About the Author

Edain McCoy became a self-initiated Witch in 1981, and has been an active part of the Pagan community since her formal initiation into a large San Antonio coven in 1983. She has been researching alternative spiritualities since her teens, when she was first introduced to Ka­ ballah (Jewish mysticism). Since then, she has studied a variety of magickal paths, including Celtic Witchcraft, Appalachian folk magick, and Curanderismo, a Mexican-American folk tradition. Today she is part of the Wittan Irish Pagan tradition, in which she is a priestess of Brighid and an elder. An alumnus of the University of Texas with a B.A. in history, she currently pursues part-time graduate and undergraduate studies at Indiana University as her schedule permits. She is also active in several professional writer’s organizations, and occasionally presents workshops on magickal topics, or works individually with students who wish to study Witchcraft. This former wood-wind player for the Lynchburg (VA) symphony claims both the infamous feuding McCoy family of Kentucky and Sir Roger Williams, the seventeenth-century religious dissenter, as branches on her ethnically diverse family tree.