Scott Cunningham wrote from within contemporary Wiccan and Neopagan practice as a practitioner himself, and this is a popular practitioner reference, a companion volume to his herbal encyclopedia, listing stones and metals with the traditional and folk magical correspondences and uses taught within that specific practice. This record holds it at the tier appropriate to a popular practitioner reference rather than to independent scholarship or mineralogy, and states that distinction plainly. Use it to document what contemporary Wiccan and folk magic practice associates with a given stone or metal; it is not a mineralogical, historical or academic source, and it is not evidence that a given correspondence predates modern practice unless the entry itself makes that specific historical claim.
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Scott Cunningham's popular practitioner reference, published by Llewellyn, within modern Wiccan and Neopagan magic, listing stones and metals with the traditional and folk magical correspondences taught within that practice; use it to document what contemporary Wiccan and folk magic practice associates with a given stone or metal, not as a mineralogical, historical or academic source, and not as evidence that a correspondence predates modern practice unless the entry itself says so. NotesA popular practitioner reference within modern Wiccan and Neopagan magic, listing stones and metals with their traditional and folk magical correspondences and uses as taught within that practice, a companion volume to Cunningham's herbal encyclopedia. Use to document what contemporary Wiccan and folk-magic practice associates with a given stone or metal; not a mineralogical, historical or academic source, and not evidence that a correspondence predates modern practice unless the entry itself says so.
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AuthorScott Cunningham
PublisherLlewellyn Publications
Publication Year1988
Source Typebook
Claims Backed By This Source (88 claims)
This source backs 88 claims across the atlas. As facts: 65 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 22 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Gemstones, 78 claims: 57 well-attested, 21 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Disciplines, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
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