Witchcraft An Alternative Path
by: Ann Moura 

ISBN 0-7387-0343-5
Price $14.95

I have read a couple of Moura's other books, Green Witchcraft and Green Magic, neither of which overly impressed me.  I wanted to give her another chance since the subject seemed intriguing.

Her discussion of "What Witches Believe" sounded arrogant to me at first, especially with the broad eclecticism of Witchcraft, but she generalize sufficiently to leave room for nearly all paths in The Craft.

She performed the miracle of navigating the history of Witchcraft and never once mentioning any of the pioneers, such as Adler, Buckland, the Farrars or Gardner.  I found her brief descriptions of the sabbats to be confusing with no real interconnectness to one another. 

Overall, the book was a bit dry and disjointed, but the rituals themselves that she provides are lovely.  It's amazing that a person who has such a turn of a phrase in ritual tends to fall flat in book writing.

I completely enjoyed the title of one of her chapters which identified spellwork as "pro-active prayer," a concept that stuck well with me.  I have used the phrase quite a bit since reading it.

Moura winds up the book by offering a discussion of basically how Witches are, moving softly through the world with a strong connection to the Divine.

Although I enjoyed this book much more than the others I have read by her, I still find her writing to be a bit cumbersome.

I give it:

3 pentacles out of 5 

Review by Katrina Rasbold