Where witchcraft lives.
by VALIENTE, Doreen
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See Description
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Concord, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
London: The Aquarian Press, 1962. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. Small 8vo. pp. xi, [1], 7-112. Bound in publishers pale gray-green cloth. The binding is clean and tight with only the most miniscule signs of bumping to the upper corner tip of the front board. The dust jacket is price clipped on the inner flap and shows spots of wear and rubbing to the extremities. The head cap of the jacket spine is chipped (15 x 13 mm). The rear jacket displays some mild soiling and a couple of small tears (sealed). An ink stamp from the U.S. distributer Wehman Bros. ("Wehman Bros. Publishers 159 Main Street Hackensack, N.J") is present in the lower margin of the title page. Interior pages are generally clean. Pages 92-93 contain a small, light manufacturing smudge. Doreen Valiente (1922-1999), often called "the mother of modern witchcraft" was a founding figure in the contemporary Wicca movement. During the 1950s, while she served as high priestess in Gerald Gardners Brickett Wood coven, Valiente re-worked much of Gardners "Book of Shadows" liturgy into forms still used by many in the Craft today. Later Valiente led a successful fight in Britain against proposed anti-witchcraft legislation. Valientes first book, "Where Witches Live," contains her own primary research into the folklore, witch traditions and witch trials of county Sussex. Valiente also included modern witchcraft practices. According to Ronald Hutton: "the greatest value of her first book to a historian
lies in its portrayal of witch ceremonies in the very early 1960s" [Ronald Hutton, The triumph of the moon. Oxford, 1999, p. 310].
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- Bookseller
- Robert McDowell Antiquarian Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000716
- Title
- Where witchcraft lives.
- Author
- VALIENTE, Doreen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - See Description
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- The Aquarian Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- WITCHCRAFT MODERN WICCA PAGANISM OCCULTISM MAGIC FOLKLORE BRITISH SUSSEX DOREEN VALIENTE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Witchcraft;
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