The Complete Modern Grimoire

When an Anglo-Saxon healer treated elf-shot, she didn't simply apply herbs and hope. She sang over them. She named the elves. She performed specific gestures at dawn, facing east, and invoked Woden's nine herbs in a sequence that had been handed down for generations before someone thought to write it in a manuscript that now sits in the British Library.

The Complete Modern Grimoire, Volume I: Heritage and Tradition recovers that written record: British magical practice from the prehistoric water deposits of the Bronze Age through the metrical charms of the Anglo-Saxon leechbooks, the planetary frameworks of the medieval grimoires, and the living regional traditions of Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. It contains the full Nine Herbs Charm and its Old English text. The planetary hours and how to calculate them for any latitude. The twenty-eight lunar mansions. The Solomonic circle. The holy wells of Holywell, Madron, and Ffynnon Elian. The Highland saining rites. The theoretical architecture that united all of it.

This is the foundation volume. If you want to understand why the witch bottle works the way it does-why you bury it under the hearthstone rather than the threshold, why the nails must be bent, what cosmological logic makes the whole operation cohere-the answer is here.
The practice is in Volume II: Folk Magic and Practice, which covers what people actually did with these traditions at ground level: the cunning folk, the horsemen, the ghost-layers, the weather-workers. Both volumes contain practical reconstructions of historical workings. Both rest on primary sources and peer-reviewed scholarship. Together they constitute a complete account. This one tells you what was believed. Volume II tells you what was done.