'Witchcraft will not soon vanish from this earth': Wicca in the 21st century

Predicting Religion: Christian, Secular and Alternative Futures

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 170-182

  Pearson, Jo ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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