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The Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft, & Wicca[edit]

The Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft, & Wicca, 3rd edition, by Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Facts on File, 2008, ISBN 0-8160-7103-9

Major articles

2 pages or more

John Blymire;
Laurie Cabot; Chelmsford witches; Church of All Worlds*; Robert Cochrane; Coven*;
Demon*; Devil's pact;
Exorcism*;
Fairies*;
Gerald B. Gardner;
Initiation*; Inquisition*;
Magic*; Museum of Witchcraft*;
Paganism*; Poisons*;
Salem Witches* – More witches are named; Santería*;
Torture;
Doreen Valiente; Vodun or Voodoo;
Wheel of the Year*; Carl Williamson*; Witchcraft* – The Heresy of Western Witchcraft; The Heresy of Western Witchcraft – Witchcraft, a pagan religion; Modern Traditions of Witchcraft; Witches* – Witches in Western beliefs;
Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart;

Significant articles

3 paragraphs to 2 pages

Abracadabra; Abramelin the Mage; Margot Adler; African witchcraft; Aiguillette; Aix-en-Provence Possessions; Altar; Amulets; [[Victor Anderson]]; Ankh; Apples; Aquarian Tabernacle Church; Aradia; Ár nDraíocht Fein or ADF; Charles Arnold; Arras witches; Astarte or Ashtart or Ashtoreth; Athena; Avebury;
Baba Yaga; Bamberg Witches; Baphomet; Bargarran Witches (1696-1697); Bell, book, and candle; Bells; Benandanti; Berkeley Witch; Biddy Early; Bridget Bishop; Black animals; Black Mass; Blasting; Tamsin Blight; Blood* - Menstrual blood; Bloodstone; Jean Bodin; Henri Boguet; Eleanor “Ray” Bone; Gavin Bone; P. E. I. Bonewits; Book of Shadows; Richard Bovet; Marian Zimmer Bradley; Broom; Raymond Buckland; Z Budapest; Burning times; George Burroughs; Bury St. Edmonds witches; Mary Butters;
Candles; Canewdon witches; Canon Episcopi; Dennis Carpenter; Cassandra; Cats; Caul; Cauldron; Cernunnos; Chanting; Charge of the Goddess; Charms; Children of Artemis or CoA; Church and School of Wicca* - History; Beliefs and tenets of the church; The School of Wicca; Church of All Worlds – Formation of the Church; Early Organization and Beliefs; CAW Subsidiaries; Renaissance of CAW; Phoenix Resurrection; Circe; Circle Sanctuary; Clan of Tubal Cain; Old Dorothy Clutterbuck; Cocks; Ann Cole; Eunice Cole; Cone of power; Giles Corey; Martha Corey; Corn dolly; Council of American Witches; Coven - Historical Beliefs about Covens; Historical Beliefs about Covens – The existence of covens; Historical Beliefs about Covens – Number in a coven; Historical Beliefs about Covens – Structure and activities of a coven; The Coven in Wicca; The Coven in Wicca – Existence and formation of covens; The Coven in Wicca – Number in a coven; The Coven in Wicca – History of a coven; Covenant of the Goddess; Craft name; Crosses; Crossroads; Aleister Crowley; Vivianne Crowley; Arnold Crowther; Patricia Crowther; Scott Cunningham; Cunning man or Cunning woman; Curse*;
Dafo; John Darrell or John Darrel; Demeter; Demon – Sex between Humans and Demons; Asmodeus; Baal; Belial; Devil; Devil's mark; Diana or Artemis; Raven Digitalis; Divination* - Contemporary divinatory methods; Doctor John (19th century); Drawing down the moon; Druids* - History; Modern Druid Revivals; Helen Duncan;
