The Gardnerian Book of Shadows

The Gardnerian Book of Shadows is the ritual and instructional text associated with Gerald Gardner’s Wicca, compiled and adapted in the mid-twentieth century. It is historically central to the formation of modern pagan witchcraft, and readers will find rites, invocations, seasonal observances, magical working instructions, and the liturgical framework of Gardnerian practice.

Gerald Brosseau Gardner (1884–1964) was an English writer and occultist best known as a central figure in the public emergence of modern Wicca. His books and related writings helped popularize witchcraft as a contemporary religious movement and had a major impact on twentieth-century pagan and occult literature.