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020			_a0374291373 _qhardcover
020			_a9780374291372 _qhardcover
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035			_a(OCoLC)906171736 _z(OCoLC)898419536 _z(OCoLC)915749645
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049			_aNFGA
092			_a299.94 _bM298
100	1		_aMar, Alex, _eauthor. _9284046
245	1	0	_aWitches of America / _cAlex Mar.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bSarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, _c2015.
264		4	_c©2015
300			_aviii, 276 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aStone City -- Little witch -- Naked in the new forest -- Keep your weapons peace-bonded! -- The Feri current -- Diana of the prairies -- The mass -- The vetting process -- Cycle one -- Morpheus and the Morrigan -- Making priests -- The binding -- Proof; or, the creeping of your skin -- Coru Cathubodua -- Three nights at the castle -- The small question of Satan -- Sympathy for the necromancer -- And the crows will eat my eyes -- Enter the swamp.
520			_a"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. 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. This sprawling magical community compels Mar to confront what she believes is possible--or hopes might be. 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?--Adapted from book jacket.
650		0	_aNeopaganism _zUnited States. _9284047
650		0	_aWicca _zUnited States. _9284048
942			_cBOOK _05
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