Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} How to Prevent Psychic Blackmail The Philosophy of Psychoselfism by Leo Louis Martello Martello, Leo Louis (1931-2000) Contemporary Wiccan priest. Martello was born on September 26, 1931, in Dudley, Massachusetts. He attended Assumption College and Hunter College and went on to become a Spiritualist minister. In the early 1960s he founded the Temple of Spiritual Guidance and the Spiritual Independents Movement. Through the 1960s he concentrated on his skills as a psychic reader and wrote a series of short booklets: Your Pen Personality (1961), Its in the Cards (1964), and How to Prevent Psychic Blackmail (1966). By the end of the 1960s, however, he had begun to identify with the slowly emerging neopagan witchcraft movement. In 1970 he founded the Witches Liberation Movement and the Witches Anti-Defamation League as instruments to demand religious rights and reparation payments for the Wiccan community. That same year he organized a Halloween "witch-in" in New York City's Central Park. Martello was quickly recognized as a leader in the Wiccan community and soon turned out a string of books that were widely read in the community, which had at the time produced only a few texts of its own. His 1973 book Witchcraft: The Old Religions was standard reading for young Wiccans through the rest of the decade and was frequently cited as an authoritative presentation of the beliefs and practices of modern witches. He also began to publish a periodical that flourished through the early 1970s, the WICA Newsletter, and the Witchcraft Digest. Martello identifies himself as a traditionalist Wiccan with Sicilian roots. His coven operates under the name Witches International Craft Associates. He also founded and heads Hero Press, a small publishing operation. Martello died in June 2000. Sources: Martello, Leo Louis. Curses in Verses. New York: Hero Press, 1971. — — . Weird Ways of Witchcraft. New York: HC Publishers, 1969. Melton, J. Gordon. Religious Leaders of America. 2nd edition. Detroit: Gale Research, 1999. Dr leo lois martello. L eo Louis Martello was an American Witch, hypnotist, psychologist, and a civil and gay right activist during the 1960s. Born and raised in Massachusetts Martello was a descendant of Sicilian Witches, or steghe, a heritage which during childhood he knew little about except from his father saying he resembled his grandmother. He was baptized a Catholic and claimed six worst years of his life was spent in a Catholic boarding school. His psychic experiences began early in life, in his teens he begun studying palmistry and the Tarot with a Gypsy. When sixteen he was on radio shows giving handwriting analyses, and selling articles. He continued his education at Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts, and Hunter College and the Institute for Psychotherapy, both in New York City. When moving to New York at the age of eighteen he learned of his Sicilian heritage from his cousins. They informed him that they had been watching him for some years looking for his potential in the Old Religion. His grandmother, Maria Concetta, was renowned in her hometown of Enna, Sicily as the local strege (see Stregheria), whom sought her help when the Catholic Church failed them. She invoked the deities who had helped the people for centuries. She was reputed to be a jettatore , one having the ability to cast an evil eye. It was eluded that she cursed a Mafiosi to his death by a heart attack, after he beat up her husband and threatened unless he paid monthly protection money. Secretly, Concetta was a high priestess of the Goddess of the Sikels, the founding inhabitants of Sicily. On September 26, 1951, Martello was initiated into his cousins’ secret Sicilian coven becoming a mago , a male witch. The initiation involved taking a blood oath swearing not to reveal the secrets of the coven or its members. In 1955 Martello received a doctorate of divinity degree from the National Congress of Spiritual Consultants. He became an ordained minister (Spiritual Independents, Nonsectarian) and served as pastor of the Temple of Spiritual Guidance from 1955-1960. He left the position to pursue his interests in Witchcraft, parapsychology, psychology and philosophy, and rejected the theology of the previous organization he was associated with. He worked in hypnographology, the study of handwriting obtained under hypnotic age regression, and was a professional graphologist, an handwriting analyst for business clients. He was founder and director of the American Hypnotism Academy in New York from 1950 to 1954, and served as treasurer of the American Graphological Society from 1955 to 1957. Living in Tangier, Morocco, 1964-1965, he studied Oriental Witchcraft. In 1969 just prior to the publication of his first book on Witchcraft, Weird Ways of Witchcraft , and with the