(^108) A Wiccan Bible

Liber ab Planta

(Book of Plants—Condensed

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The First Order of Life

Study Material for the First Degree

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“In Jamaica, if you want to purchase a candle wrapped with a piece of

paper on which a prayer to lift sickness is written, you go to the ‘drug store.’

If instead you want to purchase the prescription that was given to you by one

with a degree [in medicine] you go to a ‘pharmacy.’ Who be these doctors

that would dare not prescribe prayer? Who be these priests that would dare

not prescribe medicine? Being a civilized woman, I’ll not call for their

heads but instead for their shame, for a graduate of either school

is ignorant having not at least respect for the other school.”

—Tatia Kingslady, January 1982^2

y first book began with “Double, double toil and trouble” to paint the

picture of three old hags stirring a cauldron as the classic Witch charac-

ters in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. My second book cited the ingredients

Min that cauldron:

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