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Available
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Publication
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press : Popular Press, c2004.
Description
This was the first book to be published on popular American witchcraft. Newly revised for twenty-first-century readers, the author - an ordained but fallen exorcist - tells 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, with a focus on the growing role of witchcraft in popular culture and its mainstream commercialization. As seriously historical as it is fun to read, there is no other book like it.
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Physical description
xix, 262 p.; 24 cm
ISBN
0299203042 / 9780299203047
Local notes
Author's copy. Signed by author: "For Patrick Califia, my favorite changeling! Jack Fritscher, Vernal Equinox, 2005". Includes personal letter and info from publisher; now in folder in ephemera collection.
P. 223: short interview with Lilith St. John
P. 223: short interview with Lilith St. John