Maxine Sanders

Maxine Sanders ( born December 30, 1946 as Arline Maxine Morris at St. Mary's Hospital, Cheshire ) is a known follower of Wicca and together with her future husband, Alex Sanders, the founder of the tradition of Alexandrian Wicca.

Maxine was taught as a Roman Catholic student at the St. Joseph 's Convent School in Manchester. In the 1960s, she met Alex Sanders know. During their training period as a secretary, she was accepted into Alex's Coven 1964. A year later she married Alex, the wedding was neither civilly nor church, but a Wiccan wedding. In 1968, she married Alex in a civil ceremony and moved to Notting Hill Gate in London. In the same year her daughter Maya was born; her son Victor was born in 1972. In the same year she separated from her husband.

The Sanders were recognized nationally by publications on the belief in witchcraft in the late 1960s and early 1970s, their covens and rituals. A replay of the initiation of Janet Owen, ' A Witch is Born ', was published in 1970. Sanders' coven appeared in Legend of the Witches ( 1970), Witchcraft '70 (1970) and Secret Rites (1971). A biography of Alex, published in 1969 (King of the Witches, by June Johns ); two biographies about Maxine published 1976 ( Maxine: The Witch Queen) and 1977 (The Ecstatic Mother, by Richard Deutch).

Maxine lived 35 years in London, worked for the coven and taught Wicca. In 2003, she retired to the country and now lives in a small house in the Snowdonia National Park in Wales. She travels a lot and speaks at events.

Swell

  • Michael Jordan: Witches: An Encyclopedia of Paganism and Magic. Kyle Cathie Limited, 1996, ISBN 1-85626-193- X.
  • Rickard Deutch: The Ecstatic Mother: Portrait of Maxine Sanders, Witch Queen. Bachman and Turner, 1977, ISBN 0-85974-048- X.
  • Neville Drury: Magic & Witchcraft: From Shamanism to the Technopagans. Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2003, ISBN 0-500-28514-4.

Bibliography

  • Maxine Sanders Maxine: The Witch Queen. Wyndham Publications Ltd, 1976, ISBN 0-352-39738-1.
  • Maxine Sanders: Fire Child: The Life and Magic of Maxine Sanders ' Witch Queen ". Mandrake of Oxford, Ltd., 2008, ISBN 978-1-869928-97-1.
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