Ray and Pat Browne Books (Paperback): Popular Witchcraft: Straight from the Witch's Mouth (Paperback)

Jack Fritscher
University of Wisconsin Press
 9780299203047
0-299-20304-2

Popular Witchcraft: Straight from the Witchs Mouth, inspired by the British Gerald Gardners Witchcraft Today, was the first book to be published on popular American witchcraft and remains the classic survey.

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of white and black magic. Newly revised and updated for twenty-first-century readers, the authoran ordained but marvelously fallen exorcisttells all about the evil eye, the queer eye, women and witch trials, the Old Religion, magic Christianity, Satanism, and New Age self-help.Jack Fritscher sifts through legends of sorcery and the twisted history of witchcraft, including the casting of spells and incantations, with a focus on the growing role of witchcraft in popular culture and its mainstream commercialization through popular music, Broadway, Hollywood, and politics. As seriously historical as it is fun to read, there is no other book like it.