Fifty Years in the Feri Tradition (Cora Anderson)

Fifty Years in the Feri Tradition is Cora Anderson's own short book on the Feri, or Faery, Tradition of modern witchcraft she co-founded with her husband, Victor H. Anderson, on the American West Coast between the 1950s and 1960s. Cora wrote it in 1994, as a fiftieth wedding anniversary gift explaining their shared work and teaching, and it was republished in a trade edition by Acorn Guild Press in 2005. Independent booksellers and reviewers of the Anderson Feri lineage describe it as the closest thing the tradition has to a definitive short statement of its own theology, symbolism and social structure in the founders' own words, written in part to correct partial or distorted accounts that had circulated from students who had received only pieces of the oral teaching. Cora Anderson went on, after Victor's death in 2001, to train several of the tradition's most influential later teachers, including Starhawk and Gwydion Pendderwen, giving the book a continuing role as a reference point for a lineage that otherwise transmits primarily through direct, oral instruction.