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- From: ba@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (B.A. Davis-Howe)
- Subject: Re: Berkeley OTO and Wicca
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- ashton@netcom.com (ashton) writes:
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- >A really nice piece of work on the origins of Witchcraft is
- >_Crafting the Art of Magic: A History of Modern Witchcraft 1939-1964_
- >Aidan Kelly, Llewellyn, 1991.
-
- Unfortunately, Kelly can't be trusted, since it is clear that he has written
- this book to grind an axe. He extracts pieces from Gardner's writings,
- "reconstructs" what Gardner would have written there if he has written it all
- out, and then uses the results to "prove" what he already decided was true.
- This doesn't mean that there is nothing valuable in Kelly's research, but it
- does cast a shadow on a great deal of it. *sigh* When will someone just
- publish the text of the BAM and other documents so we can just read them for
- ourselves! :(
-
- Enjoy the journey!
- --Br'anArthur
- Queer, Peculiar, and Wyrd! :-)
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