Witches by Erica Jong,Jos. A. Smith
By Erica Jong,Jos. A. Smith
With a mixture of real fascination, passionate enthusiasm, and prepared feminist perception, Erica Jong wades via a bathroom of myths, incorrect information, old hysteria, and modern Halloween costumes to provide a beneficiant exploration and social gathering of witches.
From their origins as descendants of old goddesses to modern practitioners of the craft, the evolution of the idea that of “witch” has been as changeable because the centuries themselves. From evil crone to sexual seductress, they're the embodiment of either mild and darkish, fertility and dying, divinity and paganism, baleful curses and therapeutic treatments. they've been scapegoated because the item of men’s worst fears and embraced as heroines of girl empowerment. As muses, they've got stimulated pop culture from Shakespeare and Yeats to Anne Sexton and Ken Russell. With reverence and a touch of mischief, Jong unearths witches’ rites, rituals, and magical recipes, together with real spells and incantations.
“A steaming cauldron of superbly illustrated prose, poetry, love potions and flying creams” (Glamour) from the well known writer of Fanny, Witches is “nothing under an entire transformation of our thought of witches . . . accomplishe[d] with panache during this sumptuously and provocatively illustrated e-book" (Publishers Weekly).
This e-book positive aspects an illustrated biography of Erica Jong, together with infrequent images and never-before-seen records from the author’s own collection.
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