There has been a recent rebirth of witchcraft as an alternative to patriarchal religions in the United States. According to M. S. Faber, the author of Modern Witchcraft and Psychoanalysis, there are approximately 100,000 women and men in the United States today who regard themselves as pagan members of Wicca and practice witchcraft in some form. Faber, a professor of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, believes that this spiritual movement is more than a cultic society that can be explained away as an irrational preoccupation of emotionally unstable people “who are no more ‘neurotic’ than many of the individuals who regularly attend synagogue on Saturday or church on Sunday” (p. 18). From his psychoanalytic examination of Wicca—based on his interviews with three people who describe themselves as modern witches, his observer-participant presence in a meeting of a Wicca