The Wiccan Path: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner - Rae Beth

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ NOTE: The Wiccan Path: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner, is sold outside the USA as 'Hedge Witch: A Guide to Solitary Witchcraft'. The author, very kindly, points this out to prevent customers buying both by accident. As the copy I have is not the US edition, for the remainder of this review, I will be referring to the book as Hedge Witch, to avoid confusion (more on my own part, than yours!). ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ WHY I BOUGHT THIS BOOK (feel free to skip. See, I'm being thoughtful again!) Since the age of around 15, I've been studying Wicca and Witchcraft on and off, but it's ... more

As Roald Dahl says in The Witches, witches do not wear silly black cloaks or ride broomsticks. In fact, real witches are amongst us every day, just like anyone from any religion – I’m one, in fact. There are two schools of thought on Wicca – one that it is a silly, made up amalgamation of many different practices, and the other that accepts it as such (after all, most religions *are* a combination of stories and rituals) and get on with it. Thankfully, Rae Beth is of the latter mindset. And she done gone writted a book about it! Yowza! Before any of the major religions took ... more