Elementals; Elements; Elf arrows; Esbat; Evil eye; Exorcism – The exorcist as victim; The setting of an exorcism; Rites of exorcism;
Fairies – Fairy lore; Fairies and witches; Fairy ring; Fairy Witch of Clonmel; Familiars* – Familiars in contemporary witchcraft; Familiars in sorcery and shamanism; Janet Farrar and Stewart Farrar* – Wiccan and Pagan activities; Fetish; John Fian; Ed Fitch; Flying* - Magical and mystical flight; Footprints; Dion Fortune; Selena Fox; Orion Foxwood; Gavin Frost and Yvonne Frost;
Garlic; Garters; Ghosts, hauntings, and witchcraft* – The Drummer of Tedworth; Modern witchcraft, ghosts and hauntings; Goddess; Dorcas Good; Sarah Good; Isobel Gowdie; William Graves; Great Rite; Green Man; Rebecca Greensmith; Grey School of Wizardry; Raven Grimassi; Grimoires; Gris-gris; Bernardo Gruber; Francesco-Maria Guazzo; Gwydion the Wizard; Gypsies;
Hag; Hair and nails; Hand of glory; Hare; Jane Hawkins; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Hazel; Healing; Hecate; Hedge witch; Helms Amendment; Hermes; Hermes Trismegistus; Hermetica*; Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; Hermitage Castle; Hertford Witches; Hex death; Hexenkopf or Witch's Head; Hex signs or Hexenfoos; Ann Hibbins; John George Hohman; Holda or Holde or Hulda; Matthew Hopkins; Fiona Horne; Horned God; Horned Women; Horseshoe; Louise Huebner; Ronald Hutton;
Imp; Inanna; Initiation – Historical Beliefs about Witch Initiations; Initiations in Contemporary Witchcraft and Paganism; Innocent VIII; Inquisition – Practices of the Inquisition; Practices of the Inquisition – Traits of the local inquisitor; Practices of the Inquisition – Torture; Witchcraft and Sorcery; The Spanish Inquisition; Iron; Ishtar; Isis*; Island Magee Witches;
Jack-o'lantern; James I; Joan of Arc; Margaret Jones; Juan; Anodea Judith; Johannes Junius;
Kabbalah or Cabala or Kabala or Qabalah; Kiss of shame; Knights Templar; Knots; Alice Kyteler or Lady Alice Kyteler;
Ladder; Lady Sheba; Lancaster witches or Lancashire witches* – The 1612 trials; The 1633 trials; Pierre de Lancre; Marie Laveau (1794?-1881) and (1827-1897); Sybil Leek; Legba or Elegguá; Charles Godfrey Leland; Rebecca Lemp; Lincoln witches; Deborah Lipp; Lithobolia of New Hampshire; Lord's Prayer; Lycanthropy;
Macbeth (Shakespeare play); Macumba* – Candomblé; Umbanda; Quimbanda; Magic – Components of magic rituals; Magic in contemporary witchcraft; Magic circle* - Magic circle – The Four Quarters; The Four Quarters – North; Maleficia; Malleus Maleficarium; Mandrake; Leo Louis Martello; Cotton Mather; Increase Mather; Medea; Megaliths* – Classifications; Supernatural powers of megaliths; Merlin; Metamorphosis; Mirrors; Moon* – The Moon as person and deity; The Moon in witchcraft; Morales Witches; Mora Witches; Morgan le Fey; Morrigan; Mother Redcap; Mother Shipton; Margaret Alice Murray; James Murrell; Museum of Witchcraft – The collection; Reorganization;
Names of power; Necromancy; Florence Newton; Nightmare; Northampton Witches* – Agnes Brown and Joan Vaughn or Varnham; Arthur Bill; North Berwick witches; Rosaleen Norton; Rebecca Nurse;
