02/11/2021
Black Letter Press is presenting a new Book by Christina Oakley Harrington (author of "The Treadwell's Book of Plant Magic") and I am very happy to be part of this great collab!
The witches: free, pagan, transgressive: worshippers of Pan, devotees of Diana. The men and woman 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.
