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Prospero's Isle

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As rebel, adventurer, and religious visionary, Gerald Gardner forged Wicca upon the Isle of Man. His powerful re-imagining of modern witchcraft as a nature religion and source of female empowerment, stripped of its demonic current, was profoundly shaped by the folklore and landscape of this rugged Celtic island, set adrift in the Irish Sea.

It found its form in his writings and in the creation of The Witches’ Mill, a Manx museum devoted to the Craft, which for more than twenty years served to challenge and change popular attitudes towards the witch and her art, and to usher in a new and surprising age of tolerance to a figure that was once so bitterly feared and despised.

This modern day ‘Prospero’ had found both his Isle and his purpose, honing and defining a form of magical practice that was capable of reviving the worship of the ‘old gods’ and of inspiring feminist and environmental movements from the late Twentieth Century through to the new Millenium.

This book provides a gateway to his ideas and achievement, an insight into the genesis of a new religion that took on the mantle of the old, and to a magic that acted to dispel fear, to give delight, and to hurt not.

Author: Dr John Callow
Publisher: Rose Ankh Publishing, London
Editions: Standard £38 · Deluxe £95 · Fine £425
Language: English

THE AUTHOR

Dr John Callow · Historian, author and occultist

Historian of witchcraft and the early modern world. Prospero’s Isle traces Gerald Gardner’s making of Wicca on the Isle of Man and the Witches’ Mill museum that changed popular attitudes to the witch.

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