Manny Tejeda y Moreno reviews “Slavic Native Faith” by Kaarina Aitamurto and Scott Simpson, a study of the umbrella of reconstructionist religions sometimes known as Ridnovirstvo or Rodnovery. The book is free to download until April 14.
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Beyond “Was She Really a Witch?”: Revisiting Margaret Atwood’s “My Evil Mother”
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“Contemporary reclamations of ‘witch’ as feminist identity tend toward celebration,” writes Beatrix Kondo, “which Atwood declines. What she offers instead is something harder and more useful: these practices functioned as survival apparatus for populations the official world refused to protect.”
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Review: I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
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“If you’re drawn to folkloric density, ancestral memory, visceral horror that rejects comfort, or animist logic where houses and bodies blur,” writes Cosette Paneque in her review of Irene Solà’s novel, “this has power. But know what you’re walking into.”
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Book Review: The Wax Child
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“For contemporary practitioners of Witchcraft, the novel demands wrestling with a complicated history,” Cosette Paneque writes. “These women weren’t claiming the identity of ‘Witch.’ They were sharing knowledge, building community, exercising what small control they could over their precarious lives.”
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Review: Lubanko Tarot brings raw intensity
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Alan U. Dalul reviews E. Lubanko’s new tarot deck, recently published by Llewellyn.
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La Intensidad Cruda del Lubanko Tarot: Reseña de Baraja
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Alan U. Dalul reseña la nueva baraja de tarot Lubanko de la editorial Llewellyn.