· Alex Mar’s book “Witches of America” is about a lot more than witches. By Alissa Wilkinson @alissamarie , am EDT If you buy something from a Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. 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 s 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 4/4(). Alex Mar is a writer based in her hometown of New York City. Her first book, Witches of America (Farrar, Straus Giroux), was a New York Times Notable Book of in non-fiction, a New York Times Editors’ Pick, among The Millions’ “Most Anticipated Books” of , one of The Believer‘s “Favorite Books” and Huffington Post Books’ “Most Notable” of , and a Marie Claire Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins.
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 bltadwin.ru explores modern Paganism—from its roots in s 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. Alex Mar's book "Witches of America" is about a lot more than witches. By Alissa Wilkinson @alissamarie , am EDT If you buy something from a Vox link, Vox Media may earn. "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, witchcraft is 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 magic.
The documentary Mar makes, the gentle, respectful “American Mystic” (), profiles three young American seekers: a Feri witch, a Lakota Sioux and a Spiritualist. Mar developed a close. 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 s 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. Witches of America follows Mar on her immersive five-year trip into the occult, charting modern Paganism from its roots in s 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.
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