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Rating:  - Premium!This book is dazzling. Buckland writes in a manner that I find myself connecting with more so than other things of similar topics. Rating:  - Inflated ExpectationsThis book is rather (non)affectionately referred to as "Uncle Bucky's Big Book O' Wicca". For whatever reason, Raymond Buckland and Llewellyn thought it important to market a book that infers that by reading it, yes, you, too can be a Third Degree in Wicca. This claim is pretty absurd - and I have experienced little ones (teenagers) coming up to me and claiming Third Degree credentials. A five minute conversation usually will uncover just how much the self-professed "Initiate" doesn't know. Buckland has done not so much a service to Wicca and the Craft as a viable religious system but rather caused far damage and discord within the Craft in the form of drama and flailing egos as a result of the book's claims. While some of the basic premises of Craft practice and such are great, no book, no author, no magickal tool is ever going to take the place of actual hands on practice. As an herbalist who has spent a lifetime in the study, there is not enough information doeseages or caveats towards health or pre-existing conditions being given in this book for those would be Witches to just start playing around with herbs. For his I would thoroughly reommend the books of Matthew Wood, in particular "The Book of Herbal Wisdom" and also James Greene's "The Medicine-Maker's Handbook" and other authors such as Rosemary Gladstar and Susun Weed - who herself is a very accomplished and well published herbalist and Green Witch. There are much better magical treatises on herbs such as Paul V. Beyerl's Master Book of Herbalism", which so thorough that it makes Buckland's little chapter look rather incomplete if not a little absurd. Herbal work really does require oversight by knowledgable teachers in order to avoid calamity, and they are out there. Buckland should have more strongly asserted this in the book. There is good information on candle magick, magickal alphabets and books of shadows, ritual set up, etc. But of course none of this means anything if the reader does not actually get up and do the work. Reading this work is not going to be enough to make you a third degree anything other than a fool for buying into the idea that "faith" of any kind without hard work is dead. I give this book three stars mainly because of the misrepresentation of both what it can achieve and how compleat the herbal knowledge consists of. Rating: - Buckland's Complete book of WitchcraftI found this book to be very interesting. At each chapter there is a review of what you just read, and a insight of what you thought about the previous chapter. The book interacts with you on reviews and your thoughts about each chapter. Rating: - Wonderful bookGreat book on the history of witchcraft & helps to realize that witchcraft was established way before christianity, where the art came from, how it all begain, etc. I loved the quizzes at the end of the chapters to help refresh your memory on what you read. I would recommend this book to anyone that is a beginner or solitary practitioner. Rating:  - If I would have known...If I had known how focused this book was on Buckland's tradition, I would not have bought it. I was looking for an intro, like the page described. Students who truly are at the introductory level should not herded to one tradition. Cunningham's book is much better if you don't want to be one of Buckland's sheep. |
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