Obsession; Oils; Ointments or Unguents; Order of the Garter; Owls;
Pagan Federation; Paganism – The Divine Masculine and Feminine; Druidry; Shamanism**; Pagan Way; Hugh Parsons; Diana L. Paxson; PEBBLE; Pellar; Christopher Penczak; Gwydion Pendderwen; Pentacle and Pentagram* – Inverted pentacle; Pentacle Quest; Dolly Pentreath; William Perkins; Philtre; Old George Pickingill; Pins; Poisons – Plant and animal poisons; Poison and justice; Pope (c. 1630-1690); Poppet; Possession; Power doctor; Powwowing; Prayer; Pricking; John Proctor and Elizabeth Proctor; Puck;
Quirin or Quirus;
Silver Ravenwolf; Margaret Read; Redcap; Francis Israel Regardie; Nicholas Rémy; Rings; Rites of passage; Ritual; Luis de Rivera; Rodents; Rollright Stones;
Sabbat; Sacrifice; St. Osyth Witches; Salem “Old Witch” Jail; Salem Witches – Divisions in the town; Beginning of the hysteria; Crying out against the witches; Prosecution, condemnation, and execution; The executions continue; The hysteria subsides; The aftermath; Salt* – Folklore; Demon and witch lore; Alex Sanders; Maxine Sanders; Santa Fe witches; Santería – The orishas; Rites and practices; Healing and magic; Making the nganga; Satanism; Elizabeth Sawyer; Saylor Family; John Score; Michael Scot; Reginald Scot; Scrying; Selene; Sending; Shamanism; Sigils; Silver; Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses; Robin Skelton; Paddy Slade; Herman Slater; Sorcery; Austin Osman Spare; Friedrich von Spee; Spell* - Anatomy of a spell; Spider; Spirit exorcism; Spirit possession; Spittle; Sprite trap; Stamford Witches; Starhawk; Stones; Storm raising* – Remedies against storm raising;Striga or Stria or Strix; Montague Summers; Swimming;
Talismans; Tasseomancy; Tears; Thirteen; Thomas Aquinas; Three; Threefold Law of Return or Threefold Law of Karma; Tituba; Toads* – Toad lore; Toad Witch; Trials by ordeal* – Ordeal by touch;
Urine;
Vervain; Vodun or Voodoo – Serving the loa; Rites and practices; Calling the loas; Vodun and magic; Politics and Vodun;
Walpurgisnacht; Charles Walton; Warboys Witches; Water; Mary Webster; Marion Weinstein; Thomas Weir; Carl Llewellyn Weschcke; Johann Weyer; Wheel of the Year – Samhain; Wiccan Rede; Widdershins or Withershins; Carl Williamson – Relationship with Gerald W. Gardner; Later years; Monique Wilson; Windsor Witches; WITCH; Witch balls; Witch bottle; Witchcraft – The Heresy of Western Witchcraft – The Inquisition; The Heresy of Western Witchcraft - Witchcraft in Britain and the American Colonies; The Heresy of Western Witchcraft - The end of the witch hysteria; The Heresy of Western Witchcraft - Witchcraft, women, and misogyny; The Heresy of Western Witchcraft - Non-European witchcraft; Modern Traditions of Witchcraft – Gardnerian*; Modern Traditions of Witchcraft – Dianic/Feminist; Modern Traditions of Witchcraft – Faery/Faerie/Fairy Tradition; Witchcraft Research Association; Witch doctors; Witches – Witches in non-Western cultures; Religious witches; Witches League of Public Awareness; Witches' light; Witches' tools* - Athame; Other tools; Witch-finder; Witch of Endor; Witch's hat; Witch's mark; Wizard; Wookey Hole; Joan Wytte;
Oberon Zell-Ravenheart; Zombie; Zugarramurdi witches;

