The Pentagram in 1964
I have more reviews coming, but for now, here is a PDF download of the first issue of The Pentagram, August 1964, price two shillings.
As far as I know, it was the first attempt to create a publication for the various branches of British Witchcraft, then only about fifteen years old, and it lasted but a short time.
Consider the paucity of the reading list on page 3.
As far as I know, it was the first attempt to create a publication for the various branches of British Witchcraft, then only about fifteen years old, and it lasted but a short time.
Consider the paucity of the reading list on page 3.
Labels: England, publishing, Wicca, Witchcraft
posted by Chas S. Clifton at 1:42 PM Permalink
2 Comments:
And we think that Craft is small these days!
Back when I was young and eager for any resources about magic and witchcraft, I turned to several of the books listed--Summer. Michelet, Robbins--(ones available in the USA). Not so much that they were good or practically useful as that they were what I could find.
At that time I got that I was no Christian and never would be. The more or less countercultural--I also got that I was countercultural and would be--alternatives were witchcraft, Zen (thanks to Alan Watts and KPFA), Hinduism/Tantra (thanks mostly to vague intuitions and curiousity), and building on what occulture I already could practice.
Thanks for putting up the scan.
This is wonderful, thanks!
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