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                           CELTIC CRAFT READING LIST - 6 JULY 1991 
                                       Rowan Moonstone
 
           *** Marks especially good books. Read these FIRST!!  Keep in mind,
           this is simply a listing of the books that I have found useful.
           Question everything.
 
           A.E.(GEORGE RUSSELL); "The Candle of Vision", Quest Books,
           Theosophical Pub. 1975
 
           ALFORD, VIOLET; "The Hobbyhorse & Other Animal Masks", Merlin Press
           1978
 
           AMERICAN CONFERENCE FOR IRISH STUDIES; "Guide to Irish Studies in
           the U.S.A." 1987
 
           ANWYL, EDWARD; "Celtic Religion in Pre-christian Times", Archibald
           Constable & Co. 1906 ***
 
           ARTOS, ALLEN; "Arthur, The King of Light", Lorien House 1986
 
           ASHE, GEOFFREY; "The Ancient Wisdom", London 1977
 
           BAIN, GEORGE; "Celtic Art: The Methods of Construction", Dover Pub.
           1973
 
           BARBER, CHRIS; "Mysterious Wales", Paladin Press 1983
 
           BOASE, WENDY; "Folklore of Hampshire & the Isle of Wight", Rowman
           & Littlefield 1976
 
           BONWICK, JAMES; "Irish Druids and Old Irish Religion", Arno Press
           1976
 
           BORD, JANET & COLIN; "The Secret Country", Grenada 1978 ***
 
           BORD, JANET & COLIN; "Mysterious Britain", Grenada 1974 ***
 
           BORD, JANET & COLIN; "Earth Rites", Grenada 1983 ***
 
           BORD, JANET & COLIN; "Sacred Waters", Paladin Books 1986 ***
 
           BREFFNY, BRIAN DE, ed.; "Ireland, A Cultural Encyclopedia", Thames
           & Hudson 1983
 
           BREFFNY, BRIAN DE; " The Irish World", Thames & Hudson 1986
 
           BRIGGS, KATHERINE; "Abbey Lubbers, Banshees, & Boggarts", Pantheon
           1979
 
           BRIGGS, KATHERINE; "Nine Lives; Cats in Folklore", Rudledge & Kegen
           Paul 1980
 
           BROWN, PETER, ed. & selected by; "Book of Kells", Alfred A. Knopf
           1980
 
           CAMPBELL, J.F. & GEORGE HENDERSON; "The Celtic Dragon Myth",
           Newcastle Pub. 1981
 
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           CARMICHAEL, ALEXANDER; "Celtic Invocations", Vineyard 1972
 
           CASTLEDEN, RODNEY; "The Wilmington Giant", Turnstone 1983
 
           CHADWICK, NORA; "The Celts", Pelician 1970
 
           CHANT,JOY; "The High Kings", Bantam 1983
 
           CHMELOVA, ELENA; "Celtic Tales", Exeter Books 1982
 
           CLARE, T.; "Archelogical Sites of Devon & Cornwall", Moorland Pub.
           1982
 
           COGHLAN, RONAN; "Dictionary of Irish Myth and Legend", Donard Press
           1979
 
           COHANE, JOHN PHILLIP; "The Key", Crown Pub. 1969
 
           COLLUM, PADRAIG; "Treasury of Irish Folklore", Crown Pub. 1967
 
           COLLUM, PADRAIC; "Treasury of Irish Folklore", rev. ed. Killenny
           Press 1967
 
           COLLUM, PADRAIC; "The King of Ireland's Son", McMillian & sons 1933
 
           CONWAY, D.J.; "Celtic Magic", Llewellyn Pub. 1990
 
           COOKE, GRACE & IVAN; "The Light in Britain", White Eagle Pub. Trust
           1983
 
           COSMAN, MADELEINE, PELNER; "Medieval Holidays and Festivals",
           Charles Scribmer & Sons 1981
 
           CROSSLEY-HOLLAND, KEVIN, ed.; "Mabon of the Mabinogion", Thorsen
           Pub. 1984
 
