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Harry Potter
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J.K. Rowling – “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” (8 July 1999)
J.K. Rowling – “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” (8 July 2000)
J.K. Rowling – “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” (21 June 2003)
J.K. Rowling – “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” (21 July 2007)
J.K. Rowling – “Hogwarts Ghosts – Pottermore” (10 August 2015)
Unknown – “The secret lives and deaths of the Hogwarts ghosts” (6 October 2016)
J.K. Rowling – Edinburgh Book Festival (15 August 2004)
MTV – “’Harry Potter’ Author J.K. Rowling Opens Up About Books’ Christian Imagery” (17 October 2007)
Fanworks
Arkodian – “The Breaking of Glass” (26 May 2023)
ATiredAndDeadWriter – “A Speaker and His Wraiths” (12 March 2022)
something_rotten – “Blue of Blood” (19 June 2021)
something_rotten – “A Touch of Death” (25 November 2021)
NovusArs – “Ouroboros” (6 October 2019)
Wicca and Gardner
James W. Baker – “White Witches: Historic Fact and Romantic Fantasy” (1996)
Sabina Magliocco – “Ritual is My Chosen Art Form: The Creation of Ritual as Folk Art Among Contemporary Pagans” (1996)
Ethan Doyle White – “Wicca: History, Belief, and Community in Modern Pagan Witchcraft” (2016)
Rosemary Ellen Guiley – “The Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft” (1999)
Jacqueline Simpson – “Margaret Murray: Who Believed Her, and Why” (1994)
Ronald Hutton – “The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present” (2017)
Gerald B. Gardner – “Witchcraft Today” (1954)
Philip Heselton – “Witchfather: A Life of Gerald Gardner” (2012a)
Philip Heselton –“Witchfather: A Life of Gerald Gardner” (2012b)
Lois Bourne – “Dancing with Withces” (2006)
Jacqueline Simpson – “Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America” (2005)
Hugh B. Urban – “The Goddess and the Great Rite: Sex Magic and Feminism in the Neo-Pagan Revival” (2006)
Gerald B. Gardner – “The Meaning of Witchcraft” (“004)[1959]
Yule
Lenka Kovářová – “The Swine in Old Nordic Religion and Worldview” (2011)
Lee M. Hollander – “Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway” (2007)
Andreas Nordberg – "Jul, disting och förkyrklig tideräkning" (2006)
Joseph F. Kelly – “The Feast of Christmas” (2010)
Joe Perry – “Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History” (2010)
Scott C. Lowe, Fitz Allhoff – “Christmas – Philosophy for Everyone” (2010)
Greg Dues – “Advent and Christmas” (2008)
Teddy Colbert – “The Living Wreath” (1996)
Angie Mosteller – “Christmas” (2008)
David C. Cook – “The Inspirational Christmas Almanac” (2006)
Gordon Geddes, Jane Griffiths – “Christian Belief and Practice” (2002)
Henry Bourne – 1725
Alexander Tille – “Yule and Christmas, their place in the Germanic year” (1899)
Ronald Hutton – “The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain” (1996)
Imbolc
Ronald Hutton – “The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain” (1996)
The Wooing of Emer by Cú Chulainn
Kevin Danaher – “The Year in Ireland: Irish Calendar Customs” (1972)
Patricia Monaghan – “The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore” (2004)
Alexander Carmichael – “Carmina Gadelica; Hymns and Incantations, Ortha Nan Gaidheal, Volume 1” (1900)
Katharine Briggs – “An Encyclopedia of Fairies” (1976)
Ostara
Rudolph Simek – “Dictionary of Northern Mythology” (1996)
Guus Kroonen – “Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic” (2013)
Richard Sermon – “From Easter to Ostara: the Reinvention of a Pagan Goddess” (2008)
Martin L. West – “Indo-European Poetry and Myth” (2007)
J. P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams – “Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture” (1997)
Philip A. Shaw – “Pagan goddesses in the early Germanic world: Eostre. Hreda and the cult of the matrons” (2011)
