Sex, Death and Witchcraft: A Contemporary Pagan Festival

by Douglas Ezzy

Book Overview

Faunalia is a controversial Pagan festival with a reputation for being wild and emotionally intense. It lasts five days, eighty people attend, and the two main rituals run most of the night. In the tantalisingly erotic Baphomet rite, participants encounter a hermaphroditic deity, enter a state of trance and dance naked around a bonfire. In the Underworld rite participants role play their own death, confronting grief and suffering. These rituals...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147252246X
• ISBN13: 9781472522467
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.5"