Photographs

1 Lighting the West Candle

2 Altar with Gerald Gardner’s own Book of Shadows

3 Doreen Valiente at ‘The Naked Man’, traditional witches’ meeting place in the New Forest

4 Gerald Gardner in his home on the Isle of Man

5 The house where Dorothy Clutterbuck initiated Gerald Gardner

6 Drawing Down the Sun, in our Garden Temple

7 Blessing the wine

8 The earliest (thirteenth-century) written text of the ‘Bagahi’ incantation

9 The Lia Fáil (Stone of Destiny) on Tara Hill, Co. Meath.

10 Cernunnos carving in Tara Hill churchyard

11 Candle and needle spell

12 Men and women are the central nervous system of Gaia, the Earth Organism

13 The cervix motif in ancient symbolism

14 ‘Love’s Enchantment’ — seventeenth-century Flemish witch

15 The pre-war Rosicrucian Theatre at Christchurch, Hampshire

16 Performance of ‘Pythagoras’ at the Rosicrucian Theatre

17 The cottage of Biddy Early, a nineteenth-century Irish witch

18 Janet’s painting of the group thought-form Mara

19 Occult craftsmanship from England, Ireland and the USA

20 Photo-etched pentacles

21 The entrance to Newgrange, Co. Meath

22 The High Priestess, representing the Goddess, may on occasion use the altar as a throne

CREDITS

Stewart Farrar: Plates 1, 9, 10, 12, 13A, 13C, 13D, 17, 19, 20, 21

Janet Farrar: Plate 18

Doreen Valiente: Plates 2, 5

Ron Cooke: Plate 3

Alan Meek: Plates 7, 11

Virginia Russell: Plates 6, 13B

Martin Kane: Plate 22

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris: Plate 8

Museum der Bildenen Künste, Leipzig: Plate 14

Dorset County Library: Plates 15, 16

Unknown: Plate 4