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...attractions of Sanderian witchcraft appear to be many, and Sanders' own London coven (witch group) seems to hold the liveliest "esbats" (meetings) in town. In addition to the baldishly handsome Alex, there is Sanders' wife Maxine, a young (and, judging from the book's photographs, shapely) blonde who acts as official fertility symbol. Like some post-Freudian group-therapy sessions, Alex's esbats are conducted in the nude. Only he is robed-or at least toweled-to facilitate instant identification as head witch...
...writes Miss Johns, "can be immensely appealing in a materialistic age overshadowed by the achievements-and horrors-of science." The declaration could hardly come during a more appropriate season. The most important fertility rites in all Wiccadom occur in spring. It is the time to worship fervently in the coven of one's choice. But no shoelaces, please...
Caldron Cookery: An Authentic Guide for Coven Connoisseurs bv Marcello Truzzi, illustrated bv Victoria Chess. I 15 pages. Meredith. $3.95. Having exhausted everything from aardvark fried in yak butter to zabaglione a zingari, the compilers of cookbooks have turned to something really occult. Bats, eye of newt, serpents, felon's hands and less mentionable exotica seem to have formed the staple diet of the industrious witch. It should be said that this book serves no culinary purpose except perhaps to divert conversation among guests from the infamous concoctions some contemporary witch may happen to be serving in the name...
...should Rosemary's Baby be any good? A facile author thinks it would be fun to put a coven of witches in the Dakota (a fortress-like New York apartment house), writes a best seller, and sells it to Paramount which hires a fashionable director for a small fortune to make the movie. It's a sure-fire success formula--not exactly a sublime collaboration of great artists, let alone unusually talented craftsmen. Rosemary's Baby, then, would be easy to dismiss as a slack and inadequate thriller were it not for everyone's desire to take Polanski seriously...
...real fun begins after Rosemary becomes pregnant. She firmly convinces herself that her neighbors are a coven of witches, that even her obstetrician is in league with them, and that they are casting their designs upon her baby-to-be for their own diabolical purposes. The plot hinges on whether Rosemary's fear is real or a fantasy twist brought on by her turning from the faith...