permission of his coven he decided to go public as a Witch to better promote the truth about Witchcraft. Subsequently, he was contacted and initiated into the Gardnerian, Alexandrian, and Traditionalist traditions. He was the first public Witch to champion the establishment of legally incorporated, tax-exempt Wiccan Churches; paid legal holidays for Witches; and Wiccan civil rights activists and demonstrations. Being colorful and outspoken, Martello drew much attention with his “Witch-In” on in Central Park on Samhain (Halloween), 1970. At first the New York City Park Department refused him a permit to hold the Witch-In but relented after Martello secured the assistance of the New York Civil Liberties Union and threatened to file a suit of discrimination against a minority religion. The affair drew an audience of about 1,000 people. Following this Martello formed the Witches Anti-Defamation League, dedicated to ensuring Witches’ religious rights, which by the late 1980s had chapters in every state. He drafted the “Witch Manifesto” calling for a National Witches Day Parade; the moral condemnation of the Catholic Church for the torture and murder of Witches during the Inquisition; a $500 million suit against the Church for damages and reparations to the descendants of the victims, to be paid by the Vatican; and a $100 million suit against Salem, Massachusetts, for damages in the 1692 trials. No doubt he hardly expected these suits to be won or the damages paid, but the condemnations emphasized the horrific crimes that had been committed. He foresaw that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would enable the establishment of Witches temples and churches. Martello made his livelihood mainly as a writer, graphologist, and lecturer. His numerous publications educated others about the Craft. He spoke at many Pagan/Wiccan festivals and gatherings. He compared the Craft to an underground spring that predates Judeo-Christian and Muslim faiths, and occasionally surfaces in small streams and lakes. The modern Craft movement reflects a worldwide surfacing of this underground spring with such forced that its enemies cannot dam it. He claimed this tremendous force is a spiritual force comprised of souls of those murdered as Witches during the Inquisition. He defined a Witch as a wise practitioner of the Craft, a Nature worshipper, and one who is in control of his or her life. He was of the opinion that too many people enter the Craft bringing along too many hang-ups from their Judeo-Christian upbringing, and too much emphasis is placed on personalities in the broad neo-Pagan community. His Sicilian upbringing taught him that a wrong must be rectified in this life and not left to “karma” in a future life. The Witch must not permit injustices. His own philosophy as outlined in How to Prevent Psychic Blackmail (1966) is one of “Psychoselfism: sensible selfishness versus senseless self-sacrifice.” Those who knew him say Martello was a kind and generous person, helping anyone who asked. How to Prevent Psychic Blackmail: The Philosophy of Psychoselfism by Leo Louis Martello. MEMORIALIZED: New York City, NY. Oct. 8, 2000 - 6:00 - 8:00 pm The G.N.L. Center (at temporary space in use during renovations) 1 Little West 12 St., New York City, NY. MEMORIALIZED: Medford, Massachusetts. Oct. 29, 2000 - 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm Medford Unitarian Church (Unitarian Universalist) High St. at Powderhouse St., Medford, Ma. A Biography of Dr. Leo Louis Martello. As appears in Llewellyn's 2002 Magical Almanac. Reprinted with the permission of Lori Bruno. At Left: Leo Martello at the first "Witch-In" in Central Park, New York City, 1970. W here do I begin to write about a legend? A man who gave tirelessly of himself for the fight for human rights, animal rights, gay and lesbian rights, and for Witches worldwide to worship in complete freedom? Leo Martello was an amazingly compassionate man. He never turned away anyone who genuinely needed his time and effort in the pursuit of a just cause. He fought long and hard for the freedom of Witches and Pagans. He coined the very phrase: "Out of your broom closets and on to your brooms!" He was always humorous, but in that humor there were always wise lessons. He was fond of saying: "The coward finds a way out; the brave find a way." And he was himself brave and always in the forefront of a controversial or difficult movement. It is to his credit that he stood up in the initial movement for gay and lesbian rights in New York City's "Stonewall Riots" in the 1970's. A spirit of lifht imbued the mortal body of Dr. Leo Louis Martello. He was equal to a million Suns and was crucial to the craft's beginning in this country. He was not one who jumped on the bandwagon because it was the "in" thing to do. Many write about the craft; however, Leo possessed an inner fire--the "heartfire" of the true Witch. To have known Leo Louis Martello was an honor, and ever a challenge. Leo was a loving man, yet sometimes caustic. Leo taught this way. Sometimes he was a tough teacher, but it was to make you strong, and he did it with love. I soon learned I could never hide myself from him. He could see right into me and knew me for who and what I was. If at times he was critical, it was never intended to hurt, but rather to help me grow to my true potential. He once said these wise words to me: "Never let your failures poison your heart, nor your successes poison your disposition." With Leo you could make no excuses and take no shortcuts. To him, only cowards made excuses. To me he was a beloved teacher, high priest, and father. After my own father died, it was Leo who taught me. He was there for me, a beloved mentor. No one can ever take his place. Leo Martello now sits with the Ancient Ones, and they surely are telling him: "Welcome, our son. You did well. Join your ancestors, all those who paid with their lives to bring the Ancient Ways back to a breeding Mother Earth." As I write these words, it is with great respect and a very sad heart. There isn't an hour of the day or night that I do not miss him. My comfort is knowing he walks no in the Elysian Fields and the Summerland with his beloved pets and all of his animals. Tears well up in my eyes as I remember the dream I had in August (2000), at Lammas, when he came and asked to kiss my beloved Tasha, a snow-white Samoyed (dog) who lived eleven years by my side. I awoke to find Tasha not her old self. She refused food and would only drink water. We took her to the veterinarian, and after tests discovered she had cancer of the pancreas and liver. There was no hope. As I held her close to me, I knew that he had come from the other side to take her to run with him in the beautiful fields before she would suffer on this earthly plane. Tasha passed away in my arms, and that night, in my dreams, I ran with Tasha in a beautiful wheat and poppy-filled field, and we came to a wooden bridge. How I wanted to cross that bridge as Tasha ran ahead of me, but my legs could not move. And as I looked across where Tasha ran, there was my beloved high priest, second father, mentor and wise one, waving to me saying, "Go back and do what you have to do." T here have been many times since Leo's passing that his spirit has been made known to the members of Our Lord and Lady of the Trinacrian Rose Coven . If it were not for him in 1992, we would not be the coven we are today. We are a Sicilian coven, whose beginnings stem from ancient Sicily. Our name comes from the ancient name of Sicily--Trinacria, meaning "three capes." We are all priests and priestesses of the ancient secret Sikelian Goddess. The Sikels were the first inhabitants of Sicily. Primarily, we are all a sacred priest and priestesshood. To the people of my tradition--the Mago and Maga, Strega and Stregone--Leo had a true heart, and heart is the true magic, and anything else is technical. The gods see the human heart, and here alone you are truly judged in your rites. Leo Martello was one of the blessed ones with his endless and boundless heartfire. To understand this heartfire, I must say something about Leo's history. For this we go back to the 1930's America, during the time of the Great Depression. Poverty was rampant in the United States. Joblessness, homelessness, and hunger were prevalent. It was a most terrible time for anyone to come into this world. Leo sprang from a Sicilian immigrant father who had a farm in Massachusetts. Leo was baptized a Catholic. In his book Witchcraft: The Old Religion , he states that many of the Strega and Stregone hid under the very eyes of the Roman Catholic Church. His parents divorced when Leo was very young; consequently, Leo's father put him in a Catholic boarding school. The six years he spent at the boarding school were the unhappiest of his life. Needless to say, he did some mischief there and got into no little trouble. However, through this experience, at a very young age, Leo became strong and determined to move forward and never looked back, and never let sadness poison his spirit--as we Sicilians and Italians say, "Avante!" Leo had many psychic experiences as a child. In his early teens, he began his study of palmistry and tarot with a Gypsy woman. Aside from being a Sicilian Stregone and Mago, Leo also in time became a learned hypnotist, graphologist, publisher, and author. His publications included works on the craft, as well as books on hypnotism and handwriting analysis. When he was sixteen, he began making radio appearances, and giving handwriting analyses and selling stories to magazines. Later, he made television appearances. At the age of nineteen, he won a gold medal for the best fiction written by a teenage author in New York City. Leo was educated