title: Making Magick: For Witches & Pagans
author:  Edain McCoy 
description: Edain became a self-initiated Witch in 1981 and has been an active part of the Pagan community since her formal initiation into a large San Antonio coven in 1983. Edain has researched alternative spiritualities since her teens, when she was first introduced to Kaballah, or Jewish mysticism. Since that time, she has studied a variety of magickal paths including Celtic, Appalachian folk magick, and Curanderismo, a Mexican-American folk tradition. Today, Edain is part of the Wittan Irish Pagan tradition, where she is a priestess of Brighid and an elder.  <br /> <br />An alumnus of the University of Texas with a BA in history, she is affiliated with several professional writer's organizations and occasionally presents workshops on magickal topics or works individually with students who wish to study Witchcraft. <br /> <br />This former woodwind player for the Lynchburg (VA) Symphony claims both the infamous feuding McCoy family of Kentucky and Sir Roger Williams, the seventeeth-century religious dissenter, as branches on her ethnically diverse family tree. In her "real life," Edain works as a licensed stockbroker. <br /> <br />Edain is the author of fifteen books, including Bewitchments; Enchantments; and her most recent release, Ostara: Customs, Spells &amp; Rituals for the Rites of Spring. <br /> <br />
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  About the Author
  
  
  Edain McCoy became a self-initiated Witch in 1981, and has been an active part
  of the Pagan community since her formal initiation into a large San Antonio
  coven in 1983. She has been researching alternative spiritualities since her
  teens, when she was first introduced to Ka­ ballah (Jewish mysticism). Since
  then, she has studied a variety of magickal paths, including Celtic
  Witchcraft, Appalachian folk magick, and Curanderismo, a Mexican-American folk
  tradition. Today she is part of the Wittan Irish Pagan tradition, in which she
  is a priestess of Brighid and an elder. An alumnus of the University of Texas
  with a B.A. in history, she currently pursues part-time graduate and
  undergraduate studies at Indiana University as her schedule permits. She is
  also active in several professional writer’s organizations, and occasionally
  presents workshops on magickal topics, or works individually with students who