           CUNLIFFE, BARRY; "The Celtic World", McGraw Hill MCMLXXIX ***
 
           CURTAIN, JEREMIAH; "Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland", Dover Books
           1975
 
           DAMES, MICHAEL; "The Avebury Cycle", Thames & Hudson 1977 ***
 
           DANAHER, KEVIN; "The Year in Ireland", (Leinster Leader, Ltd. 1972)
           Mercier Press 1972 ***
 
           DANIEL, GLYN & PAUL BAHN; "Ancient Places - The Prehistoric &
           Celtic Sites of Britian", Constable 1987
 
           DAVIDSON, THOMAS; "Rowan Tree and Red Thread", Edinburgh 1949
           DAVIES, EDWARD; "The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids",
           J. Booth 1809
 
           DELANEY, FRANK; "The Celts", Little Brown & Co. 1986
 
           DILLON, MYLES; "Early Irish Literature", University of Chicago
           Press 1948
 
 
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           DINNENN, REV. PATRICK S.; "Irish- English Dictionary", Irish Textes
           Society 1927
 
           DUGGAN, COLM; "Treasures of Irish Folklore", Mercantile Marketing
           Consultants, Ltd. 1983
 
           DYER, JAMES; "The Penguin Guide To Prehistoric England & Wales",
           Penguin Books
 
           EVANS-WENTZ, W. Y.; "The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries",
           Universtiy Books 1966 ***
 
           FELL, BARRY; "America, B.C.", Wallaby Books 1976
 
           FITZPATRICK, JIM; "The Silver Arm", Paper Tiger Press 1981
 
           FITZPATRICK, JIM; "The Book of Conquests", E.P. Dutton 1978
 
           FLOWER, ROBIN; "The Irish Tradition", Clarendon Press 1947/1978
 
           FORDE, JOHNSTON J.; "Prehistoric Britian & Ireland", W.W. Norton
           & Co. 1976
 
           FRAZIER, SIR JAMES GORDON; "The Golden Bough", (The Macmillan
           Company, 1951) Avenel 1981
 
           FRENCH, J.M.F.; "Prehistoric Faith and Worship", London 1912
 
           FROUD, BRIAN & ALAN LEE; "Faeries", Harry M. Abrams 1978
 
           GANTZ, JEFFERY; "Early Irish Myths & Sagas", Penquin 1982
 
           GERALD OF WALES; "The History & Topography of Ireland", Penquin
           1982
 
           GLASSIE, HENRY; "Irish Folk History", University of Pennsylvannia
           Press 1982
 
           GREGORY, LADY AUGUSTA; "Visions and Beliefs in the West of
           Ireland", Colin Smythe 1920/1979
 
           GREGORY, LADY AUGUSTA; "Gods and Fighting Men of the Celts", John
           Murray 1913 ***
 
           GUARD, DAVID, "Dierdre: A Celtic Legend", Celestial Arts 1977
 
           HERM, GERHARD; "The Celts", St. Martin's Press 1975
 
           HIGGINS, GODFREY; "Celtic Druids", Philosohpical Research Society
           1977
 
           HOPE, MURRY; "Practical Celtic Magic", Aquarian Press 1987
 
           IRISH TEXTES SOCIECTY; "Poems of Egan O'Rahilly", Rev. P.S. Dinnenn
           & T.O. Donough 1966
 
 
 
 
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           IRISH TEXTES SOCIECTY; "Duanaine Finn", Vol VII, part 1, ed. &
           trans. Eoin MacNeil
 
           IRISH TEXTES SOCIECTY; Keating, "History of Ireland, Vol 1-4,
           1902/1987
 
           IRISH TEXTES SOCIECTY; "Adventures of Suibhne Geilt", ed. & trans.
           J.G. O'Keefe 1913
 
           IRISH TEXTES SOCIECTY; "Poems on the Marcher Lords", ed. Anne
           O'Sullivan & Padrain O'Riain 1987
 
