{"id":481,"date":"2005-08-05T01:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-05T01:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=481"},"modified":"2005-08-05T01:23:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-05T01:23:00","slug":"481","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Ghost story<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boulder, Colo., Wiccan priestess Morwyn has a piece in the current (August 2005) issue of Fate<\/em> magazine<\/a>, titled “Exorcism Spanish Style,” based on an incident that occurred to her in Santiago de Campostela in 1997.<\/p>\n

She owns Dunraven House<\/a>, the latest incarnation of magical-supplies business that has occupied her since the 1970s–she told me once that she was inspired by similar such stores catering to followers of Umbanda and Candombl\u00e9 that she encountered when in Brazil on a Fulbright fellowship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I always tell my nonfiction-writing students that Fate<\/em> is the place to try to sell a true ghost story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ghost story Boulder, Colo., Wiccan priestess Morwyn has a piece in the current (August 2005) issue of Fate magazine, titled “Exorcism Spanish Style,” based on an incident that occurred to her in Santiago de Campostela in 1997. 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