Books on magic throughout the cultures

I visited the library today, to search for some more books on my next point of research being. Necromancy. This area's i have looked into briefly with my online research and my findings of Wikipedia; yet i wanted to get some first hand research on this area. After looking through the Millennium library, i found these books that interested me are.

Witchcraft: A history and the study of necromancy throughout the ages

• A very detailed overview of each culture and how magic has appeared throughout the cultures and religions, varying from:
• Egyptian
• African
• Chinese
• Japanese
• Germanic
• Celtic
• Native Americans
• Shamanism - 
• Islamic
• Renaissance
• Christianty
• Roman and Greek
• Viking
• India
• Hinduism and Buddhism
• Beyond here the books looks into rituals, vodoo, spirit walking, dream walking, science and modern day magic

A very useful source of information that helps me branch my research further. Each chapter is about four pages long showing artwork and photographs that are relevant. All in all a very usefull sorce to draw from.

The magic of the Celtic Otherworld: Irish folklore history and rituals.


A much more in depth view into the celtic culture and their views on religion and the supernatural, with heavy links to the dead (otherworld) and the druidic rituals that follows. With links to the celtic language and runes that had mystical meaning. With a heavy focus on the life forces or green world. Though this book is more a referance to how become more in touch with the forces, as a pose to a description of what and why they belived these rituals would help.

Runic amulets and magical objects: Norse and english runes and artifacts.


After my group teaching i decided I wanted too branch into Norse magic, i found this book to help me understand their culture better. The book is very text heavy yet very in depth about germanic and english culture from 200AD onwards and their views on mystical powers. With heavy reference material towards sacred objects and trinkets. Which will prove to be very useful reference material for my enviroment design. Esspeically for magical artefacts and the norse section of my enviroment.



Today i am going to look through these books and find areas that are interesting scanning certain pages for reference and research.
I am useing these sorces alongside this website to help me date each culture.
http://www.worldology.com/Europe/europe_history_lg.htm