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Patricia Telesco

Written and compiled by George Knowles

Patricia “Trish” Telesco is a well known American author, herbalist, poet, lecturer and Wiccan High Priestess.  She is also a trustee for the Universal Federation of Pagans, a member of the Authors Guild, a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism and a member of the Wiccan-Pagan Press Alliance.  She has written more than 60 books on subjects ranging from self-help cookbooks to magick, folklore and global religions, and her articles have appeared such notable publications as:  Cosmo, Woman’s World Magazine, Complete Woman Magazine, Publisher's Weekly, Circle Network News, Pan Gaia and Sagewoman.

Trish was born Marian Singer on the 21st February 1960 and riased in a Lutheran household.  After spending five years as a Pentecostal missionary singing on gospel tours in Quebec, during her time at college she became an agnostic.  After leaving collage she ending up in Boston, Massachusetts, having psychic experiences, such like object reading, touching people’s jewellery and seeing images.  Fortunately while there, she met a shaman (who eventually became her husband) and a cabalist who diagnosed her symptoms as those of a natural psychic.  They explained the uses of energy and showed her the way home to what she calls folk-magick.

Trish is self-trained and self-initiated, but later received initiation into the Strega tradition of Italy (Tempio della Stregheria).  She defines her own form of folk-magick as:  “the blending of superstition and lore (folklore being the place where various magickal traditions found a safe haven during years of political correctness) into a functional system of magick.  As an example:  one bit of lore says red is scary to certain mischievous fairies, so if I were being bothered by that kind of Fey, I would use a red amulet.”

Trish travels regularly throughout the country giving lectures and workshops on various aspects of witchcraft and magick, and has appeared at many of the major events in the New Age/Neo-Pagan calander such as the Starwood Festival and the Pagan Spirit Gathering.  She has appeared on several television programmes, including:  Sightings – on multi-cultural divination systems, the Debra Duncan Show – on modern Wicca, and on National Geographic Today – on Solstice Celebrations.  She has also given radio interviews all across the USA.

Trish considers herself a down-to-earth kitchen witch and folk magician, and her love of folklore and worldwide customs can be seen in the books she writes.  Her hobbies include:  antique restoration, writing and singing folk music, sufi dancing, herbalism, wood carving and soapstone, writing poetry, historical costuming and participating in the Society for Creative Anachronism.

Trish works from her home in Western New York were she lives with her husband, two sons and a daughter, and when not busy writing, runs a small mail-order business called Hourglass Creations.  She also has her own Yahoo email-group at:  http://www.groups.yahoo.com/groups/folkmagicwithtrishtelesco and her personal website can be found at:  http://www.loresinger.com/

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A partcial bibliograhy:

The Kitchen Witch Companion: Simple and Sublime Culinary Magic (2005)

Kitchen Witch's Guide To Brews And Potions (2005)

The Teen Book Of Shadows: Star Signs, Spells, Potions, and Powers (2004)

The Witch's Book of Wisdom (2003)

A Little Book of Mirror Magic: Meditations, Myths, Spells (2003)

Mastering Candle Magick (2003)

A Victorian Grimoire: Romance - Enchantment - Magic (2002)

Labyrinth Walking: Patterns of Power (2001)

Money Magick: How to Use Magick to Gain Prosperity (2001)

The Wiccan Web: Surfing the Magic on the Internet (2001)

An Enchanted Life : An Adept's Guide to Masterful Magick (2001)

A Floral Grimoire: Plant Charms, Spells, Recipes, and Rituals (2001)

How To Be A Wicked Witch: Good Spells, Charms, Potions and Notions for Bad Days (2000)

The Magick of Folk Wisdom (2000)

Shaman in a 9 to 5 World (2000)

A Witch's Beverages and Brews (2000)

Your Book of Shadows: How to Write Your Own Magickal Spells (2000)

A Charmed Life (2000)

The Cyber Spellbook: Magick in the Virtual World (2000)

Ghosts, Spirits and Hauntings (1999)

Cat Magic: Mews, Myths, and Mystery (1999)

A Little Book of Love Magic (1999)

Mirror, Mirror: Reflections of the Sacred Self (1999)

Futuretelling: A Complete Guide to Divination (1998)

Goddess in My Pocket: Simple Spells, Charms, Potions, and Chants to Get You Everything You Want (1998)

The Herbal Arts: A Handbook of Gardening, Recipes, Healing, Crafts, and Spirituality (1998)

