AMWA00-15 Alex Mar - Witches of America.nfo
General Information
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Title: Witches of America
Author: Alex Mar
Read By: Amanda Dolan
Copyright: 2015
Audiobook Copyright: 2015
Genre: Nonfiction - History - Religion - Witches
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Media: Digital
Length each: Original CD lengths
Source: Overdrive MP3
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 15
Total Duration: 12:04:19
Total MP3 Size: 332.58
Parity Archive: No
Ripped By: 3j
Encoded With: LAME
Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Joint Stereo
Normalize: None
Noise Reduction: None
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3
Book Description
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Publisher's Summary
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. 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 elaborate ceremonies turn the Catholic mass on its head;
second-wave feminist Wiccans who practice a radical separatist witchcraft;
and a growing "mystery cult" whose initiates trace their rites back
to a blind shaman in rural Oregon.
What the Critics Say
"[Mar takes] readers on an expertly crafted spiritual journey." (Publishers
Weekly)
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