{"id":809,"date":"2007-02-05T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=809"},"modified":"2007-02-05T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T17:08:00","slug":"lady-sintana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=809","title":{"rendered":"Lady Sintana"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Morning<\/a>Morning Glory Zell and Tim\/Oberon Zell of the Church of All Words with Lady Sintana (right) at the Church of Wicca<\/a> Samhain Seminar in 1978. Photo by Chas S. Clifton.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Jason Pitz-Waters<\/a> links to a newspaper article about Sintana (Candace Lehrman) and the House of Ravenwood, one of the best-known covens in the Atlanta area<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ravenwood was also the subject of a book by a group of sociologists of religion: Allen Scarboro<\/a>, et al., Living Witchcraft: A Contemporary American Coven<\/em> (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1994). Being sociologists, the authors concentrated quite a bit on issues of authority–when you have a charismatic and strong-willed founder who claims to have retired, has she really<\/em> retired?<\/p>\n

There is too much Lord-ing and Lady-ing in the Craft, mostly a bleed-through from the Society for Creative Anachronism, and it only gets in the way. British Witches, I have noticed, coming from a land where those titles mean something (like it or not), tend not to use them. <\/p>\n

Sintana, however, could get away with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Morning Glory Zell and Tim\/Oberon Zell of the Church of All Words with Lady Sintana (right) at the Church of Wicca Samhain Seminar in 1978. Photo by Chas S. Clifton.) Jason Pitz-Waters links to a newspaper article about Sintana (Candace Lehrman) and the House of Ravenwood, one of the best-known covens in the Atlanta area. 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