Her book Fifty Years in the Feri Tradition<\/a> I did not know the Andersons, except for hearing stories from Gwydion Pendderwen of his apprenticeship with Victor<\/a>. One major source of the Feri Craft was Max Freedom Long’s<\/a> take on Hawaiian huna magic. (Wikipedia entry here<\/a>.) From what Gwydion said, the Andersons were wildly eclectic, typical of Craft teachers of the mid-twentieth century. Bear that in mind when you read her book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cora Anderson, co-founder of the Feri (Faerie) tradition of Witchcraft with her late husband, Victor, has left this life at the age of 93. Jason Pitzl-Waters links to some tributes to her. There is more at the Andersons’ LiveJournal community and at Thorn Coyle’s blog. Her book Fifty Years in the Feri Tradition is still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[75,29],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-california","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-gm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10239,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10239","url_meta":{"origin":1014,"position":0},"title":"Anderson\/Feri Tradition Material Cataloged at Valdosta State University","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 21, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Anderson (1917\u20132001) and Cora Anderson (1915\u20132008) founded the Feri tradition of Witchcraft (which had multiple spellings). Since their passing, their papers and home library has been divided among several recipients: the Oakland, Calif., public library, the New Alexandrian Library, and some private purchasers. A large number of their books,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"academia\"","block_context":{"text":"academia","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=academia"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Victor_H_Anderson.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3955,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3955","url_meta":{"origin":1014,"position":1},"title":"Babies, Bathwater, and the Reclaiming Community","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 10, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Of all American Witchcraft traditions, Reclaiming seems to be the most prone to self-criticism. Perhaps that is because, as Anne Hill writes in her brief blog-memoir, The Baby and the Bathwater, there was always much conflict over different visions for Reclaiming. What started with one foot in the Faery\/Faerie\/Feri Witchcraft\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"blogging\"","block_context":{"text":"blogging","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2293,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2293","url_meta":{"origin":1014,"position":2},"title":"Magical Religion is Always Falling Apart","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"A recent post at Patheos by Thorn Coyle, \"The Sundering of Feri,\" has been getting some attention, at The Wild Hunt, for instance. 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And she ends up being accused of giving her neighbor cancer . .\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"ethnobotany\"","block_context":{"text":"ethnobotany","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=ethnobotany"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/myrdene.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6449,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6449","url_meta":{"origin":1014,"position":4},"title":"Investigating a “Grandmother Story”","author":"Chas S. 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