Popular Witchcraft: Straight from the Witch's Mouth

by John Fritscher, Jack Fritscher

Popular Straight from the Witch’s Mouth , inspired by the British Gerald Gardner’s Witchcraft Today , was the first book to be published on popular American witchcraft and remains the classic survey of white and black magic. Newly revised and updated for twenty-first-century readers, the author—an ordained but marvelously 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 and incantations, with a focus on the growing role of witchcraft in popular culture and its mainstream commercialization through popular music, Broadway, Hollywood, and politics. As seriously historical as it is fun to read, there is no other book like it.

123 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1972

Reviews

[Becky Everhart]

With the amount of time spent talking about sexuality in magick, Fritscher should have made it part of his title. All in all, a pretty good book with lots of cooked down information. The index could come in very handy.