Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power (Witchcraft Bestseller)

by Pam Grossman

As we age, we’re supposed to stop filling our heads with such “nonsense.”

Books were my broomstick. They allowed me to fly to other realms where anything was possible.

I follow the holy wheel of the year and the cycles of the moon, doing rituals and seasonally appropriate celebrations. I honor nature and the divinity that is inside me and all living beings, and I strive to spread light and to be in service of something higher than myself: Spirit, the gods, the Goddess, the Mystery—that which language is too restrictive to name.

What the witch trials actually proved is that non-magical human beings are capable of the very malice and murder that they fear from so-called witches.