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Witches of America by Mar, Alex is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.

What is Witches of America about?

"Witches are gathering." When most people hear the word "witches," they think of horror films and Halloween, but to the nearly one million Americans who practice Paganism today, it's a nature-worshipping, polytheistic, and very real religion. So Alex Mar discovers when she sets out to film a documentary and finds herself drawn deep into the world of present-day witchcraft. Witches of America follows Mar on her immersive five-year trip into the occult, charting modern Paganism from its roots in 1950s England to its current American mecca in the San Francisco Bay Area; from a gathering of more than a thousand witches in the Illinois woods to the New Orleans branch of one of the world's most influential magical societies. Along the way she takes part in dozens of rituals and becomes involved with a wild array of characters: a government employee who founds a California priesthood dedicated to a Celtic goddess of war; American disciples of Aleister Crowley, whose...

Who reads Witches of America?

It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.

Common subject areas: religion, theology.

Author
Mar, Alex
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux;Sarah Crichton Books- Farrar
Published
2015
Language
EN
ISBN
9780374709112
Category
religious
Subjects
Religion, Islam
Rating
3.2 / 5 (1,020 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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