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Popular Witchcraft Straight from the Witch's Mouth Second Edition Jack Fritscher Popular Press "What an unsettling, surprising, and scandalous . . . writer!" —John F. Karr, Bay Area Reporter This was the first book to be published on popular American witchcraft. Newly revised for twenty-first-century readers, the author—an ordained but 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, with a focus on the growing role of witchcraft in popular culture and its mainstream commercialization. As seriously historical as it is fun to read, there is no other book like it. Jack Fritscher is the author of fifteen books and many articles on American popular culture. He was ordained an exorcist in 1963 by the Catholic Church, which later excommunicated him after he published his memoir-novel, What They Did to the Kid: Confessions of an Altar Boy. He is the founding San Francisco editor of Drummer magazine, and he has written the memoir-novel Some Dance to Remember and the biography Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera. For more information regarding publicity and reviews contact our publicity manager, Chris Caldwell, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu

October 2004 LC: 2004005380 BF 264 pp.   6 x 9 ISBN-10: 0-299-20300-X ISBN-13: 978-0-299-20300-9 Cloth $65.00 s ISBN-10: 0-299-20304-2 ISBN-13: 978-0-299-20304-7 Paper $24.95 t Add titles to your shopping cart by clicking on the bulleted lines above. You can submit your order electronically, paying for it with your credit card. Click here for a further explanation of the shopping cart feature Never ordered from us before? Read this first.

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