At this point, I had taken over 40 pages of notes and it was a huge relief to be able to stop scribbling and switch to littering the pages with book darts instead. With Drawing Down the Moon, we're talking about nearly 600 pages of the topics listed in the previous sentence, and as a result I kept it checked out of the Laguna Beach public library for literally months before giving in and buying a copy at my friendly local independent bookstore. I read the 1997 revised and updated version of Adler's book first, because Dar Williams mentions it favorably in the liner notes to the song " Calling the Moon", on her 2000 album, The Green World, and because I've been interested in Wicca, Witchcraft, Paganism, Neopaganism, and magic in general for years. Both of these books were revolutionary at the time they first came out, and are often mentioned as playing an important role in increasing the awareness and popularity of Paganism/ Neopaganism and Wicca/ Witchcraft in particular. It was originally published on Halloween/ Samhain in 1979, the same year Starhawk's The Spiral Dance brought feminist Witchcraft to a much wider audience by - gasp! - including men. Drawing Down the Moon is Margot Adler's encyclopedic survey of, as the subtitle so aptly summarizes it, "Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers and Other Pagans in America Today".
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