at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts and at Hunter College and the Institute for Psychotherapy in New Your City. He managed all of this on his own, supporting himself with a variety of odd jobs. Leo's grandmother on his father's side, Maria Concetta , was a well-known Strega Maga and high priestess of the secret Goddess of the Sikels, in her hometown of Enna, Sicily. Enna is the place where the sacred Lago Pergusa and the cave from which Hades took Persephone to the underworld are located. Maria Concetta was reputed to have helped many people in Enna. It was also said that Maria Concetta, who loved her husband very much, was the cause of a local evil Mafiosi's death when he threatened to kill Maria Concetta's husband if the husband did not pay protection money to him. The Mafiosi dropped dead of a heart attack. We can only speculate whether this was Maria Concetta's doing--after all, what goes around comes around. This may seem terrible to some, but in those days, sometimes it was necessary for the Strega to take justice into their own hands, and Maria Concetta was a Maga. She protected her own. Leo's father said that Leo physically resembled grandmother Maria Concetta. He surely had her temperament and psychic abilities. Leo's father also told Leo there were cousins in New York City who were of the Ancient Ways, and who wished to meet him. Thus began the journey tat was to change his life forever. Leo met his cousins and they told him they had been watching him for years for hi potential in the Old Religion, or as it is know, "La Vecchia." On September 26, 1951, Leo was given initiation into his cousins' secret Sicilian coven; he then became a Mago, a Stregone, or male Witch. The initiation involved a blood oath never to reveal the secrets of the coven or its members or any of the secret teachings. In any and all of Leo's books, he has never revealed the secret Sicilian teaching to which he was privy. He was never an "Infamia," or "Oath-breaker." In 1955, Leo Martello was awarded a Doctorate of Divinity degree by the National Congress of Spiritual Consultants . He became a minister of Spiritual-Nonsectarian, and served as Pastor of the Temple of Spiritual Guidance from 1955 to 1960. He left his position there to pursue his interests in witchcraft, parapsychology, psychology, and philosophy, thereby no longer accepting the theology of the National Congress of Spiritual Consultants. He also used his talents as graphologist, or handwriting analyst, to examine handwriting for various corporate clients. He was founder and director of the American Hypnotism Academy in New York from 1950 to 1954, and was treasurer of the American Graphological Society from 1955 to 1957. In 1964, Leo Martello decided to travel to Morocco in North Africa. From 1964 to 1965, he resided in Tangier, Morocco, to study oriental religion, magic, and witchcraft. In 1969, before he published his first book, Weird Ways of Witchcraft , Leo sought permission of his Sicilian coven to go public as a Witch. Subsequently, he contacted and was initiated into the Gardnerian-Alexandrian, Alexandrian, and Traditionalist witchcraft traditions. He was the first public Witch to champion the establishment of legally incorporated tax-exempt Wiccan churches, civil rights for Witches, and like all mainstream religions, paid days off for Witches on their holidays. To strengthen and further this cause, Leo founded the Witches' Liberation Movement and the Witches International Craft Association (WICA) . In 1970, he launched publication of the WICA Newsletter and Witchcraft Digest. . Leo Martello was a very outspoken man with a colorful way of saying things. On All Hallows Eve, in 1970, he arranged for a "Witch-in" in New York City's Central Park. At first the New York City Parks Department refused to issue a permit. However, they changed their minds when Leo secured the services of the New York Civil Liberties Union and threatened a lawsuit on behalf of a minority religion whose rights were being violated. On Thursday, October 29, the permit was granted in a most cordial manner. Leo's sense of humor became apparent when the Parks Department wanted to change the words "Witch-in." Leo refused, saying, "Since we will be in the sheep meadow in Central Park, and it once had sheep grazing in it, and since the symbolic God of the Witches is a goat, what could be more appropriate! Shall we call it a Goat-In?" Their jaws dropped, and he said, "I guess it was a good thing I didn't ask for permission for a Goat-in!" The Witch-in was attended by 1,000 persons, and was filmed and made into a documentary by Global Village. The Witch-in constituted the first civil rights victory for Witches. Witches and non-Witches held hands in the ever-widening circle and danced the Witches reel, while singing and old Wiccan tune, "London Bridge is Falling Down," with