{"id":30,"date":"2003-08-01T01:22:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-01T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2017-09-18T18:47:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T00:47:54","slug":"wiccan-autobiography-lack-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Wiccan autobiography, lack of"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been reading High Priestess: The Life & Times of Patricia Crowther<\/a>, which, admittedly, is a reworking and revision of two earlier autobiographical books by this English Wiccan priestess, Witch Blood!<\/i> and One Witch’s World<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Why do American Witches never write their memoirs? The nearest I have seen is Margot Adler’s Heretic’s Heart: A Journey through Spirit and Revolution<\/a>,<\/em> and even it is more about her “Red diaper baby” childhood and adolescence, dealing with the Craft only toward the end. Are we afraid of being put down for being “self-centered”? I can think of some people whose memoirs I would love to read, frankly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been reading High Priestess: The Life & Times of Patricia Crowther, which, admittedly, is a reworking and revision of two earlier autobiographical books by this English Wiccan priestess, Witch Blood! and One Witch’s World. Why do American Witches never write their memoirs? The nearest I have seen is Margot Adler’s Heretic’s Heart: A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,12],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-wicca","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-u","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1170,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1170","url_meta":{"origin":30,"position":0},"title":"Priestess Honored by Cherry Hill Seminary","author":"Chas S. 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