Witches

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Summary: Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.
Review: This is probably the coolest book on Witchcraft and Goddess religion I've ever come across. It's mostly a coffee-table art tome, peppered with accurate, nonjudgemental information. The construction of the book as a whole is really beautiful -- the paintings are haunting, the text typeface is pretty, fun *and* easy on the eye, and the entire feeling of the book, though it's only paper, is very tactile. I love holding this in my lap and thumbing through it, again and again. Very highly recommended.

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Summary: yuck
Review: this wasnt even written by a witch but by a feminist, i am so very disguisted she said we didnt know anything about our religion and in a poem she said we worshiped satan no we dont, satan doesnt exist, satan in hebrews translates to adivosary, not an antigod, and satan never ever had horns, i am completely fed up with these lies on the gullible people that will believe them and whats with calling the crone evil, she isnt evil she just isnt all oreo cookies, this woman has no idea what shes talking about.

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Summary: kinda sorta a Witchcraft book
Review: To start out with, this book wasn't written by a Witch, just someone who wanted to express their feminism on a religous level. Why do I say this? Because one thing you will find while flipping through this book is that many of the popular images of Witchces and Witchcraft are embraced and romantized to the point where they are actually melded with the factual information, and thus the author creates her own version of Witchcraft. The information is written more like a book of poems than anything. She includes lenghty accounts of her own philosophies to go along with the factual information and "devilish" stuff, and makes the reader think that they are reading a more historically accurate book than others. Yet to someone who has done previous research, you'll notice that the historical references are very good. Which should be taken as a warning, that if you haven't done research, wait awhile with this book, and if you have, it's a very nice adition to a library, even if just for aethetical purposes.

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Summary: WOW
Review: what an incredible book! it has spells and poems and art that will blow you away

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Summary: Spiritually Uplifiting
Review: When I first bought this book, I bought it for the artwork. It wasn't until I began reading it that I found it's words to touch my soul like no Silver Ravenwolf book ever could. I think the problem with a lot of the reviewers posting negative comments on this book is that they are either men or are focusing to much on the "Wiccan Aspect" of religion. We have to rememember that not EVERY witch is a Wiccan. Some may have viewpoints that are nowhere near the rede many of you follow so religiously. I realize that this book is not meant to be a teaching tool, as many of you should also realize. But, as an emotional essay on the female history of Witchcraft, this is a beautiful book.

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Summary: Spiritually Uplifiting
Review: When I first bought this book, I bought it for the artwork. It wasn't until I began reading it that I found it's words to touch my soul like no Silver Ravenwolf book ever could. I think the problem with a lot of the reviewers posting negative comments on this book is that they are either men or are focusing to much on the "Wiccan Aspect" of religion. We have to rememember that not EVERY witch is a Wiccan. Some may have viewpoints that are nowhere near the rede many of you follow so religiously. I realize that this book is not meant to be a teaching tool, as many of you should also realize. But, as an emotional essay on the female history of Witchcraft, this is a beautiful book.

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Summary: Herstory that any witch worth her salt needs to know.
Review: Witches is the most beautiful book I own. It is not meant to be a treatise on wicca, but a labor of love that acknowledges and honors the herstory of women judged as witches, making an artistic connection with the misogyny that too many of today's women have yet to dis-cover, yet that certainly still exists, particularly when the word "witch" still retains the power to create havoc that it does. Erica Jong is not teaching witchcraft, what she is sharing is the attitudes about witchcraft that led to the torture and deaths of thousands of women in the Middle Ages. It is herstory that is not taught in school. It is herstory that any witch worth her salt needs to know.

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Summary: Herstory that any witch worth her salt needs to know.
Review: Witches is the most beautiful book I own. It is not meant to be a treatise on wicca, but a labor of love that acknowledges and honors the herstory of women judged as witches, making an artistic connection with the misogyny that too many of today's women have yet to dis-cover, yet that certainly still exists, particularly when the word "witch" still retains the power to create havoc that it does. Erica Jong is not teaching witchcraft, what she is sharing is the attitudes about witchcraft that led to the torture and deaths of thousands of women in the Middle Ages. It is herstory that is not taught in school. It is herstory that any witch worth her salt needs to know.