new words composed by a Connecticut Witch. Witches meet in Central Park, Central Park, Central Park, Witches meet in Central Park. For our Lady! Leo always honored the women of the Craft, saying that there had to be balance between God and Goddess. Leo drafted a Witch Manifesto which called for a National Witch Day parade, the moral condemnation of the Catholic Church for its torture and murder of Witches during the Inquisition, a $500,000,000 lawsuit against the Church for damages and reparation to the descendants of victims to be paid by the Vatican, and a $100,000,000 suit against Salem, Massachusetts, for damages in the 1692 Witch Trials. Leo foresaw that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would enable the establishment of Wiccan temples and churches. His definition of a Witch was: "A wise practitioner of the craft, a nature worshipper, and a person who is in control of his or her life." To Leo, many people entered the craft with a great deal of hang-ups from their Judeo-Christian upbringing. The Sicilian tradition of the craft teaches that a wrong needs to be rectified in this life, not left to karma in a future life. The Witch must not condone injustices. Leo's own philosophy, as outlined in his 1966 book How to Prevent Psychic Blackmail , is one of psychoselfism, and sensible selfishness versus senseless self-sacrifice. In time, Leo founded the Witches Anti-Defamation League [ later renamed the Witches Anti-Discrimination Lobby-WADL], dedicated to ensuring Witches' religious rights. By the late 1980's, chapters of the League had been established in every state in the U.S.A. Other major publishing credits include Witchcraft: The Old Religion; Black Magic, Satanism and Voodo; Understanding the Tarot; It's Written in the Start; It's Written in the Cards; Curses in Verses; Your Pen Personality; and The Hidden World of Hypnotism. Dr. Leo Louis Martello took a lot of important stands in the early days of the craft, and enabled those who came later to have it a little easier. However, Leo would now more than ever want us to continue creating an air of respect for the craft, never to allow our detractors to destroy our sacred faith. The craft is a sacred priest and priestesshood. No matter how holy and sacred you try to appear--how many books you write, or lectures you give at festivals--if you are not sincere and respectful, then you have failed. You are not a Witch, and the God and Goddess see you down to your naked bones. The following words of Dr. Leo Louis Martello are from his book, Witchcraft: The Old Religion: "In the Craft, there is no hard dogma. Hard drugs are forbidden. Mindless morons can't be a compliment to our Mother Goddess. Sex is sacred, not something to be exhibited at a peep show. Power is something personal, not to be used over others, which is contrary to Craft ethics. Those who think the Old Religion will make them masters over others are slaves to their own self delusions. A happy person is always a powerful person and is hated by those who aren't. A happy person is in many ways selfish; in the Craft we must protect our best interests and ensure that the power that comes from joy remains constant, knowing that none of us are immune from the vicissitudes of life, but that our Old Religion will help us handle any adversity. The Craft has survived for thousands of years. After everything else has come and gone, it will remain. And one day, in the coming Age of Aquarius, there will once again be magnificent temples to the Goddess." If you, as a Witch, allow wrongful acts in your midst and say nothing, you are as guilty as the perpetrator of the wrong. Leo believed in justice, and he detested cowards. He was the honorary father and elder of our coven. Our people miss him a great deal. Mere writing cannot tell how much we grieve for Leo. Within each and every one of us, he still lives. As Leo profoundly surmised: "The Craft is an underground spring which has existed for centuries and predates the Judeo-Christian and Muslim faiths, and occasionally rises to the surface in small streams and lakes. The modern craft movement reflects a worldwide rising of this underground spring coming with such force that it cannot be dammed by our enemies. The force behind this tidal wave is the murdered souls of the Witches condemned by the Inquisition! We are back and are going to stay to guide people to truly know what peace and respect of humanity is. Hail to our Goddess and God." We remember Leo--your light will never be extinguished. Bless you for being a light unto the great light. May we meet again and walk the Elysian Fields with you. And may you return to help this mortal world when the need arises for the voice of justice to be heard. Leo Martello. Leo Louis Martello was an author, graphologist, hypnotist and Witch of note who came to prominence during the Pagan/Witchcraft Renaissance