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Popular Witchcraft: Straight from the Witch's Mouth
Jack Fritscher
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Description for Popular Witchcraft: Straight from the Witch's Mouth
Paperback. Newly revised for 21st-century readers, the author - an ordained but fallen exorcist - tells all about the evil eye, the queer eye, women and witch trials, the Old Religion, magic Christianity, Satanism, and New Age self-help. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: VXWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
This was the first book to be published on popular American witchcraft. Newly revised for twenty-first-century readers, the author - an ordained but fallen exorcist - tells all about the evil eye, the queer eye, women and witch trials, the Old Religion, magic Christianity, Satanism, and New Age self-help. Jack Fritscher sifts through legends of sorcery and the twisted history of witchcraft, including the casting of spells, with a focus on the growing role of witchcraft in popular culture and its mainstream commercialization. As seriously historical as it is fun to read, there is no other book like it.
This was the first book to be published on popular American witchcraft. Newly revised for twenty-first-century readers, the author - an ordained but fallen exorcist - tells all about the evil eye, the queer eye, women and witch trials, the Old Religion, magic Christianity, Satanism, and New Age self-help. Jack Fritscher sifts through legends of sorcery and the twisted history of witchcraft, including the casting of spells, with a focus on the growing role of witchcraft in popular culture and its mainstream commercialization. As seriously historical as it is fun to read, there is no other book like it.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press/Popular Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299203047
SKU
V9780299203047
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About Jack Fritscher
Jack Fritscher is the author of fifteen books and many articles on American popular culture. He was ordained an exorcist in 1963 by the Catholic Church, which later excommunicated him after he published his memoir-novel, What They Did to the Kid: Confessions of an Altar Boy. He is the founding San Francisco editor of Drummer magazine, and he has written ... Read more
Reviews for Popular Witchcraft: Straight from the Witch's Mouth
"What an unsettling, surprising, and scandalous...writer!" - John F. Karr, Bay Area Reporter"