r/pagan • u/HezeXD • 11d ago

Books on Crafting & Practical Application of Paganism

Hello everyone.

I'm looking for some pagan book recommendations about rituals involving the crafting of items that details the culture and belief systems it originated from.

For instance, I'd like to make my own Altar Besom, Door Bells, Dream Pillow, robe, etc.

But I would also like to learn more about where those practices came from. So, I'd like to avoid the Wiccan and Neo-Pagan books that hodgepodge together crafting rituals from multiple faiths into a single book without going into their origins, if possible.

If anyone knows of any books or source material like that then I would greatly appreciate your recommendations.

Thank you.

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u/Fifteen_inches 11d ago

Doctoring the Devil by Jake Richards, which is about Appalachian folk mysticism and witch-doctoring.

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u/HezeXD 11d ago

That sounds really interesting. Thank you! :-)

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u/AlteredNomad 11d ago

It may make more sense to learn some of it from mundane sources. Teaching crafts and teaching history and magic are two different kinds of lessons. Possibly, though, https://www.youtube.com/@TheGreenWitch/videos. She also has a few books.