![]() ![]() Trayer and Haddad-Friedman are members of a movement gaining an ardent following among teen-agers, mostly girls, who are in part captivated by the glossy new image of witches portrayed on television shows and in the movies. "Every religion has its secrets," she said. "Now, they see it and want to know more." She usually obliges with a brief explanation, but stops short of describing the subtler mysteries of her faith. "They used to look at my pentacle and call me names," Trayer said. There was a time, she said, when her icon alarmedĬlassmates and teachers at her high school in south-central Pennsylvania, who thought that they detected about it a faint whiff of sulfur. ![]() ![]() She is utterly diligent, however, about wearing her pentacle, the five-pointed star enclosed within a circle that is the symbol of Wicca, displaying it outside her clothes. Grade at school, I may ask the god and goddess for their help, burn a candle - something like that," she said. Trayer is the daughter of a Wiccan author, who uses the pen name Silver RavenWolf. I've got a life to live." She never fails, however, to acknowledge a full moon with a skyward glance and a wave.įalynn Trayer, also 17, is similarly breezy about her witchcraft. "My best rituals are spontaneous," she said. Haddad-Friedman, a senior honor student at an alternative high school in Manhattan, practices witchcraft as time permits. Of friends and family members, who have come to regard them, she said, with mild bemusement. One that doubles as an altar, providing a perch for such items as a pair of candlesticks, an incense burner, a cast-iron cauldron and, she said wryly, sometimes her cats.Įmn Haddad-Friedman, 17, a real-life witch, or Wiccan, from Brooklyn, visiting an East Village shop called Enchantment.Ī solitary practitioner of Wicca - a name for modern witchcraft - Haddad-Friedman has, in the parlance of the craft, lately "come out of the broom closet." She displays the symbols of her beliefs in full view "Just a box really," Haddad-Friedman said, 26, 1998)ĮW YORK - Occupying a place of honor in Emn Haddad-Friedman's bedroom in Brooklyn is a trunk. A New Broom Sweeps the World of Witchery (Oct.'The Blair Witch Project': Where Panic Meets Imagination (July 14, 1999).Another Hit Could Give Witches a Bad Name (Aug. ![]()
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