of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Leo was born in Dudley, Massachusetts on September 26, 1930. His father Rocco Luigi Martello emigrated from Sicily to the United States, settling in New England to farm a small parcel of land. It was during the severe worldwide economic depression of the 1930s that Leo came into this world, and his childhood would be shaped by these conditions. Rocco Martello succumbed to economic pressures not long after Leo’s birth. Unable to provide for his family, he left behind the life of a farmer. He moved with his wife and infant son first to Worcester and then on to Southbridge, Massachusetts in search of work. It would be in Southbridge that Leo would receive a traditional Roman Catholic baptism. Many families, both past and present, can be tested harshly when subjected to economic pressures, and the Martello family was not an exception. Shortly after arriving in Southbridge, Leo’s father and mother divorced. Leo remained with his father until he reached schooling age, after which he was sent off to be educated at Catholic boarding schools. Leo Martello’s interests in occult matters were informed by psychic experiences he had as a child. Early on in Leo’s teenage years, he studied tarot, palmistry, graphology and hypnotism. In fact, his study of graphology would eventually lead to the path of notoriety that marked the rest of his life. Leo’s abilities made him a sought after expert at the young age of 16. He guested on radio programs, analyzing handwriting for his hosts, and wrote related articles for a sundry of publications. Leo began his higher education at Assumption College in Worcester, eventually moving to New York City at 18 to continue his education at Hunter College and the Institute for Psychotherapy. He did this without the assistance of his father, instead taking several jobs to support himself. He continued to hone his writing skills, becoming a gold medalist for best fiction story by a teenage author in New York City. At a very young age, Leo was told that he carried the physical traits of this maternal grandmother, Maria Concetta of Enna, Sicily. According to Leo, he was also told that he carried the same psychic abilities of his Grandmother. He would retell this story in his 1973 book, Witchcraft: The Old Religion . Maria was renowned in her area as a cunning woman, using folk magic to heal (and curse), as well as being an able tarot card reader. She was apparently so well known that local Catholic priests held her both in awe and disdain. Martello relates that when he was 16 years old, his father informed him that he had cousins in New York interested in his special talents. On meeting these cousins, he was made aware that his grandmother was a Strega Maga (Great Witch) practicing La Vecchia Religione (the Old Religion) of the Siculi (ancient Sicilians). His relatives watched him over the years and once they were sure that he indeed had the talents of his grandmother, initiated him on his 21st birthday. He claims the oaths of secrecy he swore as an initiate were so fierce that they precluded him from sharing details outside the initiated family. Those he did provide relate that his initiators were robed, hooded and masked, and that the rite itself involved a time in the cemetery. As time wore on, Leo became an activist for the communities to which he belonged. In 1970, Leo founded Witches International Craft Associates (WICA), which was to be the first modern organization of Pagans to hold a public ritual, as well as being among the first Pagan groups to publish a newsletter. Leo petitioned the Parks Department of New York City to hold a “festival” or as he was billing it, a “Witch In” to occur on October 31 in Central Park. The Parks Department initially approved the permit, subsequently revoking it on learning the focus of the celebration. Leo successfully sued and won the right to continue with his festival. His Witch In was immensely successful with over 1000 attendees. It was because of these victories that Leo would go on to found the Witches Anti-Defamation League, an advocacy group for Pagans and Witches. As well as being very public regarding his Witchcraft, Leo was also very much “out of the closet.” He was a founding member of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), acting as its first moderator. Leo would help GLF beyond being an officer, as he also created an editorial arm, being among the first to publish a newsletter by and for gay people called Come Out! He remained active in GLF until he had a falling out with other members over political opinions. He would move on to become a champion for the gay community within the modern Pagan world. Leo remained at the forefront of the Pagan community for decades, retiring to an “elder statesman” role as he entered his golden years. Leo Luis Martello passed beyond the veil