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When most people notice the word witches, they think of horror motion pictures and Halloween, but to the almost one million Us citizens who practice paganism today, from the nature-worshipping, polytheistic, and very real religion. So Alex Mar discovers when she models out to film a documentary and detects herself drawn deep into the world of present-day witchcraft. Witches of America follows Mar on her immersive five-year trip into the occult, charting modern paganism from its roots in 1950s Great britain to its current American mecca in the San Francisco Bay Area. On the way she participates a large number of rituals and becomes associated with a wild array of character types: a federal government employee who founds a California priesthood focused on a Celtic goddess of war; American disciples of Aleister Crowley whose intricate ceremonies convert the Catholic mass on its brain; second-wave feminist Wiccans who practice a radical separatist witchcraft; and an evergrowing "mystery cult" whose initiates track their rites back again to a blind shaman in rural Oregon.
