Biography
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.
Books by Leo Ruickbie
Cultural Construction of Monst
Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children
Angels in the Trenches
Angels in the Trenches
Impossible Zoo
Impossible Zoo
A Brief Guide to Ghost Hunting
A Brief Guide To Ghost Hunting How To Identify And Investigate Spirits Poltergeists And Hauntings
A Brief Guide to the Supernatural
Witchcraft Out of the Shadows
WITCHCRAFT OUT OF THE SHADOWS: A COMPLETE HISTORY