Helmuth Diana
Helmuth Diana - The Witching Year A Memoir Of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft - Paperback
Helmuth Diana - The Witching Year A Memoir Of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft - Paperback
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Description: A skeptic spends a year trying to find spiritual fulfillment by practicing modern Witchcraft in this fascinating memoir that's perfect for fans of A. J. Jacobs and Mary Roach. Diana Helmuth thirty - three is skeptical of organized religion. She is also skeptical of disorganized religion. But more than anything she is tired of God being dead. So she decides to try on the fastest - growing self - directed faith in America: Witchcraft. The result is 366 days of observation trial error wit and back spasms. Witches today are often presented as confident and finished proud and powerful. Diana is eager to join them. She wants to follow all the rules memorize all the incantations and read all the liturgy. But there's one glaring problem: no Witch can agree on what the right rules liturgy and incantations are. As with life Diana must define the craft for herself looking past the fashionable and figuring out how to define the real. Along the way she travels to Salem and Edinburgh (two very Crafty hubs) and attends a week - long (clothing optional) Witch camp in Northern California. Whether she's trying to perform a full moon ritual on a cardboard box summon an ancient demon with scotch tape and a kitchen trivet or just trying to become a calmer happier person her biggest question remains: Will any of this really work? The Witching Year is a compelling memoir (Frances Denny author of Major Arcana) that follows in the footsteps of celebrated memoirs by journalists like A. J. Jacobs Mary Roach and Caitlin Doughty who knit humor and reportage together in search of something worth believing.
Title: The Witching Year A Memoir Of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft
Author(s): Helmuth Diana
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781668002995
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 9/17/2024
Category: Witchcraft & Wicca
Description: A skeptic spends a year trying to find spiritual fulfillment by practicing modern Witchcraft in this fascinating memoir that's perfect for fans of A. J. Jacobs and Mary Roach. Diana Helmuth thirty - three is skeptical of organized religion. She is also skeptical of disorganized religion. But more than anything she is tired of God being dead. So she decides to try on the fastest - growing self - directed faith in America: Witchcraft. The result is 366 days of observation trial error wit and back spasms. Witches today are often presented as confident and finished proud and powerful. Diana is eager to join them. She wants to follow all the rules memorize all the incantations and read all the liturgy. But there's one glaring problem: no Witch can agree on what the right rules liturgy and incantations are. As with life Diana must define the craft for herself looking past the fashionable and figuring out how to define the real. Along the way she travels to Salem and Edinburgh (two very Crafty hubs) and attends a week - long (clothing optional) Witch camp in Northern California. Whether she's trying to perform a full moon ritual on a cardboard box summon an ancient demon with scotch tape and a kitchen trivet or just trying to become a calmer happier person her biggest question remains: Will any of this really work? The Witching Year is a compelling memoir (Frances Denny author of Major Arcana) that follows in the footsteps of celebrated memoirs by journalists like A. J. Jacobs Mary Roach and Caitlin Doughty who knit humor and reportage together in search of something worth believing.
Title: The Witching Year A Memoir Of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft
Author(s): Helmuth Diana
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781668002995
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 9/17/2024
Category: Witchcraft & Wicca
