Leo Ruickbie

LEO RUICKBIE

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Leo Ruickbie is an historian and sociologist of magic, witchcraft and Wicca. He is the author of Witchcraft Out of the Shadows, a 2004 publication outlining the history of witchcraft from ancient Greece until the modern day. Ruickbie was born in Scotland and took a Master's degree in Sociology and Religion at the University of Lancaster. He then studied at King's College London and was an awarded a PhD for his thesis entitled The Re-Enchanters: Theorising Re-Enchantment and Testing for its Presence in Modern Witchcraft. On Samhain 2007 he launched Open Source Wicca, a project inspired by the Open Source software movement aimed at making the founding texts of Wicca more readily available by releasing them under a Creative Commons licence. In 2008 and 2009 he exhibited on the subject of witchcraft in France.

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A Brief Guide To Ghost Hunting How To Identify And Investigate Spirits Poltergeists And Hauntings
Representative edition published 2013
Open Work
A Brief Guide to Ghost Hunting
Representative edition published 2013
Open Work
A Brief Guide to the Supernatural
Representative edition published 2012
Open Work
A Brief Guide to the Supernatural
Representative edition published 2012
Open Work
Faustus
Representative edition published 2009
Open Work
WITCHCRAFT OUT OF THE SHADOWS: A COMPLETE HISTORY
Representative edition published 2004
Open Work
Witchcraft Out of the Shadows
Representative edition published 2004
Open Work
Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children
Representative edition published 2020
Open Work
Angels in the Trenches
Representative edition published 2018
Open Work
Impossible Zoo
Representative edition published 2016
Open Work
Little Horrors
Representative edition published 2016
Open Work