Maxine Sanders

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Maxine Sanders

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

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

The Sanders became known nationwide in the late 1960s and early 1970s for publications on the witch belief, its coven and rituals. A record of Janet Owen's initiation , '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 appeared in 1969 ( King of the Witches , by June Johns); two biographies about Maxine appeared in 1976 ( Maxine: The Witch Queen ) and 1977 ( The Ecstatic Mother , by Richard Deutch).

Maxine lived in London for around 35 years, worked for the Coven and taught Wicca. In 2003 she retired to the countryside and now lives in a small house in Snowdonia National Park in Wales. She still travels a lot and gives lectures 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: Firechild: The Life and Magic of Maxine Sanders "Witch Queen" . Mandrake of Oxford, Ltd, 2008, ISBN 978-1-869928-97-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Sanders, Maxine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morris, Arline Maxine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British follower of Wicca
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Mary's Hospital, Cheshire