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I’d like to take you back to an earlier time. It was the end of the “PI” era—pre-Internet. Oh, the Internet was there, but it was in its early stages. Within a few years it would come to dominate communications, but at this time, the mid- to late-1980s, few people were using it.

As Margot Adler pointed out in Drawing Down the Moon, Pagans had a high level of compu...

In the unlikely event that the makers of Big Brother turn to history publishing, their ideal submission might include the ingredients of The Sorcerer's Tale: an aristocratic nincompoop unhappily married and desperate for cash; a Hampshire bigwig bridled, saddled and ridden round his garden by a witch intent on burglary; cut-price brothels; magic rings; sorcerer's incantations; card-sharps and...