover image of book Myths and Legends of the Celts by James MacKillop
    Myths and Legends of the Celts - by James MacKillop

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141017945 | ISBN 10: 0141017945

    Myths and Legends of the Celts is a fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to the mythology of the peoples who inhabited the northwestern fringes of Europe - from Britain and the Isle of Man to Gaul and Brittany.�Drawing on recent historical and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Secret History of Lucifer by Lynn Picknett
    The Secret History of Lucifer - by Lynn Picknett

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781845292638 | ISBN 10: 1845292634

    Many on this earth follow Lucifer in search of wealth and power, but true Luciferans seek instead the broadening and deepening of the limits of human knowledge. This is the radically different view that Lynn Picknett reveals in her new history of Luc ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Occult Tradition: From the Renaissance to the Present Day by David S. Katz
    The Occult Tradition: From the Renaissance to the Present Day - by David S. Katz

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780712667869 | ISBN 10: 0712667865

    Is the universe alive? Are there hidden connections within it, revealed in history and in sacred texts? Can we understand or even learn to control these secrets? Have we neglected an entirely separate science that works according to a different set o ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Tibetan Book of the Dead by Translated by Gyurme Dorje
    The Tibetan Book of the Dead - by Translated by Gyurme Dorje

    £12.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780140455298 | ISBN 10: 0140455299

    Hidden away for many centuries, this ancient spiritual text reveals the secrets of enlightened living and life after death. It offers timeless guidance on finding inner contentment in our everyday lives, on how to help those who are dying or bereaved ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Love There That
    The Love There That's Sleeping: The Art and Spirituality of George Harrison - by Dale C. Allison, Jr

    £19.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780826419170 | ISBN 10: 0826419178

    From his days as the "quiet Beatle" to his successful and critically admired solo career, George Harrison produced a memorable body of music. His songs "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun" are two of the Beatles' best, and beginning with his remarkab ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sacred Geometry by Miranda Lundy
    Sacred Geometry - by Miranda Lundy

    £4.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781904263043 | ISBN 10: 1904263046

    Is there a secret language all around us? What's so special about the shape of the Great Pyramid? How can there be something sexy about circles?  Lavishly illustrated by the author, this small introduction to one of the oldest and most widespread ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Avalonians by Patrick Benham
    The Avalonians - by Patrick Benham

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780906362686 | ISBN 10: 0906362687

    This is the new edition of a work first published in 1993. It is the intriguing account of the life and times of a most unusual group of people. These extraordinary characters were drawn to Glastonbury, also known as the Isle of Avalon, at the turn o ... more

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  • Cover image of book Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy by Malcolm Gaskill
    Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy - by Malcolm Gaskill

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780719561214 | ISBN 10: 0719561213

    By the Spring of 1645, civil war had exacted a terrible toll upon England. Disease was rife, apocalyptic omens appeared in the skies, and idolators were detected in every shire. In a remote corner of Essex two obscure gentlemen began interrogating wo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Exploring the World of the Druids by Miranda J. Green
    Exploring the World of the Druids - by Miranda J. Green

    £14.95   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780500285718 | ISBN 10: 0500285713

    The rich and fascinating story of the Druids from ancient times to the present day. Contents include:  Chapters on Druids and Celtic religion, female Druids, Druids in myth and the resurrection of Druidic beliefs in the seventeenth century,  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Leys: Secret Spirit Paths in Ancient Britain by Danny Sullivan
    Leys: Secret Spirit Paths in Ancient Britain - by Danny Sullivan

    £5.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781904263388 | ISBN 10: 1904263380

    Many ancient peoples built their sacred sites in dead straight lines. The magical paths involved astronomy and geomancy, and were used for spirit flight, both by the living as they slept or travelled in shamanic trance, and by spirits of the dead, bo ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Bewitched Land: Ireland
    A Bewitched Land: Ireland's Witches - by Bob Curran

    £8.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780862788995 | ISBN 10: 0862788994

    How did Dame Alice Kyteler escape being burnt as a witch?  Were Biddy and Moll Anthony witches, healers or wise women? And was Bridget Cleary changeling, witch or victim?  Witch trials in the European or American sense were not common ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Teachings of don Juan: A Yaqui way of knowedge by Carlos Castaneda
    The Teachings of don Juan: A Yaqui way of knowedge - by Carlos Castaneda

    £9.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780140192384 | ISBN 10: 0140192387

    The first book in Carlos Castaneda's spiritual journey into the world of sorcery... In 1960 Carlos Castaneda first met don Juan, a Yaqui Indian feared and shunned by the ordinary folk of the American Southwest because of his universal powers. During ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rumi: Selected Poems by Rumi (Translated by Coleman Barks)
    Rumi: Selected Poems - by Rumi (Translated by Coleman Barks)

    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780140449532 | ISBN 10: 0140449531

    'The lord of beauty enters the soul as a man walks into an orchard in Spring.' ... The thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Rumi was also a poet of transcendental power. His inspi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
    Islam: A Short History - by Karen Armstrong

    £9.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9781842125830 | ISBN 10: 1842125834

    One of the greatest of the world religions through the 1500 years of its existence, Islam has also been by far the most misunderstood. The Western world has undergone a complete revolution of thought in recent centuries, but its mistrust of Islam is ... more

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  • Cover image of book Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500 by L. P. Harvey
    Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500 - by L. P. Harvey

    £25.50   paperback   (1992) - ISBN 13: 9780226319629 | ISBN 10: 0226319628

    This is a richly detailed account of Muslim life throughout the kingdoms of Spain, from the fall of Seville, which signaled the beginning of the retreat of Islam, to the Christian reconquest.  "Harvey not only examines the politics of the Na ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England by Alex Owen
    The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England - by Alex Owen

    £25.00   paperback   (1989) - ISBN 13: 9780226642055 | ISBN 10: 0226642054

    A highly original study that examines the central role played by women as mediums, healers, and believers during the golden age of spiritualism in the late Victorian era, The Darkened Room is more than a meditation on women mediums—it's an exploratio ... more

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