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...craft is in definite financial need. Witches do not use psychedelic drugs ("along with pot and fascination"), and the "free colleges for dropouts" have the fat, rich and bored bourgeoisie for the largest part of their student body. My class was not "a how-to course in witchcraft"-there is no such thing, there never can be. There is no such program as "how to be a witch in ten easy lessons." Witchcraft is not folderol-it is the first religion known to man, a very ancient pagan religion antedating Christianity by thousands of years...
Because articles such as yours plant seeds of doubt, suspicion, and misunderstanding, witchcraft must remain hidden underground for years to come, just as it has been occulted for centuries...
Show business everywhere is dabbling in astrology and more or less related arts. Seeress Sybil Leek's Diary of a Witch is already in its second printing, though her alleged witchcraft seems mainly a device to distinguish her from such colleagues in the prophecy business as the redoubtable Jeane Dixon and British Seer Maurice Woodruff, who does his predicting on a syndicated TV show hosted by Robert Q. Lewis. To lend a little magic to public entertainments, Los Angeles enjoys the services of an official County Witch?a title conferred by the County Supervisor on Mrs. Louise Huebner, a thirtyish...
...country. California's Midpeninsula Free University, for instance, offers no fewer than five courses in the subject: Jungian Astrology, Advanced Astrology, Out of the Aquarium and into the Aquarian, Occult Things and the New Age, and an Occult and Astrology Workshop. When the University of South Carolina recently offered Witchcraft as a non-credit voluntary course, an astounding 247 people signed up?though Professor Sidney Birnbaum expects many of them to drop out when they discover that he is going to teach only history...
...course in witchcraft, though, is offered by San Francisco's Heliotrope Free University. At a recent lecture in the seamy Fillmore district of the city, the door was opened by the presiding witch?young and tall, with flowing golden hair. "I'm Witch Antaras Auriel," said the white-gowned figure softly. This barefoot witch clearly has magic, especially considering that Antaras Auriel is a boy, born Dennis Boiling, 19 years ago in San Jose...