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Memoirs of a Shape-ShifterISBN 0-9713770-3-0 Hard cover, dust jacket, 6 x 9, 440 pgs. Season: Fall, 2005 Price: $25 |
Press roomSubject matter New England late 17th century and present-day Gloucester, Massachusetts. More specifically, much of the book takes place in Dogtown, a forested preserve in Gloucester. Love and relationships. Women's issues, including mother/daughter relationships, career paths, female mentoring, beauty, health, rape, childbirth and rearing, prostitution. Religious issues such as Christianity, earth-worship, Tarot and Wicca are addressed in the novel. Alternative religious practices including chanting, magic circles, ceremonies of welcoming and drug-induced initiation, animal-spirit worship. The New England fishing industry. Magic, ghosts. Irish and Celtic studies, Celtic myth, Druidism and ogham, shamanism and shape-shifting, spell-casting. Witch trials of the late 17th century in Salem, Massachusetts. Puritanism and the King Philip War. Native American issues, including tribal life, smallpox epidemic. Poetry as imagination stimulation, a form of magic. |
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