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Leo Ruickbie

LEO RUICKBIE

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11 featured booksLEO RUICKBIE

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