• Community Music Center: The Retraction

    Community Music Center: The Retraction
    Community Music Center 544 Capp St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    A mad woman, a proto-feminist, and an icon of Wicca communities, Isobel Gowdie, a peasant woman tried for witchcraft in Auldearn, northeast Scotland, in 1662, has been interpreted in many ways since her four lengthy and detailed confessions were re-discovered in 1833. Likely under torture, she confessed to everything: twenty-seven spells, carnal dealings with the […]

  • Community Music Center: The Retraction

    Community Music Center: The Retraction
    Community Music Center 544 Capp St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    A mad woman, a proto-feminist, and an icon of Wicca communities, Isobel Gowdie, a peasant woman tried for witchcraft in Auldearn, northeast Scotland, in 1662, has been interpreted in many ways since her four lengthy and detailed confessions were re-discovered in 1833. Likely under torture, she confessed to everything: twenty-seven spells, carnal dealings with the […]