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Witches of America is a memoir of Alex Mar’s immersive five-year trip into the occult, as both a journalist and someone searching for her own faith. She explores modern Paganism—from its roots in 1950s England to its present-day 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—and decides to train in a coven herself. With keen intelligence and wit, Mar illuminates the world of witchcraft while grappling in fresh and unexpected ways with the question underlying every faith: Why do we choose to believe in anything at all? Whether evangelical Christian, Pagan priestess, or atheist, each of us craves a system of meaning to give structure to our lives. Sometimes we just find it in unexpected places.

ISBN-13: 9780374536435

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Farrar - Straus and Giroux

Publication Date: 10-11-2016

Pages: 288

Product Dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.90(d)

Alex Mar is a writer based in New York City, her hometown. Her work has recently appeared in The Believer, the Oxford American, Elle, The New York Times Book Review, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015. Mar is also the director of the documentary feature film American Mystic. Witches of America is her first book.

Table of Contents

1. Stone City

2. Little Witch

3. Naked in the New Forest

4. Keep Your Weapons Peace-Bonded!

5. The Feri Current

6. Diana of the Prairies

7. The Mass

8. The Vetting Process

9. Cycle One

10. Morpheus and the Morrigan

11. Making Priests

12. The Binding

13. Proof; or, The Creeping of Your Skin

14. Coru Cathubodua

15. Three Nights at the Castle

16. The Small Question of Satan

17. Sympathy for the Necromancer

18. And the Crows Will Eat My Eyes

19. Enter the Swamp