Victor Henry Anderson

Victor Henry Anderson (1917 to 2001) was an American priest and poet, co-founder of the Feri Tradition, a modern Pagan new religious movement established in California during the 1960s. Visually impaired from childhood, he later described being initiated into a tradition of witchcraft as a young man in Oregon. In 1944 he and his wife Cora Cremeans founded the Mahaelani Coven, inspired partly by the writings of the English Wiccan Gerald Gardner, gathering the first followers of what became the Feri tradition; their early initiate Gwydion Pendderwen introduced elements of Alexandrian Wicca into it. Anderson was also a professional accordion player and published devotional Pagan poetry, including the 1970 collection Thorns of the Blood Rose, dedicated to the Goddess.