“Looking at where the word ‘coven’ comes from, we start with ‘convenire,’ a verb meaning to come together,” writes Meg Elison in this searing reappraisal of the 1968 classic. “When a woman comes together with the devil, we get ‘Rosemary’s Baby.'”
Arts & Culture
Review: Popo the Xolo
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Alan U. Dalul reviews a children’s book based on the Indigenous Mexican folklore around death, dying, and the underworld. “Family unity and peace are perhaps the most relevant topics besides the central themes of grief and death, maybe even more on some pages. Lopez delivers a story that celebrates life and reminds us there is always a light at the end.”
Book Reviews
Review: Michelle Tea’s “Modern Magic”
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We not only learn about Michelle’s life, but also how those experiences shaped her practice, how her practice evolved, and how she evolved as a person as well. However, there is none of that holier than thou attitude that some might expect. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Arts & Culture
Folk Magic and Hermeticism in “Nosferatu”
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With its right hand Eggers’s Nosferatu points at all the sex it can, but its left invokes the imagery and the uncanny nature of folk magic.
Arts & Culture
Abracadabra, the Lady (Gaga) in Red Said
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Let’s get something straight: Lady Gaga is our Lord and Savior, and I will not hear otherwise. She comes back, resurrected like the phoenix when we need a beacon of hope.
Book Reviews
Review: The Craft of Tubal Cain
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Alan U. Dalul reviews Kenneth Johnson’s history of Traditional Witchcraft and the tradition’s founder, Robert Cochrane, whose vision of Witchcraft diverged, but also complemented, that of his contemporary Gerald Gardner.