Prospero's Isle - John Callow

A gateway to Gardner's 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.

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.

Learn how this modern day ‘Prospero’ 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 Millennium

You may also like the following events from Watkins Books:

• Next Thursday, 12th June, 05:00 pm, Sacred Rose:The Soul's Path to Beauty and Wisdom -Mara Freeman in London
• This month, 19th June, 04:00 pm, Voyages into Vision/ Realms of the Round Table -John Matthews in London
• Next month, 3rd July, 04:30 pm, Compendium of the Occult -Liz Willliams in London, United Kingdom

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