Mastering Witchcraft: A Practical Guide for Witches, Warlocks and Covens is a book written by Paul Huson

Paul Huson

Paul Huson is a British-born author and artist currently living in the United States. In addition to writing several books about occultism and witchcraft he has worked extensively in the film and television industries.-Family:...

 and published in 1970 by G.P. Putnams- the first mainstream publisher to produce a do-it-yourself manual for the would-be witch or warlock

Warlock

The term warlock in origin means "traitor, oathbreaker".In early modern Scots, the word came to be used as the male equivalent of witch ....

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The book has been described as one of the main motivators of the so-called "occult explosion" of the 1970s; it was regarded as one of the chief sources of information and ritual for non-Wicca

Wicca

Wicca , is a modern Pagan religious movement. Developing in England in the first half of the 20th century, Wicca was popularised in the 1950s and early 1960s by a Wiccan High Priest named Gerald Gardner, who at the time called it the "witch cult" and "witchcraft," and its adherents "the Wica."...

n and non-feminist witchcraft.

Further references to Mastering Witchcraft and witchcraft

• Clifton, Chas S.
  Chas S. Clifton
  Chas S. Clifton is an American academic, author and historian who specialises in the fields of English studies and Pagan studies. Clifton currently holds a teaching position in English at Colorado State University-Pueblo, prior to which he taught at Pueblo Community College.A practicing Pagan...
  
  , Her Hidden Children: The Rise of Wicca and Paganism in America, Lanham, MD: Rowman Altamira, 2006, ISBN 0759102023.
• Farrar, Stewart
  Stewart Farrar
  Frank Stewart Farrar , who always went by the name of Stewart Farrar, was an English screenwriter, novelist and prominent figure in the Neopagan religion of Wicca, which he devoted much of his later life to propagating with the aid of his seventh wife, Janet Farrar, and then his friend Gavin Bone...
  
  , Eight Sabbats for Witches, ISBN 0919345263.
• Lewis, James R. (ed), Magical Religion and Modern Witchcraft, Baker, James W., "White Witches: Historic Fact and Romantic Fantasy", Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996, ISBN 0-7914-2890-7.
• Skelton, Robin
  Robin Skelton
  Robin Skelton was a British-born academic, writer, poet, and anthologist.Born in Easington, Yorkshire, Skelton was educated at the University of Leeds and Cambridge University. From 1944 to 1947, he served with the Royal Air Force in India. He later taught at Manchester University...
  
  , Spellcraft, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978, ISBN 0-7710-8177-4.
• Luhrmann, T.M.
  Tanya Luhrmann
  Tanya Marie Luhrmann is an American psychological anthropologist best known for her studies of modern-day witches, charismatic Christians, and psychiatrists. She received her AB summa cum laude in Folklore and Mythology from Harvard-Radcliffe in 1981, working with Stanley Tambiah...
  
  , Persuasions of the Witch's Craft, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989, ISBN 0-674-66323-3.
• Valiente, Doreen
  Doreen Valiente
  Doreen Edith Dominy Valiente , who also went under the craft name Ameth, was an influential English Wiccan who was involved in a number of different early traditions, including Gardnerianism, Cochrane's Craft and the Coven of Atho...
  
  , The Rebirth of Witchcraft, London: Robert Hale, 1989, ISBN 0-7090-3715-5.