What are your top 3 most influential books?
What are the books that had the biggest influence on your practice or your beliefs? That rocked your world and made you go 'what?!'.
Not necessarily 'witchcraft' or non-fiction books, everything goes!
I love how diverse this community is, so I'm really curious what shaped you as a practitioner!
Here's mine:
1. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
very original! But reading about someone who is a scientist, but also very much a spiritual person really hit home. They always felt like two separate worlds, but they fit together beautifully.
Of Blood and Bones: Working with Shadow Magick & the Dark Moon by Kate Freuler
Made me realise that witchcraft is not only sunshine and flowers or hexes and curses. You can use the darker stuff too, without going around cursing people.
Life is a cycle, and sometimes you want a flowercrown and pretty candles, and sometimes you want hag energy and skulls to get shit done.
I don't actually use most of the recipes and rituals presented in the book, but it gave me a lot of inspiration to broaden my practice.The Witch at the Forest's Edge: Thirteen Keys to Modern Traditional Witchcraft by Christine Grace
is a book about Hedgewitchcraft. I started listening to the audiobook and ordered the paper copy before I even finished it.
I already jokingly called myself a hedgewitch because when I go out in nature, most of my time will be spent literally in the hedge. Listening to this book I realised the Hedgeriding part is actually something that greatly interest me. Letting go of my scientific rational self and daring to jump into the unknown.
Honorable mentions: Terry Pratchett's Witches and you guys!