Faith Wallis – “Bede: The Reckoning of Time” (1999)
Richard Sermon – “Eostre and the Matronae Austriahenae” (2022)
Richard L. Zettler, Lee Horne, Donald P. Hansen, Holly Pittman – “Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur” (1998)
Peter Gainsford – “Easter and paganism. Part 2” (2018)
Krystal D’Costa – “Beyond Ishtar: The Tradition of Eggs at Easter” (2013)
Kenneth Thompson – “Culture and Progress: Early Sociology of Culture, Volume 8” – (2013)
Micheal J. Murray, Micheal C. Rhea – “An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion” (2008)
Anne Jordan – “Christianity” (2000)
Georg Franck von Franckenau – “Disputatione ordinaria disquirens de ovis paschalibus / von Oster-Eyern” (1682)
Stephen Winick – “On the Bunny Trail: In Search of the Easter Bunny” (2016)
Gary Cross – “Wonderous Innocence and Modern American Children’s Culture” (2004)
Kenneth Barker – “Zondervan NIV Study Bible” (2002)
Karl Gerlach – “The Antenicene Pascha: A Rhetorical History” (1998)
Bealtaine
Ronald Hutton – “The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain” (1996)
John T. Koch – “Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia” (2006)
Jack Santino – “The Hallowed Eve: Dimensions of a Culture in a Calendar Festival of Northern Ireland
Whitley Stokes, John O’Donovan – “Sanas Cormaic: Cormac’s Glossary” (1868)
Kuno Meyer – “The Wooing of Emer by Cú Chulainn” (1888)
Geoffrey Keating – “The History of Ireland – Translated by David Comyn and Patrick S. Dineen” (1902)
Nerys Patterson – “Cattle Lords and Clansmen: The Social Structure of Early Ireland” (1994)
James MacKillop – “A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology” (1998)
Roseanne Schot – “Uisneach Midi a medón Érenn: a prehistoric cult centre and royal site in Co. Westmeath” (2006)
John Jamieson – “Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language” (1808)
Nora Chadwick – “The Celts” (1970)
Kevin Danaher – “The Year in Ireland: Irish Calendar Customs” (1972)
Emyr Estyn Evans – “Irish Folk Ways” (1905)
James George Frazer – “The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion” (1992)
Alexander Carmichael – “Carmina Gadelica; Hymns and Incantations, Ortha Nan Gaidheal, Volume 1” (1900)
Volume 0123 of The Schools’ Collection, Dublin City University Archive
Volume 0065 of The Schools’ Collection, Dublin City University Archive
Volume 0911 of The Schools’ Collection, Dublin City University Archive
F. Marian McNeill – “The Silver Bough Volume 2” (1959)
Josh Gregorson Campbell – “The Gaelic Otherworld” (1902)
Volume 0083 of The Schools’ Collection, Dublin City University Archive
Volume 0096 of The Schools’ Collection, Dublin City University Archive
Volume 0015 of The Schools’ Collection, Dublin City University Archive
Litha
Sandra Billington – “The Concept of the Goddess” (2002)
Faith Wallis – “Bede: The Reckoning of Time” (1999)
Lughnasadh
Garret Olmsted – “The Gods of the Celts and the Indo-Europeans” (1994)
Patricia Monaghan – “The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore” (2004)
John T. Koch – “Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia” (2006)
Elizabeth A. Gray – “Cath Maige Tuired: The Second battle of Mag Tuired” (1982)
Whitley Stokes – “The Second Battle of Moytura” (1891)
Isolde Carmody – “Lug comes to Tara” (2012)
Tom Peete Cross, Clark Harris Slover – “The Fate of the Children of Tuirenn” (1936)
Ronald Hicks, Laura Elder – “Festivals, Deaths, and the Sacred Landscape of Ancient Ireland” (2003)
Fergus Kelly – “Early Irish Farming” (1997)
Nerys Patterson – “Cattle-lords and Clansmen: The Social Structure of Early Ireland” (1994)
F. Marian MacNeill – “The Festival of Lughnasa” (1962)
Kevin Danaher – “The Year in Ireland: Irish Calendar Customs” (1972)
Volume 0949 of The Schools’ Collection, Dublin City University Archive
