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corresponded with representatives of more than three hundred different groups—on the Internet, by phone, and by mail.
    As for libraries and institutions, thanks to the Institute for the Study of American Religion and J. Gordon Melton; the Lesbian Herstory Archives in New York City; the C. G. Jung Foundation in New York and its library; and the New York Public Library, especially the Frederick Lewis Allen Room at the Library—a wonderful room for writers—where all editions but this one were written.
    A special thanks goes to the late Mary Card—who taught twelve-year-olds at The City and Country School—a whole year devoted to ancient Greece. Without that experience, this journey might not have been taken. Thanks also to professor Gilbert Rose, who pro - vided me with the rudiments of the ancient Greek language in college, allowing my thoughts to continue in unusual directions.
    And thanks to the group of women who meet every weekday at Juliano’s coffee house, for keeping me sane.
    This book has had several different publishers and many different editors during its four editions. Thanks to Edwin Kennebec, Alida Becker, Joanne Wycoff, and my newest editor at Penguin, Rakia Clark. And deepest thanks to Jane Rotrosen and Donald Cleary of the Jane Rotrosen Agency.
    Here is the true story. It was a chance encounter in a bar that is most responsible for Drawing Down the Moon. A friend introduced me to an agent, Jane Rotrosen, way back in 1974. Her eyes got wide as I started to talk about my experiences with Pagans and Witches. “Have you ever thought about writing a book,” she asked? “No,” I said. I hadn’t, and I added, “Unlike radio, the written word is so eternal.” Thank you, Jane—thirty-one years after that first meeting, here’s the latest edition.

Acknowledgments
    The author is grateful to the following publishers for permission to reprint excerpts: From Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America, by Robert S. Ellwood, Jr., © 1973 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. By permission of Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J. From Occultism, Witchcraft and Cultural Fashions, by Mircea Eliade, © 1976 University of Chicago. By permission of the University of Chicago Press. “The Occult and the Modern World” originally appeared in Journal of the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis, Vol. 1, No. 3, September 1974. From Edward J. Moody, “Magical Therapy: An Anthropological Investigation of Contemporary Satanism”; Marcello Truzzi, “Towards a Sociology of the Occult: Notes on Modern Witchcraft”; and Harriet Whitehead, “Reasonably Fantastic: Some Perspectives on Scientology, Science Fiction, and Occultism,” in Religious Movements in Contemporary America, eds. Irving J. Zaretsky and Mark P. Leone, © 1974 by Princeton University Press. By permission of Princeton University Press. From Europe’s Inner Demons: An Enquiry Inspired by the Great Witch-Hunt, by Norman Cohn, © 1975 by Norman Cohn. By permission of Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, New York. From An ABC of Witchcraft Past and Present and Natural Magic by Doreen Valiente, © respectively 1973 and 1975 by Doreen Valiente. By permission of St. Martin’s Press, Inc., New York. From Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries, by George E. Mylonas, © 1961 by Princeton University Press. By permission of Princeton University Press. From “The Religious Background of the Present Environmental Crisis,” by Arnold Toynbee, originally published in The International Journal of Environmental Studies, 1972, Vol. III, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers Ltd., 41/42 William IV Street, London WC2, England. By permission of the publishers and the Estate of Professor Toynbee. From “The Witch Archetype,” by Ann Bedford Ulanov, originally published in Quadrant, Vol. X, No. 1, 1977. By permission of the C. J. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, Inc.,