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Tribe of the Oak – Basic Book List

Below is the book list for people wishing to work towards Druidic initiation.

Celtic/Druidic Reading List

For further reading, we would recommend the following books to provide a basic foundation of knowledge:

Historical Resources ~

Nora Chadwick, THE CELTS

Barry Cunliffe, THE CELTIC WORLD

Otto Hermann Frey, Venceslas Kruta, THE CELTS

Miranda Green, THE WORLD OF THE DRUIDS

John Haywood, THE HISTORICAL ATLAS OF THE CELTIC WORLD

Fergus Kelly, A GUIDE TO EARLY IRISH LAW

Fergus Kelly, EARLY IRISH FARMING

Bruce Lincoln, DEATH, WAR AND SACRIFICE

Alwyn and Brinley Rees, CELTIC HERITAGE

Anne Ross, PAGAN CELTIC BRITAIN

Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, GODS AND HEROES OF THE ANCIENT CELTS

Peter Wells, BEYOND CELTS, GERMANS, AND SCYTHIANS: Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe

 

Modern and Historical Druids ~

Ellen Evert Hopman, A LEGACY OF DRUIDS – Conversations with Druid leaders from Britain, the USA and Canada, Past and Present

Ellen Evert Hopman, CELTIC DRUIDRY – Rituals, Techniques & Magical Practices

 

Aids to creating Druidic rituals ~

Alexei Kondratiev, CELTIC RITUALS: AN AUTHENTIC GUIDE TO ANCIENT CELTIC SPIRITUALITY

Robert Barton, DANCE OF OAK & WREN: RITES OF DRAIOCHT

Janet and Colin Bord, EARTH RITES: Fertility Practices in pre-Industrial Britain

Janet and Colin Bord, SACRED WATERS

Alexander Carmichael, CARMINA GADELICA

Cross and Slover, ANCIENT IRISH TALES

Ellen Evert Hopman, A DRUID’S HERBAL FOR THE SACRED EARTH YEAR

Ellen Evert Hopman, A DRUID’S HERBAL OF SACRED TREE MEDICINE

Ellen Evert Hopman, trilogy of Druid novels; PRIESTESS OF THE FOREST, THE DRUID ISLE, PRIESTESS OF THE FIRE TEMPLE

Morgan Daimler, BY LAND SEA AND SKY

Morgan Daimler, WHERE THE HAWTHORN GROWS

 

Suggested texts for further study

Nerys Patterson’s “Cattle Lords and Clansmen”, any of MacNeill’s material–especially the “Silver Bough” volumes and the “Festival of Lughnasadh”, Gregorson’s “The Gaelic Otherworld”, Enright’s “Lady with a Mead Cup”, and Brunaux’s “The Celtic Gauls”, Cunliffe et al., “Celtic from the West”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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