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Coming to the Edge of the Circle - A Wiccan Initiation Ritual (Hardcover)
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Coming to the Edge of the Circle - A Wiccan Initiation Ritual (Hardcover)
Series: AAR Academy Series
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Imagine yourself sitting on the cool damp earth, surrounded by deep
night sky and fields full of fireflies, anticipating the ritual of
initiation that you are about to undergo. Suddenly you hear the
sounds of far-off singing and chanting, drums booming, rattles
"snaking," voices raised in harmony. The casting of the Circle is
complete. You are led to the edge of the Circle, where Death, your
challenge, is waiting for you. With the passwords of "perfect love"
and "perfect trust" you enter Death's realm. The Guardians of the
four quarters purify you, and you are finally reborn into the
Circle as a newly made Witch.
Coming to the Edge of the Circle offers an ethnographic study of
the initiation ritual practiced by one coven of Witches located in
Ohio. As a High Priestess within the coven as well as a scholar of
religion, Nikki Bado-Fralick is in a unique position to contribute
to our understanding of this ceremony and the tradition to which it
belongs. Bado-Fralick's analysis of this coven's initiation
ceremony offers an important challenge to the commonly accepted
model of "rites of passage." Rather than a single linear event,
initiation is deeply embedded within a total process of becoming a
Witch in practice and in community with others.
Coming to the Edge of the Circle expands our concept of initiation
while giving us insight into one coven's practice of Wicca. An
important addition to Ritual Studies, it also introduces readers to
the contemporary nature religion variously called Wicca,
Witchcraft, the Old Religion, or the Craft.
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