The Satanic Witch, originally published in 1971 as The Compleat Witch, is Anton LaVey's manual on what he termed lesser magic, the deliberate manipulation of social and psychological technique to achieve influence over others, reissued under Feral House in 1989 with its present title and treated within LaVeyan Satanism as the third of the movement's core LaVey-authored books alongside The Satanic Bible and The Satanic Rituals.
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Era of CompositionThe book was first published as The Compleat Witch, or What to Do When Virtue Fails, in 1971 by Dodd, Mead & Company. 1 Republished under its current title The Satanic Witch in 1989; 1971 is the original composition/publication. Attributed Author / Compiler Text
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StructureLaVey's manual on what he termed lesser magic, the deliberate manipulation of social and psychological technique to achieve influence over others; the third of the movement's core LaVey-authored books alongside The Satanic Bible and The Satanic Rituals. 2 Status
Canonical StatusIts own record calls it "the third of the movement's core LaVey-authored books alongside The Satanic Bible and The Satanic Rituals," both already or newly canonical in this same fill. The Satanic Witch
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Source Satanism: A Social HistoryMassimo Introvigne
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Source Satanism: A Social HistoryMassimo Introvigne
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1. The Satanic Witch (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia: The Satanic Witch, lead section
The book was first published as The Compleat Witch, or What to Do When Virtue Fails, in 1971 by Dodd, Mead & Company.
Originates in Language: English, Infobox, language field
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Attributed To: Anton LaVey, Lead section
The Satanic Witch is a book by Anton LaVey, currently published by Feral House.
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Massimo Introvigne, Brill, 2016on The Satanic Witch/The Compleat Witch and lesser magicView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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