| Edition |
First paperback edition. |
| Description |
viii, 276 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Stone City -- Little witch -- Naked in the new forest -- Keep your weapons peace-bonded! -- The Feri current -- Diana of the prairies -- The mass -- The vetting process -- Cycle one -- Morpheus and the Morrigan -- Making priests -- The binding -- Proof; or, the creeping of your skin -- Coru Cathubodua -- Three nights at the castle -- The small question of Satan -- Sympathy for the necromancer -- And the crows will eat my eyes -- Enter the swamp. |
| Summary |
"Witches of America is a memoir of Alex Mar's immersive five-year trip into the occult, as both a journalist and someone searching for her own faith. She explores modern Paganism - from its roots in 1950s England to its present-day American mecca in the San Francisco Bay Area; from a gathering of more than a thousand witches in the Illinois woods to the New Orleans branch of one of the world's most influential magical societies - and decides to train in a coven herself. With keen intelligence and wit, Mar illuminates the world of witchcraft while grappling in fresh and unexpected ways with the question underlying every faith: Why do we choose to believe in anything at all? Whether evangelical Christian, Pagan priestess, or atheist, each of us craves a system of meaning to give structure to our lives. Sometimes we just find it in unexpected places." from the publisher's website. |
| Subject |
Neopaganism -- United States.
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Wicca -- United States.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious.
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RELIGION -- Wicca.
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Neopaganism. (OCoLC)fst01035867
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Wicca. (OCoLC)fst01765209
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| ISBN |
0374536430 |
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9780374536435 |
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