Prospero's Isle by John CallowAs rebel, adventurer, and religious visionary, Gerald Gardner forged Wicca upon the Isle of Man. His powerful re imagining of modern witchcraft as a nature religion and source of female empowerment, stripped of its demonic current, was profoundly shaped by the folklore and landscape of this rugged Celtic island, set adrift in the Irish Sea. It found its form in his writings and in the creation of The Witches Mill, a Manx museum devoted to the Craft,

they offer a glimpse into the beginnings of a tradition that has now taken its place in the modern Craft

the subsequent grieving process in 1953

awaits us when we cross that final threshold that is death

the known and the obscured

this remarkable new book delves into a particular mystery of life and death that has haunted him for decades

Gerald Gardner forged Wicca upon the Isle of Man

“The style is the man

from the countercultural movements of the 1960s to the complexities of the digital age

It found its form in his writings and in the creation of The Witches’ Mill

first published in 1972 and since then never out of print

and as such become what the ancient Greeks called psychopomps or “guides of souls”

we accompany the young narrator to college in London and from there out into the wider world