Minor articles

1 or 2 paragraphs

Allotriophagy; Alrunes; Amber; Arianrod; Awen;
Babylonian devil-trap; Bees; Bibliomancy; Blessed be; Brass; Bruja or Brujo;
Cakes-and-wine or Cakes-and-ale; Cerridwen or Keridwen; Church of All Worlds – Evolution of the Church; Cowan; Curandero or Curandera; Curse – Curses in contemporary witchcraft; Repelling curses;
Demon – Demons in Contemporary Witchcraft; Demons in Ceremonial Magic; The Hierarchies and Functions of Demons; Astaroth (also Ashtaroth); Lucifer; Deosil or Deiseal; Devil fish; Divination – Finding the guilty; Druids – Antiquarian Druidic Revival; Amy Duny;
Egg tree; Elder; Eye-biters;
Fivefold kiss; Fortress of Dumbarton;
Gallows Hill; Girdle measuring; Goblins;
Hag stone; Hermetica – The Emerald Tablet; Herne the Hunter; Hex;
Ill-wishing; Inquisition – Practices of the Inquisition – Manuals; Practices of the Inquisition - Arrests and interrogations; Practices of the Inquisition - Execution; Isis – Isis of the mysteries and Hermetic wisdom; The Bembine Table of Isis; Isis as goddess of magic and healing;
Levitation; Lithoboly;
Magic circle – The Four Quarters – East; The Four Quarters – South; The Four Quarters – West; Money; Museum of Witchcraft – Gardner's loan;
Nature spirits; Newbury Witch; Northampton Witches – Helen Jenkson; Mary Barber;
Oak apples; Ordeal by touch;
Paganism – Love for and worship of nature; The Pagan Ethic; Heathenism; Men's and women's mystery traditions; Pan; Pentacle and pentagram – Magician's pentacle; Pointing;
Salem Witches – The politics of witchcraft*; Modern Salem's legacy; Salt – Magic; Alchemy; Salt Lane witches; Santería – Black magic; Sea witches; Seventh child of a seventh child; Solitary; Stacker Lee or Stagolee or Stackerlee or Stackalee or Stagger Lee;
Tempestarii; Toads – Toads in contemporary witchcraft; Trials by ordeal – Ordeal by food; Ordeal by water; Ordeal by hot iron;
Vaudois;
Warlock; Wheel of the Year – Winter Solstice Eve (Yule); Imbolc (Imbolg); Spring Equinox (Ostara); Beltane; Midsummer; Lughnasadh (Lammas); Wicca; Wild Hunt; Willow; Witch boxes; Witchcraft – Modern Traditions of Witchcraft – Alexandrian; Modern Traditions of Witchcraft - Hereditary/Family; Modern Traditions of Witchcraft - Shamanic; Modern Traditions of Witchcraft - Goth; Witches – Origin of witch; Witches' tools – Censer; Cup (chalice, goblet); Pentacle; Sword; Wand; Cauldron; Other tools – Cords; Other tools – Divination items; Other tools – Prayer beads; Other tools – Scourge; Witching hour; Witch pegs; Witch's butter; Witch's cradle; Witch's ladder;

Redirects

Anointing oils; Artemis;
Baldrey, Tilly; Bewitchment; Black Goat; Black Shuck; Roy Bowers; Bright blessings;
Calling down the moon; Carmoney witch; Bridget Cleary; Conjurer; Corpse light; John Cunningham;
Pete “Pathfinder” Davis; de Lancre, Pierre; de Rivera, Luis; Devil's Dandy Dogs;
Faery Tradition or Feri Tradition; Fairy light; Firth, Violet Mary; Fox fire;
Gaufridi, Louis; Goat of Mendes;
Hellfire Club;
Kempe, Ursula; Keridwen; King, Graham; Kramer, Heinrich;
Lady Olwen;
Old Dorothy Clutterbuck; Old Shuck;
School of Wicca; Shape-shifting; Sprenger, James;
Technopaganism; Tedworth, Drummer of; Transvection;
Unguents;
Waldenses; Wiccaning; Will-o'-the-wisp; Witch; Witch of Edmonton;

