Leo Louis Martello (1930–2000)

Crazy, fascinating, this guy is on the edge and I loved every minute of it. His inditement of the Catholic Church was on the money. There is a lot of actual solid information in here but there is also some pretty loose logic. This guy was a gay rights activist, a feminist, and a proponent of animal rights and civil rights. One of the original New York Wiccans he agitated and advocated for the rights of witches. He formed and led so many organizations it's an alphabet soup. The original show more paperback published in 1969 was something I found by chance in a jumbled forgotten used bookstore in Southern California. It was reprinted in 2011 I believe but seems to be pretty rare. Your library can probably help you track a copy down, it's worth the trouble for the graphics and bibliography if nothing else. This guy is definitely on my list of dead people I'd like to invite to a dinner party. Probably the only one who could find a way to show up. show less

After several books in which witchcraft and other magical happenings were treated tabloid press fashion, Martello decided to jump on the Witchcraft is a religion bandwagon.