The Wicca Handbook

by Eileen Holland and Eileen Holland

Book Overview

The Wicca Handbook guides us through the first steps in becoming a witch, and explores many Wiccan traditions, initiations and magical practices. The Wiccan year - the eight Sabbats - along with many... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578634385
• ISBN13: 9781578634385
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Weiser Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Informative for new Wiccan's

This book has plenty of detail involving a lot of aspects to the Wiccan religion (Book of Shadows, Altar's, spells, etc.) which is extremely helpful to the new and interested Wiccan. My peeve to this book though is how whenever they mention Satanism it is followed by something dark and evil. The TRUE Satanist religion has nothing to do with dark magic, evil beings, animal sacrifice, devil-worship, or Lucifer. It would be nice if the author studied more into a religion she was going to mention instead of giving off false information and misconceptions surrounding that religion. She hardly mentions Satanism, but it still is annoying each time she does. But, for an overall Wiccan book for the beginner or adept, it is a very interesting read with a lot of important information.

So much great information!

This was my first "How to Wicca" book and I've highlighted it and made notes in this book like crazy. Great for beginners. Lots of great information! I can't stop reading it!

Great

This book was a great resource for me, I checked it out from the library and now am thinking of buying it. Eileen this book is great! It helped me along in my first starting Book Of Shadows. Thanx ^^

Great for correspondences and learning

I have had this book for years and still refer to it on a weekly basis. Thorough, easy to read, and informative, the Wicca Handbook is a must for all practicioners of magick, even if you are not Wiccan or a Witch.

A wonderful resource for any witch!

This is a great book... it has the largest collection of correspondences I have ever found in books or the internet. One reviewer said that this material was found in "better books", however, I have no idea to which books she is referring, since I own dozens of Wicca books, including Starhawk, Ravenwolf, the Farrars, and Cunningham, and this is the best, most comprehensive list I have found. Beyond the correspondences, Eileen shares a great deal of knowledge and experience with her readers, beyond just telling us what "her coven" thinks and does, like some Wiccan authors do. She talks about everything from living in Egypt and dealing with people there's prejudice's about witches, to astral projection, to living with chronic illness. I do not think that this book would be the only resource a beginnning witch would need, because it does not go into the history of witchcraft, deities, etc. For something ilke that, I would recommend the Spiral Dance, by Starhawk. But as a supplement, this book is a tremendous aid to spellwork.

A bottomless well of correspondences

The Wicca Handbook by Eileen Holland is one of the best books I've ever used for references and correspondences. It's list of herbs, scents, stones, deities, elements, etc. is very useful information for spellwork and rituals. The fact that it is so anthropologically based also has gives it an added bonus...it can be useful to anyone of any tradition and style. I loved the extensive section on animals, especially because of the fact that it was, again, written to fit any tradition, not just shamanism. Her charts on the planets and numbers, something where most wiccan books lack, was a refreshing adversity to the mundane norm, and is a way to even further your magical studies and spirituality. This is one of the most-often used books in my possession, and it will be so in yours as well. Buy this book, and have a limitless amount of universal-wiccan knowledge at your very fingertips!

Gourmet Wicca

The Wicca Handbook Eileen HollandEileen Holland seems to be the Julia Childs of gourmet Wicca. So many books I have read on Wicca craft indicate the spells, herbs, candles and other articles necessary for the altar, but none of them seem to be as chock full of handy information as "The Wicca Handbook." Her extraordinarily complete tables of correspondences may not be as comprehensive as Aleister Crowley's encyclopedic "777" or "Magick, Book 4," but she honors her mentor upon whose book she has based her work, Starhawk ("The Spiral Dance"). Her bibliography displays firm and dependable sources; otherwise, this would simply be another book of mixed puddings and confused recipes.The spell tutorials are easy to follow and extremely easy to adapt to your present circumstances. Everything a beginner or an experienced practitioner might need is indicated, beginning with a Book of Shadows through the variations of invocations to the god/dess. Love, for instance, has 24 spells. Her comments on ethics and superstitions are humorous and pertinent and she cautiously warns of the problems and difficulties in casting the wrong spells. Blessed Be.