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high, when she would visit the library and check out every book about witches she could find.
“ They were all fiction, and most back then painted witches in a bad light, but there were a few where the witches were good— they were doing good for the community,” she says.
From there, she dove deeper into witchcraft and sorcery, discovering nonfiction readings in her twenties, pursuing different courses and teachings, and eventually seeking community. That’ s how she and May first connected.
“ In this lifetime, anyway. We actually first burned at the stake together in 1509,” May says with a laugh.“ But no, we orbited the same circles for a long time. And then we kept finding each other and then we just started to talk, and this remarkable sisterhood emerged.”
May’ s parents didn’ t raise her in a specific religion but encouraged her to explore spirituality. May dabbled in a bit of everything but kept returning to mod-
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