Dreams of Witches
by Harrington, Christina Oakley
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Obernkirchen, Germany: Black Letter Press, 2022. Softcover Edition. The cover is made of a thick Fedrigoni carton. It is thread sewn and the book block is made of rough ivory, wood-free, age-resistant paper. It measures 140 x 215 mm and is printed and bound by Grafiche Veneziane in Venice, Italy. New. Free, pagan, transgressive: worshippers of Pan, devotees of Diana. The men and women who meet under a full moon in the wild woods danced, sing, made music, and made love; in the home they make potions and mutter spells, be it to curse or cure.
The witch image infused the European imagination down the centuries, appearing in court records, prose, and poetry. The impulse the literature described finally became a practised mystery religion in the twentieth century, in the form of Wicca as it coalesced in the New Forest in the 1930s and 30s. The poems and passages in this book illustrate the supportive imagination of the New Forest Coven and its most famous initiate, Gerald Gardner.
They date from the late medieval period through the Edwardian age, and all were instrumental, influential - inspiring early pagans, and hopefully, too, readers today.
Christina Oakley Harrington is Treadwell's founder and presiding spirit. She was voraciously interested in spirituality and magic since childhood, and grew up in West Africa, Burma, and Chile, only moving to the West at the age of fifteen. In her early twenties, she was heartened to discover Europe's own native religious traditions and has been a pagan ever since. A former academic, she left university life in 2001 to establish Treadwell's. These days she serves as a consultant for programs and projects but is usually at the shop. She is the author of two books and numerous articles and was co-founder and literary editor of Abraxas: International Journal for Esoteric Studies.
The witch image infused the European imagination down the centuries, appearing in court records, prose, and poetry. The impulse the literature described finally became a practised mystery religion in the twentieth century, in the form of Wicca as it coalesced in the New Forest in the 1930s and 30s. The poems and passages in this book illustrate the supportive imagination of the New Forest Coven and its most famous initiate, Gerald Gardner.
They date from the late medieval period through the Edwardian age, and all were instrumental, influential - inspiring early pagans, and hopefully, too, readers today.
Christina Oakley Harrington is Treadwell's founder and presiding spirit. She was voraciously interested in spirituality and magic since childhood, and grew up in West Africa, Burma, and Chile, only moving to the West at the age of fifteen. In her early twenties, she was heartened to discover Europe's own native religious traditions and has been a pagan ever since. A former academic, she left university life in 2001 to establish Treadwell's. These days she serves as a consultant for programs and projects but is usually at the shop. She is the author of two books and numerous articles and was co-founder and literary editor of Abraxas: International Journal for Esoteric Studies.
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- Bookseller
- Crossroads Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5564277
- Title
- Dreams of Witches
- Author
- Harrington, Christina Oakley
- Format/Binding
- The cover is made of a thick Fedrigoni carton. It is thread sewn and the book block is made of rough ivory, wood-free, age-resis
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- Softcover Edition
- Publisher
- Black Letter Press
- Place of Publication
- Obernkirchen, Germany
- Date Published
- 2022
- Keywords
- Pagan, Occult, Witch
- Bookseller catalogs
- Occult; Wicca, Witchcraft;
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