Subarticles

Blood – Menstrual blood**;
Church and School of Wicca – History**; Beliefs and tenets of the church**; The School of Wicca**;
Church of All Worlds – Formation of the Church**; Early Organization and Beliefs**; Evolution of the Church*; CAW Subsidiaries**; Renaissance of CAW**; Phoenix Resurrection**;
Coven – Historical Beliefs about Covens**; The Coven in Wicca**;
- Coven – Historical Beliefs about Covens – The existence of covens**; Number in a coven**; Structure and activities of a coven**;
- Coven – The Coven in Wicca – Existence and formation of covens**; Number in a coven**; History of a coven**;
Curse – Curses in contemporary witchcraft*; Repelling curses*;
Demon – Sex between Humans and Demons**; Demons in Contemporary Witchcraft*; Demons in Ceremonial Magic*; The Hierarchies and Functions of Demons*; Asmodeus**; Astaroth (also Ashtaroth)*; Baal**; Belial**; Lucifer*;
Divination – Finding the guilty*; Contemporary divinatory methods**;
Druids – History**; Antiquarian Druidic Revival*; Modern Druid Revivals**;
Exorcism – The exorcist as victim**; The setting of an exorcism**; Rites of exorcism**;
Fairies – Fairy lore**; Fairies and witches**;
Familiars – Familiars in contemporary witchcraft**; Familiars in sorcery and shamanism**;
Janet Farrar and Stewart Farrar – Wiccan and Pagan activities**;
Flying – Magical and mystical flight**;
Ghosts, hauntings, and witchcraft – The Drummer of Tedworth**; Modern witchcraft, ghosts and hauntings**;
Hermetica – The Emerald Tablet*;
Initiation – Historical Beliefs about Witch Initiations**; Initiations in Contemporary Witchcraft and Paganism**;
Inquisition – Practices of the Inquisition**; Witchcraft and Sorcery**; The Spanish Inquisition**;
- Inquisition – Practices of the Inquisition – Manuals*; Traits of the local inquisitor**; Arrests and interrogations*; Torture**; Execution*;
Isis – Isis of the mysteries and Hermetic wisdom*; The Bembine Table of Isis*; Isis as goddess of magic and healing*;
Lancaster witches or Lancashire witches – The 1612 trials**; The 1633 trials**;
Macumba – Candomblé**; Umbanda**; Quimbanda**;
Magic – Components of magic rituals**; Magic in contemporary witchcraft**;
Magic circle – The Four Quarters**;
- Magic circle – The Four Quarters – North**; East*; South*; West*;
Megaliths – Classifications**; Supernatural powers of megaliths**;
Moon – The Moon as person and deity**; The Moon in witchcraft**;
Museum of Witchcraft – The collection**; Gardner's loan*; Reorganization**;
Northampton Witches – Agnes Brown and Joan Vaughn or Varnham**; Arthur Bill**; Helen Jenkson*; Mary Barber*;
Paganism – Love for and worship of nature*; The Pagan Ethic*; The Divine Masculine and Feminine**; Druidry**; Heathenism*; Men's and women's mystery traditions*; Shamanism**;
Pentacle and pentagram – Magician's pentacle*; Inverted pentacle**;
Poisons – Plant and animal poisons**; Poison and justice**;
Salem Witches – Divisions in the town**; Beginning of the hysteria**; Crying out against the witches**; The politics of witchcraft*; More witches are named***; Prosecution, condemnation, and execution**; The executions continue**; The hysteria subsides**; The aftermath**; Modern Salem's legacy*;
Salt – Folklore**; Demon and witch lore**; Magic*; Alchemy*;
Santería – The orishas**; Rites and practices**; Healing and magic**; Black magic*; Making the nganga**;
Spell – Anatomy of a spell**;
Storm raising – Remedies against storm raising**;
Toads – Toad lore**; Toads in contemporary witchcraft*;
Trials by ordeal – Ordeal by touch**; Ordeal by food*; Ordeal by water*; Ordeal by hot iron*;
Vodun or Voodoo – Serving the loa**; Rites and practices**; Calling the loas**; Vodun and magic**; Politics and Vodun**;
Wheel of the Year – Winter Solstice Eve (Yule)*; Samhain**; Imbolc (Imbolg)*; Spring Equinox (Ostara)*; Beltane*; Midsummer*; Lughnasadh (Lammas)*;
Carl Williamson – Relationship with Gerald W. Gardner**; Later years**;
Witchcraft – The Heresy of Western Witchcraft***; Modern Traditions of Witchcraft***;
- Witchcraft – The Heresy of Western Witchcraft – The Inquisition**; Witchcraft in Britain and the American Colonies**; The end of the witch hysteria**; Witchcraft, women, and misogyny**; Non-European witchcraft**; Witchcraft, a pagan religion***;
- Witchcraft – Modern Traditions of Witchcraft – Gardnerian**; Alexandrian*; Dianic/Feminist**; Hereditary/Family*; Faery/Faerie/Fairy Tradition**; Shamanic*; Goth*;
Witches – Origin of witch*; Witches in non-Western cultures**; Witches in Western beliefs***; Religious witches**;
Witches' tools – Athame**; Censer*; Cup (chalice, goblet)*; Pentacle*; Sword*; Wand*; Cauldron*; Other tools**;
- Witches' tools – Other tools – Cords*; Divination items*; Prayer beads*; Scourge*;

Witchcraft Today: An Encyclopedia of Wiccan and Neopagan Traditions[edit]

by James R. Lewis, ABC-Clio, 1999

Introduction

Headings in the lengthy introduction, which serves as a summary of the topic

Precursors to modern witchcraft; Origin and history of modern neopagan witchcraft; The Creation of rituals; Gardnerian Witchcraft in America; The neopagan movement; The Church of All Worlds; The druid groups; Norse paganism; Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans; Egyptian neopaganism; Greco-Roman neopaganism; Women's spirituality movement; Structure of the noopagan movement; Neopagans and the New Age; Other magical groups;