Basic search:
- Get off your ass. (I know, it’s hard.)
- Direct your browser to Google.com.
- Choose the main keywords of your question. For example, “what is calendula good for in witchcraft?” might be parsed as “calendula witchcraft magickal correspondences”.
- Hit enter.
For more in depth research, try these sites:
- JSTOR.org, if you have access to it.
- Online public library catalogs to find books. (Search your county and “public library.”)
- Amazon Kindle. It can be put on your computer for free, there is a Cloud Reader online and a free smartphone app. Filter by price and you can find witchcraft and occult ebooks for free through a few simple searches.
- Google Books for the same purpose. (There is a shit ton here, btw, I use it all the time.)
- Scribd.com for the same purpose.
- Cornell University online witchcraft collection.
- Hermetic.com for public domain magick texts.
- Sacred-texts.com for all sorts of neat shit.
- Alchemy-works.com for magickal lore on plants.
- Search your county’s website for weed/plant information to get a list of things growing in your area.
Some tips to aid in research:
- Use your browser’s bookmarks.
- Use the Amazon wishlist to keep track of titles, or to keep an eye on titles that are occasionally offered for free on Kindle.
- Look around on publishers, like LuLu, Immanion Press, etc, for self-published material.
- Cross reference with lots of sources to keep on top of the BS.
- Take good notes.
- Dirty experience/field work is better than reading/book work.
Mkay? After you’ve done all that, come back and ask about what you still can’t find. (Trust me, you’ll find most of it, if not all and more.) You have no fucking excuse to be on blogger asking about the basics of paganism or what such and such plant does for witchcraft, or how to summon demons. Harassing people for basic knowledge gets you nowhere. There is so much out there even just online. You do not need the newest, shiniest books by the most popular authors. You do not need to attack people when they tell you to go research on your own. The information is right fucking there. Now go get it.
