The Wicca Handbook

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!

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.