           IRISH TEXTES SOCIECTY; "Labor Gabala Erenn", parts 1-4, Trans.
           R.A.S. MacAlister 1941 ***
 
           JACKSON, KENNETH HURLSTONE; "A Celtic Miscellany", Penguin 1980
 
           JACKSON, KENNETH HURLESTONE; "The Oldest Irish Tradition; A Window
           on the Iron Age", Cambridge 1964
 
           JACOBS, JOSEPH; "Celtic Fairy Tales", Dover 1963
 
           JONES, GWYN & THOMAS; "The Mabinogion", Dragon's Dream 1982 ***
 
           JOYCE, P.W.; "Social History of Ancient Ireland", Vol 1 & 2
           Benjamin Blum Pub. 1968 ***
 
           KERR, MILDRED L., HARNES, ELIZABETH & ROSS, FRANCES; "Giants &
           Faires", Charles E. Merrill Co. 1946
 
           KINSELLA, THOMAS; "The Tain", Oxford Univ. Press 1969 ***
 
           KNEIGHTLY, THOMAS; "The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves, and
           Other Little People", Avenel Press 1978
 
           KNIGHT, GARETH; "The Secret Tradition in Arthurian Legend",
           Aquarian Press 1983
 
           KRUTA, VENCESLAS & VERNER FORMAN; "The Celts of the West", Orbis
           1985
 
           LEAMY, EDMUND; "Golden Spears", Desmond Fitzgerald 1911
 
           LEHMANN, RUTH P.M.; "Early Irish Verse", University of Texas Press
           1982
 
           LOGAN, PATRICK; "The Old Gods", Apple Tree Press 1981
 
           LONSDALE, STEVEN; "Animals & the Origin of the Dance", Thames &
           Hudson 1982
 
           LUCY, SEAN; "Love Poems of the Irish", Mercier Press 1977
 
           MACALISTER, R.A.S.; "Tara; A Pagan Sanctuary of Ancient Ireland",
           Charles Schribner & Sons 1931 ***
 
           MACCANA, PROINSIAS; "Celtic Mythology", Hamlyn Pub. 1970
 
 
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           MACCULLOCH, JOHN ARNOTT; "Religion of the Ancient Celts", Folcroft
           Library, 1977rep.
 
           MACCULLOCH, JOHN ARNOTT; "The Mythology of all Races in Thirteen
           volumes; Celtic, Volume III.", Cooper Square Pub. 1967
 
           MACLENNAN, MALCOLM; "A Promouncing & Emtylogical Dictionary of the
           Gaelic Language", (Scots Gaelic) Aberdeen Univ. Press 1979
 
           MACMANUS, SEUMAS; "The Story of the Irish Race", Devin-Adair Co.
           1981
 
           MACNEILL, MAIRE; "The Festival of Lughnasa", Oxford, 1962 ***
 
           MARKALE, JEAN; "Women of the Celts", Inner Traditions International
           Ltd. 1986
 
           MARRIS, RUTH; "The Singing Swans & Other Irish Stories", Fontana
           Lions 1978
 
           MARSH, HENRY; "Dark Age Britain", Dorset Press 1970
 
           MATTHEWS, CAITLIN; "The Elements of The Goddess", Element Books
           1989
 
           MATTHEWS, CAITLIN; "The Elements of The Celtic Tradition", Element
           Books 1989
 
           McNEIL, F. MARTIN; "The Silver Bough, Vol 1.: Scottish Folklore &
           Beliefs", Cannon Gate Classic 1956/1989
 
           O'BRIEN, CHRISTIAN; "The Megalithic Odyssey", Turnstone 1983
 
           O'CONNOR, FRANK; "Short History of Irish Literature", Capricorn
           Books 1967
 
           O'CONNOR, NORREYS; "Battles & Enchantments", Books for Libraries
           Press 1922/1970
 