365 Goddess: A Daily Guide to the Magic and Inspiration of the Goddess (1998)

Healer's Handbook: A Holistic Guide to Wellness in the New Age (1997)

The Language of Dreams (1997)

Wishing Well: Empowering Your Hopes and Dreams (1997)

Seasons of the Sun: Celebrations from the World's Spiritual Traditions (1996)

Spinning Spells, Weaving Wonders: Modern Magic for Everyday Life (1996)

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Telesco

http://www.twpt.com/telesco.html

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Best wishes and Blessed Be 

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Articles and Stories about Witchcraft:

Murder by Witchcraft /  The Fairy Witch of Clonmel /  A Battleship, U-boat, and a Witch /  The Troll-Tear (A story for Children) /  Goody Hawkins - The Wise Goodwife /  The Story of Jack-O-Lantern /  The Murder of the Hammersmith Ghost /  Josephine Gray (The Infamous Black Widow) /  The Two Brothers - Light and Dark

Abramelin the Mage /  Agrippa /  Aidan A. Kelly /  Albertus Magnus “Albert the Great” /  Aleister Crowley “The Great Beast” /  Alex Sanders "the King of the Witches” /  Alison Harlow /  Amber K /  Anna Franklin /  Anodea Judith /  Anton Szandor LaVey  / Arnold Crowther /  Arthur Edward Waite /  Austin Osman Spare /  Biddy Early /  Bridget Cleary /  Carl Llewellyn Weschcke /  Cecil Hugh Williamson /  Charles Godfrey Leland /  Charles Walton /  Christina Oakley Harrington /  Damh the Bard (Dave Smith) /   Dion Fortune /  Dolores Aschroft-Nowicki /  Dorothy Morrison /  Doreen Valiente /  Edward Fitch /  Eleanor Ray Bone “Matriarch of British Witchcraft” /  Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelly /  Dr. Leo Louis Martello /  Eliphas Levi /  Ernest Thompson Seton /  Ernest Westlake and the Order of Woodcraft Chivalry /  Fiona Horne /  Friedrich von Spee /  Francis Barrett /  Gerald B. Gardner /  Gavin and Yvonne Frost and the School and Church of Wicca /  Gwydion Pendderwen /  Hans Holzer /  Helen Duncan /  Herman Slater "Horrible Herman" /  Israel Regardie /  James "Cunning" Murrell /  Janet Farrar & Gavin Bone /  Jessie Wicker Bell “Lady Sheba” / John Belham-Payne /  John George Hohman /  John Gerard / John Gordon Hargrave (the White Fox) /  John Michael Greer /  John Score /  Johannes Junius the Burgomaster of Bamberg /  Karl von Eckartshausen /  Laurie Cabot "the Official Witch of Salem" /  Lewis Spence /  Margaret Alice Murray /  Margot Adler /  Marie Laveau the " Voodoo Queen of New Orleans" /  Marion Weinstein /  Matthew Hopkins “The Witch-Finder General” /  Max Ehrmann and the Desiderata /  Monique Wilson the “Queen of the Witches” /  Montague Summers /  Nicholas Culpeper /  Nicholas Remy /  M. R. Sellers /  Mrs. Grieve "A Modern Herbal" /  Oberon and Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart /  Old Dorothy Clutterbuck /  Old George Pickingill /   Paddy Slade /  Pamela Colman-Smith /  Paracelsus /  Patricia Crowther /  Patricia Monaghan /  Patricia “Trish” Telesco /  Philip Emmons Isaac Bonewits /  Philip Heselton /  Raymond Buckland /  Reginald Scot /  Robert Cochrane /  Robert ‘von Ranke’ Graves and "The White Goddess" /  Rudolf Steiner /  Rosaleen Norton “The Witch of Kings Cross” /  Ross Nichols and The Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids /  Sabrina - The Ink Witch /  Scott Cunningham /  Selena Fox /  Silver Ravenwolf /  Sir Francis Dashwood /  Sir James George Frazer /  S.L. MacGregor Mathers and the “Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn” /  Starhawk /  Stewart Farrar /  Sybil Leek /  Ted Andrews /  The Mather Family - includes: Richard Mather, Increase Mather, Cotton Mather /  Thomas Ady /  Vera Chapman /  Victor Henry Anderson /  Vivianne Crowley /  Walter Brown Gibson /  William Butler Yeats /  Zsuzsanna Budapest

Many of the above biographies are brief and far from complete.  If you know about any of these individuals and can help with aditional information, please cantact me privately at my email address below.  Many thanks for reading  :-)

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