Mabon
Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, Oberon Zell-Ravenheart – “Creating Circles and Ceremonies: Rituals for All Seasons and Reasons” (2006)
Ranko Matasović – “Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic” (2009)
John T. Koch – “Maponos” (2006)
John Cotterell – “The Encyclopedia of Mythology” (2007)
Proto-Celtic – English / English – Proto-Celtic Lexicon from University of Wales
Elizabeth Hale Winkler – “The Function of Song in Contemporary British Drama” (1990)
Patti Wigington- “The Legend of John Barleycorn” (2019)
Kathleen Herbert – “Looking for the Lost Gods of England” (2007)
Melissa Seims – “CHARLES CLARK – Gardnerian High Priest and child of The Wica” (2005)
Samhain
Patricia Monaghan – “The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore” (2004)
Ronald Hutton – “Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain” (1996)
F. Marian MacNeill – “The Silver Bough Volume 3” (1961)
John Gregorson Campbell – “The Gaelic Otherworld” (1902)
John Arnott MacCulloch – “The Religion of the Ancient Celts” (1911)
James George Frazer – “The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion” (1922)
Robert O’Driscoll – “The Celtic Consciousness” (1981)
Sharon MacLeod – “Celtic Myth and Religion” (2012)
John T. Koch – “Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia” (2006)
Walter Evans-Wentz – “The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries” (1911)
Kevin Danaher – “The Year in Ireland: Irish Calendar Customs” (1972)
Christina Hole – “British Folk Customs” (1976)
S.V. Peddle – “Pagan Channel Islands: Europe’s Hidden Heritage” (2007)
F. Marian McNeill – “Hallowe’en: Its Origins, Rites and Ceremonies in the Scottish Traditions
Bettina Arnold – “Bettina Arnold – Halloween Lecture: Halloween Customs in the Celtic World” (2001)
Kingsley Palmer – “Oral folk-tales of Wessex” (1973)
David Scofield Wilson – “Rooted in America: Foodlore of Popular Fruits and Vegetables” (1999)
Nicholas Rogers – “Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night” (2002)
Brian K. Roberts – “The Making of the English Village” (1987)
Hugh O’Donnel, Malcolm Foley – “Treat or Trick? Halloween in a Globalising World” (2008)
Bill Doggett, Gordon W. Lathrop – “New Proclamation Commentary on Feasts, Holy Days, and Other Celebrations” (2007)
William Benham – “The Dictionary of Religion: An Encyclopedia of Christian and Other Religious Doctrines, Denominations, Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Terms, History, Biography, Etc.” (1887)
James A. Hopwood – “Keeping Christmas: Finding Joy in a Season of Excess and Strife” (2019)
William Saunders – “All Saints and All Souls” (2003)
David Farmer – “The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (Fifth Edition, Revised)” (2011)
New Catholic Encyclopedia (Second Edition) – (2003)
Paul Burns, Alban Butler – “Butler’s Saint for the Day” (2007)
Margo DeMello – “A Cultural Encyclopedia of the Human Face” (2012)
Views on Magic and Witchcraft
W. R. Smith – “On the Forms of Divination and Magic enumerated in Deut. XVIII. 10, 11” (1885)
Hans Dieter Betz – “The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells Volume 1” (1992)
Wolfgang Behringer – “Witches and Witch-hunts: A Global History” (2004)
Elizabeth Foster-Feigenbaum – “The Middle Ages as a Conducive Period to the Witch Craze” (2018)
Rober Poole – “John Dee and the English Calendar: Science, Religion and Empire” (29 February 1996)
György E Szönyi – “John Dee and Early Modern Occult Philosophy” (15 December 2005)
György E Szönyi – “John Dee’s Occultism: Magical Exaltation through Powerful Signs” (15 January 2010)
Ken MacMillan – “Discourse on History, Geography, and Law: John Dee and the Limits of the British Empire” (2001)
Dorothy Watts – “Christians and Pagans in Roman Britain” (1991)
David Petts – “Christianity in Roman Britain” (2003)