A hands-on resource for pagan parents and pagan families with hundreds of rituals, prayers, blessings, and meditations for every occasion along with suggestions for creating a sacred home.

A Book of Pagan Family Prayers and Rituals provides a reference guide for pagans who wish to celebrate their religion as living, family tradition steeped in pagan ritual and pagan prayer.

The book contains:

• Ritual guidelines for weddings, births, birthdays, seasonal celebrations, lunar phases, coming of age, divorce and death.
• Suggestions for the creation of the sacred home (including blessings and household shrines).
• Children’s activities including meditations, mask and rattle making, drumming, and storytelling.
• Prayers for throughout the day.
• Tips for teaching children about paganism.
• References and resources for further information in the appendices.

This book was first published in 1995 under the title The Pagan Family: Handing the Old Ways Down. This new edition is substantially revised and includes new, previously unpublished material.

Ceisiwr Serith (David Fickett-Wilbar) is a writer and teacher in the Pagan community. His interest in prayers and rituals grew naturally as a result of working in the Wiccan and Druidic traditions, as well as writing books such as A Book of Pagan Prayer and Deep Ancestors: Practicing the Religion of the Proto-Indo-Europeans. He is a member of Ár nDraíocht Féin, a Druid fellowship, and is priest and liturgist for Nemos Ognios grove in Durham, NH. He has been published in the Journal of Indo-European Studies and Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium.

Temperance Alden, author of The Year of the Witch

Monica Crosson, author of Wild Magical Soul and The Magickal Family

H. Byron Ballard, witch, priestess, author, Seasons of a Magical Life

John Beckett, author of The Path of Paganism

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