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Calling themselves witches and pagans and drawing inspiration from pre-Christian polytheistic worship, the practitioners of Neo-Paganism have often been misunderstood by outsiders. In the uninitiated, their art and iconography have inspired fear. Fire-cat masks, earth mother icons, henna tattoos, ankhs, water altars, jewellery and more, make up one of today's most flourishing contemporary traditions and are the focus of this remarkable book.

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Sabina Magliocco is an assistant professor of anthropology at California State University (Northridge). Her previous book, The Two Madonnas: The Politics of Festival in a Sardinian Community (1993), won the 1994 Chicago Folklore Prize. She has been published in such periodicals as Journal of American Folklore, Western Folklore, and Fabula.

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