Wise young women: Beliefs, values and influences in the adoption of Witchcraft by teenage girls in England

The New Generation Witches: Teenage Witchcraft in Contemporary Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 139-160

  Cush, Denise ^a  

^a BATH SPA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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