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Hello, witches! Since I’m always harping on about learning your history and checking your sources, I thought I’d help folks get a head start by compiling some source material.

To that end, I’ve started a Dropbox folder with a stash of historical texts on witchcraft, magic, and related topics. Nearly everything I’ve managed to find so far is public domain (thank you Project Gutenberg), with the exception of a very thorough herbal grimoire I found online some years ago and a book of witchcraft from the 1970s that appears to be out of print.

I will be continuing in this vein with future texts that I find. Everything will be public domain or cited to the source that it came from, in PDF format. I will NOT be including PDFs of any book currently in circulation with a copyright linked to a living author or estate. The point of this folder is that everything in it should be free for sharing and open use as research materials.

Below is the initial list of titles. I tried to include as many as I could find, with a focus on some oft-cited classics. I will be adding new texts as I find them.

A Collection of Rare and Curious Tracts on Witchcraft and the Second Sight, by David Webster (1820)

A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718, by Wallace Notestein (1909)

British Goblins, Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions, by Wirt Sikes (1880)

Curiosities of Superstition, by W. H. Davenport Adams (1882)

Daemonologie, by King James I/VI (1597)

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, Edited and Selected by W. B. Yeats (1888)

Irish Witchcraft and Demonology, by St. John Drelincourt Seymour (1913)

La Sorcière, or The Witch of the Middle Ages, by Jules Michelet (1863)

Lives of the Necromancers, by William Godwin (1834)

Magic and Fetishism, by Alfred C. Haddon (1906)

Magic and Witchcraft, by Anonymous (1852)

Modern Magic, by M. Schele de Vere (1873)

Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics, by Richard Folkard (1884)

Practical Psychomancy and Crystal Gazing, by William Walker Atkinson (1908)

The Devil in Britain and America, by John Ashton (1896)

The Discoverie of Witchcraft, by Reginald Scot (1594, 1886 reprint)

The Extremely Large Herbal Grimoire (date unknown, internet publication)

The Golden Bough : A Study of Magic and Religion, by Sir James George Frazer (1890)

The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, by L.W. de Laurence (1918)

The Magic of the Horse-shoe, by Robert Means Lawrence (1898)

The Mysteries of All Nations, by James Grant (1880)

The Mystery and Romance of Alchemy and Pharmacy, by Charles John Samuel Thompson (1897)

The Superstitions of Witchcraft, by Howard Williams (1865)

The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut by John M. Taylor (1908)

The Wonders of the Invisible World, by Cotton Mather and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches, by Increase Mather (1693, 1862 reprint)

Witch Stories, by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton (1861)

Witch, Warlock, And Magician, by W. H. Davenport Adams (1889)

Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland, by John Gregorson Campbell (1902)

Witches’ Potions & Spells, ed. by Kathryn Paulsen (1971)

Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that these texts are (with few exceptions) more than a century old, and may contain depictions, references, or language that are outdated and inappropriate. The point of including these documents is to provide access to historical texts for research and reference. Inclusion in the collection does not equal unconditional agreement with or wholesale approval of the contents.

Take everything with a grain of salt and remember to do your due diligence!

Happy Witching!   -Bree

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on the topic of pelicans can someone please edit a pelican with a normal beak

today i found out pelicans eat other birds, and the way i found this out is by opening my inbox and finding a video of a pelican eating a pigeon

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😤👀🧠😢 LMAO

your first column of emojis describes your personality! what’s yours?

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im....very scared....

Reblog, click the picture, and prepare for battle.

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friendly reminder that gypsy is a slur and if y'all gadjo keep saying it i will fuck u up :-)

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okay..... I finished and imb......emotional

you'll be happy to hear I am watching the lord of the rings trilogy for the first time

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WHY the HELL do I have a crush on Frodo Baggins >:///

you'll be happy to hear I am watching the lord of the rings trilogy for the first time

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you'll be happy to hear I am watching the lord of the rings trilogy for the first time

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tried to mispell elon musk’s name in a post (bc i do the same thing with jeff bozo to express disdain for the man and every disgusting thing he stands for). but then it turned out musk actually spells his name like that? what’s my plan b here

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of all the things I expected to learn, oreos being a catholic cookie was not one but alright

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me jumping from a hyperfixation to a hyperfixation like

[ID: a gif of a person jumping from these stairs you walk on a plane to plane's door. the process od jumping is showed in slow motion. end ID]

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hrm. thought it was a big bug or something rustling the grass next to me. but no, I got up and it hissed at me so probably a snake ♡♡

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FINALLY some good news

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I really like that you can just spy on the group chats here. like theres no privacy, you could tell these people you have specially chosen to be in your group that you killed a man and laughed at his corpse, but other people can just click on the group and see all the previous conversations including your confession to murder in the first degree all without having to even join

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Jokes on you I haven't spoken outloud in hours

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