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Show The Sait Lake Tribune. Sunday. June 2t. IS 1973 sWitclicraft Termed t Family, Akin iTo Togetherness By Cynthia Stevens United Piess International - NEW YORK To hear a grand high pne.'ess tell it, witchcraft is akin tc togetherness. "We're all family," said Nesmck, who heads a thousand-membe- r witch sect called Algard, and she went on to tell how a neighbor witch had dropped in for breakfast at 9 a m. jecause his wife didn't feel like fiung u for Mary him "It was fine," she said in an adding that the attraction of witchcraft the intern lew, oldest known religion" is the closeness that members feel toward each other, gained through working together in small groups. Miss Nesnick explained that do witches "sympathetic magic," focussing all the minds in a men (a group of 13 witches) on the one objects e they want to accomplish She said witches consider iheir power very effective, but aim it only at good deeds, since they bebeve whatever they do will return to them three-fol- No Place Voodoo and satamsin have; no place in witchcraft, she explained, But people have wrong ideas about witchcraft because were misinthey formed by the religions that have succeeded the old belief in most places. Witches, she added, wvre persecuted by Christians to determined "bring all the pagans mto the church. She doc:5 not wear the black pointed hat of the stereotyped witch and her broomstick has never left the ground. She said the myth about witches zooming about on broomsticks may have come from an ancient fertility rite, or from the use by witches of ointments containing drugs that made them they were imagine flying s The witches of Miss sect meet each month on the nights of the full moon, on and eight special old-tim- e c Nes-mck- Largest Group Miss Nesnick may head one of the largest single groups of witches m the increasingly popular practice of witchcraft. The postman delivers all to addressed the witch to my apartment, she said. letters In fact, well known Im becoming so that people show up at my door from all over the country and even from England at all hours of the night. They want to become witches, too. 1 when she was a college freshman, and was drawn into the practice b(y a professor who also happened to be a witch. At this point my w hole life is dvoted to witchcraft," she said, adding that she has a Ph D. m psychology. Miss Nesnick said that some people have been waiting as long as five years to be accepted into Algagd, and that fewer than one percent of those who apply are permitted to join. Sometimes we have to reject a person after he has flown a long distance just before he is to be initiated, she said. We have to tell him at the last minute that he just wont fit. Miss Nesnick, 26, became interested in witchcraft in 1964 as (Jan. sabbaths-Candle- Vernal 31); the Equinox (about March 21); Beltane (April 30); Midsummers Eve (about June 21); Lammas (Aug. 31); ttao Autumnal Equinox (about Srpt. 21); Halloween; and the Winter Solstice (about Deg. 21). Worship in nude bedspreads "uiwAvr-kSA.- i r s . rvri- - - rw'A. . IpIcS OUR PRICES HAVE NEVER BEEN SO LOWrH" from WfeALL 3pSSilINDIA IBB Si 11J JEWELRY 12 PRICE except W turquoise IS -- DANGLE 5 FROM fit MEXICO, GREECE, SCarpct WERE TO ? LIST!5 . fln butcher j w S INDIA, AFRICA, POSTS FROM ALL OVER EUROPE TO SAUSALITO . . . 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