June 29, 2000, leaving behind a strong legacy of activism, several influential books and certainly many who held him close in their heart. Features contributed to The Witches' Almanac : Stregerie, Italian Witchcraft, The Witches’ Almanac 1972 , p. 80 A Re-discovery of SATOR, The Witches’ Almanac 1973 , p. 82 Blessed Be, The Witches’ Almanac 1975 , p. 18 Cornucopia, The Witches’ Almanac 1978 , p. 24. Bibliography: Your Pen Personality 1961 It's In The Cards: The Atomic-Age Approach to Card Reading Using Psychological and Parapsychological Principles, 1964 It's in the Stars: A Sensible Approach to and a Psychological Evaluation of Astrology in this "Age of Enlightenment , 1966 How to Prevent Psychic Blackmail: The Philosophy of Psychoselfism, 1966 Hidden World of Hypnotism: How to Hypnotize, 1969 Weird Ways of Witchcraft , 1969 Black Magic, Satanism, Voodoo, 1972. Weird Ways of Witchcraft. Weird Ways of Witchcraft is the story of the radical DR. Leo Louis Martello, founder of the Witches' Anti-Defamation League and pioneer in the Witches Liberation Movement of the 1960s. An outspoken witch who brought formal charges against the Catholic Church for the damages done during the Inquisition and Salem Witch Trials, he staged the first Witch-ln in Central Park, and he wrote The Witch Manifesto which appeared in print for the first time In the 1969 edition of this very book. Weird Ways of Witchcraft. Author : Leo Louis Martello. ISBN: OCLC:1665782. Category: Witchcraft. Popular Witchcraft. Witchcraft and the new liberal , in fact , hardly seem strange bedfellows . . in the mainstream media through his popular books : How to Prevent Psychic Blackmail ( 1966 ) ; It's Written in the Cards ( 1968 ) ; The Weird Ways of Witchcraft ( 1969 ) . Author : Jack Fritscher. Publisher: Popular Pressof Bowling Green State. ISBN: UOM:39015059305469. Category: Social Science. Popular Witchcraft: Straight from the Witch’s Mouth, inspired by the British Gerald Gardner’s Witchcraft Today, was the first book to be published on popular American witchcraft and remains the classic survey of white and black magic. Newly revised and updated for twenty-first- century readers, the author—an ordained but marvelously fallen exorcist—tells all about the evil eye, the queer eye, women and witch trials, the Old Religion, magic Christianity, Satanism, and New Age self-help. Jack Fritscher sifts through legends of sorcery and the twisted history of witchcraft, including the casting of spells and incantations, with a focus on the growing role of witchcraft in popular culture and its mainstream commercialization through popular music, Broadway, Hollywood, and politics. As seriously historical as it is fun to read, there is no other book like it. The Anatomy of Witchcraft. Ancient & Modern Witchcraft by Raymond Buckland ( HC Publishers Inc , New York ) . Weird Ways of Witchcraft by Dr. Leo Martello ( HC Publishers ) . Power Through Witchcraft by Louise Huebner ( Nash ) . The Compleat Witch by Anton . Author : Peter Haining. ISBN: IND:30000001748445. Category: Magic. The Occult in the Western World. Author : Cosette N. Kies. Publisher: Hamden, Conn. : Library Professional Publications. ISBN: IND:39000005578393. Category: Reference. Odd Gods. Luhrmann , T. M. Persuasions of the Witch's Craft : Ritual Magic in Contemporary England . Cambridge , Mass .: Harvard University Press , 1989 Lyons . Weird Ways of Witchcraft . New York : HC Publishers , 1969 . What It Means to Be a . Author : James R. Lewis. ISBN: UOM:39015050470791. Category: Religion. No Marketing Blurb. Christian Herald. One Grand Maslessor at City College in New York . The Weird Ways of Witchcraft , re ter of a Crowley order was dis' Interest in mysticism is a regrescently helped some New York City tressed to find that most applicants sion to a childlike state . ISBN: WISC:89059491530. Category: Christian life. Bulletin of Bibliography. ISBN: UCAL:B4230418. Category: Bibliography. Sociology for Pleasure. The Dark World of Witches . London : Pan , 1965 . MARTELLO , LEO L . , Weird Ways of Witchcraft . New York : H . C . Publishers , Allograph Books , 1969 . MATHER , B . , “ Witchcraft and Satanism Are Alive and Well in Michigan ; Meet Bill . Author : Marcello Truzzi. ISBN: MINN:319510018254913. Category: Sociologie. The Weird Sisters in Macbeth Supernatural Fates or Common Witches. The opening scene of the play introduces three witches also nown as the three Weird Sisters. . downfall or if his interpretation of the prophecies and the way that he acted according to them was the deciding element, but this should not be the . Author : Saskia Schäfers. Publisher: GRIN Verlag. ISBN: 9783668738638. Category: Literary Criticism. Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Marburg (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: In this paper, the three weird sisters - important characters in Shakespeare's Macbeth - are examined. The question that is posed is concerned with the nature of these witches: Are they just common witches or do they represent the sisters of Fate of ancient mythologies? Paperbound Books in Print. Witchcraft in the Southwest : Spanish & Indian Supernaturalism on the Rio Grande . Marc Simmons . . B Hilltop Pr . TM Program : The Way to Fulfillment . . Tr . by Juan A . Rios from Eng . Ong . Title : Weird People of the Unknown . 160p . ISBN: UOM:39015085501693. Category: Bibliography. Luna Monthly. WEIRD WAYS OF WITCHCRAFT by Dr . Leo L . Martello . HC Pubs , 1969 . 221 p . $ 1 . 00paper This is not a collection of short stories , neither is it a " how - to " book . It is an introduction to witchcraft , explaining what it is and what it is not . ISBN: UOM:39015067501240. Category: Science fiction. The Publishers Trade List Annual. SBN 87636 $ 1.00 BLACK MAGIC , VOODOO , SATANISM . 192 pp . , ill . 1972. SBN 87637-152-1 . paper $ 1.00 WEIRD WAYS OF WITCHCRAFT . 224 pp . , ill . 1969 SBN 87637-133 - X . paper $ 1.00 HIDDEN WORLD OF HYPNOTISM . ISBN: STANFORD:36105124489100. Category: American literature. The Encyclopedia of American Religions. 1089 * CHAMBER OF HOLY VOODOO Box 341 New York , NY 10021 Sources : Leo Louis Martello , Witchcraft , The Old Religion . Secaucus , NJ : University Books , 1973 ; Leo Louis Martello , Weird Ways of Witchcraft . New York : HC . Author : J. Gordon Melton. Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Resarch Company. ISBN: UOM:39015028781436. Category: Cultes - États-Unis. "Compact, clearly printed, and a delight to use. A sine qua non for the reference collections of public, academic, and theological libraries". -- American Reference Books Annual. Witchcraft the Old Religion. Weird Ways Of Witchcraft was written more as a reporter than as a Witch ( I hadn't gone public yet ) with the emphasis on “ Weird , ” that portion of the Craft which has been generally assumed by the public . “ The Witch Manifesto ” and the . Author : Leo Louis Martello. ISBN: PSU:000027534120. Category: Witchcraft. Witchcraft, or the Old Religion, is probably the only religion that has not discriminated against women. In many branches the Goddess is superior to the male God, in others they are equal. This book defines the roots of the Old Religion as practiced today by witches of many different traditions, and explains the differences between true witches, old religionists, pop witches, Christian-defined witches, and satanists. Lightning Print on Demand Title. Dictionary of Mysticism and the Esoteric Traditions. Author : Nevill Drury. Publisher: Abc-Clio Incorporated. ISBN: STANFORD:36105001763932. Category: Philosophy. Nearly three thousand entries cover the people, concepts, language, signs, symbols, and writings of Eastern and Western esoteric traditions. Performing Ecstasies. In Weird Ways of Witchcraft , he is the first to reproduce an engraving of the mano fica , calling it the “ fig gesture ” and attributing it to Italian magic - workers who used it to turn back evil spells.32 In Witchcraft , the Old Religion , he describes . Author : Nancy Elizabeth Van Deusen. ISBN: STANFORD:36105114739365. Category: Ecstatic dance. The Complete Book of Magic and Witchcraft. I notice that the crowns of flowers are not even the correct combinations ( to real witches flowers have individual powers and . In “ Gay Witch ” Leo Martello ' s Weird Ways of Witchcraft ( 1972 ) he is quoted thus : They ' re tea shoppe witches . Author : Leonard R. N. Ashley. Publisher: Barricade Books Incorporated. ISBN: 1569800499. Category: Body, Mind & Spirit. An underemployed, skateboarding party animal, Colby Buzzell traded a dead-end future for the army--and ended up as a machine gunner in Iraq. To make sense of the absurd and frightening events surrounding him, he started writing a blog about the war--and how it differed from the government's official version. But as his blog's popularity grew, Buzzell became the embedded reporter the Army couldn't control--despite its often hilarious efforts to do so. The result is an extraordinary narrative, rich with unforgettable scenes: the Iraqi woman crying uncontrollably during a raid on her home; the soldier too afraid to fight; the troops chain-smoking in a guard tower and counting tracer rounds; the first, fierce firefight against the "men in black." Drawing comparisons to everything from Charles Bukowski to Catch-22, My War depicts a generation caught in a complicated and dangerous world--and marks the debut of a raw, remarkable new voice. The Amazing World of Superstition Prophecy Luck Magic Witchcraft. I notice that the crowns of flowers are not even the correct combinations ( to real witches flowers have individual . In " Gay Witch ” Leo Martello's Weird Ways of Witchcraft ( 1972 ) he is quoted thus : They're tea shoppe witches , plump little .