The essential scholarly reference on this subject is Ronald Hutton's
_The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft_. (Note:
this is highly relevant to modern fantasy literature.)
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0192854496/ref=nosim/thedanclorenecro
(Gaster's abridged, annotated edition of Frazer's _Golden Bough_ is also
worth reading.)
--
Dan Clore
My collected fiction, _The Unspeakable and Others_:
http://tinyurl.com/3akhhr
Lord We˙rdgliffe & Necronomicon Page:
http://tinyurl.com/292yz9
News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
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Strange pleasures are known to him who flaunts the
immarcescible purple of poetry before the color-blind.
-- Clark Ashton Smith, "Epigrams and Apothegms"
