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Despite their centuries-old record and traditions, witchcraft and magic are still very much a part of modern Anglo-American culture. In Lucifer Ascending, Bill Ellis looks at modern practices that are universally thought as "occult," from commonplace behaviors such as carrying a rabbit's foot for good luck or using a Ouija board, to more esoteric traditions, including the use of spell books. Specifically, Ellis shows the way the occult has been a common factor in children culture for hundreds of years. Using materials from little-known magazines and archives, Lucifer Ascending details the true social function of people dabbling with the occult. In his review of what Ellis conditions "vernacular occultism," the writer is poised on a middle surface between a skeptical viewpoint that defines opinion in witchcraft and Satan as irrational and an interpretation of witchcraft as an underground religion opposing Christianity. Lucifer Ascending examines the occult much less an alternative solution to religion, but instead as a way for ordinary people to participate directly in the mythic world.

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