           O'DRISCOLL, ROBERT; "The Celtic Consciousness", George Braziller
           1982
 
           O'SULLIVAN, DONALD; "Carolan: The Life & Times & Music of an Irish
           Harper", Vol 1 & 2, Celtic Music 1983
 
           PEPPERS & WILCOCK; "A Guide to Magical & Mystical Sites - Europe
           & the British Isles", Harper Colophon Books 1977
 
           POWELL, T.G.E.; "The Celts", Thames & Hudson 1980
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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           QUILLER, PETER & COURTNEY DAVIS; "Merlin, The Immortal", Spirit of
           Celtia 1984
 
           REES, ALWEN & BRINLEY; "Celtic Heritage", Oxford 1971 ***
 
           RHYS, JOHN; "Celtic Folklore, Welsh & Manx, Vol.I"
 
           ROLLESTON, T.W.; "Myths & Legends - Celtic", Avenel Press 1985
 
           ROSS, ANNE; "Pagan Celtic Britian", Rudledge & Kegen Paul 1967 ***
 
           ROSS, ANNE, & DON ROBBINS; "The Life & Death of A Druid Prince",
           Summit 1989 ***
 
           RUTHERFORD, WARD; "Celtic Mythology", Aquarian Press 1987
 
           RUTHERFORD, WARD; "The Druids, Magicians of the West", Aquarian
           Press 1978 ***
 
           SEYMOUR, ST. JOHN; "Irish Witchcraft and Demonology", 1913
 
           SHARKEY, JOHN; "Celtic Mysteries", Thames & Hudson 1975/1987
 
           SJOESTEDT, MARIE-LOUISE; "Gods and Heroes of the Celts", Methven
           & Co. Ltd. 1949 ***
 
           SMITH, LESLEY M.; "The Dark Age: The Making of Britian", Schocker
           Books 1984
 
           SPENCE, LEWIS; "The Minor Traditions of British Mythology", Rider
           & Co. 1948
 
           SPENCE, LEWIS; "The Magic Arts in Celtic Britain", Anchor Press
 
           SPENCE, LEWIS; "British Fairy Origins", Aquarian Press 1946
 
           SQUIRE, CHARLES; "Celtic Myth & Legend, Poetry & Romance",
           Newcastle 1975 ***
 
           STEWART, R.J.; "Book of Merlin", Blandford Press 1988
 
           STEWART, R.J., ed.; "Merlin & Woman", Blandford Press 1988
 
           STEWART, R.J.;  "Mystic Life of Merlin", Arcana Press 1986
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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           STEWART, R.J.; "The Underworld Tradition", Aquarian Press 1985
 
           SUTHERLAND, ELISABETH; "Ravens & Black Rain", Corgi Books 1985 ***
 
           THURNEYSON; "Old Irish Reader", Dublin Institut for Advanced
           Studies 1968
 
           TOULSON, SHIRLEY; "The Winter Solstice", Jill Norman & Hobhouse
           1981 ***
 
           WHITE, CAROLYN; "A History of Irish Fairies", Mercier Press 1976
           ***
 
           WHITLOCK, RALPH; "In Search of Lost Gods", Phaidon Press 1979
 
           WILDE, LADY; "Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, & Superstitions of
           Ireland With Sketches of the Irish Past" Chatto & Windus 1925
 
           WILLIAMS, GWYNN A.; "Madoc, The Legend of the Welsh Discovery of
           America", Oxford Univ. Press 1987
 
           WILLIAMSON, JOHN; "The Oak King, the Holly King & the Unicorn",
           Harper & Row 1974 ***
 
           WOOD-MARTIN, W. G.; "Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland, Vols
           1 & 2", Kennicat Pub. 1902/1970 ***
 
           YEATS, W.B.; "Fairy & Folktales of Ireland", Pan Books 1882 & 1882/
           1973
 
           YEATS, W.B. & LADY GREGORY; "Irish Myth, Legend, & Folklore",
           Avenel Press 1986
 
           YOUNG, ELLA; "The Wondersmith and His Son", David McKay Co. 1927
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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