
The most famous Book of Shadows was created by the pioneering Wiccan Gerald Gardner sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s, and which he utilised first in his Bricket Wood coven and then in other covens which he founded in following decades. Since its conception in the 1970s, it has made its way into many pagan practices and paths.

One of Gerald Gardner's earliest Books of Shadows.Ī Book of Shadows is a book containing religious text and instructions for magical rituals found within the Neopagan religion of Wicca.
