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Book Finds for Spring: Witches, Enchantment and the Green Green Hills
In honour of this season of renewal and growing things, here’s a reading list of witchery and enchantment for you.
Sitting with Spring: A Rite, Some Books, a Bit of Dirt Under Your Nails
Spring isn't a greeting card. It’s an initiation. Dress accordingly.
October Reads Volume II: Books for When the Veil is Thin
A Witch’s New Year booklist. In honour of this auspicious and much loved season, this book list is for the witches! Because we love you!
October Reads Volume 1: Some Things to Do in the Darkness
Here’s some books we’re reading at the mo! We’re not quite stepping into the spooky season yet but definitely pulling out the warm fuzzies and getting cozy.
Reading “The Witch” By Ronald Hutton - 4 Facts You Didn’t Know About Witches
Ronald Hutton’s book “The Witch” is a must-read for anyone interested in the full range of complexity, variation, and nuance behind the history of witchcraft and the figure of the witch.
Book Finds: The Witches Are Coming, The Witches Are Coming!
From our shelves: In light of this season of renewal and growing things, for this particular post we’ll just focus on the witches shall we? Yay the witches!
Who is Aradia, Queen of the Witches? Looking at Leland’s Gospel
A brief overview of Aradia and the new translation published by the Pazzaglini family in Italy.
From our Shelves - Fall 2019
Dreamwork, witchcraft and gods oh my! Also a nod to the retelling of the colonial story of Canada. May we all see with our eyes and hear with our hearts.
From Our Shelves - Summer 2019
A Tolkien rabbit-hole, in the gardens of the soul, with Pan and the mill - this month’s featured gems!
Book Favourites This Spring
The devil is in the pudding! No the proof is in the pudding. The pudding is in suberbia.. I mean the proof. The proof that things can get better, is in Australia, in suburbia! Here’s a couple books on such subjects that caught our eye this month.