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Books - Historical Sources, Good and Bad

Robert Graves, The White Goddess
This book was either intended to be a work of literature - which some Wiccans have taken as literal and historical - or it's just complete bunk, depending on who you ask. Graves himself is said to have written:

Some day scholars will sort out the White Goddess grain from the chaff. It's a crazy book and I didn't mean to write it.¹

The drawback to studying this book, at least in my honest opinion, is that it is extraordinarily dull reading.

Margaret A. Murray, The Witch-Cult of Western Europe and The God of the Witches
These are the books the perpetuated the myth of Witchcraft as Old Religion for decades until the theory was thoroughly debunked. They should NOT be taken as accurate scholarship, but rather as insight into the ideas which our mythical history was based upon. For more on Murray, click here.

Sir James G. Frazer, The Golden Bough
I suggest the abridged version, as the full text encompasses 12 volumes.